CI Days Presenters and Panelists
(Note: Bios are in alphabetical order.)
Emil Alexov
Emil Alexov received his MS in Physics in 1984 from Sofia University, Bulgaria. Four years later, in 1990, Dr. Alexov received a PhD in plasma physics from Sofia University as well. Since 1990 he was an assistant professor at the Department of General Physics at Sofia University and then in 1992 he joined Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a scientist in the Institute of Organic Chemistry. During 1994-1995 Dr. Alexov was a visiting scientist, STA fellow, at The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan. In 1995 he came to United States as a research associate at the Department of Physics, City College of New York. Under the supervision of Prof. Marilyn Gunner, he co-developed Multi Conformation Continuum Electrostatics (MCCE) method. At the present time, MCCE is the most popular method of calculating pKa’s accounting for alternative positions of the side chains, structured waters and ligands.
In 2000 Dr. Alexov joined Columbia University, New York as Howard Hughes bioinformatics specialist. In the laboratory of Prof. Barry Honig, he was involved in further development and testing of Delphi (the popular finite-difference Poisson-Boltzmann solver). At the same time, Dr. Alexov was participating in the ongoing efforts of the lab in structural modeling using homology-based methods.
In 2005 he joined the Department of Physics, Clemson University as associate professor. He is currently working in the area of protein-protein interactions, which includes developing methods for 3D structure predictions of receptor-ligand complexes and modeling the phenomena associated with protein-protein binding. He is also interested in modeling the effects of SNPs on protein-protein association and their correlations with diseases. He is currently developing computational methods for predicting the binding free energy taking into account conformation and ionization changes.
Dr. Alexov is an editorial board member of Computational Biology and Chemistry: Advances and Applications and The Open Chemical and Biomedical Methods Journal. He is an author of more than 50 pier reviewed journal papers.
Jeff Appling
Dr. Appling earned a B.S. in Textile Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Georgia Tech. He began his academic career at the University of Kentucky, and moved to Clemson in 1992 to be the Director of General Chemistry. Dr. Appling won the Michelin Excellence in Teaching Award in 1995, and was voted Clemson’s “Best Professor” in the Tiger newspaper poll in 1997. As Associate Dean for Curriculum in the Office of Undergraduate Studies at Clemson University, Dr. Jeffrey R. Appling oversees projects and initiatives associated with the undergraduate program. He guides various faculty work groups, including the Creative Inquiry Task Force and groups associated with General Education. Other duties include curriculum development and management of continuing enrollment, academic integrity, and enrollment matters. Dr. Appling’s scholarship is concerned with academic success, learning strategies, research into student visualization and development of chemical thought, and computer-based learning materials.
Dr. George Askew
Dr. George Askew is the Interim Associate Director for Agriculture and Natural Resources and Director of the Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science. He received his Bachelor of Science in Forest Management from Clemson University in 1976, his Master of Science degree in Forestry from Clemson University in 1978 and his PhD in Agronomy from Clemson University in 1981. As the Associate Director for the Experiment Station, Dr. Askew is responsible for the operation of the University’s Research and Education Centers, the campus Research Farms and other agriculture and environmental programs conducted by Public Service Activities. As the Baruch Institute Director, he is responsible for the newly developed Program of Integrated Study for Coastal Environmental Sustainability (PISCES) that is designing and implementing a long-term environmental study on coastal forest land that is being developed into a resort community.
Elizabeth Dennis Baldwin
Elizabeth Dennis Baldwin is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management. She investigates environmental conflict and collaboration in the establishment of parks and protected areas. She is interested in the use of qualitative research in natural resource management and conservation social science research. This research was her dissertation work while at the University of Maine in the School of Forest Resources.
Dina Battisto
Dina Battisto is a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Architecture. She teaches fluidly between the Architecture + Health Area in the M.Arch. Program and in the Built Environment + Health Concentration Area in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program. She earned a B.Arch. from the University of Tennessee, an M.Arch. from Clemson University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. Her primary research areas include: healthcare facility design and evaluation, aging in place, building performance, sustainable design, and the history and theory of architecture + health. Prior to joining the faculty at Clemson University, she worked in professional practice as a senior management consultant delivering pre-design services for healthcare clients. Dr. Battisto is actively recruited for consulting engagements, is active in national and international conferences, is widely published, and is involved with various leading healthcare design and research organizations. Dr. Battisto also serves on the Board of the Academy of Architecture for Health Foundation.
