Renan Souza
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Cloud, HPC, And AI Workflows at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRenan Souza is a Senior Staff Research Scientist specializing in building large-scale AI and data platforms that span Edge, Cloud, and HPC environments, with over a decade of experience turning scientific requirements into production-ready systems. Based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he leads technical design and PI-level projects focused on observability, provenance, data integration, and LLM-driven agentic workflows to enable low-latency, reproducible execution at scale. Formerly a research lead at IBM, he has delivered hybrid cloud and cluster solutions across energy, finance, physics, and cheminformatics, blending hands-on development with architecture and DevOps. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and maintains an active research profile with publications and talks (see RenanSouza.org), reflecting a rare mix of deep academic grounding and practical systems engineering. Notably, his work emphasizes end-to-end observability and provenance to make complex AI workflows auditable and reliable in heterogeneous production environments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (Data and Knowledge Engineering), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (Data and Knowledge Engineering) at Federal University of Rio de JaneiroInformation Technolgy Technician, Computer Science, Information Technolgy Technician, Computer Science at Lemos de CastroExchange Student, Computer Science, Exchange Student, Computer Science at Missouri State University
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (46)
tensorboard10
parallel-processing10
dask9
research-and-development8
relational-algebra8
mlflow8
data-lineage8
model-management8
machine-learning8
big-data8
resource-management8
benchmark8
reproducible-research8
simulation8
reproducible-science7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
renan-souza/cv
May 2020 - Sep 2024
My YAML cv and resume.
Contributions:50 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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renan-souza/renan-souza.github.io
May 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:64 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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