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Kalyan Perumalla, Ph.D., is a federal Program Manager in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Office of Science, within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), with portfolio spanning quantum computing and networking, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and scientific discovery, and basic computer science. Before joining DOE, he spent 17 years in research and managerial roles up to Distinguished Research Staff Member at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Prior to that, he held research appointments for 8 years at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, UK, served as Joint Full Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Tennessee, and was adjunct faculty at Georgia Tech and the University of Nebraska. Dr. Perumalla's scientific work is widely published with over 150 publications, 5 best paper awards, and a seminal book on reversible computing. He was elected chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Simulation (SIGSIM) for terms across 2020-2024.