To help with finding partners and getting to know each other... (click on the name for a photo, let me know if you do not want your picture shown or if I should take/retake your picture, sorry in advance!)
Michael Barad ( mfbarad@ucdavis.edu ) - Civil and Environmental Engineering (3rd year PhD at UC Davis)
Research Interests
My field of interest is the numerical study of environmental transport in fluid systems. My case study is the San Francisco Bay for which I have already collected a large validation dataset. My model is based on the variable density incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in 3-D with embedded boundaries. I am very interested in the numerical solution of elliptic and hyperbolic PDE's. I am also very interested in Adaptive Mesh Refinement. I am collaborating with the Applied Numerical Algorithms Group at LBL and am using their EBChombo library as a foundation.
Platform and Coding Experiences
OS: I'm Windows and Linux friendly.
Programming Languages: I have a strong Fortran 77/90/95 background and am still learning C++. I am currently coding mostly in C++.
Parallel Experience: I have written a few basic MPI codes with Fortran 90. I have played around with parallel I/O using the HDF5 libraries.Miscellaneous Info
I'm an intercampus exchange graduate student from UC Davis. I live in Albany and work mostly at home. The following two sites have more info about me: http://edl.engr.ucdavis.edu/Users/Barad/barad.html, http://www.krellinst.org/csgf/fellows/listing/csgf.cgi?-w+barad.
Sing Yiu Cheung ( singyiu@uclink.berkeley.edu ) - ME/Control
Research Interests
Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)
Artificial Intelligent (AI)
Biologically inspired roboticsPlatform and Coding Experiences
Windows: Visual C++, Java, Visual Basic
Unix: Shell, PHP
QNX: Java (Real time programming)Miscellaneous Info
Currently working on PATH project
Wei Chen ( wychen@eecs.berkeley.edu ) - EECS / CS
Research Interests
design and implementation of parallel languages
Platform and Coding Experiences
Windows and UNIX. C,C++,Java,ML
Parallel Computing: Titanium, UPCMiscellaneous Info
Noah Edelson ( edelson@nature.berkeley.edu ) - L&S / cogsci
Research Interests
Genetic algorithms, molecular dynamics (neurotransmitter/receptor modeling), realtime computer graphics, theoretical biophysics & bioinformatics, artificial life.
Platform and Coding Experiences
No cluster experience. Unix/Win32. C/C++, MIPS & x86 assembler, Java, Scheme, Matlab.
Miscellaneous Info
I am hoping to piece together a "molecular inventor" which will use parallel genetic programming and electrostatic simulations to search for stable ligands that have high binding affinity to known receptors.
Daniel Gies ( dgies@yikes.com ) - Physics & Astronomy
Research Interests
Simulation of star formation. Also particle-particle simulation. Most interested in simulations with very large range of size and time scales.
Platform and Coding Experiences
Very familiar with using Unix and Windows. Reasonably good programming on Unix. Have programmed a (very) little bit in MPI on an IBM SP3. Most comfortable in C++ but can do FORTRAN or Java if needed.
Miscellaneous Info
Some experience using BoxLib and AMRLib libraries used by Chombo. Looking for partner(s) with a good background in CFD/fluid mechanics or numerical methods of solving PDEs.
David Liu ( dtliu@cs.berkeley.edu ) - EECS / CS
Research Interests
Databases. Partial answers for long running computations.
Platform and Coding Experiences
plenty of C/C++, java, perl, DB experience, no parallel programming experience
Miscellaneous Info
Jose Maria Gonzalez (aka Chema) ( chema@cs.berkeley.edu ) - EECS / CS
Research Interests
Video processing, Networking, Systems.
Platform and Coding Experiences
Several Unix flavors, several languages except Java.
Miscellaneous Info
Gorden Griem ( griem@uclink.berkeley.edu ) - EECS / CS (called "technical informatic" back in Germany, "Vordiplom" (BS) in EE)
Research Interests
Hm, none, actually, just curious about parallel programming and architectures.
Platform and Coding Experiences
Previous experience in C, C++, Java in larger (sequential) projects (e.g. content management system for German television company NDR)
Miscellaneous Info
Scott Hafeman ( shafeman@eecs.berkeley.edu ) - EECS / Electromagnetics
Research Interests
Interests that specifically relate this course are applying numerical methods to electromagnetic simulation.
