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	Acharya, Sumanta Professor Department: Mechanical Engineering +1 225 578 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.

Aksoylu, Burak
Assistant Professor

Room 333, Johnston Hall
Department: Mathematics
+1 225 578 8984
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~burak/

Burak Aksoylu, assistant professor, joined the LSU faculty from the University of Texas at Austin where he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Aksoylu received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include numerical solutions to PDE, scientific computation, multilevel preconditioners.

	Allen, Gabrielle Associate Professor Room 305, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +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.

Beck, Dr. Stephen David
Interim Director, CCT
Full Professor

Room 14, Johnston Hall
Department: Music
+1 225 578 2594
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~sdbeck/

Dr. Stephen David Beck is serving as Interim Director of CCT. Along with that, he is 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
Assistant professor

Room 344, Lockett Hall
Department: Mathematics
+1 225 578 1612
[email-address]

Brenner, Dr. Susanne
Associate Director for Academic Affairs for the CCT; Professor

Room 330, Johnston Hall
Department: Mathematics
[email-address]

Browne, Dana
Associate Chair and Professor of Physics

[email-address]

http://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/browne/browne.html

Chen, Q. Jim
Associate Professor

Room 3418D, Patrick F. Taylor Hall
Department: Environmental Engineering
+1 225 578 4911
[email-address]

	Daniels-Race, Theda Associate Professor Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering +1 225 578 8912
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 Research Professor Room 220, Johnston Hall Department: Physics +1 225 578 6880
Peter Diener is an assistant professor of research in the LSU Department of Physics. He received his Ph.D. from and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Texas at Austin, the California Institute of Technology, and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.

Gilmanov, Anvar
Associate Professor - Research

Room 210, Johnston Hall
Department: Mechanical Engineering
+1 225 578 3213
[email-address]

Hall, Randall
Professor

Room 410, Choppin Hall
Department: Chemistry
+1 225 578 3472
[email-address]

http://chemistry.lsu.edu/hall/

	Hirschheim, Rudy Room 339, Johnston Hall Department: Information Systems & Decision Sciences +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.

	Iyengar, Sitharama Roy Paul Daniels Professor Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 1495
Dr. Iyengar is the chairman of LSU's computer science department and Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Computer Science.

Jarrell, Mark
Full Professor

Room 343, Johnston Hall
Department: Physics
+1 225 578 8271
[email-address]

	Jha, Shantenu Sr. Research Scientist & Assistant Research Professor (CS) Room 214, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +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
Adjunct Assistant Reserach Professor (CS)
IT Consultant

Room 315, Johnston Hall
Department: Computer Science
+1 225 578 0916
[email-address]

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
Assistant Professor

[email-address]

	Katz, Daniel S. Adjunct Associate Professor Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering +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

Department: Mechanical Engineering
+1 225 578 9192
[email-address]

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.

	Kosar, Tevfik Assistant Professor Room 333, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 8983 http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/
Tevfik Kosar is 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

Room 9, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 0289
[email-address]

Lipton, Robert
S.B. Barton Professor, Ph.D. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

+1 225 578 1569
[email-address]

Moreno, Juana
Assistant Professor

Room 346, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 1431
[email-address]

Ott, Dr. Christian
Adjunct Assistant Professor

[email-address]

	Park, Seung-Jong Assistant Professor Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 8933
Seung-Jong Park is an assistant 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 Assistant Professor Room 320, Johnston Hall Department: Mass Communication +1 225 578 7377
Lance Porter is an assistant 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 Room 241-C, Nicholson Hall Department: Physics +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'
Ritter Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
Designated Professor

Room 345, EE Building
Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering
+1 225 578 5628
[email-address]

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

[email-address]

	Sanger, Gary Distinguished Professor of Finance and Director, SMART Lab Room 2163, Patrick F. Taylor Hall Department: Finance +1 225 578 6353
Dr. Sanger is the director of the Securities Market Analysis Research and Trading Lab and Distinguished Chair of Finance in LSU's E.J. Ourso College of Business.

	Saylor, Paul Professor Room 330, Johnston Hall Department: Mathematics +1 225 578 8108
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
Assistant Research Professor
IT Consultant

Room 327, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 8907
[email-address]

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
Full Professor

Room 320, Johnston Hall
Department: Computer Science
+1 225 578 8982
[email-address]

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

Department: Mathematics
[email-address]

Tohline, Prof. Joel

Room 247, Nicholson Hall
Department: Physics
[email-address]

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.
Associate Vice Chancellor of Research
Full Professor

+1 225 578 8806
[email-address]

	Tyagi, Dr. Mayank Assistant Professor (PETE & CCT) Assistant Professor Room 211, Johnston Hall Department: Petroleum Engineering +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 Assistant Professor Room 331, Frey CSC Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 0813 http://csc.lsu.edu/~ullmer/
Brygg Ullmer is an assistant 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 Room 324, Johnston Hall Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering +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 and devices, nanoscale photonic devices, plasmonics, and computational electromagnetics

Wan, Xiaoliang
Assistant Professor

Room 235, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 6966
[email-address]

	Watson, Edward Professor Department: Information Systems & Decision Sciences +1 225 578 2502
Dr. Watson is an ISDS professor in LSU's E.J. Ourso College of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State. His research interests include performance analysis of manufacturing, service, and supply chain systems.

White, Christopher
Chevron Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Department: Petroleum Engineering
[email-address]

Wiley-Patton, Sonja
Assistant Professor

Department: Information Systems & Decision Sciences
+1 225 578 2512
[email-address]

Sonja Wiley-Patton is assistant 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, Hangchao
Assistant Professor

Room 226, Johnston hall
Department: Mathematics
+1 225 578 0828
[email-address]

www.math.lsu.edu/~hozhang

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