Louisiana EPSCoR RII Researchers and Staff

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• Project Leadership Team

  • 	Khonsari, Dr. Michael Louisiana EPSCoR Project Director Board of Regents Associate Commissioner for Sponsored Programs Research and Development +1 225 342 4253 michael.khonsari AT la.gov www.laregents.org
    Dr. Michael Khonsari is Louisiana EPSCoR Project Director and Associate Commissioner for Sponsored Research and Development at Louisiana Board of Regents. He is the Principal Investigator for the NSF Research Infrastructure Improvement Award. He earned his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Khonsari is also Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University where he holds the Dow Chemical Endowed Chair in Rotating machinery. Professor Khonsari is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a Fellow of The Society of Tribologist and Lubrication Engineers (STLE). Dr. Khonsari is the Project Director for the Louisiana RII award.
    	Cortez, Dr. Ricardo Mathematics Department Center for Computational Science Tulane University +1 504 862 3436 cortez AT math.tulane.edu http://www.math.tulane.edu/~cortez/
    Dr. Ricardo Cortez is the Director of the Center of Computational science at Tulane University and the Pendergraft William Larkin Duren Professor in Tulane's Mathematics Department. He earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the University of California, Berkley. Cortez's research interests include computational fluid dynamics, numerical methods and scientific computing, and biological fluid flow applications. Dr. Cortez co-leads the Transport Processes area of the Science Drivers and also is responsible for education and outreach activities in the RII.
    	Gaver, Dr. Donald Department of Biomedical Engineering Tulane University +1 504 865 5150 donald.gaver AT tulane.edu http://www.bmen.tulane.edu/~dpg/
    Dr. Donald Gaver is an Associate Director of the Center of Computational science at Tulane University and the Alden J. 'Doc' Laborde Professor and Department Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. He earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in theoretical and applied mechanics. Gaver's research interests include biofluid mechanics, pulmonary mechanics, interfacial flows, and cell mechanics. Dr. Gaver leads the Transport Processes area of the Science Drivers.
    	Seidel, Dr. Edward Department of Physics Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 7877 eseidel AT cct.lsu.edu http://director.cct.lsu.edu/
    Dr. Edward Seidel is the Director of the Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University and the Floating Point Systems Professor in LSU's Departments of Physics and Astronomy, and Computer Science. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in relativistic astrophysics. Seidel's research interests are in the field of numerical relativity including modeling astrophysics black holes and neutron stars, perturbation theory and boson stars. Seidel has also been an innovator in the fields of grid computing and high performance computing, and in 2006 was awarded the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Prize. Seidel is the Chief Scientist for LONI, and the PI for the LONI Institute. Dr. Seidel co-leads the CyberTools research and development area of the RII.
    	Soper, Dr. Steven Department of Chemistry Center for BioModular Multi-Scale Systems Louisiana State University +1 225 578 1527 chsope AT lsu.edu http://chemistry.lsu.edu/chem/facultypages/Faculty.php?chemID=90
    Dr. Steven Soper is William L. and Patricia Senn, Jr. Professor at Louisiana State University. He completed his PhD at the University of Kansas in 1989, and pursued a PostDoc at the Los Alamos National Lab. His work is focused on developing new tools for analyzing biological macro-molecules, including DNA and proteins. Specifically, he is interested in fabricating miniaturized systems for mutation analysis (diagnostics), isolating cells from mixed populations, developing systems for high throughput protein analyses and evolving new technologies for DNA sequencing as part of the Human Genome Initiative. Dr. Soper leads the Biosensor Development area of the Science Drivers.

• Work Package 1: Scheduling and Data Services

  • WP1 Leadership

    • 	Dua, Dr. Sumeet Department of Computer Science Louisiana Tech University +1 318 257 2830 sdua AT coes.latech.edu http://www2.latech.edu/~sdua/
      Dr. Sumeet Dua is Upchurch Endowed Associate Professor of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University (LaTech). He is also the Adjunct Professor of Research in the School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans. He is the Coordinator of Information Technology Research in the College of Engineering and Science since September 2005. He is also the Director of Data Mining Research Laboratory (DMRL) at LaTech.
      	Kosar, Dr. Tevfik Department of Computer Science Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 8983 kosar AT cct.lsu.edu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/
      Dr. Tevfik Kosar is assistant professor in computer science at LSU. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include distributed systems, grid and collaborative computing; data intensive distributed computing; resource allocation and management; fault tolerance; coordination of computation and I/O in distributed systems.

