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Brenner, Dr. Susanne Associate Director for Academic Affairs for the CCT; Professor
Room 330, Johnston Hall |
Faculty
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Allen, Gabrielle Associate Professor
Room 305, Johnston Hall |
| Gabrielle Allen is an associate professor in computer science. She received her Ph.D. in computational astrophysics from Cardiff University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and led its efforts in computational science for a number of years before joining CCT. | |
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Karki, Bijaya Associate Professor
Department: Computer Science |
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Kosar, Tevfik Visiting Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science |
| Tevfik Kosar is visiting assistant professor in computer science. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include distributed systems, grid and collaborative computing; data intensive distributed computing; resource allocation and management; fault tolerance; coordination of computation and I/O in distributed systems. | |
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Ott, Dr. Christian Adjunct Assistant Professor
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Saylor, Paul Visiting Professor
Department: Mathematics |
| Paul Saylor is a professor of mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Rice University. His research interests include scientific computing and numerical analysis. | |
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Sung, Li-yeng Professor
Department: Mathematics |
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Ullmer, Brygg Associate Professor
Room 10, Johnston Hall |
| Brygg Ullmer is an associate professor, jointly at CCT and in computer science. He received his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Media Laboratory). He leads visualization and human-computer interaction efforts at CCT, including the Tangible Visualization group (jointly in CCT and CS). | |
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Veronis, Georgios Assistant Professor
Room 327, Johnston Hall |
| Georgios Veronis is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Louisiana State University. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2002. His research interests include the theory and simulation of photonic materials, nanoscale photonic devices, plasmonics, and computational electromagnetics. | |
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Walker, Shawn Assistant Professor
Room 333, Johnston Hall |
| Shawn Walker is an assistant professor in mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, held a postdoctoral position at the Courant Institute (New York University), and joined the LSU faculty in 2010 in the computational mathematics group. | |
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Wan, Xiaoliang Assistant Professor
Room 235, Johnston Hall |
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Zhang, Hongchao Assistant Professor
Room 334, Johnston hall |
| Hongchao Zhang is an assistant professor in Mathematics and CCT. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from University of Florida and completed a postdoctoral at IMA in University of Minnesota. | |
Post-doctoral Researchers
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Abdikamalov, Dr. Ernazar Post Doctoral Researcher
Room 329, Cahill, California Institute of Technology |
| Ernazar Abdikamalov is a postdoctoral researcher at the CCT. He received his PhD in astrophysics at the International School for Advanced Studies (Trieste, Italy) in 2009, after which he joined CCT as a postdoc. | |
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Barker, Andrew Post Doctoral Researcher
Room 332, Johnston Hall |
| Andrew Barker is a postdoctoral researcher at the CCT and the Mathematics Department. He completed his PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has research interests in numerical analysis, preconditioning, numerical solutions of partial differential equations, and parallel computing. He has taught Calculus III, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra. | |
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Branton, Chris Post Doctoral Researcher
Room 146-B, Manship Research Facility (Formally the CCT Annex) |
| Chris Branton is a postdoctoral researcher with the Tangible Visualization group at CCT. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from LSU and spent several years in industry as a software developer, manager, and consultant before joining CCT. | |
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Davis, Chris Post Doctoral Researcher
Room 332, Johnston Hall |
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Park, Eun-Hee Post Doctoral Researcher
Room 332, Johnston Hall |
| Eun-Hee Park is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Mathematics research cluster at CCT. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from KAIST in South Korea. She was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Research Foundation of Korea before joining CCT. Her research interest is in numerical analysis with an emphasis on numerical solutions for partial differential equations: for example, finite element methods including discontinuous Galerkin methods and domain decomposition methods applicable for parallel computing as fast iterative solvers. | |
Staff
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Brandt, Prof. Steven Adjunct Professor of Computer Science IT Consultant
Room 231, Johnston Hall |
| Steven Brandt obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for his research in numerical simulations of rotating black holes. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of computer science and is involved in research into making parallel programming more effective. He works with the ParalleX team led by Dr. Thomas Sterling, and helps lead the Cactus Frameworks effort. He is Co-PI on grants relating to Cactus Frameworks development and cyberinfrastructure for the Coastal Hazards Collaboratory. | |
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Ge, Dr. Jinghua Manager, Advanced Visualization Service IT Consultant
Room 5, Johnston Hall |
| Jinghua Ge is a computational visualization environment consultant at CCT. She leads the advanced visualization service facility at CCT and LSU. She graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago at 2007. Her research interests include distributed visualization of large scale datasets, remote visualization pipeline, computer graphics, and virtual reality. | |
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Kaiser, Carola IT Analyst 3
Room 3191, Energy, Coast, & Environment |
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Carola works in a joint position at CCT and WBI to build a bridge between CCT's computational services and tools and WBI's CLEAR coastal modeling applications.
