Randal Burns Explained

Citizenship:United States
Occupation:Computer Scientist
Professor
Alma Mater:University of California, Santa Cruz
Stanford University
Thesis Title:Data Management in a Distributed File System for Storage Area Networks
Thesis Year:2000
Doctoral Advisor:Darrell Long

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 National Academy of Sciences. His research interests lie in building scalable data systems for exploration and analysis of big data.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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.

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Randal Burns. Department of Computer Science. 2019-06-14.
  2. Web site: Kavli NDI. kavlijhu.org. 2019-06-14.
  3. Web site: Randal Burns – The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science. 2019-06-14.
  4. Web site: Randal Burns. www.nasonline.org. 2019-06-14.
  5. Web site: Our Experts Science of Learning. scienceoflearning.jhu.edu. 2019-06-14.
  6. Web site: Randal Burns . 2022-11-18 . IEEE.
  7. Web site: Randal Burns - The Mathematics Genealogy Project. www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. 2019-06-14.
  8. Web site: Researchers Throw Out Digital Waste Scheme. Schaffhauser. Dian. 2011-09-08. Campus Technology. 2019-06-14.
  9. Web site: 5 tactics for dumping digital trash. 2011-09-06. Futurity. 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. 10.1038/nature12128. 23698445. 2013Natur.497..466E. 205233857. 1476-4687.
  11. Book: Perlman . Eric . Burns . Randal . Li . Yi . Meneveau . Charles . Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing . Data exploration of turbulence simulations using a database cluster . 2007 . https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5348814 . 1–11 . 10.1145/1362622.1362654. 9781595937643 . 11021323 .
  12. Web site: Closer view of the brain. 2015-10-12. Harvard Gazette. 2019-06-14.
  13. Perkel. Jeffrey M.. 2018-10-30. Web service makes big data available to neuroscientists. Nature. 563. 7729. 143. 10.1038/d41586-018-07195-2. 30377329. 2018Natur.563..143P. free.
  14. Web site: Neuroinformatics 2013: Randal Burns. www.neuroinformatics2013.org. 2019-06-14.
  15. Web site: Scientists Discuss BRAIN Initiative. The Scientist Magazine. 2019-06-14.

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