Brian Bolt
Brian Bolt is an instructor in the Animal and Veterinary Sciences Department. His teaching responsibilities include Introductory Animal Science, Live Animal Evaluation, Beef and Swine Production and Population Genetics. His research interests are in the application of technology in integrated livestock management systems and the impact of technology in the classroom. He is pursuing his PhD in Animal Science, focusing on the impact of innovative pedagogy on student learning outcomes.
James R. “Jim” Bottum
James R. “Jim” Bottum was named Vice Provost and Chief Information Officer for Computing and Information Technology at Clemson University on July 17, 2006.
Mr. Bottum leads Clemson’s efforts to build a state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure for education, research and service. In his first year on the job, he was able to bring Clemson into the Top 100 supercomputing sites in the world and link Clemson to the national research infrastructure through a privately gifted optical fiber network representing South Carolina’s first direct link for higher education.
Before coming to Clemson University, Mr. Bottum was Purdue University's first Chief Information Officer (CIO) beginning in August of 2001. His leadership at Purdue was recognized in a 2005 report by the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research in the case study, A New Model for Supporting Research at Purdue University, and also in Newsweek as well as a cover story in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Before arriving at Purdue, Mr. Bottum was Executive Director for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves on number of national committees including the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, NSF’s GPRA Advisory Committee and was elected in March 2008 to the Internet 2 Board of Trustees.
In December 2006, Mr. Bottum was selected as one of Computerworld Magazine’s 100 Premier IT Leaders for 2007. He was one of a small number of academic CIO’s in the list of mostly private sector IT leaders.
Neil Calkin
Neil Calkin was educated at Cambridge University, and earned a doctorate in Combinatorics and Optimization from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.
He has long been interested in electronic communication of mathematics, and was a co-founder with Herbert S. Wilf of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.
He spent the spring semester of 2007 exploring possibilities for collaborative technologies in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University.
Ann Doyle
Ann Doyle directs Internet2's Arts and Humanities Initiatives. Her accomplishments include working with campuses across the U.S. to produce master classes and performance events enabled by high-speed networking, including serving as executive producer of the two largest collaborations in the performing arts over Internet2. Ann has been a keynote speaker at Europe's TERENA Networking conference 2006, Ireland's HEAnet's 2006 annual conference, Italy's GARR Academic and Research Network conference 2005, the International Council of Fine Arts Deans, the National Association of Schools of Music, and numerous campuses interested in the application of Internet2 in performing arts and humanities education. Ann has a Master's degree in Higher Education Administration from the University of Michigan. She is also known in the greater Detroit metropolitan area for her career as a singer/songwriter and recording artist.
Patrick Dreher
Patrick Dreher is presently the Director of Advanced Computing Infrastructure and Systems at the Renaissance Computing Institute. He also serves as the co-chair of the EDUCAUSE Net@EDU Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group. Prior to joining RENCI, Dr. Dreher served in several senior positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the Project Director for the IT Strategic Planning and Resource Coordination Initiative and the Deputy Chair of an Institute-wide IT-Strategic Planning and Resource Coordinating Council (IT-SPARCC). He was responsible for identifying and assessing the strategic IT needs and requirements throughout the Institute and recommending to the senior administration where the Institute may be able to provide research technology and cyberinfrastructure support and coordination for the faculty’s research programs and projects. In addition to his IT responsibilities he served as the Associate Director at the Laboratory for Nuclear Science for 13 years. Prior to joining MIT, Dr. Dreher was the Head of Budget and Planning for several major R&D projects at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Dr. Dreher is a theoretical nuclear physicist and holds a continuing appointment as a Research Scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science. His research interests are focused on understanding the basic properties of the strong nuclear force using numerical calculations with high performance computational hardware and software. Dr. Dreher received his B.S. in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. in physics from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He also earned an M.B.A. from Rensselaer with a concentration in R&D management.
