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Our Mission

The Radiant Systems Lab in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia is dedicated to advancing the path from data to informed decisions across a wide range of domains. The Lab is a front runner in the design of reproducible, accountable, and trustworthy data-driven systems and infrastructure. It is directed by Dr. Tanu Malik and member expertise spans machine learning, big data management, resource and system optimization, data provenance and policy frameworks, scientific workflows, and DevOps solutions and practices.

Recent News

• August 20, 2026 — Md Saiful Islam, Douglas Thain, A S M Shahadat Hossain, and Tanu Malik will present the tutorial Portable By Design: Deploying Notebook-based Scientific Workflows across HPC Clusters at IEEE eScience 2026, held September 28-October 2, 2026 in Naples, Italy.
• August 14, 2026 — Tanu Malik presents ‘Backpacks and Black Boxes: Reproducible Science When AI Writes the Code’ as an invited keynote at IEEE eScience 2026 on October 1, 2026.
• July 20, 2026 — The paper ‘Porting Linux-based Application Virtualization Tools to Apple Silicon - Challenges and Experiences’ by Crossen, A., and Malik, T. got accepted at the 4th ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability (ACM REP ‘26). Congrats Alex!
• July 20, 2026 — The paper AI-Generated Code Is Not Reproducible (Yet): An Empirical Study of Dependency Gaps in LLM-Based Coding Agents by Bhanu Prakash Vangala, Ashish Gehani, and Tanu Malik got accepted at the 4th ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability (ACM REP ‘26). Congrats Bhanu!
• July 16, 2026 — The paper ‘Declare, Resolve, Reuse: A Portable Data Layer for Notebook Workflows Across HPC Systems’ by Md Saiful Islam, Reyer Band, Jin Zhou, Tanu Malik, Kevin Lannon, and Douglas Thain got accepted at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience 2026). Congrats Saiful!
• July 13, 2026 — The paper Pick and Spin: Cold-Start-Aware Routing for Self-Hosted LLM Serving by Vangala, B. P., and Malik, T. got accepted at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2026). Congrats Bhanu!
• March 19, 2026 — The paper Semantically-Aligned Data Carving for Robust Reproducibility by Ashish Gehani, Raffay Atiq, Tanu Malik, and Fareed Zaffar got accepted at ACM PEARC, which was held July 26-30, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Congrats Raffay!
• February 20, 2026 — Presentation on ‘Lessons Learned from a Multi-Model Question Answering Pipeline on the Chameleon Testbed’ by ‘Deshan Wattegama’ has been selected for the ‘Sixth Chameleon User Meeting’, taking place April 15–16, 2026 at ‘NCAR’s Mesa Lab’ in Boulder, Colorado. 

Research Areas

Explore our five key research areas that define Radiant Lab’s expertise and innovation.