 | Battat, Sam
IT Analyst 2 Web Developer Supervisor: Ravi Paruchuri |
| 234 Johnston Hall
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 | Bordelon, Terrie
Technical Operations Supervisor: Joel Tohline |
| 226 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 5979 •
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 | Jordan, Colby
IT Analyst 2 User Support Analyst Supervisor: Ravi Paruchuri |
| 232 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 0816 •
http://colbyjordan.com | |
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 | MacAiodh, Phoenix
Multimedia Specialist Supervisor: Terrie Bordelon |
| 234 Johnston Hall
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 | Paruchuri, Mr. Ravi
Assistant Director Chief Officer of Advanced Computing, Research and Technology |
| 201 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 6088 •
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| Ravi Paruchuri received his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Madras and his Master of Science in Systems Science from Louisiana State University. Currently he is the Chief Officer of Advanced Computing, Research and Technology within the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University. He oversees all the research infrastructure and manages various levels of computing resources for CCT. | |
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 | Shenoy, Manjunatha
IT Analyst 2 |
| 231 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 8726 •
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 | Wiggins, Eric
IT Analyst 3 |
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 | Wright, Mr. Tim
IT Analyst 2 Supervisor: Colby Jordan |
| 232 Johnston Hall
• +1-225-578-3717 •
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~twright/ | |
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 | Yates, Mr. Adam
IT Analyst 3 Systems Administrator Supervisor: Ravi Paruchuri |
| 231 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 8235 •
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 | Boudreaux, Ashlen
Grant Coordinator Supervisor: Theresa Markey |
| 305 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 1294 •
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| Ashlen Boudreaux is the grant coordinator for the CCT. She received her BS degree in Accounting in August of 2008. She worked as a student worker at the CCT from 2004 - 2008. | |
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 | Couvillion, Ms. Lea Anne
AVATAR Initiative Coordinator Supervisor: Stephen David Beck |
| 11 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 5433 •
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| Lea Anne Couvillion is employed by the Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies And Research (AVATAR) at Louisiana State University's Center for Computation and Technology. AVATAR is a multidisciplinary hiring initiative that establishes a university-wide faculty focus on the intersections among art, technology and computation, creating new research areas in virtual environments, digital art, electro-acoustic music, animation, video game design, scientific visualization and more. AVATAR supports economic development in the state of Louisiana through new technologies, tax incentives for digital media, and new training for a growing industry. Prior to joining the CCT, Lea Anne worked as a Program Coordinator for the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training (NCBRT) on LSU's campus from 2004-2008. Here she worked with first responders and heads of military, state and government in developing plans for our nations security in times of crisis. Lea Anne has also worked in hospital and retirement community administration, as well as, residential and commercial property management. | |
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 | Cox, Andrew
Human Resource Coordinator Supervisor: Theresa Markey |
| 313 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 8771 •
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| Andy received his BS degree in Finance from LSU in December of 2008. Prior to working at CCT, Andy worked in the construction and telecommunication industry, but upon graduation, he accepted the Purchasing Coordinator position at the CCT. | |
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 | Fontenot, Jennifer
Events Coordinator Supervisor: Karen Jones |
| 309 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 6723 •
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| Jennifer Fontenot is the Events Coordinator at the CCT. She received her Bachelor of General Studies from LSU in 2008. She worked as a student worker at the CCT from 2004-2008. | |
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 | Jones, Karen
Assistant Director of Outreach |
| 309 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 0595 •
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| Karen Jones is the assistant director of outreach activities at the CCT which includes K-12, events, communications, and visitors. She received her B.S. from LSU, and has been employed at LSU in various roles for the last 25 years. | |
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 | Juneau, Brittany
Administrative Coordinator 2 Supervisor: Theresa Markey |
| 216 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 4012 •
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| Brittany is the Administrative Coordinator for the Center. She received her BS from LSU in 2010. She worked in the ER at BR General prior to joining CCT. | |
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 | Kerner, Kristy