Edward Duffy
Edward Duffy is a Ph. D. candidate in the School of Computing at Clemson University. His research involves the design and implementation of tools for software engineers to better understand and manipulate programs. As an associate researcher at CCIT in the Cyberinfrastructure Technology Integration (CITI) group, he helps researchers of all disciplines utilize Clemson's High Performance and High Throughput Computing facilities.
Clifton S. M. "Chip" Egan
Clifton S. M. "Chip" Egan (Interim Dean of the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities) is an Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre at Clemson University where he first joined the faculty in 1976. He received his BA from Hanover College in 1973 and his MFA from Northwestern University in 1976. He has a wide variety of college and professional credits as a director, designer, and actor. Over the years, his work at Clemson resulted in several invitations to regional and national Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festivals. He has also directed, designed and acted for such theatres as the Idaho Repertory Theatre in Moscow, ID; Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, VA; The Historic Shuler Theater in Raton, NM, South Carolina Repertory Company in Hilton Head; and the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville; in addition to several colleges and universities. Chip served as chair of the performing arts department from 1989-1998 during which time the Robert Howell Brooks Center for the Performing Arts was planned and constructed. He is a past president of both the South Carolina Theatre Association (SCTA) and the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC). In recognition of his accomplishments, Chip was awarded the 1998 Founders Award by the SCTA, the 2000 Suzanne M. Davis Memorial Award by the SETC and the 2000 Class of ’39 Award for Excellence from Clemson University. He is married to Diane Egan and has two adult children, Patrick and Erin.
Gene Eidson
Gene Eidson, PhD, is director of the restoration ecology focus area and the Center for Applied Ecology in the Restoration Institute. He is a professor in the biological sciences department at Clemson and serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology.
Eidson is founder, president, and CEO of Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy, a 501(c) (3) non-profit research and educational institute headquartered in Augusta, Georgia. He led restoration of a 6,000-acre floodplain swamp to establish the Phinizy Swamp Nature Park and the Center for Urban River Research in Augusta. He also is leading restoration of the 2,000-acre closed Kennecott-Ridgeway Gold Mine in Ridgeway, S.C., where the Center for Ecological Restoration is located. Both sites include education and research facilities that support K-12 education, undergraduate and graduate research, and public outreach.
Eidson earned a B.S. in biology from USC-Columbia and the M.S. and Ph.D. in zoology from Clemson University. He has received numerous awards for his work in restoration ecology and environmental education, including:
- 2005 Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Society, Environmental Educator of the Year
- 2004 North American Association of Environmental Educators, Environmental Educator of the Year (International Award)
- 2003 Conservation Fund/International Paper 2003 National Environmental Education Award Recipient
- 2000 Monsanto Global Award
- 1999 Clemson University Alumni Fellow
- 1999 Georgia Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Conservationist of the Year
Dr. Patrick Fortney
Dr. Patrick Fortney is a member of the structures division in the Department of Civil Engineering, conducts research in improving the seismic performance, design, and constructability of tall reinforced concrete buildings. The main goal of Dr. Fortney’s research is to provide experimental evidence to be used in the continual improvement of model codes and standards of analysis and design pertaining to seismic detailing to ensure sufficient strength and ductility of tall structures during earthquakes.
This is done by enhancing the structural dissipation of input energy from strong ground motions through innovative design and detailing techniques of members of lateral force resisting systems. The experimental evidence gleaned from Dr. Fortney’s research is used to construct safer community infrastructures minimizing loss of life and economic impact arising from strong ground motion events.
Dr. Fortney received his degrees in B.S.C.E. from the University of Cincinnati in 2002 and his PhD from the University of Cincinnati in 2005.
Susan Fratkin
Susan Fratkin is a public policy analyst concentrating on technology and telecommunications issues. In 1991, she founded Fratkin Associates, a consulting firm that focuses on these issues from the higher education perspective. The firm closely monitors and reports regularly on Congressional and Federal Agency activities, as well as analyzing relevant legislation and regulations. She is a consultant to the Educause Public Policy Task Force, Internet2, and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA). She is also the Washington liaison for the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation – an association of over 50 academic supercomputing centers in the United States.
Previously, she was the Director of Special Programs for the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges where she was responsible for tracking a wide range of issues, including telecommunications and technology.
She is the author of numerous articles on public policy and telecommunication and technology, the most recent published in the Educause Review. She has participated as a panelist at several national conferences and has served as a reviewer for Federal education technology programs.
