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            <h1>Tyler J. Skluzacek, Ph.D.</h1>

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                I am a Staff Research Scientist in the
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                at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). I lead the Secure Scientific Service Mesh (S3M) project at ORNL, lead the <a href="https://science.osti.gov/grants/Lab-Announcements/-/media/grants/pdf/lab-announcements/2025/LAB-25-3555.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">American Science Cloud</a> Interfaces Team within ORNL, and serve as ORNL’s representative to the DOE Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) Technical Interfaces Subcommittee. My work explores how data science and distributed computing can come together to help scientists tackle complex problems, automate their research, and push for field-redefining breakthroughs on our nation's largest supercomputers. Some questions I've explored recently are:
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                <li>How can we rethink human interaction with supercomputers—moving beyond the command line toward automated, secure, and intelligent interfaces?</li>
                <li>What trade-offs emerge when orchestrating agentic workflows that span supercomputers, microscopes, and analysis clusters?</li>
                <li>How might we make scientific repositories self-organizing and searchable without labor-intensive curation?</li>
                <li>And what artificial-intelligence techniques can transform raw data into richly indexed, discoverable knowledge?</li>
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                I am also an Adjunct Professor in the
                <a href="https://masters.cs.uchicago.edu/">Masters Program in Computer Science (MPCS)</a>
                and the
                <a href="https://professional.uchicago.edu/find-your-fit/masters/master-science-analytics">MS in Applied Data Science (MS-ADS)</a>
                at the University of Chicago, where I teach Distributed Systems and Python Programming; and I teach Advanced Data Visualization and Machine Learning in the Computing and Data Analytics Department at
                <a href="https://www.trnty.edu/">Trinity Christian College</a> in Palos Heights, IL.
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                I stay actively involved in the computing community. I am currently the Publicity Chair for HPDC ’25 and the Posters Chair for eScience ’25, and have previously served on program committees for SC, HPDC, IPDPS, ICPP, and SciPy. I co-led curriculum development for the <a href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/news/data4all-expands-its-impact/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Data4All Bridge Workshop</a> for South-Chicago high-school students. I am the original founder of the <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-vibrating-smartwatch-could-be-used-to-stop-nightmares/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NightWare</a> (previously <em>myBivy</em>) application for monitoring and treating nightmares in patients with PTSD.
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  I am also a proud graduate of Macalester College!<img src="static/images/mac.png" alt="Macalester College logo" style="display:inline; height:1em; vertical-align:middle; margin-left:0.3em;">

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                    <h3>BoF: CSx4HPC at SC '25</h3>
                    <p>(Nov. 2025) I was excited to present
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                          "Globus Compute: a Data Management Perspective"
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                        at the Computational Storage for High-Performance Computing (CSx4HPC) Birds-of-a-Feather session+panel at SC25.
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                    <h3>American Science Cloud Interfaces Lead at ORNL</h3>
                    <p>(Oct. 2025) I am excited that I will be the U.S. Department Energy American Science Cloud Interfaces team lead within ORNL. </p>
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                    <h3>Invited talk at Illinois Tech</h3>
                    <p>(Sep. 2025) I presented "Automating Discovery on Supercomputers: From Secure Workflows to AI Agents" at Illinois Tech on Sept. 30th.</p>
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                    <h3>PEARC '25 Best Paper Award</h3>
                    <p>(Jul. 2025) My team's paper "Secure API-Driven Research Automation to Accelerate Scientific Discovery" won "Best Short Systems Paper" at <a href="https://pearc.acm.org/pearc25/">PEARC 2025!</a></p>
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                    <li> [Nov. 2025] I gave two invited talks at Trinity Christian College about (1) Natural Language Processing and (2) Test-Driven Development.
                    <li> [Jun. 2025] I served as the Publicity Chair of HPDC 2025. </li>
                    <li> [May 2025] I am happy to announce that I've been promoted to Staff Scientist at ORNL.
                    <li> [Apr. 2025] I presented "The Secure Scientific Service Mesh (S3M)" at Confab 2025 in San Francisco. </li>
                    <li> [Mar. 2025] A paper co-authored by Brian Etz, others, and me "Enabling Seamless Transitions from Experimental to Production HPC for Interactive Workflows" accepted to Workshop on Interactive and Urgent High-Performance Computing.
                    <li> [Mar. 2025] I am teaching Distributed Systems in the MPCS program at UChicago! </li>
                    <li> [Jan. 2025] I am thrilled to announce that I've been appointed to the Adjunct Faculty of the MPCS and MS-ADS Master's programs at UChicago. </li>
                    <li> [Dec. 2024] I taught "Advanced Data Visualization" for the Computing and Data Analytics Department at Trinity Christian College.</li>
                    <li> [Nov. 2024] Takuya Kurihana presented our team's paper "Scalable Multi-Facility Workflows for Artificial Intelligence Applications in Climate Research" at XLOOP24 in Atlanta, GA.
                    <li>[Aug. 2024] I presented my poster entitled "Enabling Distributed Research Orchestration Capabilities at ORNL" at the invitation-only Monterrey
                    <li>[Sep. 2024] I served as the Publicity Chair of eScience 2024.</li>
                    <li>[Aug. 2024] I had the opportunity to present a poster on cross-facility workflows orchestration at the invitation-only 2024 Monterey Data Conference.</li>
                    <li>[Jul. 2024] My team's paper "Towards Cross-Facility Workflows Orchestration through Distributed Automation" presented at <a href="https://pearc.acm.org/pearc24/">PEARC 2024!</a></li>
                    <li>[May 2024] I presented "Enhancing research orchestration capabilities at ORNL" at GlobusWorld 2024.</li>
                    <li>[Jan. 2024] I taught "Machine Learning for Data Mining" at Trinity Christian College.</li>
                    <li>[Nov. 2023] I am co-PI on $300k grant to study distributed multi-workflow orchestration. Awarded by Oak Ridge National Lab.</li>
                    <li>[Oct. 2023] I traveled to Limassol, Cyprus to present my team's paper: "Can Automated Metadata Extraction Make Scientific Data More Navigable?"</li>
                    <li>[Oct. 2023] I presented at ParslFest 2023.</li>
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