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Graduate Research Students

	Akturk, Ismail Room 244, Johnston Hall Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering +1 225 578 7658 Supervisor: Tevfik Kosar
He received a B.S.(2007) degree in Computer Engineering from Dogus University in Turkey. He started a graduate study in Electrical and Computer Engineering department at LSU in Fall 2007. He is currently involved in PetaShare project.

	Amatya, Vinay Department: Center for Computation & Technology
I am PhD student in Computer Science Department. In CCT I am currently involved in Cybertools Project, Work Package 1. My research interest are Grid Computing, System Dynamics, Collaborative Learning Environments.

	Balman, Mehmet Room 233, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science Faculty Advisor: Tevfik Kosar http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~balman
I received my BS(2000) and MS(2005) in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey. I started PhD in Computer Science at Louisiana State University in August 2005. My research interests include data placement and job scheduling in widely distributed environments.

Cui, Jintao

[email-address]

Supervisor: Susanne Brenner

Cui, Vamsi

Duff, Richard

Room 328, Johnston Hall
Department: Petroleum Engineering
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen

Richard received his MS and BS in Petroleum Engineering from University of Missouri Rolla. He has worked in drilling, stimulation, simulation, cutting, tool design, application development, manufacturing optimization, logistics, 3-D modeling, rock mechanics and explosives testing. In August 2004 he joined Louisiana State University as a doctoral student in the Petroleum Engineering department. Currently he is working at CCT, LSU, as a graduate research assistant in Grid Computing, Drilling Optimization, and Formation Evaluation research developing applications for the (DOE / LBR) Ubiquitous Computing Project (UCOMS). His current research interests include drilling optimization, vibration petrophysics, logging while drilling, finite element modeling of vibrating systems, and rock mechanics.

Even, Wesley

Room 353, Johnston Hall
Department: Physics
[email-address]

Supervisor: Joel Tohline
Faculty Advisor: Joel Tohline

	Guidry, Richard Room 320, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling
Richard has a BS in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Louisiana State University. From Fall 2006, he began his work toward a Ph.D. in Computer Science here at LSU. His interests include compiler design, programming languages, machine translation, and human languages. Richard is currently working on a programming language tailored for ParalleX.

	Harhad, Farid Room 300, Frey CSC Department: Computer Science
I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science. I've also joined the CFD-IGERT program. I obtained my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from LSU with a minor in Mathematics. My research interests are Scientific Visualization, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Human-Computer Interaction. My faculty advisors are: Dr. Bijaya Karki, Dr. Brygg Ullmer, Dr. Sumanta Acharya, and Dr. Werner Benger.

Jiang, Lei

Room 244, Johnston hall
[email-address]

Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen

Kavalipati, Ravi Tej

Department: Computer Science
[email-address]

Supervisor: Hartmut Kaiser

Korobkin, Oleg

Room 285-B, Nicholson Hall
Department: Physics
+1 225 578 1218
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Manuel Tiglio

I graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a degree in applied physics and mathematics. The subject of my diploma was computing spectrum of semiconductor nanowires. Currently I am pursuing Ph.D. in physics under supervision of Dr. Manuel Tiglio. I started working at CCT in February 2006 as a member of numerical relativity group, and right now I am working on initial data for new generalized harmonic formulation of Einstein's equations. Another project, which I am doing at CCT with Dr. Burak Aksoylu from Maths department, is application of space and space-time finite elements in general relativity.

Kumar, Suman

Department: Computer Science
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Seung-Jong Park
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/about/focus/lanet/

I got my Undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), BHU, India. During my undergraduate studies I published a few research papers in international journals and conferences in solid state and microwave devices. I also worked in industries in areas Oracle PL-SQL, J2E and Databases. Currently I am a PhD Student and a member of LANet group, LSU in computer science. My research interests include High Speed Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Network Modelling and Simulation, High Performance Computing, and Algorithm Optimization.