Jill Gemmill
Dr. Jill Gemmill has over 28 years of experience in the use of Information Technology for research and collaboration. She is known as an innovative and results oriented technology leader, published author, accomplished speaker, and consensus builder. She has produced notable results in high performance networks and middleware as PI or co-PI on 9 federally funded grants totaling over $5 million. Her depth and breadth of IT experience extends from facilities and network infrastructure to application design and development, system architecture, security, and project and people management. For the past seven years, Dr. Gemmill has focused on technology integration to accomplish collaborative environments for Virtual Organizations in domains including Social Science,Computational Science, Bioinformatics, and Ecology.
Sebastien Goasguen
Sebastien Goasguen is an assistant professor in the school of computing at Clemson University. He joined Clemson in October 2006 after six years at Purdue University. He teaches a graduate course on cyberinfrastructure and an undergraduate course on distributed systems and cluster computing.
During his time at Purdue he was the TeraGrid site lead and co-investigator on the Purdue CMS Tier-2 site. Dr. Goasguen was also the lead of the nanoHUB middleware after having acted as the technical director at the start of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN). His research interest has settled in the engineering and modeling of cyberinfrastructure systems to support Virtual Organizations after a Ph-D in computational electromagnetics and a post-doc in nanoelectronics.
Emily Gore
Emily Gore is Head of Digital Initiatives for the Clemson University Libraries. Gore recently joined the Clemson faculty after managing the statewide digitization program in North Carolina, NC ECHO. Prior to that, Gore was Head of the Center for Digital Projects at East Carolina University. Gore is a 1997 Clemson University graduate and holds a Masters in Library Science from the University of Alabama. Gore's research interests include the intersection of libraries and cyberinfrastructure.
Cynthia Haynes
Cynthia Haynes is Director of First-Year Composition and Associate Professor of English. Her research interests are rhetoric, composition, electronic pedagogy, virtual systems theory, feminist theory, critical theory, computer games studies, digital aesthetics, and the rhetoric of war and terrorism. One of her main projects has been designing and teaching rhetoric and writing in synchronous multimedia learning environments (MOOs), and with Jan Rune Holmevik she co-founded Lingua MOO at UT-Dallas (1995). She is currently working on a book manuscript, Beta Rhetoric: Writing, Technology, and Deconstruction.
Doris R. Helms
Doris R. Helms received her B.S. in Biology from Bucknell University and Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Georgia. She has served Clemson University as Department Head and Associate Dean of the College of Sciences and is currently serving as the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
During her career as a biologist, Helms has worked with science teachers throughout South Carolina and has been honored by receiving the Charles H. Townes Award for service to Science and Mathematics Education in South Carolina. She has also received the South Carolina Science Council and South Carolina Hall of Science and Technology awards as well as a Commendation from the State Department of Education for her contributions to teacher education in South Carolina. She was recently awarded the Martha Kime Piper award, a state-wide award for leadership among Women in Higher Education. She has served as the Chair of the College Board’s Science Advisory Committee, Co-Chair of the College Board’s Science Pacesetter Initiative, and as Chief Reader in Advanced Placement Biology. She currently serves as the Council for Academic Affairs representative on the NASULGC Board of Directors and as the Southern Regional representative to the College Board Academic Assembly. Helms is the author of numerous publications including several nationally adopted laboratory manuals (Worth Publishers, W.H. Freeman, and Company). She is the author of Clemson University’s Roadmap and Academic Plan that focuses research on eight emphasis areas and has resulted in revision of the general education core, departmental curricula, and the faculty evaluation system. Helms is also supporting efforts to expand the University’s new undergraduate student research initiative, Creative Inquiry.
Russ Hobby
Russ Hobby has long been active in the research and application of networking. He participated in development of the Internet from its early days. He was one of the primary network architects that developed the Bay Area Regional Research Network (BARRNet), the NSF funded regional network serving Northern California in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. In the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Russ formed and chaired the Working Group responsible for the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP). He served on the first IETF Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) as the Applications Area Director. Under his direction on the IESG, Internet standards were developed for multimedia email (MIME), real-time protocols to support applications such as desktop conferencing and some of the framework for what has become the World Wide Web. During his term on the IESG, the IESG developed the Internet Standards Process.