She has been working with Geographic Information Systems since 1992, after obtaining a MS in cartography from the University of Dresden, Germany. |
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Kulasekaran, Dr. Sivakumar IT Analyst 3
Room 229, Johnston Hall |
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Merzky, Andre IT Analyst 3
Room Wollin 36, 17291 Randowtal, Germany |
| Andre Merzky received his diploma in Particle Physics in 1998 at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has worked since on Grid-related topics concerning data management and visualization, and is active in the Applications Area of the Open Grid Forum (OGF). Although located in far eastern Germany, he is funded by the Louisiana State University to continue his work on SAGA. | |
Graduate Students
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Dastmalchi, Pouya Graduate Research Assistant
Room 328, Johnston Hall |
| Pouya is currently a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at LSU. His research interest includes Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, Computational Electromagnetics and Numerical analysis methods such as FDTD & FDFD. He has joined Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) as a Research Assistant in 2011. | |
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Gu, Shiyuan
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Harhad, Farid Graduate Assistant
Room 300, Frey CSC |
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I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science. I've also joined the CFD-IGERT program. I obtained my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from LSU with a minor in Mathematics. My research interests are Scientific Visualization, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Human-Computer Interaction.
My faculty advisors are: Dr. Bijaya Karki, Dr. Brygg Ullmer, Dr. Sumanta Acharya, and Dr. Werner Benger. |
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Huang, Wei Graduate Assistant
Room 401, Choppin Hall |
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Jiang, Lei Graduate Research Assistant
Room 209, Johnston hall |
| Lei has a BS degree in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China and MS degree in Applied Computer Science from Wuhan University, China. He joined CCT in July 2008, and has worked on CyberTools project during the two years. His research interest includes a few aspects of data-intensive computing: parallel I/O performance in data-oriented operations, high-performance data mining and related applications in large-scale problem solving. | |
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Nimmagadda, Sandeep
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Reiser, Armin Graduate Assistant
Room 244, Johnston Hall |
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Setty, Narendra Graduate Assistant
Department: Electrical Engineering |
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Toole, Cornelius Graduate Student
Room 320, Frey CSC |
| I'm a doctoral student within the Computer Science Department. I completed Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Computer Science at Jackson State University respectively in 2003 and 2005 and started here at the LSU/CCT Fall 2005. Currently I'm investigating brokering techniques to help manage distributed visualization applications as part of the Enlightened Project. I'm also working with the Tangible Visualization Group to find ways to apply brokering and other distibuted computing concepts to support co-located, computer-supported, collaborative use of tangible interaction devices in scenarios such as remote visualization and teleconference sessions. My research interests include visualization, human computer interfaces, distributed computing and design. | |
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Yin, Dengpan Graduate Assistant
Room 244, Johnston |
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Zhang, Yi Graduate Assistant
Department: Mathematics |
Undergraduate Students
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Elias, Andrew
Department: Mechanical Engineering |
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Hamilton, James
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Hargrove, Morgan
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Harris, Joshua Student Worker
Room 207, Johnston Hall |
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reeser, alex
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Other
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Alapati, Raghava
Department: Mechanical Engineering |
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Di Pierro, Massimo
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