Purchasing Coordinator Supervisor: Theresa Markey |
| 311 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 1331 •
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 | Lee, Shelley
Operations Coordinator for LA-SiGMA Supervisor: Mark Jarrell |
| 281 Nicholson Hall
• +1 225 578 0465 •
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 | Markey, Theresa
Associate Director of Business Administration |
| 304 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 4022 •
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 | McGlone, Susie
Visitor Program Coordinator Supervisor: Karen Jones |
| 309 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 7340 •
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| Susie is the Visitor Program Coordinator for the CCT. She received her BA degree at LSU in 2007 in Psychology. | |
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 | Moody, Amanda
Manager of Economic Development Supervisor: Joel Tohline |
| 7 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 8904 •
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| Amanda Lee Moody is the coordinator and Economic Development Interface for the CCT. In 2004, she obtained a BA in anthropology from Louisiana State University. After spending the early part of her career working in the environmental industry, she began working in digital media in 2007, with the inception of the Baton Rouge Area Digital Industries Consortium (BRADIC). Amanda served as the first coordinator for this economic development organization, which is comprised of state, city and university groups working together to recruit digital media companies to relocate to or expand in the Baton Rouge area. In Spring 2009, Amanda's role transitioned, and she began work as the economic development coordinator for the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, which was a founding partner of BRADIC. Amanda also has served as lead staff member for the Red Stick International Animation Festival since its third year. She is primarily responsible for content and programming, industry relations, guest artist liason, grant writing and developing longer-term festival initiatives during Red Stick's off season. | |
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 | Rodriguez-Milla, Dr. Bety
Manager Scientific Coordinator Supervisor: Mark Jarrell |
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| Bety Rodriguez is the Scientific Coordinator for both the LONI Institute (http://institute.loni.org) and the LA-SIGMA (http://lasigma.loni.org) projects. She is also one of the coordinators of the CCT Research Experience for Undergraduates (http://reu.cct.lsu.edu). She received her PhD in Physics from Syracuse University in 2008. She has been working at the CCT since then. | |
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 | Townsend, Leigh
Outreach Coordinator for LA-SiGMA Supervisor: Randall Hall |
| 410 Choppin
• +1 225 578 5381 •
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| Leigh Townsend is the Outreach Coordinator for LA-SiGMA. She received her BA degree and MPA degree from Louisiana State University before coming to work at CCT. | |
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 | Waters, Debra
Assistant to the Director Supervisor: Joel Tohline |
| 302 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 7877 •
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~debra/ | |
| Debra is assistant to the director for CCT. She has a BA in English and an MS in evolutionary biology; before coming to CCT she did research on the evolutionary relationships of green algae and land plants. Debra has been at LSU for 20+ years. | |
 | Benger, Dr. Werner
IT Consultant Research in Scientific Visualization |
| 211 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 4809 •
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~werner/ | |
| Werner Benger is research staff for scientific visualization at CCT, Tier 3, visualization research. He graduated with distinction in astronomy at the University of Innsbruck in 1997. The same year he joined the Zuse Institute for Information Technology in Berlin (ZIB) in a joint position with the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, the Albert-Einstein Institute (AEI), Potsdam. There he worked on extending and applying the in-house medical visualization software system (the now commercially available Amira software) towards astrophysical data sets from numerical relativity. He received his Ph.D. "Magna Cum Laude" in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Free University of Berlin for research on a unifying model for scientific data and visualization techniques for tensor fields. His images appeared in many magazines, journal covers, TV broadcasts and artistic events. His primary expertise is visualization of astrophysical data, such as from general relativity, ranging from gravitational lensing to scientific visualization of dynamical simulations of gravitational waves utilizing Grid technology. His techniques can well be applied to other domains such as medical imaging. | |
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 | Brandt, Prof. Steven
IT Consultant Adjunct Professor of Computer Science Supervisor: Shantenu Jha |
| 315 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 5431 •
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~sbrandt/ | |
| 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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 | Branton, Chris
IT Consultant Faculty Advisor: Brygg Ullmer |
| 146-B Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 2287 •
http://www.chrisbranton.com | |
