Giri Prakash, lead for the Earth System Informatics and Data Discovery Section at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elevated to senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Senior member is the highest professional grade of IEEE, requiring extensive experience and reflecting professional accomplishment and maturity. Only 10 percent of the nearly half a million members of IEEE have achieved this level.
Prakash also serves as the chief data and computing officer for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Facility, a DOE Office of Science user facility. ARM gathers and disseminates daily measurements from global observatories and field campaigns, providing freely available observational data for Earth system models that can guide decision-making around U.S. energy infrastructure and development.
Prakash’s work focuses on the design and operation of large-scale scientific data systems, leveraging ORNL’s leadership computing capabilities to support data-intensive research and large data centers. His efforts include enabling open science by adapting artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities in scientific data center operations.
He has 24 years of experience in scientific data management, discovery, the application of FAIR data principles (findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability), metadata, data citation, computing-as-a-service, web services and visualization. His elevation to IEEE senior member recognizes Prakash’s two decades-plus of technical leadership.
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