Prof. Ashwini K. Nanda is the Founding Center-Director of the AI and HPC Research Center (AHRC), and a Visiting Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bhubaneswar. He is a Fellow of IEEE, USA, and a Fellow of AAIA (Asia pacific AI Association). His research areas include high performance computer systems and architecture, and Applied AI. At AHRC, IIT Bhubaneswar he has been leading the development of AI assisted applications in several areas including medicine, agriculture, governance, transportation, green energy and others.

Dr Nanda pioneered the concept of heterogeneous supercomputing at IBM TJ Watson Research Center in NY. The technology developed by him and his team enabled the world’s first PetaFLOP supercomputer system ‘Roadrunner’ at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2008. The Roadrunner has been the forebearer of all CPU-GPU supercomputers in the world prevalent today.

As the Head of Tata Computational Research Laboratory (CRL), Pune, Dr Nanda led the development of the Eka system (Asia’s fastest supercomputer in 2007-2009). In his early career at Wipro Bangalore, he developed parallel computers for the Akash missile system led by honorable ex-President Dr Abdul Kalam (then head of DRDL) in 1980’s.

Dr Nanda has served in the Editorial Board of several internationally reputed journals such as IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, special issues of the IEEE Computer magazine and IBM Journal of R&D. He holds fifteen US patents and has published over 100 papers in the areas of computer architecture, parallel computer systems, and applied AI.