Presenter

Dr. Larry Smarr is a University of California San Diego Distinguished Professor Emeritus in UCSD’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering. For the last 20 years he served as the founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). He was earlier the Founding Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). In 2006, he received the IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for his lifetime achievements in distributed computing. Smarr continues to provide national leadership in advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI), currently serving as Principal Investigator on three NSF CI research grants: the NSF Pacific Research Platform, Cognitive Hardware and Software Ecosystem Community Infrastructure, and Toward the National Research Platform. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has served on top level advisory committees to NIH, NASA, NSF, and DOE.