Shantenu Jha

From Shantenu Jha

Director of Cyber-Infrastructure Development (CyD) at the Center for Computation and Technology (CCT)

Assistant Research Professor, Department of Computer Science, LSU

Contact me at:

sjha at cct dot lsu dot edu 

214 Johnston Hall, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803 

Ph: 225 578 8772

• Also affiliated with CCS at UCL and the e-Science Institute, Edinburgh
• An artist's rendition of a thousand+ year old (theatrical) namesake.
• And here is nature's rendition...

My research interests lie at the triple point of Computational Science, Distributed Cyberinfrastructure Development and Computer Science (abstractions & algorithms). My research is funded by wide source of funds: US-NSF, US-NIH, UK's EPSRC, internal competitive grants at LSU and most recently by Google. Although the opinions in these pages are mine, funding agencies are entitled to my opinion. I am currently writing a book on "Abstractions for Distributed Applications and Systems: A Computational Science Perspective" to be published by Wiley in 2010

[edit] High Performance and Distributed Computing

• The Simple API for Grid Applications SAGA (and the many projects therein)

• Distributed Programming Abstractions

• NSF Cybertools Project WP4 Lead

• TeraGrid-DEISA Interoperabilty Project

• GridChem

• A Framework for Adaptive Ubiquitous Scalable Tasks (FAUST)

• TeraGrid: Extreme Scaling Working Group (XSWG); LSU contact Advanced (Research) Projects

• SPICE

[edit] Computational Science and Biology

• https://wiki.cct.lsu.edu/compbio/Main_Page

• Protein Nanopores and Transport

• Riboswitches/SAM (click here and then on Projects)

[edit] Publications

• PDF
• Link to select publications
• Proceedings of the DPA Workshop published as: Euro-Par 2008 Workshops

[edit] Academic Awards

• IEEE Grid 2009 Best Paper Award

• ISC 2008 Best Paper Award

• TeraGrid 2008 Performance Challenge Award

• ISC 2006 Innovation Award in the Life Science

• Supercomputing 2005, HPC Analytics

[edit] Students

[edit] Current

• Ashley Zebrowski

• Hugh Martin (UCL, London) [The only person I know who can simulate what he experiments with and experiments with what he simulates!] (Non-Equilibrium Biomolecular Simulations)

• The Brothers Miceli [Chris and Michael] URL (Grid Computing)

• Wei Huang (Riboswitches; joint with Prof. Fareed Aboul-ela)

• Kate Stamou (Distributed Programming and Distributed Systems/Clouds)

• Abhinav Thota (Cybertools, Coupled-Simulations)

• I do not have any openings Graduate Students on a NSF funded project Cybertools (WP4) [Updated: April 2009.

[edit] Former

• Joao Abecasis

• P Chakraborty (Promita defended her Masters in the Summer of 2007)

[edit] Research Staff

• Ole Weidner

• Andre Merzky

• Nayong Kim

• J Kim

• Jeff Ko

[edit] Former Research Staff

• Hugh Wang (now at Washington University, St. Louis)

[edit] Job Openings

• I have filled both openings [Oct 2008]. None at this moment. Sorry.

[edit] Conferences (most recent)

• Program Co-chair, 2nd International Workshop on Grids Meet Autonomic Computing (GMAC), held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, Washington June 2010.
• Vice chair of the Parallel and Distributed Programming topic of Europar2009, Delft
• Program co-Chair, SCALE2009 (in conjunction with CCGrid2009) and SCALE2010
• Program Chair of Summit09: Partnerships in CI, (including OGF27, October 2009, Banff, Canada)
• Steering Committee, Advanced Distributed Services Summer School (UK), August 2009
• Program co-Chair of "Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments" (CLADE) 2010, 2009 in conjunction with HPDC 2009
• Deputy Chair of the MardiGras Conference 2008
• Technical Program Committee, IEEE/ACM SC08
• International Summer School on Grid Computing 2008, 2009
• CCGrid, Lyon, France 2008
• UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (Sept 2008, Dec 2009) and All-Hands Foundation (Steering Committee)
• Data Aware Distributed Computing (DADC), in conjunction with HPDC 2008, Boston

[edit] Local Resources

• Louisiana Biomedical Research Network Bioportal
• CCT Colloquium

[edit] Funded Projects

• EPSRC - Distributed Programming Abstractions [PI]

• SAGA [PI]

• Investigating the Conformational Flexibility of the S-Box Riboswitch Using MD Simulations [PI]

• co-PI NSF award NSF LONIGrid (LSU joins the TeraGrid)

• SI on the following NSF funded projects:
  • Cybertools

• SI LONI Institute

• co-Director (Bioinformatics and Biocomputing Core) NIH funded Louisiana Biomedical Research Network (LBRN)

[edit] Random Selection of other Projects

• GENIUS

• Paramedic

[edit] Work in Progress

• Link to my previous page. I'll migrate content soon...
• This is my attempt to move my home page to a Wiki temporarily..