Ramakrishnan K.
Distinguished R&D Staff and Group Leader for Discrete Algorithms in ORNL
- Role
- Distinguished R & d Staff and Group Leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Location
- Oak Ridge, TN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ramakrishnan K.
Ramakrishnan Kannan is the group leader for Discrete Algorithms at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research expertise is in distributed machine learning and graph algorithms on HPC platforms and their application to scientific data with a focus on accelerating scientific discovery by reducing computation time from weeks to seconds. He was the lead for DSNAPSHOT for a COVID-19 project, which is a finalist for the esteemed Association of Computing Machinery’s Gordon Bell Award in 2021, and listing Summit in 3rd place on Graph500 benchmark using the fewest resources; this is the first time an OLCF system has ranked in Graph500. He has been awarded over $2.8M in research funding from various agencies for solving algorithmic problems on HPC platforms. Additionally, he has been the project lead for over $1 million in Department of Defense projects. With over 24 patents issued in USPTO, he was an IBM Master Inventor. He graduated with a Ph.D. under the advice of Professor Haesun Park from Georgia Institute of Technology and M.Sc (Engg) from Indian Institute of Science under the advice of Professor Y. Narahari.
Experience
Distinguished R & d Staff and Group Leader
May 2024 — Present
Education
Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering
1996 — 2000
Georgia Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science
2011 — 2016
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
M. Sc (Engg), Computer Science and Automation
2006 — 2008
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