  • WP1 Researchers

    • 	Allen, Dr. Gabrielle Department of Computer Science Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 6955 gallen AT cct.lsu.edu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~gallen/
      Dr. Gabrielle Allen is an associate professor in computer science at LSU, and focus area head of the core computational science focus area at CCT. She received her Ph.D. in computational astrophysics from Cardiff University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and led its efforts in computational science for a number of years before joining CCT.
      	Iyengar, Dr. Sitharama Department of Computer Science Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 1495 siyengar AT cct.lsu.edu
      Dr. Iyengar is the chairman of LSU's computer science department and Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Computer Science.
      	Katz, Dr. Daniel S. Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 2750 dsk AT cct.lsu.edu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dsk/
      Dr. Daniel S. Katz is assistant director for Cyberinfrastructure and User Services (CyD) at CCT, and an associate research professor in electrical and computer engineering at LSU. 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.
      	Leangsuksun (Box), Dr. Chokchai Department of Computer Science Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology Louisiana Tech University +1 318 257 4922 box AT latech.edu http://www2.latech.edu/~box/
      Dr. Box is an associate professor in the department of computer science at LATech. He received the Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio in 1989 and 1995 respectively. His research interests include Highly Reliable and High Performance Computing, Intelligent component based Software Engineering, Parallel & Distributed Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture, Service Engineering and Management.
      	Liu, Dr. Honggao High Performance Computing Louisiana State University +1 225 578 0235 honggao AT lsu.edu 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.
      	Park, Dr. Jay (Seung-Jong) Department of Computer Science Center for Computation & technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 2209 sjpark AT lsu.edu http://csc.lsu.edu/~sjpark/
      Dr. Park is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Louisiana State University. He received his Ph.D. from the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004. Dr. Park's research interests are Networking and Mobile Computing. More specifically: wireless sensor networks, wireless ad-hoc networks, high-speed networks for grid computing, networks' convergence. For WP1, Dr. Park will contribute: 1) network layer collaborating with grid softwares 2) task scheduling service for bioinformatics, such as autodock applications.
      	Traxler, Isaac High Performance Computing Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 1923 traxler AT lsu.edu
      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

• Work Package 2: Information Services and Portals

  • WP2 Leadership

    • Allen, Dr. Gabrielle Department of Computer Science Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 6955 gallen AT cct.lsu.edu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~gallen/

      Dr. Gabrielle Allen is an associate professor in computer science at LSU, and focus area head of the core computational science focus area at CCT. She received her Ph.D. in computational astrophysics from Cardiff University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and led its efforts in computational science for a number of years before joining CCT.

  • WP2 Researchers

    • 	Acharya, Dr. Sumanta Department of Mechanical Engineering Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 5809 acharya AT me.lsu.edu
      Dr. Sumanta Acharya is an L.R. Daniel professor in LSU's Mechanical Engineering department. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota. His research interestes include computational and experimental heat transfer, fluid mechanics and combustion.
      	Dua, Dr. Sumeet Department of Computer Science Louisiana Tech University +1 318 257 2830 sdua AT coes.latech.edu http://www2.latech.edu/~sdua/
      Dr. Sumeet Dua is Upchurch Endowed Associate Professor of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University (LaTech). He is also the Adjunct Professor of Research in the School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans. He is the Coordinator of Information Technology Research in the College of Engineering and Science since September 2005. He is also the Director of Data Mining Research Laboratory (DMRL) at LaTech.
      	Schnetter, Dr. Erik Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 8907 schnetter AT cct.lsu.edu
      Dr. Erik Schnetter is a researcher in the numerical relativity group of the Coast-to-Cosmos focus area at the CCT. He received his PhD in 2003 from the Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany. He was then a post-doctoral scholar at the Albert-Einstein-Institut in Potsdam and joined the CCT in September 2005. His research interests include the numerical study of black hole horizon dynamics and black hole coalescence.

• Work Package 3: Visualization Services

  • WP3 Leadership

    • 	Cruz-Neira, Dr. Carolina Department of Engineering Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) University of Louisiana at Lafayette research AT lite3d.com http://www.lite3d.com/site4.php
      Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira is the Executive Director and Chief Scientist of the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE). She is also an Endowed Chair in the College of Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr. Cruz-Neira's work in virtual reality started with her Ph.D. dissertation, the design of the CAVE Virtual Reality Environment, the CAVE Library software specifications and implementation, and preliminary research on CAVE Supercomputing integration.
      	Ullmer, Dr. Brygg Department of Computer Science Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 0813 ullmer AT cct.lsu.edu http://csc.lsu.edu/~ullmer/
      Dr. Brygg Ullmer is an assistant professor, jointly at CCT and in computer science at LSU. He received his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Media Laboratory). He leads visualization and human-computer interaction efforts at CCT, including the Tangible Visualization group (jointly in CCT and CS).