Platform and Coding Experiences
- Platforms: Windows and Unix
- Languages: C, C++, Tcl/Tk, small amounts of Fortran and Java
- Multithreaded: Web Server objects and public branch exchange software
- Parallel Computing: NoneMiscellaneous Info
Sukun Kim ( binetude@cs.berkeley.edu ) - EECS / CS
Research Interests
Computer Architecture, Operating Systems
Platform and Coding Experiences
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux
Languages: C, C++, Java, scheme, MIPS and x86 assembly
Parallel Computing: No experienceMiscellaneous Info
Michael Lam ( m1Lam@eecs.berkeley.edu ) - Applied Science & Technology
Research Interests
Undergraduate degrees in Physics and Math. Working in EECS department, doing computational electromagnetics with applications in photolithography.
Platform and Coding Experiences
Some experience in C.
Miscellaneous Info
Sarah Moussa ( sarah_moussa@yahoo.com ) - Applied Science & Technology
Research Interests
Physical simulation and modeling of protein folding including Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics methods, mathematical optimization, parallel compuation approaches.
Platform and Coding Experiences
Many years coding experience in Java, C++, C. Some past work with Fortran and Matlab on a much smaller scale. Comfortable with Unix and Windows for development. Would like to use Titanium if appropriate; if not, C/C++ is ok. No previous experience with parallel computation.
Miscellaneous Info
Also did undergrad at Berkeley in EECS and Nuclear Eng.
Sergiu Nedevschi ( sergiu@cs.berkeley.edu ) - EECS / CS
Research Interests
Computer Architectures, Computer Systems
Platform and Coding Experiences
Platforms: Windows, Linux
Languages: C/C++, Java, Prolog, Lisp, Pascal, RUFL, MLMiscellaneous Info
Jiawang Nie ( njw@math.berkeley.edu ) - Math / Applied Mathematics
Research Interests
Numerical Algebra and Its Applications
Platform and Coding Experiences
Unix, Windows
Miscellaneous Info
Rabin Patra ( rkpatra@eecs.berkeley.edu ) - EECS / CS
Research Interests
Operating Systems and Architecture
Platform and Coding Experiences
Operating Systems:Linux,Solaris,Windows
Langauages:C/C++,Java,Assembly,Verilog
No parallel programming experienceMiscellaneous Info
Devesh Parekh ( devesh@uclink.berkeley.edu ) - EECS
Research Interests
I'm currently involved in only a research project with 3d haptics, which requires that the forces be updated at 1000 Hz. The network has too much latency to make a project involving the haptics machine feasible. I would like to do a project involving AI.
Platform and Coding Experiences
*nix, Windows, PocketPC
C/C++, C#, Java, Scheme, Common Lisp, Matlab, MIPS assembly, SQL, Turbo Pascal, VB
Miscellaneous Info
Wim Vanroose ( WIVanroose@lbl.gov ) - Physics (PhD in Computational Physics)
Research Interests
Time-stepping techniques for solving time-dependent equation. Krylov
subspace techniques, linear systems, iterative methods.Platform and Coding Experiences
Linux, experience with fortran, c, c++, python and Java.
Miscellaneous Info
Interested in how you run krylov subspace techniques on parallel machines.
Aaron Wemhoff ( wemhoff@uclink.berkeley.edu ) - Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
Molecular dynamics simulations / nanoscale systems
Platform and Coding Experiences
Programming experience in C and Java; little experience in MPI
Miscellaneous Info
Would like to examine various methods involved in parallelizing MD code.
Rongzong Wu ( wurong@uclink.berkeley.edu ) - Civil Engineering
Research Interests
Finite Element Simulation of Crack Initiation and Propagation in Heterogeneous Material
Platform and Coding Experiences
Windows C++ Fortran, No parallel experience.
Miscellaneous Info
Min Yue ( yuem@newton.berkeley.edu ) -
Miscellaneous Info
Feng Zhou ( zf@cs.berkeley.edu ) - EECS / CS
Research Interests
Operating Systems, Networking (overlay networks)
Platform and Coding Experiences
Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris/Windows
Java/C/C++Miscellaneous Info
Jiang Zhu ( zhujiang@math.berkeley.edu ) - Math / Applied Math
Research Interests
matrix computation, fast multiple methods
Platform and Coding Experiences
unix/windows, fortran/c/c++/matlab
Miscellaneous Info
Li Zhuang ( zl@cs.berkeley.edu ) - EECS / CS
Research Interests
Computer Vision
Platform and Coding Experiences
Windows/Linux
C/C++/JAVA/Matlab, prefer to JAVAMiscellaneous Info
Yasir Zargar ( yasir@uclink.berkeley.edu ) - Civil Engineering
Research Interests
Numerical simulation
Platform and Coding Experiences
C, Fortran, Matlab, Windows/Unix
Miscellaneous Info
