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Benger, Dr. Werner
Scientific Visualization at LCAT
IT Analyst 3

Room 335, Frey CSC
+1 225 578 7150
[email-address]

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

Werner's primary expertise is visualization of general relativity, ranging from gravitational lensing to scientific visualization of dynamical simulations of gravitational waves utilizing advanced Grid technology. His techniques can well be applied to other domains such as medical imaging.

He graduated with distinction in astronomy at the University of Innsbruck in 1997. The same year he joined the Zuse Institute for Information Technology in Berlin in a joint position with the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, the Albert-Einstein Institute, Potsdam. There he worked on extending and applying the in-house medical visualization software system (the now commercially available Amira software) to astrophysical data sets from numerical relativity. He received his Ph.D. "Magna Cum Laude" in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Free University of Berlin for research on a unifying model for scientific data and visualization techniques for tensor fields. His images appeared in many magazines, journal covers, TV broadcasts and artistic events.

Brandt, Steven
Staff
IT Consultant

Room 342, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 5431
[email-address]

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

Steven Brandt obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for his research in numerical simulations of rotating black holes. After obtaining his Ph.D. and doing some postdoctoral work, he joined industry where he gained experience in corporate programming environments. In 2005 he joined CCT and has been looking into ways to improve programming tools and environments for parallel environments, managing allocations and maintenance on Supermike, and in rekindling his research efforts in numerical relativity.

Brodowicz, Maciej
IT Consultant

Room 327, Johnston Hall
+1 225 334 2457
[email-address]

Maciej Brodowicz received M.S.E.E. from the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) in 1991, M.S. in Computer Science from University of Houston in 1994 and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Houston in 1998. He was employed at the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral scholar and later promoted to the research staff position. At Caltech, he was involved in a Scalable I/O framework developing I/O algorithms for the ASC program, investigated scalability of parallel applications on supercomputers, and, in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, designed micro-architecture and a hardware emulator for the MIND implementation of the Processor-In-Memory concept.

Maciej's research interests at CCT include advanced computer architecture, parallel execution models, architectural and fuctional simulation, performance monitoring and prediction, scalable I/O subsystems and strategies, parallel application development and frameworks, and operating and runtime systems.

	Dekate, Chirag IT Analyst 2 Room 328, Johnston Hall +1 225 578 6868 Supervisor: Thomas Sterling Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~cdekate
I earned my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Louisiana State University. I am currently a PhD Candidate in Computer Science. I am currently employed as a Graduate Research Assistant with Dr. Thomas Sterling. My research interests include Machine Intelligence, Distributed Systems. My broader research interests include Transformation of Information and Knowledge representation.

	El-Khamra, Yaakoub IT Analyst 2 Room 211, Johnston Hall +1 225 578 8904
Yaakoub El Khamra works in the Frameworks group on the Cactus computational framework. He is a graduate of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the American University of Beirut. His research interests include computational frameworks, computational fluid dynamics, numerical methods and petroleum engineering.

Hutanu, Andrei
IT Analyst 2

Room 350, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 0811
[email-address]

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

Andrei Hutanu graduated in 2002 and received his engineering diploma in Computer Science from
Politehnica University of Bucharest. Currently he is a researcher in the Grid and Visualization departments of the Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University. Prior to this he was employed for two years as a researcher in the Visualization department of the Zuse Institute Berlin. His research interests are distributed interactive visualization, data management and optical network applications.

	Jha, Shantenu Sr. Research Scientist & Assistant Research Professor (CS) Room 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, Carola
IT Analyst 3

Room 3191, Energy, Coast, & Environment
+1 225 578 2893
[email-address]

Carola works in a joint position at CCT and WBI to build a bridge between CCT's computational services and tools and WBI's CLEAR coastal modeling applications.

She has been working with Geographic Information Systems since 1992, after obtaining a MS in cartography from the University of Dresden, Germany.
Her research interests include managing spatial data, developing technologies for data implementation, and applying GIS systems in specific research disciplines and collaborative environments.

Kaiser, Hartmut
IT Consultant

Room 315, Johnston Hall
+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.

	Katz, Daniel S. Director for Cyberinfrastructure Development Room 343, Johnston Hall +1 225 578 2750 http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dsk/
Daniel S. Katz is assistant director for CyD at CCT, and adjunct associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his PhD from Northwestern University, then spent 3 years as a computational scientist for Cray Research. He came to LSU after 9 1/2 years at JPL. His research focuses on large-scale applications.

Kelley, Ian
IT Analyst

Room 332, Johnston Hall
[email-address]

http://www.kelley.tv/

Ian has been working in distributed systems and Grid computing since 1999, first at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and now here at CCT.

His primary interests are in helping to bridge the gap between end-users and the services and tools that are being developed within the research community. To this end, Ian hopes to bring some of the advances in P2P and Grid technology into the space that a user can effectively utilize them for his or her research. He has been working since 2001 on building Collaborative Environments (namely portals) and Testing Frameworks for this purpose.

