Kalyan Perumalla is a Distinguished Research Staff Member (Band 5, 2014) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy and Joint Full Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee. Dr. Perumalla holds additional appointments as Adjunct Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He serves on the Special Interest Group Governing Board of the Association for Computing Machinery as elected chair of Special Interest Group in Simulation. He is a Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, UK, and a former member of the National Academies’ Technical Advisory Boards for U.S. Army Research Laboratories. He sits on the editorial boards of ACM TOMACS, Journal of Simulation, and SCS Simulation. Five of his publications won the best paper awards. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 1999. His research interests include high-performance computing, parallel simulation, and cyber-physical systems.