Location
163 Malone Hall
Research Areas
Large Data Sets for Scientific Applications
Query Processing for Data-Intensive Science Applications
Redundancy Coding and Auditing of Outsourced Storage Services
Adaptive Performance Management for Network Data Protocols
Scalable Systems that Support Neuroscience Imaging Analysis and Annotation

Randal Burns is the Bill and Lisa Stromberg Department Head and a professor in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests lie in building high-performance, scalable data systems that allow scientists to make discoveries through the exploration, mining, and statistical analysis of big data.  Recently, he has focused primarily on high-throughput neuroscience but retains a vigorous interest in high-performance computing numerical simulations.

Burns is both a member of and on the steering committee of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute. He is a member of the Institute for Data-Intensive Science and Engineering (IDIES). He is on the steering committee of the Science of Learning Institute. He was a research staff member in storage systems at IBM’s Almaden Research Center from 1996 to 2002. He earned his BS in Geophysics at Stanford University (1993), and his MS  (1997) and PhD (2000) in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz.