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	Acharya, Sumanta Professor
	225-578-5809 •
Dr. Sumanta Acharya is an L.R. Daniel professor in LSU's Mechanical Engineering department. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota. His research interestes include computational and experimental heat transfer, fluid mechanics and combustion.

	Allen, Gabrielle Associate Professor
	215 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 6955 • http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~gallen/
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.

	Allison, Dr. Jesse Assistant Professor Experimental Music & Digital Media
	14 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 5572 • http://allisonic.com
Jesse Allison is an assistant professor in Experimental Music & Digital Media with the LSU School of Music. He received his D.M.A. in Music Composition from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is co-founder of Electrotap LLC, an innovative firm developing tools for electronic art. His position at the CCT enables him to explore the evolving relationship between technology and music and pursue new avenues for artistic and sonic expression.

	Beck, Dr. Stephen David Full Professor Cultural Computing Focus Area Lead
	24 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 2594 • http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~sdbeck/
Dr. Stephen David Beck is serving as Area Head of the Cultural Computing focus area and director of the Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies (LCAT). He is a Professor of Composition and Computer Music in LSU's School of Music. Beck received his Ph.D in music composition and theory from UCLA, and held a Fulbright Fellowship (1985) at the Institut du Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. His research interests include: immersive audio, data sonification, auditory display, sound diffusion, and interactive computer music.

	Bourdin, Blaise Associate Professor Associate professor
	344 Lockett Hall • +1 225 578 1612 • http://www.math.lsu.edu/~bourdin

	Brenner, Dr. Susanne Associate Director for Academic Affairs for the CCT; Professor
	330 Johnston Hall •

	Browne, Dana Associate Chair and Professor of Physics
	219B Nicholson • +1 225 578 6843 • http://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/browne/browne.html

	Brylinski, Dr. Michal Assistant Professor
	214 Johnston 407 Choppin Hall • +1 225 578 2601 • http://brylinski.cct.lsu.edu/people/michal

	Chen, Jianhua
	+1 225 578 4340 •

	Chen, Q. Jim Designated Professor
	3418 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 4911 •

	Daniels-Race, Theda Associate Professor
	217 Electrical Eng • +12255788912+12255785623 •
Theda Daniels-Race is an associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University, and before joinging the LSU faculty she was responsible for the design and development of Duke University's first molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) laboratory. She is an expert in the expitaxial growth and characterization of compound semiconductor nanostructures.

	Diener, Peter Assistant Professor Research Professor
	202 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 6880 •
Peter Diener is an assistant professor of research in the LSU Department of Physics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Texas at Austin, the California Institute of Technology, and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics before joining CCT.

	Hall, Randall Full Professor Professor
	427 Choppin Hall/ 236 Johnston • +1 225 578 3472 • http://chemistry.lsu.edu/site/People/Faculty/Randall%20Hall/item1084.html
Randall Hall is the Webster Parish Chapter Alumni Professor of Chemistry at LSU. He obtained his B.S. from U.C. Berkeley and his Ph.D. for Columbia University. He worked as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before joining the faculty at LSU in 1986.

	Hirschheim, Rudy
	339 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 8896 • http://projects.bus.lsu.edu/faculty/rudy/
Rudy Hirschheim is the Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the ISDS department of the E.J. Ourso College of Business and the focus area head of the Business, Medical and Social Informatics focus area at CCT. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of London. His research expertise is in the area of outsourcing.

	Jarrell, Mark Full Professor
	285 Nicholson/ Johnston Hall • +12255787528+12255788271 • http://www.phys.lsu.edu/~jarrell

	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.

	Kaiser, Hartmut IT Consultant Adjunct Associate Research Professor (CS)
	314 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 0916 •
After 15+ interesting years that Hartmut spent working in industrial software development, he still tremendously enjoys working with modern software development technologies and techniques. His preferred field of interest is software development in the area of object-oriented and component-based programming in C++ and its application in complex contexts, such as for spatial information systems, distributed and Grid based applications and parser technologies. Hartmut got his MS in Computer Science from the Leningrad Electrotechnical University, Petersburg, Russia, in 1985, a Ph.D. and the habilitation in Computer Engineering, in 1988, both from the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany. At CCT he is responsible for the integration of different applications with computational Grids.

	Karki, Bijaya Associate Professor
	283 Coates • +1 225 518 3197 •

	Katz, Daniel S. Adjunct Associate Professor
	+1 773 834 7186 • http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~dsk/
Daniel S. Katz is adjunct associate professor at the CCT and in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his PhD from Northwestern University, and has previously worked at Cray Research, NASA JPL, and LSU. His research focuses on large-scale applications.

	Khonsari, Michael Dow Chemical Endowed Chair and Professor
	+1 225 578 9192 •
Dr Khonsari earned a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. At LSU he holds the Dow Chemical Endowed Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering where he is also the Director of the Center for Rotating Machinery. His research interests are in friction, lubrication and wear of machinery, machinery performance analysis, numerical analysis and heat transfer. Dr Khonsari serves as the EPSCoR Project Director in Sponsored Programs for the Louisiana Board of Regents.

	Kooima, Dr. Robert Assistant Professor
	5 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 7150 • http://csc.lsu.edu/~kooima/
Robert Kooima is an assistant professor in computer science. He received his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, working at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory. His work focuses on real-time 3D computer graphics with applications to scientific visualization and interactive display technologies.

	Koppelman, David
	349 EE Building • +1 225 578 5482 •

	Kosar, Tevfik Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor
	• http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/
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.

	Li, Xin Assistant Professor Supervisor: Stephen David Beck Faculty Advisor: Jagannathan 'Ram' Ramanujam
	9 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 0289 • http://www.ece.lsu.edu/xinli
Xin Li is an assistant professor jointly in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and CCT. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stony Brook University (SUNY) in 2008 before joining CCT.