	Li, Xin Room 328, Johnston Hall Department: Petroleum Engineering Faculty Advisor: Christopher White
I work at CCT UCoMS group and concentrate on developing ResGrid, which is the first reservoir simulation grid. My research interests include designed reservoir simulation and response surface model, stochastic simulation, automatic history match, grid computing and its application in Petroleum Engineering.

	Liu, Kexi Faculty Advisor: Brygg Ullmer
I am a Ph.D student in CS department. I received my B.S. degree in Jinan University in China. I currently work in the Tangviz Group with guidance of Dr. Brygg Ullmer.

Michael, Chris

Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling

Chris received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University in May of 2003. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering under Dr. David Koppelman, researching control independence via out-of-order fetch. Since 2002, he has aided in the development of PSE, a processor visualization tool. He began working for CCT to develop PURR, an application to monitor cluster usage at the job level. He is currently working in CCT under Dr. Sterling where he researches instruction set architecture and processor core architecture.

OConnell, Sean

[email-address]

Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen

Pena, Santiago

Room 234, Johnston Hall
Department: Information Systems & Decision Sciences
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Rudy Hirschheim
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~santiago/

I graduated from the University Blas Pascal in Argentina with a degree in Telecommunications Engineering. I earned an M.S. in Physics from the University of Texas at Brownsville. I recently completed my second master's degree in Systems Science at Louisiana State University under the supervision of Dr. Gabrielle Allen, performing research on Grid Computing.

Currently, I'm a graduate assistant at the Center for Computation & Technology at LSU. I'm pursuing my Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Systems and Decision Sciences under the supervision of Rudy Hirschheim. My research interests include SOA management, business ontologies, and the application of Grid technologies to business.

	Rojas, Ana Room 231, Johnston Hall Department: Physics +1 225 578 8441 Faculty Advisor: Edward Seidel
I received my undergraduate degree in physics at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba on September 2001. I'm currently a graduate student in the department of Physics & Astronomy since June 2002, and joined the CCT on June 2006. I work in ab-initio simulations of protein folding. I use the molecular dynamics technique to predict the folding pathway of oligomeric proteins.

Sankaran, Rajesh
PEE

Room 110, LBTC
Department: Electrical Engineering
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Brygg Ullmer

I have a Bachelors Degree ( B.Tech ) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Periyar University, Salem, India. I am currently pursuing my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering here at LSU. I work under the guidance of Dr. Brygg Ullmer in the Tangviz Group. I am involved in the INBRE and NSF MRI now and I am building the hardware and writing some code. My interests vary from Tangible User Interfaces, Electronics to Distributed computing and Image & Digital Signal Processing.

Schwarz, Colleen

[email-address]

Supervisor: Rudy Hirschheim

Stark, Dylan

Room 234, Johnston Hall
Department: Computer Science
+1 225 578 8937
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dstark/

I am a PhD candidate in the Computer Science department at Louisiana State University. I received a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics from Louisiana State University. I have been a graduate assistant at CCT since August 2004. I am part of the Frameworks group, working with the Cactus Computational Toolkit. My current interest is in semantic web technologies and their applications to scientific computing.

Sundararajan, Hari

Room 320, Johnston Hall
Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering
+1 225 578 8930
[email-address]

Supervisor: Maciej Brodowicz
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling

I am currently a junior in computer engineering, and have been with CCT from summer 06. I work under the supervision of Dr. Sterling and Dr. Brodowicz. I was responsible for building the cluster for Dr. Sterling's class, and continue to maintain it (http://cct.lsu.edu/~hsunda3/doc). I am involved with his Px group, and work on multithreading.
I also enjoy taking graduate courses and am definitely looking forward to classes with CCT faculty.

