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The NSF EPSCoR RII Symposium took place on Monday, May 11, 2009 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The symposium featured four 'anchor' presentations on CyberTools/Science Driver interactions, a poster competition, an outreach/education session, and plenty of opportunities for networking. Find the Symposium's presentations and posters here.
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Louisiana EPSCoR RII Post-Docs
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Bennett, Dr. Cecily Biosensor Development Department of Epidemiology/Tulane Cancer Center Tulane University Health Sciences Center +1 504 988 1431 cbennett AT tulane.edu |
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Cecily is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and
Tulane Cancer Center at Tulane University Health Sciences Center. She
graduated with a Doctoral degree from the Department of Biochemistry at
Tulane University in 2008. Her research interests include various
aspects of the biology of mammalian retrotransposons.
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Chowriappa, Dr. Pradeep Work Package 2 Department of Computer Science Louisiana Tech University pradeep AT latech.edu http://myprofile.cos.com/mariopradeep |
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Pradeep graduated in 2008 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Louisiana Tech University. One of Pradeep's research interests is the use of data mining for the computational prediction of protein folding using structural, sequence information and physico-chemical factors. He is also interested in understanding evolutionary conservation of sequential properties across homologous proteins for effective functional annotation of proteins. Other interests include applications of supercomputers in bioinformatics, using computational data mining models to determine protein folding, enhancement of instructional technology by using feedback support systems for the Access Grid framework and data mining.
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Du, Dr. Xian Work Package 2 Louisiana Tech University +1 318 257 3176 xiandu AT latech.edu |
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Xian Du is a research associate of postdoc of data mining lab at La Tech. He received his Ph.D in Singapore-MIT Alliance Programme from National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2006. He was with Kikuze Company, Singapore in 2006 as a software Engineer; with CREATIS lab ,CNRS, in France in 2007-2008 as a postdoc researcher. His research interests include research and applicatoin of statistical learning methods,bio image processing, and dynamic process control. He is working on image classification of mammogram and scenic images; data mining research and application in MD simuation (GROMACS) with resources from CyberTools (EPSCOR RII); clustering theoretical research (e.g. clustering quality measures); fuzzy adaptive-grid clustering; storm surge prediction.
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Gilmanov, Dr. Anvar
Transport Processes Center for Computation and Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 3213 agilmanov AT cct.lsu.edu |
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Kim, Dr. Nayong Work Package 4 Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 5486 nykim AT cct.lsu.edu |
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Dr. Kim's main research was on the atomistic simulation for the nanocrystalline structures and their transport properties. After building polycrystalline nanostructures, he has been studying the diffusion and the adsorption of gases in the nanopores. Another topic of his research was molecular dynamics simulation of diffusion of gases in a carbon-nanotube--polymer composite. Dr. Kim is working on development of multi-scale, multi-physics scientific simulation using both MD and CFD (Hybrid coupling simulation) methods for the research of bio-transportation phenomena in nano-channel over parallel computation method.
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Ko, Dr. Soon-Heum
Work Package 4 Center for Computation and Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 6561 sko AT cct.lsu.edu |
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Soon-Heum Ko is a postdoctoral researcher of the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University. He majored in Aerospace Engineering and received a Ph.D. at Seoul National University in 2008. He has been jointly working with KISTI Supercomputing Center in Korea since 2004 and joined Cactus CFD toolkit development group in 2005 as a visiting scholar at CCT. His research interest includes multi-scale CFD-MD coupled flow analysis, integreated flow analysis of a rocket system, Cactus framework, e-Science, and parallel optimization of scientific computations. He joined the CyberTools project as a post-doctoral researcher for WP4 in 2008. His supervisor is Prof. S. Jha and he also works jointly with Prof. S. Acharya, Prof. G. Allen, and Prof. M. Tyagi. | |
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Kodiyalam, Dr. Sanjay Work Package 4 Department of Mechanical Engineering Southern University +1 225 771 4701 sanjaykodiyalam AT engr.subr.edu |
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Dr. Sanjay Kodiyalam is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Southern University. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland. His postdoctoral work at Louisiana State University was in the area of parallel molecular dynamics computations of structural transformation in semiconductors followed by parallel finite element
computations of optic nerve head deformation in the context of the eye disease glaucoma. His current interests are in the area of Visualization using the CAVE and parallel computations on the LONI machines.
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Kwan, Dr. Yuen-Yick Biosensor Development Center for Computational Science Tulane University +1 504 862 3374 tkwan AT tulane.edu http://www.ccs.tulane.edu/~tkwan/ |
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Dr. Kwan graduated with a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Purdue University in 2008. In the summer of 2005, Dr. Kwan worked as a Givens Associate in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division for the Argonne National Laboratory.
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Loffler, Dr. Frank Work Package 4 Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University +1 225 578 7437 knarf AT cct.lsu.edu |
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Dr. Loffler graduated in 2005 with a Ph.D. in Physics from the Max Planck Institut fur Gravitationsphysik, Albert Einstein Institut in Germany. Before joining LSU as a postdoctoral researcher in 2007, he was a post-doc at Sissa, Italy from 2005 to 2007. His scientific interests include binary systems consisting of one neutron star and one black hole, in particular the gravitational radiation of their inspiral, (Short-hard) Gamma Ray Bursts, in particular the binary model (binary neutron star or neutron star + black hole model), computational infrastructure for petascale computing, supporting the research above.
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Mehnaaz, Dr. Ali
Biosensor Development Louisiana State University alimeh AT tulane.edu |
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Park, Dr. Daniel Sang-won Biosensor Development Center for BioModular Multi-Scale Systems (CBMM) Louisiana State University +1 225 578 4412 spark AT lsu.edu |
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Daniel Sang-Won Park is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for BioModular Multi-scale Systems (CBMM) in Louisiana State University. He received his B.S. degree in physics from Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, Korea, in 1990, his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Louisiana State University in 1999, and his Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2004. His current research interests include micro/nano fabrication techniques and their applications to BioMEMS, RF MEMS, and nano-scale devices/systems. He is working on the development of large area mold inserts for BioMEMS devices/systems in biomedical applications.
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Witek, Dr. Makgorzata Biosensor Development Department of Chemistry Center for BioModular Multi-Scale Systems (CBMM) Louisiana State University +1 225 578 3563 mwitek AT lsu.edu |
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Dr. Maggie Witek is a Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry and Center for BioModular Multi-Scale Systems (CBMM). She earned her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry form Michigan State University in 2002. Her research intrests in Prof. Steven Soper research group involve biological cell transport, sorting, and lysis in microfluidic devices. She investigates extraction of nucleic acids and proteins from cell lysates using on-chip micro-solid phase extraction methods. Dr. Witek runs and organizes Professional Development Seminars Series on the LSU-BR campus.
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