Randal Burns | |
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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 |
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]
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 and 2002.[1]
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]