Suren Byna is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The Ohio State University. He is a Visiting Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). Prior to joining OSU, he was a Senior Scientist in the Scientific Data Division at LBNL. His research interests span across many topics in scientific data management and analysis. These topics include parallel I/O, parallel file systems, next-generation data management systems, I/O libraries, file formats, data compression strategies, data movement performance characterization and tuning, performance data visualization, efficient scientific workflows, scientific metadata and provenance management strategies, energy-aware computing, and heterogeneous computing.