Srinivas Aluru, Ph.D, is a Principal Investigator of the South Big Data Hub, the Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) in Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS), a professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering within the College of Computing, and an adjunct professor in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Aluru conducts research in high performance computing, large-scale data analysis, bioinformatics and systems biology, combinatorial scientific computing, and applied algorithms. He pioneered the development of parallel methods in bioinformatics and systems biology and contributed to the assembly of genomes and metagenomes, next-generation sequencing bioinformatics, and gene network inference and analysis. His contributions in scientific computing lie in parallel fast multipole methods, domain decomposition methods, spatial data structures, and applications in computational electromagnetics and materials informatics.