Suslu, Ibrahim H

Room 205, Johnston Hall
Department: Computer Science
+1 225 578 2818
[email-address]

Supervisor: Tevfik Kosar
Faculty Advisor: Tevfik Kosar
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~ihsuslu

I'm a PhD student in computer science at LSU. I have completed bachelor's in computer technology at Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey. I have also completed master in computer science at Southern University, Baton Rouge. I have worked for Southern University, Computer Science Department as a System Manager for five years. I'm working for CCT as a research assistant since spring 2007. My research interests are distributed data movement and networking.

Tabbal, Alexandre (aka Alex)

Room 320, Johnston Hall
Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering
[email-address]

Supervisor: Maciej Brodowicz
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling
http://www.ece.lsu.edu/~atabbal/

Alex Tabbal, graduate student joined the ECE department at LSU as a PhD candidate after earning a Bachelor of Science in Computer & Communication Engineering from the American University of Science & Technology, Beirut, Lebanon. Alex's research interests focus on system architecture for high performance computing applications; using reconfigurable hardware for a new model of computation. He is also interested in power consumption issues for parallel computer machines.

Toole, Cornelius

Room 320, Frey CSC
Department: Computer Science
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Brygg Ullmer

I'm a doctoral student within the Computer Science Department. I completed Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Computer Science at Jackson State University respectively in 2003 and 2005 and started here at the LSU/CCT Fall 2005. Currently I'm investigating brokering techniques to help manage distributed visualization applications as part of the Enlightened Project. I'm also working with the Tangible Visualization Group to find ways to apply brokering and other distibuted computing concepts to support co-located, computer-supported, collaborative use of tangible interaction devices in scenarios such as remote visualization and teleconference sessions. My research interests include visualization, human computer interfaces, distributed computing and design.

	Wang, Xinqi "Jack" Room 205, Johnston Hall Department: Center for Computation & Technology Faculty Advisor: Tevfik Kosar http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~xinqiwang/
Wang Xinqi got his BS from Taiyuan University of Technology in 2002, he then worked in financial sector for about two years. Since 2004, he has been a graduate student in Taiyuan University of Technology, Wang Xinqi became a member of the CCT in January, 2007, he is currently working under Prof.Tevfik Kosar as a PHD student, his research includes data intensive distributed and grid computing.

Willkie, Brian

Frey CSC
Department: Music
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Stephen David Beck

Brian Willkie is seeking his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University where he works with Dr. Stephen Beck in the Electroacoustic Studio and the Laboratory for Creative Arts and Technologies (LCAT). His works have been performed in Japan, Argentina, the U.K. and regionally in the Southeastern U.S. and are published by Dorn Publishing. Brian received his Masters and Bachelors degrees in composition from the University of Georgia at Athens and studied in Paris at the Center for the Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis (formerly Les Ateliers UPIC). Current projects include ICAST, sonification, and spatialization.

	Wu, Yixin Room 320, Frey CSC Department: Computer Science Faculty Advisor: Seung-Jong Park
I got BE in Computer Science & Engineering from Soochow University in 2001, and ME in Computer Science & Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2004. After that I worked as an embedded system engineer in Shanghai for one and half years. I am a graduate student of Dr. Park since August 2006. Now I am doing some research on the tcp protocol of high speed network with Dr. Park.

	Yeter, Zuhal Room 332, Johnston Hall Department: Mathematics Supervisor: Burak Aksoylu
I received my Bs. in Mathematics from Middle East Technical University, Turkey in 2007.I am a new Ph.D. student in Mathematics and I am a graduate research assistant in CCT.

Yildirim, Esma

Room 205, Johnston Hall
Department: Computer Science
+1 225 578 7511
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Tevfik Kosar
~esma

Esma has received her BS degree from Fatih university and MS degree from Marmara University Computer Engineering Departments in Istanbul, Turkey. She worked for one year in Avrupa Software Company for the Development of ERP Software. She also worked as a Lecturer in Fatih University Vocational School until 2006. She is currently in Louisiana State University as a Phd student in Computer Science since August 2006. She is working for CCT as a graduate research asistant. Her research interests are Distributed Computing, Web technologies and Sofware Engineering.