  • WP3 Researchers

    • 	Benger, Dr. Werner Center for Computation and Technology werner AT cct.lsu.edu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~werner/
      Dr. Benger'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. 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.
      	Brener, Dr. Nathan Department of Computer Science Louisiana State University brener AT csc.lsu.edu http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/faculty/people_brener.html
      Dr. Brener finished his PhD in Physics at Louisiana State University in 1971. His research interests include predictive intelligence, artificial intelligence, route planning algorithms, scientific computing, and parallel processing.
      	Iyengar, Dr. Sitharama Department of Computer Science Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 1495 siyengar AT cct.lsu.edu
      Dr. Iyengar is the chairman of LSU's computer science department and Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Computer Science.
      	Jana, Dr. Amitava Department of Mechanical Engineering Southern University +1 225 771 4701 jana AT engr.subr.edu http://www.engr.subr.edu/me/facultyPages/jana/index.htm
      Dr. Jana is a professor at Southern University. He has been involved in research and educational activities in the area of Mechatronics and robotics. He has developed a Mechatronics/ robotic laboratory to offer a multi-disciplinary course for electrical and mechanical engineering students.
      	Jindal, Dr. Renuka Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering University of Louisiana at Lafayette jindal AT louisiana.edu http://ee.louisiana.edu/facultystaff/jindal/main/
      In Fall of 2002 Dr. Jindal joined University of Louisiana at Lafayette as William Hansen Hall Board of Regents Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Telecommunications. His interests include an end-to-end approach to fundamental research in devices, circuits and systems in relation to modern communications. Dr. Jindal received the Distinguished Technical Staff Award from Bell Labs in 1989. In December 2000 he received the IEEE 3rd Millennium Medal.
      	Karki, Dr. Bijaya Department of Computer Science Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University karki AT bit.csc.lsu.edu
      Dr. Karki is an Assistant Professor in LSU's computer science department. He received his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Before joining the Department of Computer Science at LSU in 2003, he worked as a research scholar at the University of Minnesota (Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation), and also at LSU (Biological Computation and Visualization Center).
      	Miller, Marsha Executive Assistant to the Executive Director/Chief Scientist LITE-Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise University of Louisiana at Lafayette +1 337 735 1352 marsha AT lite3d.com http://www.lite3d.com/team_mmiller.htm
      Having most recently assisted the CEO of the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce,Ms. Marsha Miller has also worked extensively in the financial and legal industries. Marsha earned a bachelor's degree and a Paralegal Certificate from ULL (USL) and holds an associate's degree from the Dickson Area Vocational School in Dickson, Tennessee.
      	Venkataraman, Shalini Center for Computation & Technology +1 225 578 8221 shalini AT cct.lsu.edu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~shalini/
      Shalini is a research scientist 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.
      	Wilson, Dr. Anitra Department of Electrical Engineering Southern University and A&M College awilson AT engr.subr.edu
      Dr. Anitra C. Wilson is a BOR/JFAP Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern University and A&M College. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at LSU. Her research interests include sensor networks, high speed networks, wireless sensor design, visualization, and nanotechnology.

• Work Package 4: Application Services and Toolkits

  • WP4 Leadership

    • 	Jha, Dr. Shantenu Department of Computer Science Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 8772 sjha AT cct.lsu.edu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~sjha/
      Dr. Jha is Assistant Research Professor (CS) at LSU, and Senior Research Scientist at CCT. Jha's research interests are in Computational Science and High-Performance and Distributed Computing.