Russ worked with the group that started the series of meetings and workshops that lead to the creation of the Internet2 Project. He participated in the formal creation of Internet2 and co-authored the Internet2 Architecture and Engineering documents. He helped lead California’s part of Internet2 through his role in the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and it’s CalREN-2 network. He has continued to work closely with Internet2 and is currently on assignment from the University of California serving as a Program Manager at Internet2.
Jan Holmevik
Jan Rune Holmevik is Assistant Professor of English and co-chair of the RCID Colloquium on Serious Games. His research interests are interactive media, computer game studies, humanistic informatics, and experience design. He is co-chair of the Colloquium on Serious Games. With Cynthia Haynes, he co-founded Lingua MOO at UT-Dallas (1995). Sample publications are High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs, published by University of Michigan Press in 1998, and MOOniversity: A student’s Guide to Online Learning Environments, published by Allyn and Bacon in 2000. His most recent project is a creative inquiry group focused on Second Life.
Ronald R. Hutchins
Ronald R. (Ron) Hutchins is Associate Vice Provost for Research and Technology and Chief Technology Officer, Office of Information Technology, at Georgia Institute of Technology and heads the Academic and Research Technology Department in OIT. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Hutchins is in charge of developing telecom and datacom strategies for the Georgia Tech campus wired and wireless networks, research computing and collaboration and international education and research community enabling through connectivity and applications.
Since early 1997, Dr. Hutchins has been technical lead on the Southern Crossroads (SoX) initiative, a regional implementation of the Internet2 that aggregates 22 universities, state education networks and research labs in the southeast.
Ron is a Board member of the National LambdaRail (NLR). NLR is a major initiative of U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies to provide a national scale infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking technologies and applications.
Ron is also the Vice Chairman of the Board of the Sourthern Light Rail (SLR). SLR is a Georgia Tech non-profit corporation providing NLR access to the Georgia Research Alliance universities, other universities in the southern region of the United States and governmental and private sector organizations involved in university research initiatives.
Ron is one of the founding members of the Quilt. The Quilt is a national coalition of advanced regional network organizations providing a forum for leaders from throughout the advanced research and education network community to build on the intellectual capital and best practices of network service providers worldwide.
Dr. John W. Kelly
Dr. John W. Kelly is the Vice President for Public Service and Agriculture (PSA) at Clemson University and serves as one of the three mission vice presidents at the University. He also serves as Director of the Clemson University Experiment Station, Director of the Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service (CUCES), Executive Director of the Clemson University Restoration Institute (CURI), Director of The South Carolina Botanical Garden (SCBG), and as Administrative Technical Representative for the McIntire-Stennis Forestry Program. He provides leadership for the university-wide public service mission, its six off-campus Research and Education Centers and six Institutes. His areas of responsibility include oversight of programs, personnel and budgets for the extension service, the experiment station, two regulatory units and service learning.
Dr. Kelly earned the BS degree from Clemson University. He earned the MS and PhD degrees from Ohio State University. He taught and conducted research at Texas A&M University from 1982-1985. Dr. Kelly accepted a faculty position at Clemson University in 1985. He taught in the Department of Horticulture and was named department head in 1991. Also during this year, Dr. Kelly was named Director of The South Carolina Botanical Garden.
In 1996, Dr. Kelly was named Director of the School of Plant, Statistical and Ecological Sciences and Assistant Director, South Carolina Agriculture & Forestry Research System and Cooperative Extension Service. During this same year, Dr. Kelly was named Vice President for Public Service and Agriculture, his current position.
In addition to his academic and outreach activities, Dr. Kelly is active in community and professional organizations. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of The American Society for Horticultural Science, and currently serves as Chair of the Board for The American Distance Education Consortium, Chair of the Board for the South Carolina Nutrition Consortium, Chair of the Board for the Animal Co-Products Research and Education Center (ACREC), and President of the Administrative Heads of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC). He recently served as President of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists and also serves on the Boards for the Pate Foundation, the South Carolina Forestry Association, and The South Carolina Biotechnology Alliance. Publications include more than 50 scientific journal articles and over 100 popular press articles.
