Neena Imam
Deputy Director of Collaborations
Bio
Neena Imam is a distinguished research scientist in the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), performing research in extreme-scale computing. Neena Imam also serves as the Deputy Director of Research Collaboration for CCSD. Dr. Imam has a broad research portfolio, focusing on many HPC and data analytics topics. Example topics include HPC programming environments, high-speed networking, HPC benchmarks and test suites, HPC resource management, power-aware computing, and Post-Moore computing.
Dr. Imam holds a Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, with Master's and Bachelor's degrees in the same field from Case Western Reserve University and California Institute of Technology, respectively. Dr. Imam also served as the Science and Technology Fellow for Senator Lamar Alexander in Washington D.C. (2010-2012). Her two-year tenure as Senator Alexander’s S&T Fellow provided her with valuable experience in working with the U.S. Congress and various federal agencies such as the Office of Management and Budget, DoE, DoD, NSF, NOAA, and NASA. Dr. Imam is very involved in the local and state chapters of IEEE and ACM. She is a senior member of IEEE and served as the Chair of the Region 3 Council (Tennessee) of IEEE from 2017-2019. She is the founding Chair of the ACM SIGHPC Accelerated Scalable Computing and Analytics (ASCAN) chapter. Dr. Imam Neena also holds affiliated faculty position in the Department of Computer science at Florida State University