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Bio: Shantenu is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at Rutgers University and a RADICAL (Research in Applied DIstributed Computing and Applications Laboratory (http://radical.rutgers.edu)) researcher. His research interests lie at the triple point of Cyberinfrastructure R&D, Applied Computing and Computational Science. His research is currently supported by DOE and NSF awards, including CAREER (CISE-ACI), SI2 (elements, integration and conceptualization), CDI and EarthCube. Shantenu leads the the RADICAL-Cybertools (http://radical-cybertools.github.com) project which are a suite of standards-driven and abstractions-based tools used to support large-scale science and engineering applications. He is co-leading a "Conceptualization of an Institute for Biomolecular Simulations" project. He leads the design and development of "MIDAS: Middleware for Data-intensive Analytics and Science" as part of the SPIDAL/HPBDS (http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1528) -- a 2014 NSF DIBBS project. Away from work, Jha tries middle-distance running and biking, tends to indulge in random musings as an economics-junk and has a "knack" for encountering British ex-politicians and Corrupt Police Officers (currently mutually exclusive). He'd be glad to wax lyrical about either of these.
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