The American Society for Horticultural Science has recognized Dr. Kelly with a number of significant awards, notably the award for Outstanding Research, the L. M. Ware Distinguished Research Award and the Leadership and Administration Award. He is a Fellow of The American Society for Horticultural Science.
Scott Lathrop
Scott Lathrop is the TeraGrid Director of Education, Outreach and Training (EOT) at the University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory. The TeraGrid project is funded by the NSF to bring together researchers, computational experts, and resource providers to generate a wide-ranging cyberinfrastructure to advance scientific discovery in all fields. Lathrop has been involved in high performance computing and communications activities since 1986. As the TeraGrid Director for EOT, Lathrop coordinates education, outreach and training activities among the eleven Resource Providers involved in the TeraGrid project. Lathrop is Co-PI on the NSF funded Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD), a Pathways project of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program. Lathrop coordinated the creation of the SC07-09 Education Program through the SC Conference to assist undergraduate faculty and high school teachers with integrating computational science resources, tools, and methods into the curriculum.
Dr. Robert Latour
Dr. Robert Latour, Professor of Bioengineering, received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1979. After working as an operations engineer for Amoco Oil Company for five years in Yorktown, VA, he returned to graduate school to obtain a PhD degree in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. He then joined the faculty in the Department of Bioengineering at Clemson University in August 1989. Dr. Latour's research involves the development of molecular simulation methods to understand and predict protein-surface interactions for the design of the surfaces of medical implants to control cellular response for improved biocompatibility. He also supervises an experimental research group investigating protein-surface interactions that works in parallel with his computational research group.
Clifford Lynch
Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, Microsoft’s Technical Computing Science Advisory Board, the board of the New Media Consortium, and the Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits.
Mark S. Lundstrom
Mark Lundstrom is the Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and the founding director of the National Science Foundation’s Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN). He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1973 and 1974, respectively and joined the Purdue faculty upon completing his doctorate on the West Lafayette campus in 1980. Before attending Purdue, he worked at Hewlett-Packard Corporation on integrated circuit process development and manufacturing.
Lundstrom’s research interests include electronic devices, carrier transport, and computer simulation with an emphasis on nanoelectronic devices. In the 1990’s, Lundstrom co-founded (with his colleagues, Nirav Kapadia and José Fortes, the PUNCH project, which provided online simulation services for research and education in micro and nanoelectronics. That work led to the NCN, which now provides the global nanotechnology community with services for online simulation, education, and collaboration. In addition to his research, Lundstrom is spearheading the “Electronics from the Bottom Up” initiative with his colleagues at Purdue University. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is the recipient of several awards for his teaching and research, most recently Semiconductor Industry Association’s 2005 University Researcher Award for his career contributions to the semiconductor industry and the 2006 inaugural Education Award from the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
Fran P. Mainella
Fran Mainella is a Visiting Scholar at Clemson University Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management. Previously, Director Mainella completed nearly six years as the 16th Director and the first woman to lead the National Park Service. Fran served twelve years as Director of Florida’s State Parks, which were awarded the Gold Medal Award, recognizing Florida as the best state park system in the country. She has also served as executive director of the Florida Recreation and Park Association and as president of both the National Recreation and Park Association and the National Association of State Park Directors.
Clemson University has presented Fran with its Walter T. Cox Award, and also named an award in her honor, encouraging women to pursue conservation careers. The American Recreation Coalition also presented her with the Sheldon Coleman Great Outdoors Award. In 2006, she was awarded the William Penn Mott, Jr. Award for Excellence by the NSPR. Most recently Fran was presented the 2007 Pugsley Award, the highest award given by the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration.
Fran is currently a member of Newsweek Magazine’s Environmental Advisory Board, a board member of the National Society for Park Resources, a fellow of the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration, a member of the Advisory Board for the Children and Nature Network, and a national speaker on parks and recreation.
Director Mainella holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut, a master’s degree, and an honorary doctorate from Central Connecticut State College.
Randy Martin
After graduating from Clemson in 1994, Randy has taken on many roles within CCIT. He is an active member of the z/OS (mainframe) support team. He is a member of the ExLM software development team that partners with Sun Microsystems/STK. He is also a member of the Omnibond software development team that partners with Novell Inc. Since 2007, Randy has managed the Research Computing group within CCIT that maintains several high performance compute clusters. Randy also maintains Clemson’s Open Science Grid (OSG) gateway, and Clemson’s high throughput computing servers that run Condor. In 2008, Randy joined the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) software development team to help advance the field of parallel file system technology.
