Rachana Ananthakrishnan is Executive Director & Head of Products at the University of Chicago, and has a Joint Staff Appointment at Argonne National Laboratory.  In her role at the university, she leads the Globus (www​.globus​.org) department, which delivers a research IT platform to national and international research institutions. She currently serves on the Internet2 InCommon Steering Committee, Earth System Grid Federation Executive Committee and Scientific Advisory Board for National Microbiome Data Collaborative.

Her work is focused on cyber infrastructure for enabling research across a variety of domains, and she has led security and data management for several NSF, DOE, and NIH funded initiatives. Rachana was a member of the Globus Toolkit engineering team and customer engagement teams, leading the efforts in web services and security technologies. Rachana received her MS in Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington.