Source: The Daily Advertiser/10-16-2007
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:
UL — Jinfeng Chen, computer science; adviser Xiaoduan Sun
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 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. 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.
Publish Date:
10-16-2007
