Ananth Kalyanaraman, Professor, Boeing Centennial Chair in Computer Science, Associate Director, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Pullman, WA

Kalyanaraman holds affiliate faculty positions at the Molecular Plant Sciences Graduate Program and the Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health. His focus is on developing algorithms and software for scalable analysis of large-scale data from various scientific domains, particularly life sciences. He works at the intersection of parallel computing, graph analytics, and bioinformatics/computational biology. He is a recipient of U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Award, and his student-led research works have received multiple conference best paper awards and a prestigious graph challenge award. He is currently serving as a Vice-Chair for the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Programming (TCPP).

Program Description:

Kalyanaraman is leading a project for design and development of novel computational tools for analysis of complex high-dimensional phenomics data sets, with the aim of identifying and un-raveling the complex web of interactions linking genotypes, environments and phenotypes. The approach is visual analytics, which relies on modeling the features obtained through high-throughput phenotyping and environmental assaying into mathematical objects and representations. The students mentored may participate in the following research endeavors stemming from the above project: i) design of visual analytical tools and testing of user interfaces; ii) application and benchmarking of tools using real world plant crop datasets; and iii) application extension to phenomics datasets obtained from other life science domains.