Join us on June 25, 2025, for a webinar hosted by Johann Lombardi, where we'll explore Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS).
Johann Lombardi is a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Chair of the DAOS Foundation, an open-source project under the Linux Foundation. Before joining HPE, he spent 12 years at Intel as a Senior Principal Engineer and Lead Architect for the DAOS project. Earlier in his career, Johann gained 8 years of experience contributing to the advancement of the Lustre parallel file system.
Kaushik Velusamy, is an Assistant Computer Scientist in the data science group with the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory. His research focuses on optimizing data access performance for machine learning and exploring novel computer architectures. His current projects include scientific data management, DAOS, deep learning I/O (DLIO), HDF5, collective communications, distributed memory systems, parallel I/O, and large-scale distributed deep learning. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 2021.