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American computer scientist
Randal Burns
CitizenshipUnited States
OccupationComputer Scientist
TitleProfessor
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Stanford University
ThesisData Management in a Distributed File System for Storage Area Networks (2000)
Doctoral advisorDarrell Long
Websiterandalburns.github.io

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.

Education and early career

Burns graduated from Stanford University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in geophysics. 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.

Research

Burns's PhD dissertation is titled 'Data Management in a Distributed File System for Storage Area Networks'. He has worked on waste management of unused digital data. 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. 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.

References

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  9. "5 tactics for dumping digital trash". Futurity. 2011-09-06. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  10. Szalay, Alexander; Meneveau, Charles; Burns, Randal; Bürger, Kai; Kanov, Kalin; Aluie, Hussein; Lalescu, Cristian; Vishniac, Ethan; Eyink, Gregory (May 2013). "Flux-freezing breakdown in high-conductivity magnetohydrodynamic turbulence". Nature. 497 (7450): 466–469. Bibcode:2013Natur.497..466E. doi:10.1038/nature12128. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 23698445. S2CID 205233857.
  11. Perlman, Eric; Burns, Randal; Li, Yi; Meneveau, Charles (2007). "Data exploration of turbulence simulations using a database cluster". Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing. pp. 1–11. doi:10.1145/1362622.1362654. ISBN 9781595937643. S2CID 11021323.
  12. "Closer view of the brain". Harvard Gazette. 2015-10-12. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  13. Perkel, Jeffrey M. (2018-10-30). "Web service makes big data available to neuroscientists". Nature. 563 (7729): 143. Bibcode:2018Natur.563..143P. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07195-2. PMID 30377329.
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  15. "Scientists Discuss BRAIN Initiative". The Scientist Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
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