    • WP4 Researchers

      • 	Acharya, Dr. Sumanta Department of Mechanical Engineering Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 5809 acharya AT me.lsu.edu
        Dr. Sumanta Acharya is an L.R. Daniel professor in LSU's Mechanical Engineering department. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota. His research interests include computational and experimental heat transfer, fluid mechanics and combustion.
        	Allen, Dr. Gabrielle Department of Computer Science Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 6955 gallen AT cct.lsu.edu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~gallen/
        Dr. Gabrielle Allen is an associate professor in computer science at LSU, and focus area head of the core computational science focus area at CCT. She received her Ph.D. in computational astrophysics from Cardiff University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and led its efforts in computational science for a number of years before joining CCT.
        	Brener, Dr. Nathan Department of Computer Science Louisiana State University brener AT csc.lsu.edu http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/faculty/people_brener.html
        Dr. Brener finished his PhD in Physics at Louisiana State University in 1971. His research interests include predictive intelligence, artificial intelligence, route planning algorithms, scientific computing, and parallel processing.
        	El-Khamra, Yaakoub Center for Computation and Technology +1 225 578 8904 yye00 AT cct.lsu.edu
        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.
        	Gaver, Dr. Donald Department of Biomedical Engineering Tulane University +1 504 865 5150 donald.gaver AT tulane.edu http://www.bmen.tulane.edu/~dpg/
        Dr. Gaver is currently an Alden J. "Doc" Laborde Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. He did his PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (1988). His laboratory aims to develop an understanding of the interrelationships between the mechanical and physicochemical behavior of biological systems. The main thrust of this research involves investigations of the pulmonary system.
        	Kim, Dr. Joohyun Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 6833 jhkim AT cct.lsu.edu http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/68a/b56
        Dr. Joohyun Kim is part of the Cyberinfrastructure Development group, in the Material World focus at CCT. He earned his Ph. D in Physical Chemistry (Seoul National University). He was a Research Associate at Boston University, as well as at NCSA, UIUC. Before joining LSU, Dr. Kim was a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at UIC.
        	Seidel, Dr. Edward Department of Physics Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 7877 eseidel AT cct.lsu.edu http://director.cct.lsu.edu/
        Dr. Edward Seidel is the Director of the Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University and the Floating Point Systems Professor in LSU's Departments of Physics and Astronomy, and Computer Science. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in relativistic astrophysics. Seidel's research interests are in the field of numerical relativity including modeling astrophysics black holes and neutron stars, perturbation theory and boson stars. Seidel has also been an innovator in the fields of grid computing and high performance computing, and in 2006 was awarded the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Prize. Seidel is the Chief Scientist for LONI, and the PI for the LONI Institute.
        	Schnetter, Dr. Erik Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 8907 schnetter AT cct.lsu.edu
        Dr. Erik Schnetter is a researcher in the numerical relativity group of the Coast-to-Cosmos focus area at the CCT. He received his PhD in 2003 from the Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany. He was then a post-doctoral scholar at the Albert-Einstein-Institut in Potsdam and joined the CCT in September 2005. His research interests include the numerical study of black hole horizon dynamics and black hole coalescence.
        	Tyagi, Dr. Mayank Department of Petroleum Engineering Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 8929 mtyagi AT cct.lsu.edu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~mtyagi/
        Dr. Tyagi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at LSU. He graduated from LSU with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with minors in Mathematics and Oceanography (2003). He is interested in computational fluid dynamics specifically in complex biological systems, turbulent engineering/environmental systems, and numerical schemes/solvers.
        	Wilson, Dr. Anitra Department of Electrical Engineering Southern University and A&M College awilson AT engr.subr.edu
        Dr. Anitra C. Wilson is a BOR/JFAP Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern University and A&M College. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at LSU. Her research interests include sensor networks, high speed networks, wireless sensor design, visualization, and nanotechnology.

