Manish Parashar

Manish Parashar (born 21 January 1967) is a Computer Scientist and an Electrical Engineer. He is a Presidential Professor at the Kahlert School of Computing and director and chair of computational science and engineering at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah. He is the Founding Chair of the IEEE Technical Community on High Performance Computing (TCHPC). He is an AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, and IEEE Fellow. He also served as Office Director in the US National Science Foundation's [https://new.nsf.gov/focus-areas/cyberinfrastructure Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure] from 2018 to 2023.

Parashar currently leads the One-Utah Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative, which aims to realize a transdisciplinary ecosystem that fosters AI innovation to address scientific and societal grand challenges. He is the Faculty Co-Director of the Data Science & Ethics of Technology Initiative (DATASET) and [https://www.research.utah.edu/one-utah-data-science-hub/ One-Utah Data Science Hub] at the University of Utah.

As a leader in cyberinfrastructure research and policy, he has advocated for a national strategic computing reserve and democratizing cyberinfrastructure's use and impact. He also focuses on the importance of [https://sites.google.com/view/translational-cs/home translational computer science], which bridges foundational, use-inspired, and applied research by delivering and deploying its outcomes to a target community. Provided by Wikipedia