Dr. Ashok Srinivasan

Dr. Ashok Srinivasan is the William Nystul Eminent Scholar Chair and Professor at the University of West Florida and a Fulbright Fellow. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He performed postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and subsequently held faculty positions at IIT Bombay, UCSB, and Florida State University. His research, on applications of supercomputing, has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, etc. He currently leads project VIPRA, a multi-university interdisciplinary project on the spread of infections through air travel. This research was identified as one of the major scientific breakthroughs using the flagship Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and its results have been highlighted in around 200 news outlets around the world.