  • Science Drivers

    • Biosensor Development

      • 	Agarwal, Dr. Mangilal Institute for Micromanufacturing Louisiana Tech University +1 318 257 5136 magarwal AT latech.edu
        Dr. Mangilal Agarwal is a Research Staff at the Institute for Micromanufacturing at Louisiana Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering degree from Louisiana Tech University in 2004. He is an expert in the areas of micro/nano scale processes, devices, and system integration.
        	Batzer, Dr. Mark Department of Biological Sciences Batzer Lab: The Laboratory of Comparative Genomics Louisiana State University +1 225 578 7102 mbatzer AT lsu.edu http://batzerlab.lsu.edu/batzer.html
        Dr. Batzer is Andrew C. Pereboom Alumni Departmental Professor. He completed his PhD in Zoology/Genetics at LSU in 1988. After that, he did two postdocs at the LSU Health Sciences Center and at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research interests include primate comparative genomics, mobile element biology, computational biology, human genome organization, and human population genetics.
        	Blake, Dr. Diane Department of Biochemistry The Blake Lab Tulane University +1 504 988 2478 blake AT tulane.edu http://www.som.tulane.edu/cancer/TCCnames/facb.htm
        Dr. Blake received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977. She has been at Tulane since 1993, and has published over 50 papers in the areas of glycoprotein/proteoglycan biochemistry and protein-ligand interactions.One area of Dr. Blake's research is focused upon a study of extracellular matrix and cell-matrix interactions. A second area of active research in Blake's laboratory is the development of antibody reagents that can be used to assess human exposure to heavy metals.
        	Carroll, Dr. Marion Department of Chemistry Xavier University +1 504 520 7371 mlcarrol AT xula.edu http://webusers.xula.edu/mlcarrol/mlcarrollprofile.html
        Dr. Marion L. Carroll is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Xavier University of Louisiana. His research projects involve the study of the organization of DNA sequences within the human genome and the use of molecular biology and bioinformatic tools that have developed as a result of the Human Genome Project.
        	Claypool, David Biosensor Development Industrial Liaison Center for BioModular Multi-Scale Systems Louisiana State University ddc AT alum.mit.edu http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/a61/55a
        Mr. David Claypool received his BS and MS Chemical Engineering degrees from MIT and Rice, and his MBA from Case Western Reserve. He has 30+ years private industry experience with Albemarle, Diamond Shamrock and small companies. Mr. Claypool coordinates such activities as assisting researchers in submitting patent disclosures and marketing technologies.
        	DeCoster, Dr. Mark Department of Biomedical Engineering Cellular Neuroscience Lab Louisiana Tech University +1 318 257 5118 decoster AT latech.edu http://www2.latech.edu/~decoster/
        Dr. DeCoster is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Faculty at the Institute for Micromanufacturing at Louisiana Tech University. He completed his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, and then conducted research at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C. and the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, before coming to Louisiana Tech. Dr. DeCoster's research is focused on cellular neuroscience and using nanotechnology to understand cell communication in the nervous system.
        	Deininger, Dr. Prescott School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Tulane Cancer Center Tulane University +1 504 988 6385 pdeinin AT tulane.edu http://www.som.tulane.edu/human_genetics/faculty/deininger.html
        Dr. Deininger is Professor of Environmental Health Sciencesin the Tulane School of Public Health and the Tulane medical Center. He is also Zimmerman Chair and Director of Basic Research Programs for the Tulane Cancer Center. He is also Director for the Lab. of Molecular Genetics, Ochsner Medical Foundation. He completed his PhD in Biophysical Chemistry at the University of California, Davis.
        	Devireddy, Dr. Ram Mechanical Engineering Department Louisiana State University +1 225 578 5891 devireddy AT me.lsu.edu http://me.lsu.edu/~devireddy/
        Prof. Devireddy is interested in a wide of variety of biological phenomena at low temperatures with particular emphasis on phase change phenomena. Current projects include rational design of ovarian tissue cryopreservation protocols, modeling of chemical transport processes in native and artificial tissues, conservation of endangered species using biopreservation techniques, biochemical (genetic) adaptations of uni- and multi-cellular organisms to cold, laser-tissue interactions, and design, development and characterization of microfabricated thermal sensors and actuators for cryobiological applications.
        	Fang, Mr. Ji Institute for Micromanufacturing Louisiana Tech University +1 318 257 5111 jfang AT latech.edu
        Mr. Ji Fang is a Senior Engineer at the Institute for Micromanufacturing at Louisiana Tech University. Since 1992 he has been with Louisiana Tech University, where he has been associated with the Institute for Micromanufacturing as a member of the technical staff. He is an expert in the areas of micro/nano scale processes, devices, and system integration.
        	Hammer, Dr. Robert Department of Chemistry Center for Biomodular Multi-scale Systems Louisiana Tech University +1 225 578 4025 rphammer AT lsu.edu http://appl003.lsu.edu/cbmm/cbmm.nsf/$Content/Robert+P.+Hammer?OpenDocument
