Professional Activities

Editorial

Associate Editor/Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computational Bioscience, 2008.

Guest Editor, Journal of Systems and Software, Special Issue on Resource Management for Real-Time and Distributed Systems, 2006.

 

Conference Activities, Committee Memberships and Other Professional Service

Member of the Organizing Committee – Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2009) held in conjunction with the 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2009.

Program Committee Member - The 2009 IEEE International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization (CSO 2009)

Program Co-Chair – The Second IEEE International Symposium on Applied Computing and Computational Sciences (ACCS 2009)

Program Committee Member – 4th Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics and its Applications in the Life Sciences (OCCBIO 2009).

Exhibitor – “Wordseeker – A Software to find Exceptional Motifs in Genomic Sequences”, Supercomputing 2008 (SC’08), 2008. Collaboration with the Ohio Supercomputing Center (OSC).

General Chair – 16th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008) International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, Miami, FL, 2008.

Program Chair – 15th  IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007)  International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, Long Beach, CA, 2007.

Program Committee Member – IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium 2007 (RTAS 2007).

Program Committee Member – IEEE International Symposium of Object-oriented Real-Time Computing 2007 (ISORC 2007).

Publication Chair – 1st Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics and its Applications in the Life Sciences (OCCBIO 2006), Ohio University, June 2006.

Invited Session Organizer – "Soft and Firm Real-Time Systems” at the 14th IEEE IPDPS International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS2005), Rhodes Island, Greece, 2006.

Program Committee Member – IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium 2006 (RTSS 2006).

Invited Session Organizer – "Scheduling and Resource Management in Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems” at the 13th IEEE IPDPS International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS2005), Denver, Colorado, 2005.

Publicity Chair  – 12th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004) International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS2004), 2004.

 

Research and Development Activities:

Research in Bioinformatics:

Development of high-performance software to find exceptional motifs in genomic sequences. Collaboration with the National Institute of Health (NIH), The Ohio State University, Ohio Supercomputing Center (OSC), 2007- to date.

Development of a Real-time Air Traffic Control System using SIMD COTS technology

Collaboration between Ohio University, Kent State, and Worldscape Inc.  (2006-to date).

QoS-based Resource Management

Collaboration between Ohio University and The Ohio State University. Development of algorithms for QoS-based resource management; development of (RT-)CORBA-based resource management middleware architectures and components. Design and development of a QoS-based Resource Management Subsystem and Integration into the Linux 2.6 Kernel  (2004-to date).

NASA HART (Hierarchical Adaptive Resource Management) Project:

Development of QoS-based resource management algorithms and a resource management middleware architecture for NASA’s future generation earth observing satellites (2002-2004).

Cluster-Computing

Design and implementation of a resource management middleware for a  cluster-based image retrieval system (1999-2002)

 


Grants:

Biomimetic Aerial Robotic Transformer
Air Force Research Laboratory Campus Challenge Competition
December 2007 – December 2008
$ 150,000.00

Role:

My role in this project is that of Co-Lead Investigator in Cybertronics  (with Dr. Matolak; Dr. Jim Zhu is the Principal Investigator).  My responsibility was the development of a concept for a Quality-of-Service-based on-board resource management architecture that enables the ART to operate autonomously in highly dynamic and unpredictable environments. 

 

 

 


Description:


The Campus Challenge problem solving competition is an effort sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Munitions Directorate.  The purpose of the competition is to “solicit innovative, potentially paradigm-shifting ideas that have the potential, upon maturity, to successfully address specific real-world problems of interest to the Air Force research community”. The ultimate goal is to devise an “efficient, transformable, unmanned Aerial Robotic Transformer (ART) that is both air and ground mobile”.  This competition is divided into four phases: Letters of Intent, White Papers, Proposal Submissions and Campus Challenge Winner Selection.  After proceeding to phase 2, we were singled out and awarded this grant to create a Development Plan describing how the Air Force could most efficiently realize the ideas presented in our white paper. 

 

A Minor Program in Computation Sciences
National Science Foundation (NSF) Subcontract
August 2008 – September 2008
$ 5,000.00

Role:

My role in this project is that of an NSF Subcontractor (Dr. Steven Gordon, Ohio Supercomputing Center is the Principal Investigator of the NSF grant through which the subcontract was awarded).

 


Description:


The contract provided support for one month during Summer 2008 for the development of an online “Parallel Computing” course offered through the Ralph Regula School of Computational Sciences. A number of developed modules were integrated into CS 412/512 “Parallel Computing I” (see Part II – Section B).

Bringing Together the Cell and the Computer: A Proposal for a Research Program in Bioinformatics
Ohio University 1804 Research Fund
July 2005 – June 2006
$ 36,000.00

Role:

My role in this project is that of an Co-Principal Investigator  with Dr. Lonnie R. Welch, Dr. David Juedes, Dr. Allan Showalter, Dr. Ahmed Faik, Dr. Sarah Wyatt (Department of Environmental and Plant Biology), Dr. John Kopchik, David Wight (Edison Biotechnology Institute),  and Dr. Winfried Just (Department of Mathematics). My responsibilities included the supervision and mentoring of the graduate students hired under this grant.  

 
 


Description:


This proposal seeks support for a collaborative effort between The Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Edison Biotechnology Institute, The Department of Chemical Engineering, and The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. This grant provided funding for 3 graduate students for the development of bioinformatics software tools.