Randal Burns

Short description: American computer scientist

Randal Burns

Nationality| American
Citizenship| United States
Occupation| Computer Scientist
Title| Professor
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 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 1996-2002.[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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Randal Burns". https://www.cs.jhu.edu/faculty/randal-burns/.
2. ↑ "Kavli NDI". http://kavlijhu.org/about/members/12.
3. ↑ "Randal Burns – The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science". http://idies.jhu.edu/affiliate/randal-burns/.
4. ↑ "Randal Burns". http://www.nasonline.org/programs/kavli-frontiers-of-science/frontiers-alumni/alumni-directory/randal-burns.html.
5. ↑ "Our Experts | |Science of Learning". http://scienceoflearning.jhu.edu/about-us/our-experts/P10.
6. ↑ "Randal Burns". https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37276510400.
7. ↑ "Randal Burns - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=10797.
8. ↑ Schaffhauser, Dian (2011-09-08). "Researchers Throw Out Digital Waste Scheme". https://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/09/08/researchers-throw-out-digital-waste-scheme.aspx.
9. ↑ "5 tactics for dumping digital trash". 2011-09-06. https://www.futurity.org/5-tactics-for-dumping-digital-trash/.
10. ↑ Szalay, Alexander; Meneveau, Charles; Burns, Randal; Bürger, Kai; Kanov, Kalin; Aluie, Hussein; Lalescu, Cristian; Vishniac, Ethan et al. (May 2013). "Flux-freezing breakdown in high-conductivity magnetohydrodynamic turbulence". Nature 497 (7450): 466–469. doi:10.1038/nature12128. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 23698445. Bibcode: 2013Natur.497..466E.
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. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5348814.
12. ↑ "Closer view of the brain". 2015-10-12. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/closer-view-of-the-brain/.
13. ↑ Perkel, Jeffrey M. (2018-10-30). "Web service makes big data available to neuroscientists". Nature 563 (7729): 143. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07195-2. PMID 30377329. Bibcode: 2018Natur.563..143P.
14. ↑ "Neuroinformatics 2013: Randal Burns". http://www.neuroinformatics2013.org/speakers/randal-burns.html.
15. ↑ "Scientists Discuss BRAIN Initiative". https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/scientists-discuss-brain-initiative-39332.

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