        Prof. Hammer is a bio-organic chemist with expertise in nucleic acid, peptide, organic dye, and bioconjugation chemistry. Research efforts have focused on the development of new water-soluble near-infrared dyes including cyanine and phthalocyanine dyes. Conjugates of these dyes with nucleic acids and proteins are being utilized for development of microanalysis systems for genetic mutations and protein expression.
        	Lvov, Dr. Yuri Institute for Micromanufacturing Louisiana Tech University +1 318 257 5144 ylvov AT latech.edu
        Dr. Yuri Lvov is the T.C. Pipes Endowed Chair Professor of Micro and Nanosytems, and head of the Nanotechnology Thrust Area at the Institute for Micromanufacturing at Louisiana Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Moscow State University in 1979. He has been a researcher at internationally known research institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Germany, the Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, D.C. Since 1999 he has been with Louisiana Tech University, where he has been associated with the Institute for Micromanufacturing, and a faculty affiliated with the Physics and Biomedical Engineering Programs. He is an expert in the area of nanotechnology, and has carried out pioneering work in the development and applications of the layer-by-layer nanoassembly technique.
        	Magee, Dr. Gloria Department of Chemistry Xavier University +1 504 520 7380 magee.gloria AT gmail.com http://membership.acs.org/y/ycc/committee/members/magee.htm
        Dr. Gloria Magee earned a doctorate in chemistry at Louisiana State University in 2002 as a Louisiana Board of Regents and American Association of University Women Fellow. MaGee was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (2002-2003) and an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University (2003-2007). She is now an Assistant Professor at Xavier University in New Orleans. Dr. MaGee is chair of the National Science Foundation Chemistry Division Leadership Group for the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program, is a member of the Executive Board of the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE), and is actively involved in the American Chemical Society (ACS) as a member of the Younger Chemists Committee.
        	McCarley, Dr. Robin Department of Chemistry Louisiana State University +1 225 578 3239 tunnel AT me.lsu.edu http://www.chem.lsu.edu/htdocs/people/rlmccarley/mccarley/rlm.html
        Dr. McCarley is Barbara Womack LSU Alumni Professor in Analytical, Surface, and Materials Chemistry. The general theme of his research is the chemistry of supramolecular systems in solution and on surfaces. His desire is to be able to control the properties of materials by manipulating the structure of the materials on the molecular scale.
        	Moldovan, Dr. Dorel Department of Mechanical Engineering Louisiana State University +1 225 578 6488 moldovan AT me.lsu.edu http://appl003.lsu.edu/mech/mechweb.nsf/$Content/Dorel+Moldovan?OpenDocument
        Dr. Moldovan has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at LSU since 2002. His research interests include atomistic and mesoscale materials modeling and simulation; thin films and interfacial materials. He completed his PhD in Physics at West Virginia University.
        	Murphy, Dr. Michael Department of Mechanical Engineering Louisiana State University +1 225 578 5921 murphy AT me.lsu.edu http://appl003.lsu.edu/mech/mechweb.nsf/$Content/Michael+Murphy?OpenDocument
        Dr. Murphy is an Associate Professor holding the Roy O. Martin Lumber Company Professorship. His reseach interests are Microsystem design and fabrication, Biomechanics, Kinematics, and Instrumentation and Control. He completed his PhD in 1990 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
        	Nikitopoulos, Dr. Dimitris Department of Mechanical Engineering Louisiana State University +1 225 578 5903 meniki AT me.lsu.edu http://appl003.lsu.edu/mech/mechweb.nsf/$Content/Dimitris+Nikitopoulos?OpenDocument
        Dr. Nikitopoulos completed his PhD at Brown University in 1986. His research intereasts include Turbulent Dispersed Two-Phase Flows, Spray and Mist-Systems, Fire Suppression, Micro-Fluidics, Laser Flow Diagnostics, Internal Turbine Blade Cooling, Non-linear Stability Analysis, Direct Numerical Simulations, Coaxial Jet Flows, Flow Control and Mixing Enhancement.
        	Park, Dr. Sunggook Department of Mechanical Engineering Louisiana State University +1 225 578 0279 sunggook AT me.lsu.edu http://appl003.lsu.edu/mech/mechweb.nsf/$Content/Sunggook+Park?OpenDocument
        Dr. Park completed his PhD in Physics at the Technical University Chemnitz in Germany in 2002. His research interests include Nanofabrication technology and applications; Nanoimprint lithography; BioMEMS/NEMS; Bioengineering; Polymer photonic devices, liquid crystal displays, and surface coatings.
        	Soper, Dr. Steven Department of Chemistry Center for BioModular Multi-Scale Systems Louisiana State University +1 225 578 1527 chsope AT lsu.edu http://chemistry.lsu.edu/chem/facultypages/Faculty.php?chemID=90
        Dr. Steven Soper is William L. and Patricia Senn, Jr. Professor at Louisiana State University. He completed his PhD at the University of Kansas in 1989, and pursued a PostDoc at the Los Alamos National Lab. His work is focused on developing new tools for analyzing biological macro-molecules, including DNA and proteins. Specifically, he is interested in fabricating miniaturized systems for mutation analysis (diagnostics), isolating cells from mixed populations, developing systems for high throughput protein analyses and evolving new technologies for DNA sequencing as part of the Human Genome Initiative.

