Contact Info
Phone
773 702 4107
Office
Crerar 303

Kyle Chard is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He also holds a joint appointment at Argonne National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 2011.  He is a member of the ACM and IEEE,  received the IEEE TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in HPC, was part of the Globus team that won an R&D100 award, and received the New Zealand Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship.  He co-leads the Globus Labs research group, which focuses on a broad range of research problems in data-intensive computing and research data management.  He leads NSF-funded projects related to distributed and parallel computing, scientific reproducibility, research automation, and cost-aware use of cloud infrastructure.

Research

Focus Areas: Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, High Performance Computing, Scientific Computing

My research is motivated by exploring a range of challenging scientific problems and developing and applying new computational and data-intensive approaches. I focus on a range of systems problems, often in high performance parallel and distributed computing, with the aim to develop new techniques for scalable and efficient management and analysis of large data. My interdisciplinary research has been applied in several scientific domains, including in biology, earth science, materials science, astrophysics, and archaeology.

Find out more about my active research projects on the Globus Labs website

Research

Scientific & High Performance Computing

Scientific discovery at the frontiers of computational performance, intelligence, and scale

Systems, Architecture & Networking

Design and analysis of computing systems: cloud, edge, Internet, quantum, and beyond

Labs & Groups

Globus Labs

Ian Foster, Kyle Chard
Realizing a world in which all research data are reliably, rapidly, and securely accessible, discoverable, and usable.

CERES Center for Unstoppable Computing

Andrew A. Chien
A dynamic community focused on reducing the fragility and complexity of computing systems, while also increasing their efficiency and lifetime.

News & Events

UChicago’s Parsl Project Pivots to Sustainability and Community with New Grants

Nov 17, 2022

Two Incoming UChicago CS PhD Students Receive Department of Energy Fellowship

Jun 16, 2022

DSI Summer Lab Returns In-Person With 49 Students From Across the U.S.

Jun 14, 2022

Largest-Ever DSI Summer Lab Adds 55 Students, New Social Impact Track

Jul 13, 2021

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Dec 02, 2020

2020 CDAC Summer Lab Kicks Off with 38 Student Researchers

Jun 20, 2020

NSF Grant Backs funcX — A Smart, Automated Delegator for Computational Research

May 14, 2020

New AI + Science Grants Fund Projects & Workshops in Chemistry, Physics, and CS Education

May 12, 2020

Eight New Faculty Members Join UChicago CS for 2019-20 Academic Year

Jul 15, 2019
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May 24, 2019

How to Improve the FAIRness of Biomedical Big Data Research

Apr 15, 2019

Applications Open for Summer Student Internship Program

Feb 19, 2019
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