Summit Speaker

Dr. Namburu is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Information Technology Laboratory's (ITL)/ERDC. In addition to CTO's role, Dr. Raju Namburu represents DoD as a member for the US National Science and Technology council (NSTC) subcommittee for the future advanced computing echo system. Prior to coming to ITL, Dr. Namburu was Chief Scientist (CS), Division Chief -Computational Sciences Division and Director-DoD Supercomputing Resource Center Director at the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate (CISD), U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). Dr. Namburu was the chief architect in developing the computational sciences campaign strategy for the U.S. Army. As program manager, Dr. Namburu directed and guided one of the Army's premier computational sciences multi-University Consortium, Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) led by Stanford University (2006-2016) and at the University of Minnesota (2000-2006) for the Department of the Army. Dr. Namburu is the working group lead for information systems technology under DoD C4I community of interest and is actively involved in developing various activities for DoD in edge computing ecosystem, High-performance computing, autonomy, DoD AI strategy and quantum sciences. Dr. Namburu led various DoD scalable software development projects in computational sciences including establishing DoD mobile network modeling institute.

Dr. Namburu obtained his PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Minnesota. During his career, Dr. Namburu has worked at IBM Almaden research lab, Cray Research, and various US Army research, development, and engineering labs. Dr. Namburu has more than 100 refereed publications in journals and in international conferences and symposiums. Dr. Namburu is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).