	Yun, Zhifeng Room 328, Johnston Hall Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering +1 225 578 8908 Supervisor: Zhou Lei Faculty Advisor: Jagannathan 'Ram' Ramanujam
Zhifeng received his B.E from Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China, in 2004 and his M.S from University of Southampton, UK, in 2006. Now he is a Ph.D student in Louisiana State University. He is currently working in CCT at LSU as a research assistant in UCoMS.

Zhang, Qian

[email-address]

Undergraduate Research Students

	Andrews, Riley Room 346, Johnston Hall Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering Supervisor: Daniel S. Katz Faculty Advisor: Daniel S. Katz
Riley has been a student at LSU since the fall of 2004. Later that year, he came to cct and found himself working as a system administrator for William Scullin. Riley currently works for cct in the Cyd group, where he does software performance analysis and benchmarking. Riley is also a junior level undergraduate student in computer engineering.

Barker, Tyler

[email-address]

Buleu, Ana Elena

Room 332, Johnston Hall
Department: Electrical Engineering
[email-address]

Supervisor: Werner Benger
Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen

I have started working at CCT, and doing my undergraduate degree at LSU in January 2006. I am a Sophomore now in the Engineering College. I worked in the Performance Group for a couple of months, learning how to deal with Cactus benchmarking. Since July 2006, I have worked in the Visualization Group under the supervision of Shalini Venkataraman, and Dr. Werner Benger. I am dealing with C/C++ programming, and the HDF5 file format. I attended the Grid Computing Workshop in South Padre, Texas, in the summer of 2006.

	Clary, Alex Research Associate Room 332, Johnston Hall Department: Center for Computation & Technology Supervisor: Archit Kulshrestha
I am an electrical and computer engineering student. I am from Baton Rouge. My specialties are computer game modification. I work on the SCOOP project.

Coleman, Clayton

+1 225 578 8930
[email-address]

Supervisor: Thomas Sterling
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling

	Davidson, Andrew Room 334, Johnston Hall Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering +1 225 578 8904 Supervisor: Shalini Venkataraman Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~adavidson
Andrew is a junior at LSU, and a member of the Louisiana Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (LA-STEM) Scholarship Program. He has been working at CCT since May of 2005 and his current research is the use of GPUs for General Purpose computation.

Dever, Zachary

[email-address]

	Diabi, Mohamed Room 332 or 6, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science Supervisor: Brygg Ullmer Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen
I am learning about portal design and deployment. I am fascinated by Human Computer Interaction and so I am interested in all kinds of interface design. I am also (lightly) involved with the planning of an application for the tang-viz KSOIK,

Gavin, Matthew

[email-address]

Kolz, Kevin

[email-address]

Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen

Lee II, Edwin

Room 332, Johnston
+1 225 578 6955
[email-address]

Supervisor: Archit Kulshrestha
Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen

	Lewis, John Room 332, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen
John began working in the CCT department as a portal developer for the Ubiquitous Computing and Monitoring Systems (UCoMS) in the fall of 2005. Recently he has been given the honor to present his research at the Student Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) summer of 2006 and the Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics fall of 2006.

	Losso, Mariel Room 343, Frey CSC Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering Faculty Advisor: Brygg Ullmer
I am a senior majoring in Computer Engineering, with a minor in Computer Science. I am working for the Viz team doing various work from soldering to researching capabilities and functions of the microprocessors that we use.

	Miceli, Chris Department: Computer Science Supervisor: Hartmut Kaiser Faculty Advisor: Shantenu Jha
I am a CSC major working with Dr. Hartmut Kaiser of incorporating a complete series tests into the C++ implementation of the SAGA api. I am a interesting in kernels and management of resources.

	Miceli, Michael Department: Computer Science Supervisor: Hartmut Kaiser Faculty Advisor: Shantenu Jha
Michael Miceli is a Computer Science undergraduate interested in algorithm analysis, data structures, high performance computing, and visualizations. Currently he is working under Dr. Kaiser, Dr. Jha, and Ole Weidner to design applications creating simple applications to illustrate the power of the SAGA programming paradigm.

