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May 17, 2022 Tyndall National Institute and the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) are delighted to announce today the appointment of Dr. Venkatesh Kannan as Academic Associate at Tyndall to foster closer collaboration and drive mutually beneficial opportunities for the two organizations.

Tyndall National Institute, hosted at UCC, is a leading European research center in integrated ICT (Information and Communications Technology) hardware and systems. The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), hosted at NUI Galway, has a mandate from the State to develop and offer computing and data management platforms and services to drive and support research and innovation in academia, enterprise and public sector organizations.

Dr Kannan is Centre Technical Manager at ICHEC, with responsibility for defining and implementing the technological vision, strategy and roadmap of the Centres R&D activities. As an Academic Associate at Tyndall, he will be responsible for pursuing synergies for both organizations through project development, collaborative research and targeting national and European funding opportunities and programs.

Commenting on the appointment and the links between Tyndall and ICHEC, Professor William Scanlon, CEO, Tyndall said, A warm welcome to Dr. Venkatesh Kannan. His appointment builds on a long-standing collaboration between ICHEC and Tyndall in applications of HPC in physical models and materials discovery. We look forward to deepening and broadening our working together. Our growing partnership will unlock opportunities to address a whole new set of grand challenges bridging deep-tech and digital technologies including the Quantum Internet and Artificial Intelligence for better health and environment and for greener energy and resources.

Congratulating Dr Kannan on his appointment, Prof. J-C Desplat, Director, ICHEC said,

We congratulate Dr Kannan whole-heartedly on this well-deserved recognition. We look forward to bridging the deep-tech R&D at Tyndall with the high-performance data and compute R&D at ICHEC to build smart scalable digital technology platforms and solutions targeting key domains, particularly environmental/climate security, renewable energy systems, precision health and emerging next-gen digital technologies for the benefit of all.

A closer partnership between ICHEC and the Tyndall National Institute will drive the following areas through National and EU activities:

Source: Tyndall National Institute

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