​Abstract: Networks play an important role in advancing science. Scientific workflows often utilize geographically distributed resources and move large quantities of data among those resources. Research and education networks have increased their capacities by several orders of magnitude in the past few decades to meet the requirements of the distributed data intensive science. In this talk, I will provide an overview of our work in supporting the evolving communication requirements of distributed science in the classical network environments. I will also discuss our recent efforts in quantum networks.​

​Short Bio: Dr. Rajkumar Kettimuthu is a Senior Scientist and Group Leader at Argonne National Laboratory, a Senior Scientist at The University of Chicago and a Senior Fellow at Northwestern University. His research interests include AI for science, advanced wired and wireless communications for science, and Quantum networks. Data transfer tools developed by him and his colleagues are used by numerous scientific communities across the world to move multiple Petabytes of data every day. He has co-authored 150+ peer-reviewed articles. He is a recipient of the prestigious R&D 100 award. He is a distinguished member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE.​