| 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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 | Brodowicz, Maciej
IT Consultant |
| 314 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 334 2457 •
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| Maciej Brodowicz received M.S.E.E. from the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) in 1991, M.S. in Computer Science from University of Houston in 1994 and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Houston in 1998. He was employed at the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral scholar and later promoted to the research staff position. At Caltech, he was involved in a Scalable I/O framework developing I/O algorithms for the ASC program, investigated scalability of parallel applications on supercomputers, and, in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, designed micro-architecture and a hardware emulator for the MIND implementation of the Processor-In-Memory concept.Maciej's research interests at CCT include advanced computer architecture, parallel execution models, architectural and fuctional simulation, performance monitoring and prediction, scalable I/O subsystems and strategies, parallel application development and frameworks, and operating and runtime systems. | |
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 | Ge, Dr. Jinghua
IT Consultant Manager, Advanced Visualization Service |
| 5 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 7789 •
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~jinghuage | |
| 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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 | Jha, Shantenu
Visiting Sr. Research Scientist & Assistant Research Professor (CS) |
| 214 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 8772 •
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~sjha/ | |
| Jha's research interests are in Computational Science and High-Performance and Distributed Computing. | |
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 | Kaiser, Carola
IT Analyst 3 |
| 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. Her research interests include managing spatial data, developing technologies for data implementation, and applying GIS systems in specific research disciplines and collaborative environments. | |
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 | Kim, Dr. Joohyun
IT Consultant |
| 227 Johnston Hall
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| Joohyun Kim is a research staff in Cyberinfrastructure Development (CyD) group, CCT and Louisiana Biomedical Research Network (LBRN) Bioinformatics/Biocomputing Core (BBC) member. He received his Ph.D in Physical Chemistry from Seoul National University (Korea) and completed postdoctoral trainings at the NIMC (Japan), Boston University, UIC, and UIUC (NCSA). Current research and research support areas include Science Gateway development for life sciences and Structural Bioinformatics | |
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 | Kim, Nayong
IT Consultant Supervisor: Honggao Liu |
| 22 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 5486 •
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~sbrandt/ | |
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 | Lee, Dr. Tae-Woo
IT Consultant |
| 227 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 8653 •
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| Tae-Woo Lee received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison. After graduation, he worked at Argonne National Laboratory as a Post Doctoral Fellow. Then, he joined CCT as an IT consultant. His research interests include numerical simulations of light interactions in micro/nanoscale photonic structures. To pursue these interests, he develops and applies computing tools based on the Finite-Difference Time-Domain method. These numerical tools can rigorously describe surface plasmon excitations, and can be run on high performance (parallel) computer architectures to simulate complex 3D problems. | |
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 | Liu, Dr. Honggao
Deputy Director |
| 220 Johnston Hall
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http://liu.ocs.lsu.edu/ | |
| Dr. Liu is currently the Deputy Director of Center for Computation & Technology (CCT), the Director of HPC at LSU and the Principal Investigator (PI) on LONI's NSF HPCOPS project. Dr. Liu works closely with the CCT Director in developing strategies to build an internationally competitive and recognized center for computational sciences. Dr. Liu also oversees all HPC activities and plays a leadership role in LSU and LONI's HPC development efforts. Dr. Liu has been instrumental in establishing HPC at LSU as a nationally recognized facility for providing production HPC cycles to researchers on campus, the state, throughout the nation, and across the world. | |
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 | Lupo, Dr. James
Manager HPC User Services Manager Supervisor: Honggao Liu |
| 323 Frey
• +1 225 578 8899 •
