Dr. Tyler Skluzacek

Tyler J. Skluzacek, Ph.D.


I am a Staff Research Scientist in the Workflow and Ecosystem Services (WES) group at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Lab. In this position, I write programs and papers that explore the interconnections between data science and distributed computing. Some questions I've explored recently are:

  • How can we automate one's interactions with a supercomputer beyond the age-old requirement of 'ssh'?
  • What tradeoffs exist when orchestrating workflows between supercomputers, microscopes, and analysis clusters?
  • Can we automatically make research repositories navigable with minimal human indexing effort?
  • What artificial intelligence approaches can help us automatically generate a search index over a data set?

Additionally, I am an Adjunct Professor in the Computing and Data Analytics Department at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, IL, and am the original founder of the NightWare (previously myBivy) application for monitoring and treating nightmares in patients with PTSD.

I stay actively involved in the computing community. I am currently serving as the publicity chair for HPDC '25 and posters chair for eScience '25, and have previously served on program committees for SC, HPDC, IPDPS, ICPP, and SciPy. I also served on the curriculum development team for the Data4All bridge workshop for South-Chicago high school students.

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Recent News

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New Role: ORNL Staff Scientist

(May 2025) I am thrilled to announce that I've been promoted to Staff Scientist at ORNL.

HPDC Chair

PEARC-25 Paper

(May 2025) My team's paper "Secure API-Driven Research Automation to Accelerate Scientific Discovery" has been accepted for publication at PEARC 2025!

Confab Presentation

Confab Presentation

(Mar. 2025) I presented "The Secure Scientific Service Mesh (S3M) at Confab 2025.

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New Role: UChicago Adjunct Faculty

(Jan. 2025) I am thrilled to announce that I've been appointed to the Adjunct Faculty of the MPCS and MS-ADS Master's programs at UChicago. I taught "Distributed Computing" in Spring 2025.


Other News

  • [Jun. 2025] I served as the Publicity Chair of HPDC 2025.
  • [Mar. 2025] A paper co-authored by Brian Etz, others, and me "Enabling Seamless Transitions from Experimental to Production HPC for Interactive Workflows" accepted to Workshop on Interactive and Urgent High-Performance Computing.
  • [Dec. 2024] I taught "Advanced Data Visualization" for the Computing and Data Analytics Department at Trinity Christian College.
  • [Nov. 2024] Takuya Kurihana presented our team's paper "Scalable Multi-Facility Workflows for Artificial Intelligence Applications in Climate Research" at XLOOP24 in Atlanta, GA.
  • [Aug. 2024] I presented my poster entitled "Enabling Distributed Research Orchestration Capabilities at ORNL" at the invitation-only Monterrey
  • [Sep. 2024] I served as the Publicity Chair of eScience 2024.
  • [Aug. 2024] I had the opportunity to present a poster on cross-facility workflows orchestration at the invitation-only 2024 Monterey Data Conference.
  • [Jul. 2024] My team's paper "Towards Cross-Facility Workflows Orchestration through Distributed Automation" presented at PEARC 2024!
  • [May 2024] I presented "Enhancing research orchestration capabilities at ORNL" at GlobusWorld 2024.
  • [Jan. 2024] I taught "Machine Learning for Data Mining" at Trinity Christian College.
  • [Nov. 2023] I am co-PI on $300k grant to study distributed multi-workflow orchestration. Awarded by Oak Ridge National Lab.
  • [Oct. 2023] I traveled to Limassol, Cyprus to present my team's paper: "Can Automated Metadata Extraction Make Scientific Data More Navigable?"
  • [Oct. 2023] I presented at ParslFest 2023.