Who We Are: Radha Nandkumar

Senior Research Scientist Director, ICARE – International & CAmpus Relations, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Radha Nandkumar has a Master’s in Physics from Bangalore University, India as well as a PhD in Physics and an Executive M.B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Nandkumar currently works as an Independent Research Consultant. Her research interests span high performance computing, grid computing, cyberinfrastructure, and their impact on society at large.

Dr. Nandkumar worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for more than 25 years and served as the Director of its International and Campus Relations for the last decade. As a well-recognized speaker and leader in the international high performance computing (HPC) arena, she has enabled multiple computational science collaborations worldwide through her participation in international research teams, conference organizing committees, and several national and international HPC advisory councils, including: ACM/IEEE’s Supercomputing Conferences; the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing; the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas (ARTCA); the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA); and the Richard Tapia Conference for Diversity in Computing in the USA. Under Dr. Nandkumar’s leadership, NCSA’s International Program established affiliations with sister institutions in Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, China, Cyprus, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, and the UK. Her unique capabilities that bridge science, technology and management have resulted in creating strategic inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary collaborations across the world. One such initiative is a multi-institutional collaboration for child health informatics for monitoring children’s health and fitness around the world.

Dr. Nandkumar has more than two dozen publications in peer-reviewed journals and has given more than 250 technical presentations around the globe related to NCSA’s HPC infrastructure, applications research, and information technologies. Prior to joining NCSA, Dr. Nandkumar was a scientific team member at the University of Chicago’s Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research working on scientific payloads for balloon flights. As a researcher with India’s first scientific satellite project at the Indian Space Research Organization in Bangalore, she conducted X-ray astronomical observations using satellite and rocket borne payloads.

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