Saiful Khan
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Dr. Saiful Khan

B.E., M.S., D.Phil. (Oxford)
Senior Computer Scientist

Scientific Computing, STFC


I am a Senior Scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) under UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Previously, I earned a DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford, where I conducted postdoctoral research under Professor Min Chen.

I specialize in developing data-driven software systems and infrastructure to solve complex, large-scale challenges. My work spans diverse domains including nuclear fusion, pandemic response, security intelligence, radio astronomy, and seismology. I have led the design and development of several key infrastructures, such as: FAIR-MAST (nuclear fusion data), RAMPVIS (pandemic data visualization), SKA (radio astronomy), VBAS (seismological data visualization), and VIS4ML (visualization for machine learning). As a user liaison for DAFNI (UK national data & analytics infrastructure), I drive platform impact, e.g, by leading data federation efforts with the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) to streamline researcher access to national environmental modeling resources. Additionally, with a professional background at Oracle, ABB, I focus on bridging the gap between advanced academic research and scalable, real-world industrial impact.

My research interests include Data-driven Software Infrastructure, Data Visualization, Applied Machine Learning, including Large Language Models (LLM) & Agent-based Systems with publications in IEEE TSC, IEEE TVCG, IEEE TPS, MLST, Phil. Trans. A, and IEEE VIS.