Chief Scientist and Group Leader · Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Mahantesh Halappanavar

Dr. Halappanavar is a chief computer scientist at PNNL, where he serves as the group leader of the Data Science and Machine Intelligence Group. He also holds a joint appointment as adjunct faculty in computer science at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University in Pullman. His research has spanned multiple technical foci and includes combinatorial scientific computing, parallel graph algorithms, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the application of graph theory and game theory to solve problems in application domains, such as scientific computing, power grids, cybersecurity, and life sciences. He co-authored a book on design of parallel graph algorithms on shared-memory architectures and has authored over 170 technical publications for peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and workshops. He is a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).