Mallikarjun Shankar Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA (shankarm@ornl.gov). Dr. Shankar received a B.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. He started his professional career in industry for Inktomi Corporation and CellExchange, Inc., before joining the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as a member of the Research Staff. He is currently the Group Leader of the Advanced Data and Workflow group with the National Center for Computational Science and the Director of the Compute and Data Environment for Science at ORNL. His research focuses on the interdisciplinary bridge between computer science and large-scale scientific discovery campaigns that rely on scalable computing and data science. He has more than 60 publications and has received a Department of Energy Secretary's Appreciation Award. He is a joint faculty appointee with the University of Tennessee's Bredesen Center, a member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Senior Member of the ACM.