Randal Burns

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Randal Burns
CitizenshipUnited States
OccupationComputer Scientist
TitleProfessor
Academic background
Alma mater University of California, Santa Cruz
Stanford University
Thesis Data Management in a Distributed File System for Storage Area Networks (2000)
Doctoral advisor Darrell Long
Website randalburns.github.io

Randal Chilton Burns is a professor and Chair of the computer science department at Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Institute for Data-Intensive Science, Engineering and the Science of Learning Institute. His research interests lie in building scalable data systems for exploration and analysis of big data. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Education and early career

Burns graduated from Stanford University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in geophysics. [6] He earned his master's and doctorate from University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1997 and 2000 respectively. He also worked as a research staff member at IBM's Alamden Research Center between 1996 and 2002. [1]

Research

Burns's PhD dissertation is titled 'Data Management in a Distributed File System for Storage Area Networks'. [7] He has worked on waste management of unused digital data. [8] [9] He was part of a team along with Alex Szalay and Charles Meneveau which built a 350TB turbulence database that provides access to large computational fluid dynamics simulations. [10] [11] In recent times, his research has focused on neuroscience where he built a cloud based web-service for neuroscience data and enabled better understanding of the human brain. [12] [13] [14] [15]

References

  1. 1 2 "Randal Burns". Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  2. ↑ "Kavli NDI". kavlijhu.org. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  3. ↑ "Randal Burns – The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science". Archived from the original on 2020-03-05. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  4. ↑ "Randal Burns". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  5. ↑ "Our Experts | |Science of Learning". scienceoflearning.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  6. ↑ "Randal Burns". IEEE . Retrieved 2022-11-18.
  7. ↑ "Randal Burns - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  8. ↑ Schaffhauser, Dian (2011-09-08). "Researchers Throw Out Digital Waste Scheme". Campus Technology. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  9. ↑ "5 tactics for dumping digital trash". Futurity. 2011-09-06. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  10. ↑ Szalay, Alexander; Meneveau, Charles; Burns, Randal; Bürger, Kai; Kanov, Kalin; Aluie, Hussein; Lalescu, Cristian; Vishniac, Ethan; Eyink, Gregory (May 2013). "Flux-freezing breakdown in high-conductivity magnetohydrodynamic turbulence". Nature. 497 (7450): 466–469. Bibcode:2013Natur.497..466E. doi:10.1038/nature12128. ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   23698445. S2CID   205233857.
  11. ↑ Perlman, Eric; Burns, Randal; Li, Yi; Meneveau, Charles (2007). "Data exploration of turbulence simulations using a database cluster". Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing. pp. 1–11. doi:10.1145/1362622.1362654. ISBN   9781595937643. S2CID   11021323.
  12. ↑ "Closer view of the brain". Harvard Gazette. 2015-10-12. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  13. ↑ Perkel, Jeffrey M. (2018-10-30). "Web service makes big data available to neuroscientists". Nature. 563 (7729): 143. Bibcode:2018Natur.563..143P. doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07195-2 . PMID   30377329.
  14. ↑ "Neuroinformatics 2013: Randal Burns". www.neuroinformatics2013.org. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  15. ↑ "Scientists Discuss BRAIN Initiative". The Scientist Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
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