KALYAN PERUMALLA is a Distinguished Research Staff Member and Manager at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Perumalla founded and currently leads the Discrete Computing Systems Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computational Sciences and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and as an ORNL Joint Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Over the past 20 years, he has served as a principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on several research projects sponsored by the Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Air Force, DARPA, Army Research Laboratory, National Science Foundation, and industry.