John McGee
John McGee is RENCI’s manager for cyberinfrastructure development, leading a team of researchers and software developers to design and implement solutions that advance scientific research and discovery. Mr. McGee is the Engagement Coordinator for the Open Science Grid, bringing the power of this advanced distributed infrastructure to researchers and students from many different science domains. The OSG Engagement program was recently extended through 2011 via an award from the NSF CI-TEAM program. Mr. McGee also manages RENCI's TeraGrid Science Gateway project, providing high capability computing to life sciences communities.
Dr. Daniel L. Noneaker
Dr. Daniel L. Noneaker received the B.S. degree (with high honors) from Auburn University in 1977 and the M.S. degree from Emory University in 1979, both in mathematics. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984, and he was awarded the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993.
Dr. Noneaker has industrial experience in both hardware and software design for communication systems. From 1979 to 1982 he was with Sperry-Univac, Salt Lake City, Utah, and from 1984 to 1988 he was with the Motorola Government Electronics Group, Scottsdale, Arizona. He was a Research Assistant in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois from 1988 to 1993. Since August 1993 he has been with the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University, Clemson, SC, where he currently holds the positions of Associate Professor, Associate Department Chair, and Departmental Graduate Program Coordinator. He is engaged in research on wireless communication for both military and commercial applications with emphases on spread-spectrum communications, error-control coding for fading channels, and protocols for mobile radio networks. He has published numerous papers on the design and analysis of multiple-access systems for both cellular communication and ad hoc packet radio networks.
Dr. Roy P. Pargas
Dr. Pargas earned a B.S. in Mathematics from the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines and an MS and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the Clemson Computer Science Department (now School of Computing) in 1982. Dr. Pargas won the Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology in 2003 and received a Clemson University Board of Trustees Award for Faculty Excellence in 2004. His research interests include the development of software tools for pedagogy. One such tool that he and his students have developed is MessageGrid, a general purpose web-based software tool designed for interactivity both in the classroom and in online courses. Another is OrganicPad which enables an organic chemistry instructor to collect student solutions, automatically evaluate the solutions, and return the evaluations to the students, all in real time. Still other applications use global positioning system (GPS) coordinates to help students self-navigate in and around campus. These systems also enable students to be monitored for safety as they walk across campus. Over the next year, he plans to work with students to develop applications for the Apple iPod/iPhone and the Google phone. All of these projects have been developed under the umbrella of Clemson’s Creative Inquiry and Cyberinfrastructure programs.
Jim Pepin
Jim Pepin is the Chief Technology Officer (CIO) for CCIT. His role is primarily advisory and strategic in nature. Jim's duties include advising the CIO on technical issues; leading the development of Clemson’s technical roadmaps; working with the community to define our technical architecture; leading the development of Clemson’s HPC environment; serving as an adjunct in Clemson’s School of Computing; evaluating new technologies and serving on national level technical committees.
Prior to coming to Clemson, Jim served as the Chief Technology Officer at the University of Southern California and the Director of the Center for High Performance Computing and Communications in USC's Information Technology Services organization. As CTO at USC, he was responsible for all high performance network infrastructure and facilities. He has significant experience in determining support requirements of end users and in implementing large scale networks and high performance computing systems used for computation-intensive research.
Jim has also worked on a number of high profile projects, including heading up the Los Angeles Access Point, a key Internet utility operated by USC’s Information Sciences Institute that serves all major Southern California colleges and Universities (including Caltech and the UC and CSU systems).
Chris Peters
Chris Peters, a former fourth-grade teacher, is an associate professor of education and the director of the South Carolina Center of Excellence for Instructional Technology Training. He leads the instructional computing efforts within the Eugene T. Moore School of Education and is passionate about training educators in ways to use technology, particularly digital media, to support student learning. Current projects include the Digital XPress, an online writing and publishing system for K12 authors and Club 2:45, a technology-infused after school program for underprivileged elementary students.
