Dr. Ryan Grant, a Queen’s researcher and leading expert in secure supercomputing and AI Exascale infrastructure, is a strong advocate for sovereign supercomputing in Canada. He believes that government investment would ensure that both industry and researchers have access to cutting-edge and affordable infrastructure while positioning Canada as a global leader in advancing medicine, AI, and climate science research.
Dr. Ryan Grant is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on cloud computing, high performance networks, low-level hardware-software interfaces, message passing, high performance computing (HPC), and power management for Extreme-scale systems. He is also active in Queen’s Ingenuity Labs Research Institute and running the Computing at Extreme Scale Advanced Research (CAESAR), one of the largest supercomputing architecture labs in the world.
Dr. Grant received his PhD in 2012 from Queen’s University. Prior to joining Queen’s Smith Engineering faculty in 2021, he worked at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), a global leader in supercomputer design, in Albuquerque, USA. At SNL, he led the team that developed a software specification that is now integral to the networking hardware used in all the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
Dr. Grant has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles on system software. He has won numerous awards for his work including an “Oscars of Research” (R&D100 Award), several U.S. Defense Programs Awards, a Public Good Innovator Award, a Queen’s University 125th engineering alumni award, and best paper awards.
Dr. Grant holds chairs with technical specifications councils in systems software for networking and hyperscale datacenter power management. He has also held chairs at several conferences and works as an associate editor or guest editor for journals like IEEE Micro and Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations. He serves on the steering committees for Hot Interconnects and ExaMPI. He is also a senior member of the IEEE and an ACM member.
For more on Dr. Ryan Grant’s supercomputing research journey, see:
ELEC 374: Digital Systems Engineering
For an up-to-date list of publications visit:
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www.researchgate.net/profile/Ryan-Grant