People

Kay Connelly received her Ph.D. from the Univerisity of Illinois in 2003. She is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Indiana University and the Associate Director of IU's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research in charge of research and curriculum coordination. She leads the Security for Ubiquitous Resources Group (SURG), which focusses on Ubiquitous Computing. Her projects include examining technology in healthcare settings, automatic mobile device configuration and location-based systems.

Arun Chauhan is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Indiana University. His research interests are in compilers, domain-specific languages for high-performance, parallel and high-level programming systems, and grid computing. He is the lead at Indiana University for the DoE ASC funded ParaM project, which is a collaborative effort with Ohio State University and the Ohio Supercomputing Center on automatic parallelization of MATLAB.

Contact Arun Chauhan at http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~achauhan

Doug Gregor is a post-doctoral researcher whose interests include generic programming, parallel programming, compiler analyses and optimizations, and graph algorithms. Doug is an an active participant in the ANSI/ISO C++ Standard committee and the C++ Boost libraries.

Peter Gottschling is a research associate. His interests include generic programming, scientific computing, parallel computing, high-performance computing, graph algorithms, linear solvers, and automatic differentiation. He is working on the new version of Matrix Template Library and the Parallel Boost Graph Library. In addition, he is one of main contributors of the international Generic Linear Algebra Software (GLAS) project.

Brian Barrett is a first year graduate student in Computer Science, and is a Department of Engergy High Performance Computer Science fellow. His research interests include parallel processing and cluster computing, as well as software engineering. Brian is a developer of the LAM/MPI software package, an open source implementation of the MPI standard.

Ronald Garcia is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in the Department of Computer Science at Indiana University. His primary research interest is in software engineering tools and techniques. Other research interests include programming languages, generic and generative programming and high performance scientific computing.

Torsten is currently a PhD student in Computer Science. He is working in the field of parallel computing with Open MPI (www.open-mpi.org). His main interests are overlapping of communication and computation, its applicability to collective communications, hardware optimized MPI collective operations, and optimizing parallel applications in general (especially quantum mechanical calculations - www.abinit.org).

Chris Mueller is currently a PhD student in Computer Science at Indiana University and is working on a joint project with the Biocomplextiy Institute (http://biocomplexity.indiana.edu). His main research interest is the challenges of developing computational systems for biology and chemistry. This includes software engineering, high-performance scientific computing, visualization, science (physics, chemistry, biology), computer theory, and the relationships between academic and industrial disciplines (i.e., how do you make scientists productive and how do you share knowledge between academia and industry).

Timothy Prins is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Indiana University. His research interests include scientific computing and parallel runtime systems. Currently, he is a developer on the Open MPI project, working on its runtime system.

Kyle Ross is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include programming languages, generic programming, software libraries, and component composition. For more information (including contact information) see: http://www.osl.iu.edu/~kyross/academe.html

Jeremiah Willcock is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department of Indiana University. His research interests include generic programming, active libraries, and high-performance computing. He is currently working on a prototype language with improved support for generic programming.

Matthew Caine Garrett is a graduate student in Computer Science at Indiana University.

Vishal was a developer of the LAM/MPI software, an open source, production-quality MPI implementation. His research interests include parallel and distributed systems and cluster computing. Previously he has worked as a Software Engineer at Mahindra-British Telecom, India. Some of the projects he has worked on in LAM/MPI are - extending LAM to be Grid-enabled, MPI C++ bindings, Infiniband network component for LAM and optimization of Myrinet network component of LAM. His current work focuses on the design and implementation of the Runtime Environment of a new version of LAM, and writing other software components for it.

Jeremy Siek is the author of the Matrix Template Library and the lead author of the Boost Graph Library. His research interests center on generic programming, focusing on C++ library development for scientific computing and programming language/compiler research. His work experience includes a year at Silicon Graphics Inc. on its C++ compiler and STL team, and a summer at AT&T Research working on a distributed programming model for C++. Jeremy is a contributing member of the Boost open source group and a member of the C++ standards committee.

Jeff Squyres is a post-doctoral researcher whose interests include parallel processing and cluster computing, distributed networking protocols, and real-world software engineering. Jeff is an active participant in the MPI Forum, and is the lead developer in the LAM/MPI software package -- an open source implementation of the MPI standard. He is also a member of IEEE and ACM. Jeff's work is primarily in the areas of open source software and development of real-world high-performance message passing using the framework of LAM/MPI.

Todd Veldhuizen is a postdoctoral researcher in computer science at Indiana University Bloomington. He co-invented "expression templates," a performance-enhancing technique for scientific computing in C++, and is the author of the Blitz++ library for scientific computing, and the Lunar compiler for guaranteed optimization. His primary research area is optimizing compilers, with an emphasis on compilers and languages that allow programmers to specify domain-specific optimizations.