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      • 	Allen, Dr. Gabrielle Department of Computer Science Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 6955 gallen AT cct.lsu.edu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~gallen/
        Dr. Gabrielle Allen is an associate professor in computer science at LSU, and focus area head of the core computational science focus area at CCT. She received her Ph.D. in computational astrophysics from Cardiff University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and led its efforts in computational science for a number of years before joining CCT.
        	Ashbaugh, Dr. Hank Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Tulane University +1 504 862 8258 hanka AT tulane.edu http://cbe.tulane.edu/faculty/ashbaugh/AshbaughHomex.php
        After defending his PhD in 1998, Hank went on to post-doctoral assignments at Lund University in Sweden and Princeton University. Hank subsequently joined Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2001 as a Director's Fellow in the Theoretical Division. In July of 2004, Hank joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tulane University as an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include the multiscale simulation and theory of self-assembly and hierarchical organization in complex fluids including surfactant solutions, polymer melts and solutions, and biopolymer gels and networks to advance self-assembly as a labile tool for building tailored nanostructured materials.
        	Blake, Dr. Robert Department of Pharmacy Xavier University +1 504 520 7489 rblake AT xula.edu http://www.xula.edu/pharmacy/Profiles/blake.html
        Dr. Blake is professor and chair in the department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences at Xavier. His research interests focus on fundamental aspects of protein-ligand binding interactions. Current projects where these interests apply include studies on cooperative antibody-antigen binding interactions, the development of portable immunoassays for metal ions, and the biochemistry and enzymology of bacterial growth at the expense of insoluble inorganic substrates.
        	Bishop, Dr. Thomas Department of Biochemistry Center for Computational Sciences Tulane University +1 504 862 3370 bishop AT tulane.edu http://dna.ccs.tulane.edu/
        Dr. Tom Bishop is a computational molecular biologist. His primary research interests are the structure and dynamics of DNA and chromatin and how they relate to genetic function and disfunction (e.g. transcription, regulation, replication and repair). He studies molecular events in the hormone response mechanism as a model system for this research. He has developed a multiscale model of chromatin that bridges between atomic and continuum scales.
        	Brener, Dr. Nathan Department of Computer Science Louisiana State University brener AT csc.lsu.edu http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/faculty/people_brener.html
        Dr. Brener finished his PhD in Physics at Louisiana State University in 1971. His research interests include predictive intelligence, artificial intelligence, route planning algorithms, scientific computing, and parallel processing.
        	Cortez, Dr. Ricardo Mathematics Department Center for Computational Science Tulane University +1 504 862 3436 cortez AT math.tulane.edu http://math.tulane.edu/~ljf/
        Dr. Ricardo Cortez is the Director of the Center of Computational science at Tulane University and the Pendergraft William Larkin Duren Professor in Tulane's Mathematics Department. He earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the University of California, Berkley. Cortez's research interests include computational fluid dynamics, numerical methods and scientific computing, and biological fluid flow applications.
        	DeCoster, Dr. Mark Department of Biomedical Engineering Cellular Neuroscience Lab Louisiana Tech University +1 318 257 5125 decoster AT latech.edu http://www2.latech.edu/~decoster/
        Dr. Mark DeCoster is an Associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University. Dr. DeCoster uses the Nano eNabler technology to study the patterning of cells -- brain and stem -- in culture.
        	Fauci, Dr. Lisa Mathematics Department Center for Computational Science Tulane University +1 504 862 3431 ljf AT math.tulane.edu http://math.tulane.edu/~ljf/
        Dr. Lisa Fauci is an Associate Director of the Center of Computational science at Tulane University and a professor in Tulane's Mathematics Department. She earned her Ph.D. at New York University in mathematics. Fauci's research interests include scientific computing, mathematical biology, and computational fluid dynamics.
        	Gaver, Dr. Donald Department of Biomedical Engineering Tulane University +1 504 865 5150 donald.gaver AT tulane.edu http://www.bmen.tulane.edu/~dpg/
        Dr. Donald Gaver is an Associate Director of the Center of Computational science at Tulane University and the Alden J. 'Doc' Laborde Professor and Department Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. He earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in theoretical and applied mechanics. Gaver's research interests include biofluid mechanics, pulmonary mechanics, interfacial flows, and cell mechanics.
        	Iyengar, Dr. Sitharama Department of Computer Science Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 1495 siyengar AT cct.lsu.edu
        Dr. Iyengar is the chairman of LSU's computer science department and Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Computer Science.
        	Rick, Dr. Steven Department of Chemistry University of New Orleans +1 504 280 1119 srick AT uno.edu www.chem.uno.edu/ChemistryDepartmentfolder/Rick.html
        Dr. Rick's research uses theoretical and computational approaches to study liquid water, ice, aqueous solutions and proteins. One aspect of this research is the development of potential models that have an increased accuracy yet remain as computationally efficient as simpler, conventional models. Dr. Rick is also involved in the development of better Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics algorithms that can greatly increase the efficiency of our simulations. A large effort in his group is the study of how water in the interior of proteins influences their structure, stability, and function and how water at the protein/ligand interface influences binding.
        	Thompson, Dr. Hilary Department of Ophthalmology LSU Health Sciences Center +1 504 568 2255 hthomp2 AT lsuhsc.edu http://www.lsu-eye.lsuhsc.edu/faculty_detail.aspx?name=thompson_hilary
        Dr. Thompson is Associate Professor of Biometry in the LSUHSC School of Public Health. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Biometry, and Neuroscience. He is the Director of the Clinical Trials and Biometry Unit.

