Tyler J. Skluzacek, Ph.D.
Previously, I was a Staff Research Scientist in the Workflow and Ecosystem Services (WES) group at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). I led the Secure Scientific Service Mesh (S3M) project at ORNL, lead the American Science Cloud Interfaces Team within ORNL, and served as ORNL’s representative to the DOE Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) Technical Interfaces Subcommittee. My work explored how data science and distributed computing can come together to help scientists tackle complex problems, automate their research, and push for field-redefining breakthroughs on our nation's largest supercomputers. Some questions I explored recently were:
- How can we rethink human interaction with supercomputers—moving beyond the command line toward automated, secure, and intelligent interfaces?
- What trade-offs emerge when orchestrating agentic workflows that span supercomputers, microscopes, and analysis clusters?
- How might we make scientific repositories self-organizing and searchable without labor-intensive curation?
- And what artificial-intelligence techniques can transform raw data into richly indexed, discoverable knowledge?
I am also an Adjunct Professor in the Masters Program in Computer Science (MPCS) and the MS in Applied Data Science (MS-ADS) at the University of Chicago, where I teach Distributed Systems and Python Programming; and I taught Advanced Data Visualization, Databases, and Machine Learning in the Computing and Data Analytics Department at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, IL (closed in 2026).
I stay actively involved in the computing community. I was recently the Publicity Chair for HPDC ’25 and the Posters Chair for eScience ’25, and have previously served on program committees for SC, HPDC, IPDPS, ICPP, and SciPy. I co-led curriculum development for the Data4All Bridge Workshop for South-Chicago high-school students. I am the original founder of the NightWare (previously myBivy) application for monitoring and treating nightmares in patients with PTSD.
I am also a proud graduate of Macalester College!
