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PUBLICATIONS
Inside
Illinois
Vol.
24, No. 23, June 16, 2005
Eleven chosen as NCSA Faculty
Fellows
The
National Center for Supercomputing Applications has chosen 11 UI faculty
members as Faculty Fellows for 2005-2006.
The Faculty Fellows program, now in its seventh year, extends opportunities
in advanced computing and information technology to UI faculty members
on the Urbana-Champaign campus. In addition to financial support, Faculty
Fellows have access to NCSA's high-performance computers, visualization
and virtual reality environments, data-analysis software, and other
advanced information-technology tools, as well as opportunities to collaborate
with NCSA staff. The program is jointly funded by NCSA and the Office
of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
“This program is a strategic asset to the university and to NCSA,”
said NCSA Director Thom Dunning. “The range and diversity of the
projects being undertaken by the Faculty Fellows illustrates the broad
impact that advanced information technology can have in research and
education.”
Vice Chancellor for Research Charles Zukoski also praised the program.
“Research collaborations built between NCSA and Faculty Fellows
are increasingly important as foundations for strategic campus initiatives
in areas such as translational biomedical research, materials research
and environmental science,” he said.
For the first time this year, several fellowships have been extended
into a second year to allow researchers to build on promising results
and achieve even greater progress. The four researchers continuing their
fellowships:
- Youssef
Hashash, civil and environmental engineering,
“Large-scale numerical simulations via reconfigurable computing.
An application using discrete element modeling of granular material.”
- Sharon
Tettegah, curriculum and instruction (with co-principal
investigator Carolyn Anderson, educational
psychology), “Visualization of vignette and statistical models:
An integrated approach.”
- Donald
Wuebbles, atmospheric sciences, “Data mining
and visualization of climate and air-quality datasets.”
The seven new fellows
for 2005-2006:
- Yoram
Bresler, electrical and computer engineering and
bioengineering, “High-performance computing for dynamic biomedical
imaging.”
- Matthew
Hudson,
crop sciences, “Deciphering intergenic DNA – the next
challenge in genome biology.”
- Laxmikant
Kale, computer science, “Faucets: on-demand
resource allocation on computational grids.”
- Momcilo
Markus, Center for Watershed Science, “Data
fusion, data mining, pattern recognition and regional classification
of the water-quality data in the Midwestern United States.”
- Chad
Rienstra, chemistry, “Cyberinfrastructure
for NMR data acquisition and analysis.”
- Susan
Kieffer, geology,
“Dynamics of catastrophic volcanic eruptions and dusty gas flows
in ‘urban canyons.’ “
- Kelly
Swanson, animal sciences, “Predictive data
mining of complex nutrigenomic datasets.”
For more information on NCSA’s Faculty Fellows Program, see www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Divisions/DirOffice/CampusRelations/FFP/.
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