Ketan Maheshwari is a postdoctoral researcher in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at the Argonne National Laboratory. His research interests include applications for parallel scripting on distributed and high-performance resources. His main activities in recent years involve design, implementation and execution of parallel applications on clouds, XSEDE, Cray XE6, and IBM supercomputers at the University of Chicago. The applications include massive protein docking, weather and soil modeling, earthquake simulations, and power grid modeling funded by DOE and NIH.