Baker, Mark - Dr. Baker is a professor in the The Distributed Systems Group
at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research interests include Web Services, Open Distributed Systems, Network Architecture, High Perfromance Computing and Grid Computing. Dr. Baker is also the General Chair for the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing.
Blatecky, Alan - Alan Blatecky became the interim director of the Renaissance Computing Institute on Dec. 3, 2007. He had served as RENCI deputy director since 2004 and helped guide the institute through its initial startup phase and through a period of growth and development that included the hiring of more than 80 professional staff and the opening of six RENCI sites across North Carolina.
Blatecky brings to RENCI more than 25 years of experience in high performance computing, networking and communications. Before coming to RENCI, he was the executive director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, one of the National Science Foundation's original supercomputing centers, and directed the National Science Foundation's Middleware Initiative, an effort to develop the underlying software foundation needed for a nationwide cyberinfrastructure to support research, from 2001 to 2003.
Blatecky has a long history working with the North Carolina research, education and business communities. He was executive director of the North Carolina Networking Initiative from 1998 to 2001 and a vice president at the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (now MCNC) for 11 years, where he helped establish and develop the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), one of the nation’s most advanced statewide research networks. Other projects that were launched through MCNC during his tenure include the North Carolina Supercomputing Center, the North Carolina Information Highway, the North Carolina GigaPop, VISTAnet (one of the five national Gigabit test beds), the North Carolina Networking Initiative, and the Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center.
Blatecky serves on a variety of national and international advisory boards that are shaping the research landscape and developing the infrastructure to support research, education and collaborative problem solving. These include the Program Management Board for Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe, the Long Term Ecological Research program, The National Biomedical Computation Resource Advisory Board, SURAgrid, the Biomedical Informatics Research Network and the International Research Network Connections program.
Blatecky holds four masters degrees including degrees from Princeton University and degrees from Duke University.
Buyyam, Rajkumar - Dr. Rajkumar is the Senior Lecturer and Storage Technology Corporation (USA) Fellow of Grid Computing at the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory. He is also a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Melbourne in Australia. research interests include: Parallel and Distributed Computing (Cluster ,Grid , and Peer-to-Peer systems) eScience and eBusiness technologies and applications. He has authored many papers and was editor on 2 books; High Performance Cluster Computing: Architectures and Systems and High Performance Mass Storage and Parallel I/O .
Clements, Paul C - Dr. Clements worked for the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. There, he participated in (and eventually led) the Software Cost Reduction or "A-7" project. SCR produced and validated a methodology for hard-real-time embedded software development for systems with long life-cycles by re-designing and re-implementing the avionics software for the Navys A-7E aircraft. SCR pioneered techniques in modular software design, requirements engineering and specification, software architecture and architectural structures, interface specification and documentation, and real-time performance engineering. He currently works for the SEI at CMU.
DeVore, C. Richard
- Dr. DeVore develops and applies numerical algorithms for a variety of scientific and engineering systems, and pursues analytical research into their underlying physics. devore@lcp.nrl.navy.mil
Dinda, Peter - Dr Dinda's is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Northwestern Universtity. His research interests include parrallel and distributed computing, Grid Computing, Datamining, Cluster Computing, Virtual Networks, and Real-time systems.
Foster, Ian - Dr. Foster is a Senior Scientist and the Associate Division Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, where he heads the Distributed Systems Laboratory. In addition, he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. foster@mcs.anl.gov
Gentzsch, Wolfgang - Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Duke University
Hawick, Ken - Professor Ken Hawick holds the Chair of Computer Science at Massey University, Albany, NZ. Formerly, Professor Hawick was Head of Computer Science at the University of Wales, Bangor and was founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Software technology (CAST) in Wales. Hawick founded and led the Distributed and High-Performance Computing Research Group (DHPC) at the University of Adelaide, Australia from 1996 to 2000 and then at Bangor until 2003. Hawick also ran the Numerical Simulations Group at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre until 1992, and worked at the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center in New York from 1992-95, and for the UK Meteorological Office from 1995-96. Hawick has a PhD in Computational Physics from the University of Edinburgh and is a Member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, SIAM, the Institute of Physics, the British Computer Society, and is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, an Associate Member of the Chartered Management Institute and is a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Hawick's research interests are in: parallel and high performance computing and computational grid systems involving mobile and wireless information management systems. Hawick is also researching complex and emergent behaviour in distributed systems and artificial life.
Karamcheti, Vijay - Associate Professor of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
Kumar, Vipin - Dr. Kumar is the Director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center. In addition, he is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. Kumar's current research interests include parallel computing, parallel algorithms for scientific computing problems, and data mining. kumar@cs.umn.edu
Papadopoulos, Phil - Phil is the Program Director, Grid and Cluster Computing, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD and also an Associate Research Professor (Adjunct) of Computer Science at UCSD.
Reed, Dan - While he maintains this active research effort in the Department of Computer Science, Reed's primary professional role is as the Director of the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In this dual directorship role, Reed provides strategic direction and leadership to the Alliance and NCSA and is the principal investigator for the Alliance cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. He is one of two principal investigators and the Chief Architect for the NSF TeraGrid project to create a national infrastructure for Grid computing.
Thakur, Rajeev - Rajeev Thakur Computer Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory and a Fellow in the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago. He is also an adjunct associate professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University. His research interests are in the area of high-performance computing in general and high-performance communication and I/O in particular.
Yong-Meng, Teo - Dr TEO Yong- Meng is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and a Fellow of the Singapore-MIT Alliance Programme . He is head of the Computer Systems Research Laboratory . His research interest covers various aspects of parallel and distributed computing including parallel & distributed simulation, grid computing , parallel computer architecture, and performance modeling & analysis. Among the many positions he has held, he is currently an advisory member of the IEEE CS Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC), Chair of Governance and Policy Working Group, Singapore National Grid ,Member of IDA/HP Adaptive Enterprise@Singapore (R&D Committee), and Member of Resource Team, Technology Scan Panel, A*STAR Science and Engineering Research Council .
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