	Lipton, Robert S.B. Barton Professor, Ph.D. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
	304 Lockett • +1 225 578 1665 •

	Moldovan, Dorel
	2504 Patrick F. Taylor • +1 225 578 6488 •

	Moreno, Juana Assistant Professor
	327 Johnston Hall 293 Nicholson Hall • +12255781431+12255787586 •
Juana Moreno is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. She received her Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Rutgers University and was faculty at the University of North Dakota before joining CCT. Her research focuses on modeling, using a variety of computational tools, the transport and magnetic properties of correlated electron systems, including diluted magnetic semiconductors, heavy fermion compounds and low-dimensional systems.

	Ostrenko, Derick
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	Ott, Dr. Christian Adjunct Assistant Professor
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	Park, Seung-Jong Associate Professor
	146-C Manship Research Facility • +1 225 578 8933 •
Seung-Jong Park is an associate professor. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His teaching interests include computer networks, network protocols, wireless networks, mobile computing, distributed systems and operating systems.

	Porter, Lance Designated Professor
	243 Hodges Hall • +1 225 578 7377 •
Lance Porter is an designated professor of mass communication. He received his Ph.D. in mass communication with an emphases in public relations/new media from the University of Georgia. His research interests include new media effects, Internet advertising effects, public relations theory and entertainment marketing.

	Pullin, Jorge Horace Hearne Chair in Theoretical Physics
	241-C Nicholson Hall • +1 225 578 0464 • http://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/pullin/
Jorge Pullin is the Horace Hearne Chair in Theoretical physics. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the Instituto Balseiro, National Commission of Atomic Energy in Bariloche, Argentina.

	Ramanujam, Jagannathan 'Ram' Designated Professor Ritter Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
	345 EE Building/ Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 5628 • http://www.ece.lsu.edu/jxr/jxr.html
Dr. Ramanujam is the John E. and Beatrice L. Ritter Distinguished Professor in the LSU department of electrical and computer engineering. His research interests include compiler optimizations for high-performance computing, computational science, computer architecture, embedded systems, and hardware synthesis and optimization. He received the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award in 1994. In addition, he has received the best paper awards at the 2003 International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2003) and the 2004 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004) for his work with others on compiler optimizations for quantum chemistry computations.

	Ryan, Susan Adjunct Associate Professor
	123 Art Building • +1 225 578 5411 •

	Saylor, Paul Visiting Professor
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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.

	Schnetter, Dr. Erik IT Consultant Assistant Research Professor
	+1-519-569-7600 x7032 • 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.

	Sterling, Thomas Visiting Professor
	+1 812 856 4597 • http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~tron/
Thomas Sterling, professor, joined the LSU faculty from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he was a principal scientist and the California Institute of Technology where he was a faculty associate. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Sterling's research interests focus on system architecture for high performance computing for both ground based and autonomous mobile applications. He is developing the MIND processor in memory architecture based on ParalleX, an advanced message-driven split-transaction computing model for scalable low-power fault-tolerant operation. In addition, he is developing an ultra lightweight supervisor runtime kernel in support of MIND and other fine grain architectures (like CELL) and the Agincourt parallel programming language for high efficiency through intrinsics in support of latency hiding and low overhead synchronization for both conventional and innovative parallel computer architectures.

	Sung, Li-yeng Professor
	224 Lockett • +1 225 578 1665 •

	Tohline, Prof. Joel
	302 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 7877 • http://www.phys.lsu.edu/~tohline/
Tohline earned a B.S. in Physics from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1978. Before joining the LSU faculty in 1982, Tohline held a J. Willard Gibbs Instructorship in the Astronomy Department at Yale University and a postdoctoral fellowship in Group T-6 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has served as a member of the Publications Board of the American Astronomical Society, as a member of the Applications Strategy Council of Internet2, on the Program Advisory Council of LIGO, as Chairman of LSU's Department of Physics & Astronomy, and as Interim Director of LSU's Center for Applied Information Technology and Learning (now CCT).

	Twilley, Dr. Robert R. Full Professor Associate Vice Chancellor of Research
	+1 225 578 8806 •

	Tyagi, Dr. Mayank Designated Professor (PETE & CCT)
	3526A Patrick Taylor • +1 225 578 8929 • http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~mtyagi/
I am interested in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) specifically in complex biological systems, turbulent engineering/environmental systems. I am also interested in developing numerical schemes/solvers to address the challenging problems in a computationally efficient way. I am currently working as project manager for the cactus framework based CFD Toolkit

	Ullmer, Brygg Associate Professor
	10 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 0813 • http://csc.lsu.edu/~ullmer/
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).

	Veronis, Georgios Assistant Professor
	327 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 5552 • http://www.ece.lsu.edu/gveronis/
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.

	Walker, Shawn Assistant Professor
	333 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 8984 • https://www.math.lsu.edu/~walker/
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.

	Wan, Xiaoliang Assistant Professor
	334 Johnston Hall • +1 225 578 6966 •

	White, Christopher Chevron Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering
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	Wiley-Patton, Sonja Designated Professor
	+1 225 578 2512 •
Sonja Wiley-Patton is designated professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences in LSU's E.J. Ourso College of Business Administration. She received her Ph.D in Communication and Information Sciences from the University of Hawaii. She is currently working on an NSF-funded study to examine why health care professionals are resistant to using information technology in clinical processes, especially when information technology has proven to reduce medical errors.

	Zhang, Hongchao Assistant Professor
	334 Johnston hall • +1 225 578 0828 • http://www.math.lsu.edu/~hozhang
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.

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