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    • 	Cruthirds, Rachel EPSCoR Program Associate +1 225 342 4253 rachel.cruthirds AT la.gov www.laregents.org
      Rachel is responsible for coordinating faculty development programs administered by the Board of Regents and for assisting evaluation consultants with the collection of reporting data.
      	Gershey, Jim Executive Director of Special Programs +1 225 342 4253 jim.gershey AT la.gov www.laregents.org
      Jim is responsible for administering the contractual agreements between the Board of Regents and the participating institutions that provide funding for the RII research project.
      	McMahon, Dr. Charlie Chief Technology Officer, Center for Computation & Technology Executive Director, Louisiana Optical Network Initiative Deputy Chief Information Officer, Louisiana State University +1 225 578 4956 cmcmaho AT lsu.edu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/site170.php
      As CCT's first Chief Technology Officer, Charlie McMahon oversees the integration of all high-performance computing support (hardware, applications, and users) and enablement activities at LSU. Dr. McMahon also is executive director of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, where he oversees and coordinates networking activities at all LONI partner sites.
      	Rodriguez-Milla, Dr. Bety LONI Institute and CyberTools Coordinator Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 8990 brodrig AT cct.lsu.edu
      Dr. Bety Rodriguez-Milla is the Scientific Coordinator of the LONI Institute. She earned her Ph.D. from Syracuse University in Physics. Dr. Rodriguez' research interests are in computational physics and condensed matter physics. More specifically, dynamics and statistical mechanics of disordered systems. At the LONI Institute (LI) her primary role is that of the LI Manager.
      	Buleu, Ana Elena CyberTools Webmaster Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 334 2455 anabuleu AT cct.lsu.edu
      Ana started working at CCT, and doing her undergraduate degree at LSU in January 2006. She is a Junior now in the College of Basic Sciences. She worked in the Performance Group for a couple of months, learning Cactus benchmarking. Since July 2006, she has worked in the Visualization Group under the supervision of Shalini Venkataraman, and Dr. Werner Benger, dealing with the HDF5 file format. She is now working with Dr. Shantenu Jha on a project involving Molecular Dynamics.

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    • 	MacLaren, Dr. Jon Center for Computation and Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 0784 maclaren AT cct.lsu.edu http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~maclaren/
      Dr. MacLaren was a distributed computing researcher in the Grid Computing group at CCT, specializing in scheduling. He graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from Manchester University in the UK in 2001, where he had previously obtained an MPhil. Before this, Dr. MacLaren worked in the software industry for two years. His research interests are focused on the scheduling of multiple types of resources, including High-Performance Computers and Optical Networks. Dr. MacLaren left LSU to work for IMDB in the United Kingdom but remains involved in the HARC development.
      	Akunuri-Venkata, Prathyusha (Prats) High Performance Computing Louisiana Optical Network Initiative Louisiana State University +1 225 578 7075 Pakunuri AT loni dot org
      Prathyusha (Prats) is currently working as Grid Services and Portal Analyst with HPC and LONI at LSU. She is going to receive her Masters in Electrical Engineering with IT concentration from Louisiana State University in the Fall of 2007. She started as a Graduate Research Assistant at CCT in the Fall of 2003 and then moved into her current position after gaining some industry experience by taking up a couple of internships in the year of 2005. Her research interests include portal interfaces for HPC and Grid Computing, resource monitoring and scheduling.

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