Dr. Pavan Balaji holds appointments as a Research Scientist and
Technical Lead at Meta Platforms.  In his current role, he drives
early industry partnerships for developing large-scale supercomputers
in support of Meta's AI workloads, and the design and optimization of
HPC networks, communication libraries, and their supporting ecosystem.
Before joining Meta, he was a Senior Computer Scientist and Group Lead
at the Argonne National Laboratory, where he lead two groups:
Programming Models and Runtime Systems and Future Architectures for
AI.  His research interests include HPC hardware/software codesign for
AI workloads, communication runtime systems, networks, and scale-out
techniques, parallel programming models and runtime systems for
communication and I/O on extreme-scale supercomputing systems, modern
system architecture, cloud computing systems, and data-intensive
computing.  He has more than 200 publications in these areas and has
delivered more than 200 talks and tutorials at various conferences and
research institutes.  He is a recipient of several awards including
the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Middle
Career) in 2015; TEDxMidwest Emerging Leader award in 2013;
U.S. Department of Energy Early Career award in 2012; Crain's Chicago
40 under 40 award in 2012; Los Alamos National Laboratory Director's
Technical Achievement award in 2005; Ohio State University Outstanding
Researcher award in 2005; best paper awards at PACT 2019, ACM HPDC
2018, IEEE ScalCom 2013, Euro PVM/MPI 2009, ISC 2009, IEEE Cluster
2008, Euro PVM/MPI 2008, ISC 2008; best paper finalist at IEEE/ACM SC
2014; best poster award at IEEE ICPADS 2018; best poster finalist at
IEEE/ACM SC 2014; and best student poster award at ICPP 2018.  He has
served as a chair or editor for nearly 100 journals, conferences and
workshops, and as a technical program committee member in numerous
conferences and workshops.  He is a senior member of the IEEE and a
distinguished member of the ACM.  More details about Dr. Balaji are
available at https://pavanbalaji.github.io.