Chaitan Baru

Chaitan Baru is Program Director, Data and Knowledge Systems (DAKS) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of California San Diego. The DAKS program at SDSC engages in research and development in data and knowledge management technologies in support of scientific applications and computational science. Baru leads several projects in the areas of information integration and Grid benchmarking. He is Principal Investigator of  the NSF Geosciences Network (GEON) project; co-Investigator of the NIH Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) project, and a member of the NSF-funded TeraGrid project.  Prior to joining SDSC, Baru worked in the Database Group at IBM, where he led one of the groups responsible for the design and development of DB2 Parallel Edition (released December 1995). He also led a performance group, which published the industry’s first TPC-D decision support benchmark, in December 1995. Before joining IBM, Baru was Assistant Professor of CSE at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Baru received his B.Tech (Electronics) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and M.E. and Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) from the University of Florida, Gainesville.