The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Mentors interested in:
Numerical/Scientific Computing / HPC / Data-Intensive Scalable Computing

• Manuel Rodriguez-Martinez at University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (Mayaguez, PR)
  Keywords: Database Systems, Query Processing, Middleware, Query Optimization, Cloud Computing 3July
• Marlon Pierce at Community Grids Lab, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
  Keywords: Cloud Computing, Distributed computing,Web architectures, parallel computing, Grids, message oriented middleware 11June
• Andrew Lumsdaine at Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)
  Keywords: High performance computing, MPI, generic programming, C++, scientific computing, numerical analysis, parallel programming, large-scale systems, computational photography 11June
• Vijay Menon at Google Seattle (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: compilers, programming languages, virtual machines, multi-core, transactional memory 10June
• richard matzner at Physics Dept, Univ of Texas Austin TX 78712 (Austin TX)
  Keywords: numerical relativity, finite elements, analytical relativity, Information Assurance & Security,Computational Science Education, Scalable Computing, Data-Intensive Computing 10June
• Irena Knezevic at University of Wisconsin - Madison, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept (Madison, WI)
  Keywords: computational electronics, quantum transport theory, ensemble Monte Carlo simulation, photonics, lasers, nanoelectronics, thermoelectrics, decoherence in nanostuctures, flexible electronics 9June
• Atul Adya at Google Seattle (Seattle, Washington)
  Keywords: distributed systems, databases, transactions, consistency, caching, file systems 9June
• Craig Chambers at Google (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: Programming languages, optimizing compilers, parallel and distributed systems, object-oriented systems 9June
• Prabhakar Kudva at IBM TJ Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY)
  Keywords: Fault Tolerance, Reliability, Computer Architecture, Power management, Performance and power analysis, Soft Errors, System Design, Low power circuits, system design methods 9June
• Umit Catalyurek at The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
  Keywords: Parallel Computing, combinatorial scientific computing, runtime systems for data-intensive computing, scheduling, bioinformatics and high-performance computing in biomedicine. 9June
• Padma Raghavan at The Pennsylvanis State University (University Park, PA)
  Keywords: Parallel computing; Performance and energy modeling of multicore/manycore architectures for scientific workloads; Scheduling of sparse workloads for multicores; Exploiting sparsity for dimensionality reduction; Scalable solvers. 9June
• Ann Chervenak at University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: distributed data management, replica management, distributed scientific collaborations, workflow, data staging, policy driven data placement, distributed computing, data mirroring 8June
• Aniket Kittur at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: social computing, HCI, peer production, social collaboration, sensemaking, insight, wiki, Wikipedia, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, higher order cognition, categorization, scientific discovery 8June
• Ewa Deelman at USC Information Sciences Institu (Marina Del Rey, CA)
  Keywords: scientific workflows, distributed computing, cloud computing, resource scheduling, resource provisioning 8June
• Daniel Beece at IBM Watson Research Lab (Yorktown Heights, NY)
  Keywords: VLSI Design Automation Circuit Optimization Static Timing Statistical Static Timing Custom Circuit Tuning 8June
• Javier Cabrera at Rutgers University (Hill Center, Bush Campus, Piscataway,NJ)
  Keywords: Bioinformatics, gene networks, gene ontology, gene expressions, biological processes, pattern recognition, DNA barcode. 8June
• Xin Li at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Computer Aided Design, Neural Signal Processing, Machine Learning 7June
• Xian-He Sun at Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: high performance computing system, memory system, I/O system, performance optimization, fault tolerant computing 6June
• Yannis Kevrekidis at Princeton University, Chemical Engineering and PACM (Princeton, NJ)
  Keywords: dynamical systems, nonlinear dynamics, multiscale computation, equation-free computing, data mining, diffusion maps, pattern formation, instabilities, network dynamics, coarse graining, agent-based modeling 5June
• Georgios Fainekos at NEC Labs / Arizona State University (Princeton, NJ / Tempe, AZ)
  Keywords: Cyber-Physical Systems, formal methods and logic, control theory and hybrid, embedded and real-time systems, robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles 5June
• Peter Feldmann at IBM TJ Watson Research (Yorktown Heights, NY)
  Keywords: Circuit simulation, Noise analysis, Timing analysis , Interconnect, Reduced Order Modeling, 5June
• Srihari Cadambi at NEC Laboratories America, Inc. (Princeton, NJ)
  Keywords: Parallel computer architecture, reconfigurable architecture, embedded computing, parallel programming models, special-purpose hardware 5June
• John Wilkes at Google, Inc (Mountain View, CA)
  Keywords: SLAs, service level agreements, autonomics, self-management, large-scale systems, storage, self-healing, self-*, cloud computing 5June
• Murali Annavaram at University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: 3D stacking, reliability, power performance and reliability tradeoffs, simulation and modeling of CPUs, architecture, microarchitecture, mobile computing, sensor systems, low power designs, data center efficiency, 5June
• Skadron Kevin at University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
  Keywords: Modeling/design for thermal, power, reliability, and variation constraints; des ign, programming models, and benchmarking for multi/manycore, GPU, and heterogeneous architectures, especially focusing on memory bandwidth 4June
