People in CS&E
With the exception of the Faculty Committee, there is no formal definition of "CSE faculty". Any member of the Graduate Faculty from a PhD. granting department can advise CSE graduate students. Most of the activities in the CSE are project driven depending on current funding and the research interests of the individuals involved. The following is a list of faculty that have current or recent involvement with the CSERI.
Faculty
| Ashok Goel | Modeling of Nanotechnology Circuits |
| Brown, Laura | Machine Learning, causal discovery, Bayesian Networks, SVMs |
| Cai, Yu | Distributed systems, green computing |
| Chen, Bo | Bio-inspired computing and mobile agent computing |
| Davis, Brian | Memory System (NUMA) Design and simulation |
| Gockenbach, Mark S. | Inverse problems, numerical optimization, and mathematical software |
| Gupta, Mahesh | Computer Simulation of Polymer Processing |
| Hansmann, Ulrich | |
| Keith, Jason | Modeling of transport and reaction in chemical systems |
| Merkey, Phil | Large Scale Computation and Parallel Computing |
| Mukherjee, Abhijit | Computation of interfacial phenomena, combustion and general CFD |
| Mukherjee, Amlan | |
| Narain, Amitabh | Simulation of flow physics associated with interfacial dynamics |
| Nemiroff, Robert | Computational Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| Odegard, Gregory M. | Computational mechanics, biomechanics, and materials science |
| Onder, Soner | High performance computer architecture and compilers |
| Perger, Warren | Computational condensed-matter physics |
| Rouleau, Mark | Social Simulation and Agent-Based Modeling |
| Seidel, Steven | Parallel computing, especially interprocessor communication algorithms and performance analysis on clusters, SMP's and massively parallel platforms. |
| Struthers, Allan | Parallel Algorithms for CUDA |
| Tanner, Franz X. | Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulent Reacting Multiphase Flows |
| Waite, Greg | Elastic wave modeling for Earth structure and earthquake source dynamics |
| Wang, Chaoli | Scientific and information visualization, high-performance parallel visualization |
| Wang, Zhenlin | Compiler Optimization, Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing |
| Wu, Shiliang | Atomspheric chemistry modeling |
| You, Zhanping | Computational mechanics for pavement engineering and materials, asphalt materials and composite materials |
Staff
| Allyson Jabusch | Coordinator |
| Sandy Kalcich | Staff Assistant |
| Linn, Chris | System Administrator |
| Krogel, Pat | System Administrator |
Students
Kit CischkeKit joined the CS&E Ph.D program in Fall 2006. Kit is working on implementing dynamic programming algorithms in UPC. He is investigating the effects of different data distributions on the Longest Common Subsequence problem and layout functions to simplify addressing the arrays in those distributions. Kit's home department is in Electrical and Computer Engineering and supervising professor is Phil Merkey. When he is not wrangling UPC code, he can usually be found racing mountain bikes, watching rally racing or chasing after his kids.
Yejun Gong
Yejun Gong joined the Cse Ph.D program in the spring of 2007.
She is working on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Her interest is
focus on the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of the turbulent multiphase flows
with application to Diesel Engine. Yejun Gong's home department is
Department of Mathematical Science and supervising professor is Franz
Tanner.
Lisa Thimm
Lisa Thimm, not a Scorpio, joined the CSE Ph.D.
program in the spring of 2004 after receiving her
MS in Mathematics here at Tech. Lisa's work deals
with parallel algorithms for solving discrete
mathematical problems. During her work with
various supercomputers she has developed a strong
love/hate relationship with several, including our
very own Beowulf cluster, lionel.
Lisa's home department is
Mathematical Sciences, and her supervising
professor is Phil Merkey. Lisa enjoys
long walks on the beach, bubble baths, and eating
as much Mexican food as she can find.
Hector Antonio Villa-Martnez
Hector joined the CSE Ph.D program in August 2004.
Hector is working on visualization methods applied to microclimatic
landscape design.
Hector's home department is Computer Science and his supervising
professor is Dr. Ching-Kuang Shene.
Other interests include reading, mainly Jorge Luis Borges, Science
Fiction, and Roman and Medieval history.
Daniel Yorgov
Daniel joined the CSE Ph.D program in the spring of 2007.
He is interested in applied math and finance.
His home department is the department of Mathematical Sciences.
His supervising professor is Igor Kliakhandler.
Bo Zhang
Bo received his Master degree of Computer Science from Nanjing University in
2001 and joined Motorola Software Center in China as a software engineer.
Bo is now enrolled in the CSE Ph.D program,
with main fields of interest that include artificial intelligence, embedded system.
Alumni
Krista Stalsberg-Zarling (2007)
Krista has B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
Krista worked in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), modeling
fuel sprays in medium- and large-bore diesel engines.
In particular, she worked to improve existing phase coupling models
through the use of Lagrange interpolation polynomials.
She worked on a COOP as a visiting research scientist
at the Internal Combustion Engines Laboratory
at Helsinki University of Technology in Espoo, Finland.
Krista's supervising professor was Franz Tanner in the department of Mathematical Sciences. Krista's thesis was titled: Krista is currently working at Sandia National Laboratory.
Lior Shamir (2006)
Lior worked on the development and implementation
of soft computing algorithms for a variety of problems
in the field of astronomical image analysis.
This includes astronomical image compression,
automatic stellar objects detection and recognition,
cosmic ray hits rejection,
cloud detection and monitoring, aberration correction, and more.
The algorithms were implemented as a part
of the Night Sky Live! project,
which involves some of the world's premier observatories
in order to maintain a systematic record of the night sky.
Lior's supervising professor was Robert Nemiroff in Physics department. Lior's thesis was titled: "Astronomical Pipeline Using Fuzzy Logic" Lior received the Graduate Student Council Exceptional Graduate Scholar Award. Lior is working at Johns Hopkins medical center.
Seshasai Srinivasan (2005)
Seshasai developed the mathematical models of the physics inside an engine cylinder.
This was done using a 3-dimensional code (KIVA-3). Once implemented,
these models were tested to match the experimental results.
One of the other avenues of his research was to optimize the engine
operating conditions to reduce the emissions, while still maintaining
reasonable amount of fuel efficiency.
Seshasai's supervising professor was Franz Tanner in the department of Mathematical Sciences.
Hanyi Li (2005)
Hanyi worked as a research assistant
with the RSI (Remote Sensing Institute) group.
His research focused
on the retrieval
of chlorophyll concentration
at central Lake Superior using SeaWiFs ( Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor) satellite data.
His work included discrete water samples measurements,
analysis of optical data collected
by the SATLANTIC profiler, and satellite image processing.
Hanyi and his fellow researchers completed the evaluation
of published chlorophyll algorithms using our in situ bio-optical data
from KITES ( Keweenaw Interdisciplinary Transport Experiment in Superior) project.
Hanyi's supervising professor was Judith Budd of Geological Eng. & Sciences
Song Gao (2003)
Song's supervising professor was Gregg Bluth of Geological Eng. & Sciences.
His thesis was `` The 1991 Pinatubo Volcanic Clouds from a Satellite
Remote Sensing Perspective''.
Song currently works for SAIC, a contractor to USGS EROS center
as an image processing software engineer.
He will work on the next
generation Landsat Satellite (LDCM) Project.
Yi Qian (2002)
Yi's Thesis is titled
"Loop Transformations for Clustered VLIW Architectures".
Yi's supervising professor was Dr. Carr in the Computer Science department.
Evan Schemm (2002)
Evan's Thesis is titled "Improving Icache Hit Rates in ILP Architectures".
His supervising professor was Dr. Sweany in the Computer Science department.