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| Education: Ph.D., Physics, University of New Mexico, 1981 M.S., Physics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 1972 B.A., Physics, College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. 1970 Jim joined LSU with over 30 years of experience in high performance computing. He has a 20 year career with the USAF, covering 5 years as a Communication-Electronics Maintenance Officer and 15 years as a computational physicist. His work involved simulation of gravitational accretion flows in X-Ray binary star systems, magnetohydrodynamics simulations of high density plasmas, and material property studies of nano-crystaline metals. He spent 8 years as a parallel computation consultant at the Air Force Materials Laboratory with a computational chemistry group studying the parallel behavior of various MD codes on Air Force and DoD HPC systems. He also performed simulation and structure studies of optically-active biopolymers. He installed, operated, and maintained a virtual reality system for molecular docking studies using an Intel Paragon XP/E as the compute engine. Most recently he was the Senior Research Scientist at a small startup company and was involved in custom machine architecture analysis, and parallel algorithm implementations for sensor fusion, target recognition, bioinformatics, and biometric applications. | |
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 | Löffler, Dr. Frank
IT Consultant Faculty Advisor: Peter Diener |
| 202 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 7437 •
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~knarf/ | |
| Frank Loeffler is a postdoctoral researcher in the numerical relativity group at CCT. He received his PhD from the Albert-Einstein-Institute in Germany and completed a VESF fellowship at SISSA, Italy. He is interested in dynamics of compact astrophysical objects, e.g., neutron stars, black holes and processes creating them, e.g., supernovae. He is also currently leading the Einstein Toolkit and co-leading the Cactuscode project at CCT. | |
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 | Merzky, Andre
IT Analyst 3 Supervisor: Shantenu Jha |
| Wollin 36 17291 Randowtal, Germany
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http://www.merzky.net/ | |
| 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. | |
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 | Nagelberg, Mr. Alex
IT Analyst 3 Software Engineer |
| 315 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 0130 •
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 | Schnetter, Dr. Erik
IT Consultant Assistant Research Professor |
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http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~eschnett/ | |
| Erik Schnetter is a researcher in the Coast-to-Cosmos focus area at the CCT. His main scientific interests include black holes and neutron stars in relativistic computational astrophysics as well as high performance computing and software frameworks in computer science. He joined the CCT in September 2005. Erik is the original author and the project leader of Carpet, the adaptive mesh refinement and multi-block driver for Cactus. He is principal investigator of the NSF "Alpaca" grant to invent new, framework-based profiling and debugging tools for HPC environments. He also participates in the XiRel collaboration to create and improve software infrastructure for numerical relativity. | |
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 | Tao, Dr. Jian
IT Consultant Research Scientist Supervisor: Honggao Liu Faculty Advisor: Q. Jim Chen |
| 210 Johnston Hall
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| Jian Tao is a research scientist at CCT. He received his Ph.D in computational astrophysics from Washington University in St. Louis. Before joining CCT as a research scientist, he worked at CCT as a postdoc in the XiRel project to build the next generation infrastructure for numerical relativity, and CyberTools project to develop the infrastructures needed for interdisciplinary research. He is actively involved in the Cactus framework group and helps to manage the cyberinfrastructure development of the Northern Gulf Coastal Hazards Collaboratory project. He is currently working on CaKernel, a programming framework to support automatic code generation and optimization for scientific applications on heterogeneous systems. He is also working on a Boussinesq model for ocean surface wave to simulate storm surge and tsunami. | |
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 | Traxler, Kathryn
Education, Outreach and Training Specialist Supervisor: Honggao Liu |
| 229 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 8932 •
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| Kathy Traxler is an Education, Outreach and Training coordinator for CCT. She now works with professors, who secured grants needing EOT programs, to develop and implement these programs. Kathy received her B.S. in Computer Science from Southeastern LA University in 1988. She then went to University of Southern MS and received a M.S. in Computer Science in 1991. She taught and was undergraduate advisor in LSU's Computer Science department from June of 1993 through May of 2003. when she moved to CCT to work with students and develop EOT activities. | |
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 | Weidner, Mr. Ole Christian
Computer Manager |
| 233 Johnston Hall
• +1 225 578 6419 •
http://oleweidner.com | |
| Ole is a researcher in the Core Computational Science group at CCT, specializing in grid framework design. He graduated with a B.Sc. in Software Engineering from Hasso-Plattner-Institute for Software Systems Engineering in Germany in 2006. During his studies, Ole worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein-Institute) as a software developer for the Grid Application Toolkit (JavaGAT). His research interests are focused on grid frameworks and middleware as well as programming models and object-oriented design patterns for distributed and grid computing environments. At CCT, he currently works on the SAGA C++ reference implementation. | |
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