Sanjay Padhi

Principal, Amazon Web Services' Global Scientific Computing Team

Sanjay Padhi.

Dr. Sanjay Padhi leads Amazon Web Service’s federal initiatives with the National Science Foundation (NSF). He also leads their global HEP related activities. Dr. Padhi has more than 15 years of experience in large-scale distributed computing, Data Analytics and Machine Learning. He is the co-creator Workload Management System (glideinWMS), currently used for all the data processing and simulations activities by CMS, one of the largest experiments in the world at CERN, consisting of more than 180 institutions across 40 countries. He also co-founded the ZEUS Computing Grid project at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany before joining CERN. Sanjay obtained his Ph.D from McGill University in High Energy Physics and is also currently appointed by the Dean of Faculty as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics at Brown University.