Source: The LONI Institute
Baton Rouge --- The LONI Institute, a distributed research collaborative among six Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) sites, has hired its first graduate fellows. The institute hired one graduate fellow at each member university. LONI Institute graduate fellows will work with faculty at the universities to conduct science and engineering research using LONI's advanced cyberinfrastructure – high-performance computing, high-speed networks and distributed data archives. The LONI Institute graduate fellows are:
• LSU-- Jijun Lao, mechanical engineering; adviser Dorel Moldovan.
Baton Rouge --- The LONI Institute, a distributed research collaborative among six Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) sites, has hired its first graduate fellows. The institute hired one graduate fellow at each member university. LONI Institute graduate fellows will work with faculty at the universities to conduct science and engineering research using LONI's advanced cyberinfrastructure – high-performance computing, high-speed networks and distributed data archives. The LONI Institute graduate fellows are:
• LSU-- Jijun Lao, mechanical engineering; adviser Dorel Moldovan.
• Louisiana Tech -- Gopi Dathara, engineering (micro/nano technology); adviser Daniela Mainardi.
• Southern University -- Frank DeTiege, mechanical engineering; advisers Samuel Ibekwe and Dwayne Jerro.
• Tulane University -- Xiaolan Zhou, physics; adviser John Perdew
• University of Louisiana-Lafayette -- Jinfeng Chen, computer science; adviser Xiaoduan Sun
• University of New Orleans -- Huy Pham, physics; adviser Leonard Spinu
Each graduate fellow receives a one-year stipend of $20,000. Fellows will seek external funding to continue their research once their initial one-year terms end. The LONI Institute selected the first graduate fellows based on their previous research excellence and their potential to use LONI resources, receive future funding and meet the LONI Institute's success metrics (http://www.institute.loni.org/metrics.php.) The institute selected fellows with previous experience using high-performance computing environments or modern cyberinfrastructure. For more information on the LONI Institute and the graduate fellows' particular research projects, please visit www.institute.loni.org.
The LONI Institute
The LONI Institute is a bold, new, inter-university research collaborative that builds on Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, a high-speed, fiber optic network that connects supercomputers at the state's major research institutions. The institute uses LONI to drive research and education, making Louisiana much more competitive for industrial partnerships with companies that depend on computing advances. Initial funding for the LONI Institute is $15 million, with $7 million from the Board of Regents' Post-Katrina Support Fund Initiative and an additional match of more than $8 million from the participating universities. A dozen new faculty, six computational scientists and 18 graduate students will be hired to advance research, education and economic development in computational sciences and applications.
Publish Date:
10-12-2007
