Aug 31, 2025 11:00 AM —  12:30 PM One-U Responsible AI Initiative —  Parker Theatre Studio, North Building @ 3601 South State Street

Musician: Pepper Rose/Dave Crespo

Main Talk: One-U Responsible AI Initiative

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Speaker: Dr. Manish Parashar

Bio: Manish Parashar is Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, Chair in Computational Science and Engineering, and Presidential Professor, Kalhert School of Computing at the University of Utah. He very recently completed an IPA appointment at the National Science Foundation where he served as Office Director of the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, as well as co-chair of the National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on the Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem and the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force (NAIRR). Manish’s research interests are in the broad areas of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering and has published extensively in these areas. He has also deployed software systems that are widely used. Manish is the founding chair of the IEEE Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) and serves on the editorial boards and organizing committees of a number of journals and international conferences and workshops. He has received several awards for his research and leadership, including the 2023 Achievement Award in High Performance Distributed Computing. He is Fellow of AAAS, ACM, and IEEE/IEEE Computer Society.