Shantenu Jha

Professor

ECE

Phone:(848) 445-8537
Email:shantenu.jha@rutgers.edu
Office:CoRE 705
Website: http://radical.rutgers.edu/shantenu

Shantenu is a Professor of Computer Engineering at Rutgers University and the Chair of the Department (Center) for Data Driven Discovery at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was appointed a Rutgers Chancellor’s Scholar in 2015. He has held visiting positions at the University of Edinburgh and UCL.

Shantenu’s research interests are at the intersection of high-performance distributed computing and computational & data-driven science. He is the PI of RADICAL Lab and the lead investigator of RADICAL-Cybertools project which are a suite of middleware building blocks used to support large-scale science and engineering applications. He is proud to play a part in the upcoming revolution at the interface of computing and health-science — global health and “personalized” medicine. He collaborates extensively with scientists from multiple domains – including but not limited to Molecular Sciences, Earth Sciences and High-Energy Physics.

Shantenu was the recipient of the inaugural Chancellor’s Excellence in Research (2016) for his cyberinfrastructure contributions to computational science. He was also awarded a Rutgers Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence (2014). He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2013) and several best paper prizes at SC’xy and ISC’xy. His current research has been funded by multiple NSF awards and US Department of Energy (DoE); his work has also been funded by US National Institute for Health (NIH), and the UK EPSRC.

Jha seeks fearless and revolutionary young minds to join the RADICAL (thinking) group! Away from work, he tries middle-distance running and biking, tends to be an economics-junky, enjoys reading and writing random musings and tries to use his copious amounts of free time with a conscience.

Education

Ph.D, Syracuse University, 2004
M.Sc, IIT Delhi, 1995

Honors

  • IEEE/ACM Grid 2010 Keynote Speaker, Brussels (October 2010)
  • IEEE/ACM Grid 2009 Best Paper Award
  • Performance Challenge Award, TeraGrid 2008
  • International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’08) Best Paper
  • CCT Director’s Award 2008
  • International Supercomputing Conference, Life Sciences Award ISC’06
  • HPC Analytics Challenge Award, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2005.

Research Interests

  • High-Performance and Distributed Computing
  • Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering
  • Large-Scale Cyberinfrastructure for Science & Engineering

Selected Publications

  • Pilot-Abstractions for Data-Intensive Cloud Applications
    Andre Luckow, Pradeep Mantha, Melissa Romanus, Shantenu Jha
    2012
    Computing and Concurrency: Practise and Experience (accepted, in press)
    PDF
  • Distributed Computing Practice for Large-Scale Science & Engineering Applications
    Shantenu Jha, Murray Cole, Daniel S. Katz, Manish Parashar, Omer Rana, Jon Weissman
    2012
    Computing and Concurrency: Practise and Experience (in press)
    PDF
  • Dynamic Application Runtime Environment (DARE): A Standards-based Middleware Framework For Building Science Gateways
    Sharath Maddineni, Joohyun Kim, Yaakoub el-Khamra, Shantenu Jha
    2012
    Journal of Grid Computing (in press)
    PDF

Conference/Workshop Papers

  • A Framework for Flexible and Scalable Replica-Exchange on Production Distributed CI
    Brian K. Radak, Melissa Romanus, Emilio Gallicchio, Tai-Sung Lee, Ole Weidner, Nan-Jie Deng, Peng He, Wei Dai, Darrin M. York, Ronald M. Levy, Shantenu Jha
    Proceedings of the Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Gateway to Discovery, 2013 PDF
  • Scalable Online Comparative Genomics of Mononucleosomes: A BigJob
    Jack Smith, Melissa Romanus, James Solow, Pradeep Kumar Mantha, Yaakoub El Khamra, Thomas C. Bishop, Shantenu Jha
    Proceedings of the Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Gateway to Discovery, 2013
    PDF
  • Exploring Dynamic Enactment of Scientific Workflows using Pilot-Abstractions
    Mark Santcroos, Barbera DC van Schaik, Shayan Shahand, Silvia Delgado Olabarriaga, Andre Luckow, Shantenu Jha
    13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, 2013
    [pdf] [bib] : ccgrid13-pilotdata
    PDF
  • P*: A Model of Pilot-Abstractions
    Andre Luckow, Mark Santcroos, Ole Weidner, Andre Merzky, Pradeep Mantha, Shantenu Jha
    8th IEEE International Conference on e-Science 2012, 2012
    PDF
  • Pilot abstractions for compute, data, and network
    Mark Santcroos, Silvia Delgado Olabarriaga, Daniel S. Katz, Shantenu Jha
    2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, 2012
    PDF
  • Pilot-MapReduce: an extensible and flexible MapReduce implementation for distributed data
    Pradeep Kumar Mantha, Andre Luckow, Shantenu Jha
    Proceedings of third international workshop on MapReduce and its Applications, 2012
    PDF
  • Understanding MapReduce-based Next-Generation Sequencing Alignment on Distributed Cyberinfrastructure
    Pradeep Mantha, Nayong Kim, Joohyun Kim, Andre Luckow, Shantenu Jha
    3rd International Workshop on Emerging Methods in Computational Life Sciences, Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, HPDC’12, June 2012
    PDF
  • Towards a common model for pilot-jobs
    Andre Luckow, Mark Santcroos, Ole Weidner, Andre Merzky, Sharath Maddineni, Shantenu Jha
    Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing,HPDC’12, June 2012
    Link
  • Running many Molecular Dynamics Simulations on many Supercomputers
    Rajib Mukherjee, Abhinav Thota, Hideki Fujioka, Thomas C. Bishop, Shantenu Jha
    Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the Campus and Beyond, 2012
    PDF
  • The Anatomy of Successful ECSS Projects: Lessons of supporting High-Throughput High-Performance Ensembles on XSEDE
    Melissa Romanus, Pradeep Kumar Mantha, Matt McKenzie, Thomas C. Bishop, Emilio Gallichio, Andre Merzky, Yaakoub El Khamra, Shantenu Jha
    Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the Campus and Beyond, 2012
    PDF

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