Tyler J. Skluzacek, Ph.D.

I am a 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.