Justin M. Wozniak

Justin Wozniak joined Argonne as a postdoc in 2008 and has been a member of the Data Science and Learning Division since its founding in 2018.  He has had a joint appointment at the University of Chicago since 2009, and is currently a Scientist-at-Large.

Wozniak designs and implements workflow systems for scientific applications and deep learning workloads, combining techniques from high-performance computing and distributed computing.  He has extensive experience integrating advanced computing techniques in collaboration with the health, experimental, and simulation sciences.  I develop and maintain the Swift/T workflow language.

Research Interests

• Systems architecture for deep learning and scientific computing
• Application frameworks for health sciences, including cancer and COVID
• High-level programming models for concurrency at large scale
• Distributed computing, fault tolerance, and recovery
• Workflow systems for simulation, experiment, and learning
• Integrating computing with databases, provenance, and analysis

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2008.
• MMath, University of Waterloo, ON, 2003.
• B.S., Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000, minors in Chemistry and Latin.

Awards

• HPCWire Editor’s Choice, OSPREY, 2024
• NOBUGS Best Poster Finalist, 2024
• R&D 100 Winner, CANDLE, 2023.
• Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research Finalist, 2020
• R&D 100 Winner, Swift/T, 2018.
• Best poster, University of Chicago MindBytes Posters 2017.
• Best paper, Cancer Workshop at SC 2016.
• Best paper, ScienceCloud 2014.
• Arthur J. Schmitt Leadership Fellowship, 2004-2008.

Activities

• Co-Chair, XLOOP: Workshop on Large-scale Experiment-in-the-Loop Computing @ SC
• Co-Chair, ACX: Workshop on Advanced Computing and Experimental Sciences
• Associate Editor, Frontiers in High Performance Computing
• Editorial Review Board member, Cancer Informatics
• Handling Editor for:
  • Frontiers in Big Data, section Medicine and Public Health
  • Frontiers in Public Health
• Steering Committee nember, Workflows Community Initiative
• Co-Organizer, ERROR: Workshop on E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results @ eScience
• Co-Organizer, WoWoHa: DOE Workflow Workshop and Hackathon

Key Publications

• A workflow for error analysis for drug response prediction via statistical standardization and distribution analysis
  Jake Gwinn, Justin M. Wozniak, Rajeev Jain, Yitan Zhu, Alex Partin, Thomas Brettin, and Rick Stevens.
  Proc. WORKS @ SC 2025.
• An automation framework for comparison of cancer response models across configurations
  Justin M. Wozniak, Rajeev Jain, Andreas Wilke, Rylie Weaver, Alexander Partin, Thomas Brettin, and Rick Stevens.
  Proc. eScience 2023.
• Developing distributed high-performance computing capabilities of an open science platform for robust epidemic analysis
  Nicholson Collier, Justin M. Wozniak, Abby Stevens, Yadu Babuji, Mickael Binois, Arindam Fadikar, Alexandra Wurth, Kyle Chard, and Jonathan Ozik.
  Proc. ParSocial 2023.
• A population data-driven workflow for COVID-19 modeling and learning 
  Jonathan Ozik, Justin M. Wozniak, Nicholson Collier, Charles M. Macal, and Mickaël Binois. 
  International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 2021.
• CANDLE/Supervisor: A workflow framework for machine learning applied to cancer research
  Justin M. Wozniak, Rajeev Jain, Prasanna Balaprakash, Jonathan Ozik, Nicholson Collier, John Bauer, Fangfang Xia, Thomas Brettin, Rick Stevens, Jamaludin Mohd-Yusof, Cristina Garcia Cardona, Brian Van Essen, and Matthew Baughman. 
  BMC Bioinformatics, 2018.

A more complete list is maintained here: https://web.cels.anl.gov/~woz/papers.html

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