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 and

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. His research interests lie in building scalable data systems for exploration and analysis of big data.

Education and early career

Burns graduated from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in geophysics. 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 1996-2002.

Research

Burns's PhD dissertation is titled Data Management in a Distributed File System for Storage Area Networks'.'' He has worked on waste management of unused digital data. He was part of a team along with

Alex Szalay Alex Szalay is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy and computer science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering.Brooks, Kell"Johns Hopkins names four new Bloomberg ...

and

Charles Meneveau Charles Meneveau (born 1960) is a French-Chilean born American fluid dynamicist, known for his work on turbulence, including turbulence modeling and computational fluid dynamics. Charles Meneveau, the Louis M. Sardella Professor iMechanical Engine ...

which built a 350TB turbulence database that provides access to large computational fluid dynamics simulations. 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.

References

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