• Kenneth Joy at University of California, Davis (Davis CA)
  Keywords: Visualization, computer graphics, computer aided geometric design, massive data storage methods, multidimensional visualization, flow visualization 4June
• Vladimir Zolotov at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY)
  Keywords: design automation, timing analysis, statistical timing, circuit analysis, circuit optimization, signal integrity, VLSI testing 4June
• Dorian Arnold at University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)
  Keywords: High performance computing, Large scale distribued systems, Autonomous systems, Fault-tolerance, HPC Tools 4June
• Alexander Gray at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: machine learning, data mining, statistics, high dimensionality, massive datasets, optimization, algorithms, automated program synthesis, computational geometry, linear algebra, data-intensive/distributed computing, astrophysics, mass spec, SVMs 4June
• Chung-Kuan Cheng at University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA)
  Keywords: circuit simulation, physical layout, high performance low power interconnect, power ground network and clock analysis and designs. 4June
• Gary Miller at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA 15217)
  Keywords: keyword, keyword, keyword, ... 4June
• Jed Pitera at IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, CA)
  Keywords: High Performance Computing, supercomputing, simulation, parallel algorithms, computational chemistry, computational biology, materials science, Markov models, statistical mechanics, self-assembly, computer-aided engineering 4June
• David Du at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
  Keywords: Future Internet, Vechicle-to-Vechicle Communications, Air Transportation Cyber Physical Systems, Mobile and Sensor Networks, Mass Storage Systems, Long-Term Data Preservation, Data Security/Privacy, Information Critical Networks, Situation-Aware Networks 4June
• Jinjun Xiong at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY)
  Keywords: Design automation for VLSI circuits and systems, large scale mathematical and numerical optimization, combinatorial mathematics, statistics and experimental design, software engineering. 4June
• Jinbo Xu at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: protein sequence alignment, homology search, protein threading, protein structure prediction, biological network alignment 3June
• Rajan Lukose at HP Labs (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: personalization, data mining, recommendation systems, privacy, collaborative filtering, information economics, complex networks, keyword bidding. 3June
• T.S. Jayram at IBM Almaden Research Center (Washington, DC)
  Keywords: complexity theory, communication complexity, data streams, massive data sets, probabilistic databases 3June
• Devasis Bassu at Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies Inc. (Piscataway, NJ)
  Keywords: data mining, network analysis, machine learning, fast algorithms, pattern detection, data representation, data fusion, text analysis, classification 3June
• Robert Grossman at National Center for Data Mining at UIC (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: Numerical/Scientific Computing , HPC , Data-Intensive Scalable Computing, Data Mining 3June
• Alok Choudhary at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
  Keywords: High-Performance Computing, Data Intenstive Computing, Parallel I/O and storage, data mining, computer architecture, security, business, medical and bioinformatics applications, power aware systems 3June
• Neelesh Patankar at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL (Chicago suburb))
  Keywords: Aquatic locomotion, evolution, neuromechanics, animation, super-slippery surface, superhydrophobicity, Lotus effect. 2June
• Min Song at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)
  Keywords: Biomedical Text Mining, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing 2June
• appie van de Liefvoort at University of Missouri -- Kansas City (Kansas City, MO)
  Keywords: performance engineering, analytical and probabilistic process modeling, queueing theory, algorithms and their data structures, computer science education, applied stochastic processes. 2June
• Dimitrios Papavassiliou at The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)
  Keywords: turbulence DNS, turbulent dispersion, MOnte Carlo, nanoscale heat transfer, Lattice Boltzmann Methods, porous media, Lagrangian methods 1June
• Yolanda Gil at University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: intelligent user interfaces, knowledge collection from web volunteers, knowledge-rich problem solving, artificial intelligence in social networking sites, semantic web, scientific workflows. 1June
• John Carter at IBM Research (Austin, TX)
  Keywords: Power management, energy-proportional system design, computer architecture, distributed systems, operating systems, memory systems, storage, data center design, networking. 1June
• Tom Cormen at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
  Keywords: Algorithm engineering, parallel computing, speeding up computations with high latency, computer science writing. 1June
• Elizabeth Jessup at University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, Colorado)
  Keywords: numerical linear algebra, numerical software, high-performance computing, memory-effiicient computing, computer science education, women in computing 31May
• Robert Michael Panoff at Shodor Education Foundation (Durham, NC)
  Keywords: Computational Science, computational science education, stochastic optimization, systems modeling, agent modeling, digital libraries, interactive computing, multi-core/many-core algorithms, multi-core/many-core learning modules 31May
• Anshul Gupta at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY)
  Keywords: Sparse Matrix Computations, Parallel Algorithms, Graph Algorithms, Scientific Computing, Solving Large Sparse Systems of Linear Equations, 31May