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

Room 211, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 4809
[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 231, 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.

Hutanu, Andrei
IT Consultant

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.

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 229, 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)

Lee, Dr. Tae-Woo
IT Consultant

Room 229, 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.

Merzky, Andre
IT Analyst 3

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

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

Nagelberg, Alex
Software Engineer
IT Analyst 3

Room 328, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 0130
[email-address]

O'Connor, Letitia
Analyst

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

Schnetter, Dr. Erik
Assistant Research Professor
IT Consultant

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.

Topcu, Ahmet
IT Consultant

Room 350, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 8931
[email-address]

Weidner, Ole Christian
IT Analyst 1

Room 207, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 6419
[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]

Supervisor: Karen Jones

Couvillion, LeaAnne
AVATAR Initiative Coordinator

Room 11, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 5433
[email-address]

Cox, Andrew
Purchasing Coordinator

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

Supervisor: Theresa Markey

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
Associate Director of Business Administration

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
Human Resource 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]

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]

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/

IT Staff

	Cavanaugh, Dr. Charles IT Consultant (HPC Enablement) IT Consultant Room 231, Johnston Hall +1 225 578 0294 Supervisor: James Lupo http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~ccava
Ph.D., Computer Science, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2000 M.S., B.S., Computer Science, University of Texas at Tyler, 1997, 1995 A.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, Tyler Junior College, 1993

Estrade, Brett
Scientific Computing Consultant
IT Analyst 3

+1 225 578 1920
[email-address]

Supervisor: Honggao Liu
http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/about/staff/brett_estrade/

	Ge, Dr. Jinghua Visualization Consultant IT Consultant Room 5, Johnston Hall +1 225 578 7789 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]

Jundt, Adam

Frey
+1 225 578 6917
[email-address]

Lacinski, Lukasz
IT Analyst 3

Room 300, Fred C. Frey CSC
+1 225 578 4050
[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, Dr. Honggao
Director, High Performance Computing

Room 355, Frey CSC
+1 225 578 0235
[email-address]

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

Dr. Honggao Liu has been working at Louisiana State University (LSU) for over 11 years. He researched on multiphase reactive polymer flow in porous media and reservoir simulations during 1997-2002. He got his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from LSU in 2002 and also had a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University and two M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University and LSU. He has spent the past six years working in High Performance Computing (HPC), from IBM SP, P5 and P5+ supercomputing systems, to large-scale beowulf clusters, and providing scientific computing consultation to researchers in science and engineering. He has been involving in scientific computing and applications support, supercomputing system deployment and administration over 100 TFlops total computing capacity, the state-wide Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) project, LONI Institute, Cybertools, HPC-OPS (LONI joins TeraGrid) projects. Dr. Liu is currently the Director of HPC at LSU and oversees all HPC activities and plays a leadership role in LSU and LONI's HPC development efforts. Dr. Liu has been instrumental in establishing HPC at LSU as a nationally recognized facility for providing production HPC cycles to researchers on campus, the state, throughout the nation, and across the world.

Lupo, Dr. James
HPC User Services Manager

Room 323, Frey
+1 225 578 8899
[email-address]

Supervisor: Honggao Liu

Jim holds a Ph.D. in Physics, and joined LSU with over 30 years of experience in high performance computing. He has a 20 year career with the USAF, covering 5 years as a Communication-Electronics Maintenance Officer and 15 years as a computational physicist. His work involved simulation of gravitational accretion flows in X-Ray binary star systems, magnetohydrodynamics simulations of high density plasmas, and material property studies of nano-crystaline metals. He spent 8 years as a parallel computation consultant at the Air Force Materials Laboratory with a computational chemistry group studying the parallel behavior of various MD codes on Air Force and DoD HPC systems. He also performed simulation and structure studies of optically-active biopolymers. He installed, operated, and maintained a virtual reality system for molecular docking studies using an Intel Paragon XP/E as the compute engine. Most recently he was the Senior Research Scientist at a small startup company and was involved in custom machine architecture analysis, and parallel algorithm implementations for sensor fusion, target recognition, bioinformatics, and biometric applications.

Martinez Jr, Ariel
HPC Storage Administrator
IT Analyst 3

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

Supervisor: Isaac Traxler

McKenzie, Matthew
IT Analyst 3

Room 400, Choppin
+1 225 578 6217
[email-address]

Supervisor: Honggao Liu

Paruchuri, Ravi
Assistant Director of Research and Advanced Computing
Assistant Director

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

Ravi Paruchuri received his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Madras and his Master of Science in Systems Science from Louisiana State University. Currently he is the Assistant Director of Research and Advanced Computing within the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University. He oversees all the research infrastructure and manages various levels of computing resources for CCT.

	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
Education, Outreach and Training Specialist

Room 200, Frey Computing Center
+1 225 578 8932
[email-address]

Kathy received her B.S. in Computer Science from Southeastern LA University in 1988. She then went to University of Southern MS and received a M.S. in Computer Science in 1991.

She taught and was undergraduate advisor in LSU's Computer Science department from June of 1993 through May of 2003. In 2003 she moved to CCT to develop EOT programs. She now works with professors on grants needing EOT programs to develop and implement these programs.

Tummala, Sirish
IT Analyst

Frey
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Tevfik Kosar

Sirish received his Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India in June 2005. He then started his Masters in System Science at LSU. His Mentor and Supervisor is Dr. Tevfik Kosar. In his first semester he surveyed the Data Intensive computational problems and their nature in coastal modeling which resulted in a technical report. He then worked on the project "Deploying Campus Wide Distributed Computing System for LSU" for over a semester. Currently he has started working on the project "Enabling end to end Analysis and Research of Coastal data". His research interests include Data intensive computing science and Data grids.

	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
Systems Administrator
IT Analyst 2

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

Supervisor: Ravi Paruchuri

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