Miller, Thomas

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	Nagelberg, Alex Room 346, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science Supervisor: Daniel S. Katz Faculty Advisor: Daniel S. Katz
I'm currently a sophomore majoring in computer science at LSU. I've been with CCT for about 3 years. I just finished an internship at Argonne National Laboratory working on the ZeptoOS project and am now back with CCT in the performance group.

	Perricone, Robert Room 320, Johnston Hall Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering Supervisor: Maciej Brodowicz Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling
Robert has been at LSU since August 2004 and is currently an undergraduate student double majoring in electrical and computer engineering. He started working at CCT in the Fall '06 as an undergraduate researcher with Dr. Sterling's Research Group. He is also a member of the LA-STEM Research Scholars Program and has previously been involved in research at MIT.

	Ram, Jonaton Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering Supervisor: Jinghua Ge
Jonatan is an electrical and computer engineering student. He is under La Stem scholarship, working on 4k viz.

	Reeves, David Room 342, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 8909 Supervisor: Steven Brandt Faculty Advisor: Daniel S. Katz
I am currently a Sophomore majoring in Computer Science. Started working wtih CCT in the 2007 Spring semester in the CCT performance group. Currently working on the CySolidus allocations website.

Tauzin, Lawrence

Room 400, Chopin Hall
+1 225 578 4417
[email-address]

	Tregre, Blake Room 343, Frey CSC Department: Computer Science Supervisor: Brygg Ullmer Faculty Advisor: Brygg Ullmer
Blake graduated from Hahnville High School in 2002, and he is currently pursuing a dual degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. He plans on attending graduate school but hasn't decided which field to delve into. His interests are languages (especially functional programming languages), artificial intelligence, perception, information representation, and interactive art.

Wesley-Smith, Ian

Room 349, Frey CSC
Department: Computer Science
+1 225 578 7597
[email-address]

Supervisor: Shalini Venkataraman
Faculty Advisor: Brygg Ullmer
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~iwsmith/

Ian originally began working with the Frameworks division at CCT in the Fall of 2004. While in that group, he began to pursue research on machine learning and artificial neural networks (ANN). He presented a paper at the National Undergraduate Research Conference (NCUR) in Spring 2006 on a parallel ANN implementation. Ian then became part of the Scientific Visualization group where he now resides working on GPGPU and UltraGird.

Wood, Bradley

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Admin Research Students

Cox, Andrew

[email-address]

Davidson, Staci

Department: Education
[email-address]

Supervisor: Karen Jones

DeMars, Samantha

[email-address]

Supervisor: Brittany Juneau

Flockton, Katharine

Room 146 C, CCT Annex
[email-address]

Supervisor: Laurie Rea

Gilmer, Annie

Department: Education
[email-address]

Supervisor: Brittany Juneau

	Jordan, Colby Intern Room 230, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 5890 Supervisor: Ravi Paruchuri ~cjordan
Colby Jordan is a CS major concentrating in Software Engineering here at LSU. He took a couple of classes with Dr Allen, and she introduced him to CCT, where he now works with the rest of the HelpDesk gang in 230 Johnston.

	Kemp, Matt Room 230, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 5890 http://cct.lsu.edu/~mkemp2/
I'm a sophomore at LSU working towards a Computer Science degree. I'd like to be a linux/unix administrator upon graduation, and i'm currently trying to learn as much as I can about what goes on at CCT and good server practices.

Loup, Jared

[email-address]

Meyers, Kathleen

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Ponson, Phillip

Department: Computer Science
[email-address]

Supervisor: Ravi Paruchuri

Russo, Philip

Room 230, Johnston Hall
[email-address]

Supervisor: Adam Yates

Sulak, Sonnie

Room 146B, Manship School Research Facility
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 8988
[email-address]

Supervisor: Kristen Sunde

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