Dr Chiranjib Sur started his professional journey as a physicist and later turned into a computer scientist. In his career spanning more than 20 years in academia and industrial R&D, he has worked in various fields of scientific computing, applied mathematics, computer science, high-performance computing, and scalable AI. He has 3 granted patents and 50+ international publications in different international scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. As a Review Editor, he also serves the editorial boards of a few scientific journals in the fields of computational physics and computer science. As a Chairperson, he leads the IEEE International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (www.hipc.org) since 2017. He serves many other top-ranked conferences in their program committees and advisory boards. He is the 2003 recipient of the “ISCA Young Scientist Award” from the Indian Science Congress Association. His biography is listed in Marquis and International Who’s Who publications. He is a member of the technical committee for parallel processing (TCPP) of the IEEE Computer Society, Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), the American Physical Society (APS), ACM, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and he is a Senior Member of IEEE. After spending many years at the high-performance computing lab at IBM, Bangalore, the Ohio State University, USA, and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, he joined Shell in November 2012, where he is currently the Head of Engineering, Scientific Simulations. He is an award-winning wildlife photographer and an avid blogger/writer.