	Kim, Dr. Joohyun IT Consultant Room 342, Johnston Hall +1 225 578 6833
Cyberinfrastructure Development group Material World focus Ph. D in Physical Chemistry (Seoul National University) Research Associate (Boston University) Visiting Research Assistant Professor (UIC) Research Associate (NCSA, UIUC)

Kulshrestha, Archit
IT Analyst 2

Room 342, Johnston Hall
+1 225 334 2447
[email-address]

Archit is a Grid Admistrator at the Scientific Computing Systems and Software group at CCT. He graduated with a Master's degree in Systems Science from LSU and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from JNTU, India. His primary interests are Grid Computing, Distributed Systems and Software Engineering. At CCT he is involved in various Grid Computing projects such as UCoMS, SCOOP and GAT Development, apart from managing the Grid Resources for CCT.

Lee, Dr. Tae-Woo
IT Consultant

Room 327, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 8653
[email-address]

Tae-Woo Lee received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison. After graduation, he worked at Argonne National Laboratory as a Post Doctoral Fellow. Then, he joined CCT as an IT consultant. His research interests include numerical simulations of light interactions in micro/nanoscale photonic structures. To pursue these interests, he develops and applies computing tools based on the Finite-Difference Time-Domain method. These numerical tools can rigorously describe surface plasmon excitations, and can be run on high performance (parallel) computer architectures to simulate complex 3D problems.

	Lei, Zhou IT Analyst 2 Room 350, Johnston Hall +1 225 578 8931
Zhou is a researcher in Grid computing at CCT. He got his Ph.D. in distributed computing from Institute of Computer Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999. His research interests include Grid computing, distributed and parallel systems, and large-scale engineering simulation.

Merzky, Andre
IT Analyst 3

Room Wollin 36, 17291 Randowtal, Germany
+493986264864
[email-address]

Supervisor: Shantenu Jha
http://www.merzky.net

Nabrzyski, Jarek
Executive Director of Operations

Room 220, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 0784
[email-address]

O'Connor, Letitia
Analyst

Room 2301, Patrick F. Taylor Hall
+1 225 578 0070
[email-address]

Pellegrini, Mark
Intern

Room 320, Johnston Hall
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling

Rocha Abecasis, Joao Pedro
Intern

Room 211, Johnston Hall
[email-address]

Supervisor: Hartmut Kaiser

Schnetter, Dr. Erik
Assistant Research Professor and Research Scientist

Room 327, Johnston Hall
+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.

Stamou, Katerina
Intern

Room 234, Johnston Hall
[email-address]

Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen

Venkataraman, Shalini
IT Analyst 3

Room 337, Frey CSC
+1 225 578 8221
[email-address]

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

Shalini is a research programmer in scientific visualization with the Visualization, Interaction and Digital Arts (VIDA) group at CCT. She graduated with a Master's degree from the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2004. Prior to that, she was a software engineer at the Institute of High-Performance Computing in Singapore. Her research interests include scalable, distributed graphics and volume visualization using programmable graphics hardware.

Weidner, Ole Christian
IT Analyst 1

Room 207, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 4917
[email-address]

Ole is a researcher in the Core Computational Science group at CCT, specializing in grid framework design. He graduated with a B.Sc. in Software Engineering from Hasso-Plattner-Institute for Software Systems Engineering in Germany in 2006. During his studies, Ole worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein-Institute) as a software developer for the Grid Application Toolkit (JavaGAT).
His research interests are focused on grid frameworks and middleware as well as programming models and object-oriented design patterns for distributed and grid computing environments. At CCT, he currently works on the SAGA C++ reference implementation.

Administrative Staff

Bordelon, Terrie
Coordinator

Room 302, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 5979
[email-address]

Boudreaux, Ashlen
Grant Coordinator

Room 146 E, CCT Annex
+1 225 578 1294
[email-address]

Christiana, Florence
IGERT Coordinator

[email-address]

Claudet, Jennifer
Events Coordinator

Room 140, CCT Annex
+1 225 578 6723
[email-address]

Gallop, David
Graphic Designer

[email-address]

Jones, Karen
Events Manager

Room 140, CCT Annex
+1 225 578 0595
[email-address]

Juneau, Brittany
Administrative Coordinator 2

Room 216, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 4012
[email-address]

Markey, Theresa
Business Manager

Room 146 A, CCT Annex
+1 225 578 4022
[email-address]

Moody, Amanda
Special Projects Group
Coordinator

Shaw Center for the Arts
+1 225 389 7182
[email-address]

Poskonka, Susie
Visitor Program Coordinator

Room 140, CCT Annex
+1 225 578 7340
[email-address]

Supervisor: Karen Jones

Rea, Laurie
HR Coordinator

Room 146 C, CCT Annex
+1 225 578 1331
[email-address]

http://www.lsu.edu/hrm

Rodriguez-Milla, Dr. Bety
Scientific Coordinator
Manager

Room 213, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 8990
[email-address]

