Ramki(Ramakrishnan) Kannan

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Knoxville, TN

Ramki Kannan

Distinguished R&D Staff · Group Leader, Discrete Algorithms

Accelerating scientific discovery through distributed machine learning and graph algorithms on HPC platforms — reducing computation from weeks to seconds.

26+ US Patents
$35M+ Research Funded
100+ Publications
Gordon Bell Finalist

Recent Publications

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2025
Conference

SymProp: Scaling Sparse Symmetric Tucker Decomposition via Symmetry Propagation

Z. Li, S. Shivakumar, J. Li, R. KannanIEEE IPDPS 2025

2025
Conference

AI-Powered Knowledge Graphs for Neuromorphic and Energy-Efficient Computing

A. Gautam, R. Patton, T. Potok, R. Kannan, et al. — GLSVLSI 2025

2024
Conference

Accelerated Constrained Sparse Tensor Factorization on Massively Parallel Architectures

Y. Soh, R. Kannan, P. Sao, J. Choi — ICPP 2024

2022
Conference

Exaflops Biomedical Knowledge Graph Analytics

R. Kannan, P. Sao, H. Lu, et al. — SC22 (IEEE/ACM Supercomputing)

2021
Journal

PLANC: Parallel Low-rank Approximation with Nonnegativity Constraints

S. Eswar, K. Hayashi, G. Ballard, R. Kannan, et al. — ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)

Research Areas

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News & Impact

Knowledge-guided Machine Learning Book Cover

Co-authored Book — 2022

Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning

Ramakrishnan Kannan, Anuj Karpatne, Vipin Kumar

A comprehensive treatment of integrating scientific domain knowledge with machine learning for improved accuracy, interpretability, and generalizability.

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