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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


Photo Bennett, Dr. Cecily
Biosensor Development
Department of Epidemiology/Tulane Cancer Center
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
+1 504 988 1431
cbennett AT tulane.edu
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.

Photo Chowriappa, Dr. Pradeep
Work Package 2
Department of Computer Science
Louisiana Tech University
pradeep AT latech.edu
http://myprofile.cos.com/mariopradeep
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.

Photo Du, Dr. Xian
Work Package 2
Louisiana Tech University
+1 318 257 3176
xiandu AT latech.edu
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.

Photo Gilmanov, Dr. Anvar
Transport Processes
Center for Computation and Technology
Louisiana State University
+1 225 578 3213
agilmanov AT cct.lsu.edu


Photo Kim, Dr. Nayong
Work Package 4
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
+1 225 578 5486
nykim AT cct.lsu.edu
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.

Photo Ko, Dr. Soon-Heum
Work Package 4
Center for Computation and Technology
Louisiana State University
+1 225 578 6561
sko AT cct.lsu.edu
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.

Photo Kodiyalam, Dr. Sanjay
Work Package 4
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Southern University
+1 225 771 4701
sanjaykodiyalam AT engr.subr.edu
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.

Photo 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/
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.

Photo Loffler, Dr. Frank
Work Package 4
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
+1 225 578 7437
knarf AT cct.lsu.edu
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.

Photo Mehnaaz, Dr. Ali
Biosensor Development
Louisiana State University
alimeh AT tulane.edu


Photo 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
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.

Photo 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
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.