Russell, Andrew
IT Analyst 2

Room 232, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 0816
[email-address]

Supervisor: Joel Williams

Simmons, Stacey
Director, Baton Rouge Digital Industries Consortium

Room 229, Shaw Center for the Arts
+1 225 389 7183
[email-address]

Sunde, Kristen
CCT Manager of Public Relations

Room 146 G, CCT Annex
+1 225 578 3469
[email-address]

Templet, Rachael
Purchasing Coordinator

Room 146 H, CCT Annex
+1 225 578 8771
[email-address]

Supervisor: Theresa Markey

Ucan, Jorge
Multimedia Research Specialist 1

[email-address]

Waters, Debra
Assistant to the Director

Room 311, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 7877
[email-address]

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

Williams, Joel
Associate Director

Room 11, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 1929
[email-address]

IT Staff

Abadie, Josh
IT Analyst 1

+1 225 578 3700
[email-address]

Eiland, Daniel
Audio Visual Coordinator

Room 338, Johnston Hall
+1 225 329 6480
[email-address]

	Estrade, Brett Scientific Computing Consultant IT Analyst 3 +1 225 578 1920 Supervisor: Honggao Liu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~estrabd/
Brett is a scientific computing consultant of HPC enablement with LONI. He is also pursing a PhD. part time through LSU's Department of Computer Science, where his primary interests include distributed algorithms and theoretical computer science.

	Ge, Jinghua Visualization Consultant IT Consultant Room 357, Frey CSC +1 225 578 7789 Supervisor: Daniel S. Katz http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~jinghuage
Jinghua Ge is a computational visualization environment consultant at CCT. She graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago at 2007. Her research interests include distributed visualization of large scale datasets, remote visualization pipeline, computer graphics, and virtual reality.

Giaime, Lisa
IT Consultant

Frey
+1 225 578 7479
[email-address]

Gordon, Allen
System Administrator

+1 225 578 1986
[email-address]

Lambert, Michael

+1 225 578 7443
[email-address]

Lee, Wan
IT Analyst 3

Room 201(E1R), Frey CSC
+1 225 578 8918
[email-address]

Liu, Honggao
Manager, HPC Enablement

Room 323, Frey CSC
+1 225 578 0235
[email-address]

http://liu.ocs.lsu.edu/

Dr. Honggao Liu has been at LSU for more than 10 years. He has spent the past five years working in High Performance Computing, from IBM SP,pSeries and P5 systems, to large-scale beowulf clusters. He researched on multiphase reactive polymer flow in porous media and reservoir simulations during 1997-2002. He got his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering in 2002 and also has a B.S. and two M.S. in chemical Engineering. Dr. Liu is currently involved in scientific computing and applications support, supercomputing system deployment and administration, the state-wide LONI project, the LSU-TeraGrid partnership project, the LSU's NSF BigIron proposal, and the LONI's NSF HPC-OPS proposal.

Martinez Jr, Ariel
IT Analyst 3

Room 345, Frey CSC
+1 225 578 1770
[email-address]

Supervisor: Isaac Traxler

McMahon, Charlie
Chief Technology Officer

[email-address]

Ou, Dr. Shangli
Scientific Application Consultant

+1 225 578 6217
[email-address]

Supervisor: Honggao Liu
http://www.phys.lsu.edu/~ou/

Paruchuri, Ravi
Manager of IT Operations

Room 236, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 6088
[email-address]

Supervisor: Joel Williams

Russell, Andrew
IT Analyst 2

Room 232, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 0816
[email-address]

Supervisor: Joel Williams

Scheinine, Alan
IT Consultant

Frey
+1 225 578 0294
[email-address]

	Traxler, Isaac Manager, Unix Systems Room 325, Frey CSC +1 225 578 1923
1980 B.S. Math from University of Southern Mississippi 1980-1983 CSC, Stennis Space Center 1983-1991 USM, Operations Director of Academic Computing 1991 M.S. CS from USM 1991-Current LSU-ITS-HPC

Traxler, Kathryn
IT Analyst 3

Room 204, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 8932
[email-address]

	White, Sam Manager, Cluster Systems IT Consultant Room 327, Frey CSC +1 225 578 8936
Sam worked for Dow Chemical company for many years, building and maintaining their systems for CFD work. Sam joined HPC @ LSU in the spring of 2004 and is currently the Manager for clustered systems.

Xu, Xianwu
IT Analyst 3

Room 335, Frey
+1 225 578 0620
[email-address]

Supervisor: Honggao Liu

Yan, Le
IT Analyst 3

Room 201 E2B, Frey CSC
+1 225 578 7524
[email-address]

Supervisor: Honggao Liu

Yates, Adam
IT Analyst 2

Room 232, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 8235
[email-address]

Supervisor: Ravi Paruchuri

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