Chris Przirembel
Chris Przirembel is currently the Vice President for Research and Economic Development at Clemson University. He has served at both Rutgers University and Clemson University as a faculty member and an academic administrator. At Rutgers University, Dr. Przirembel served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs before becoming the Department Head of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Dr. Przirembel then held the position of Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at Clemson University from 1994 to 2001. While serving as Associate Dean, he also served as Acting Dean of the College of Engineering and Science for one year.
As Vice President for Research, Dr. Przirembel serves as a member of the administrative team of the University and has primary responsibility for the University’s funded and unfunded research programs. He has served on Governor Beasley's South Carolina Science and Technology Advisory Council, chaired the State EPSCoR Committee for 6 years, been a member of the Technical Advisory Board for the South Carolina Research Authority, and represented Clemson University for the Oak Ridge Affiliated Universities. He was also a member of the Steering Committee for the Governor’s Technology Transition Team.
Dr. Przirembel has held numerous elected professional society positions. He has served on the governing boards of ASME, ASEE, and ABET. He has been elected a Fellow by each of these societies, as well as by AAAS.
Dr. Przirembel's research area is fluid dynamics, and he has published more than 50 technical articles. He has prepared and presented numerous reports, documents and invited lectures while maintaining an active teaching assignment. In 1998, he was awarded the Ralph Coats Roe Award for teaching contributions by the Mechanical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Przirembel has served as a consultant in the past for several companies.
Dr. Przirembel earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Rutgers University.
Cindy Pury
Cindy Pury is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Clemson University. She is the Faculty Editor of the Community of Undergraduate Journals Online – Clemson University Psychology (http://cujo.clemson.edu/) and the CBBS Creative Inquiry Liaison. She manages the online Psychology Research Participant Pool, used by faculty and graduate students to recruit undergraduates for research studies, and has published research about online research participant pools and student communication. For the past five years, she has studied the psychology of courage using internet-based data collection systems, and is currently working to develop an international community of courage researchers using both traditional and electronic resources.
Steve Stuart
Prof. Stuart received his B.S. from the University of Delaware in 1990. He received his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Columbia University in 1995. He served as a visiting research instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy before joining Clemson in 1998, where he is currently an associate professor. His research involves developing computer models and algorithms for the simulation of complex molecular and material systems.
Barr von Oehsen
Barr von Oehsen, Ph.D., is the Director of Computational Science for CCIT's Cyberinfrastructure Technology Integration (CITI) group. In this role, he is responsible for directing and implementing High Performance Computing (cluster) and High Throughput Computing (condor) application support and research.
Dr. von Oehsen holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and has worked as a computational scientist at Clemson for over ten years. His prior experience includes parallelizing codes for cluster computer architectures and designing software to implement complex mathematical calculations.
Barbara Weaver
Barbara Weaver is manager of Instructional Services at Clemson University. Her innovative and pedagogically-sound use of laptops in English and communication studies courses engaged her students and inspired engineering and science students to report their increased appreciation of and expertise in written, oral, and digital communication. With Linda Nilson, she edited Enhancing Learning with Laptops in the Classroom. In her current position, she enjoys most her continued work with faculty to explore teaching with various technologies and the development of an experimental classroom.
James M. Westall
James M. (Mike) Westall received the B.S. degree in Mathematics and Physics from Davidson College and the M.S. in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Mathematics from UNC-Chapel Hill. He has been a Clemson faculty member since 1974 and is now Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing.
His current research interests include performance measurement and modeling of shared-medium broadband computer networks, the development of HPC environments comprised of commodity components employing hundreds of GPUs, and the use of non-traditional problem domains in undergraduate Computer Science education. His research is presently supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, and Cisco Systems.
Dr. Bruce Whisler
Dr. Bruce Whisler is director of music technology and assistant professor of music in the Department of Performing Arts. Dr. Whisler teaches courses focused on MIDI sequencing and audio recording. He earned the Doctor of Arts in Music from Ball State University in 2002 with emphases in music technology and music performance. His professional affiliations include the Audio Engineering Society and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Current projects include digital restoration and remastering of recordings by the New York Brass Quintet and lectures by trumpet pedagogue Claude Gordon. He frequently appears as a trumpet performer with numerous organizations in the region including the Greenville Symphony Orchestra.
