Rangan Sukumar is a Senior Analytics Architect in the CTO’s office at Cray Inc. His role is three-fold: (i) Analytics evangelist - Demonstrating what Big Data and HPC can do for data-centric organizations,  (ii) Technology visionary -  Designing the roadmap for analytic products through evaluation of customer requirements and aligning them with emerging hardware and software technologies, (iii) Solutions architect - Creating bleeding-edge solutions for scientific and enterprise problems in the long-tail of the Big Data market requiring scale and performance beyond what cloud computing offers.  Before his role at Cray, he served as a group leader, data scientist and artificial intelligence/machine learning researcher scaling algorithms on unique super-computing infrastructures at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has over 70 publications in areas of disparate data collection, organization, processing, integration, fusion, analysis and inference - applied to a wide variety of domains such as healthcare, social network analysis, electric grid modernization and public policy informatics.