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American computer scientist
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.
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Education and early career
Burns graduated from
Stanford University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in geophysics.
[6] 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.
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Research
Burns's PhD dissertation is titled 'Data Management in a Distributed File System for Storage Area Networks'.
[7] He has worked on waste management of unused digital data.
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Alex Szalay and
Charles Meneveau which built a 350TB turbulence database that provides access to large
computational fluid dynamics simulations.
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[11] 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.
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References
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"Randal Burns" . Department of Computer Science . Retrieved 2019-06-14 .
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"Kavli NDI" . kavlijhu.org . Retrieved 2019-06-14 .
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"Randal Burns – The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science" . Retrieved 2019-06-14 .
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"Randal Burns" . www.nasonline.org . Retrieved 2019-06-14 .
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"Our Experts | |Science of Learning" . scienceoflearning.jhu.edu . Retrieved 2019-06-14 .
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"Randal Burns" . ieeexplore.ieee.org . Retrieved 2022-11-18 .
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"Randal Burns - The Mathematics Genealogy Project" . www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu . Retrieved 2019-06-14 .
^ Schaffhauser, Dian (2011-09-08).
"Researchers Throw Out Digital Waste Scheme" . Campus Technology . Retrieved 2019-06-14 .
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"5 tactics for dumping digital trash" . Futurity . 2011-09-06. Retrieved 2019-06-14 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
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"Closer view of the brain" . Harvard Gazette . 2015-10-12. Retrieved 2019-06-14 .
^ 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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"Neuroinformatics 2013: Randal Burns" . www.neuroinformatics2013.org . Retrieved 2019-06-14 .
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"Scientists Discuss BRAIN Initiative" . The Scientist Magazine . Retrieved 2019-06-14 .