NCSA awards fellowships to 13 UIUC faculty members

released 05.23.06

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URBANA, IL — The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has chosen 13 faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Faculty Fellows for the 2006-2007 academic year.

The NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows program extends opportunities in advanced computing and information technology to UIUC faculty. In addition to financial support, Faculty Fellows have access to NCSA's high-performance computers, visualization and data analysis tools, and other advanced information technology, as well as opportunities to collaborate with NCSA staff. Awards are administered through NCSA's Campus Relations office, directed by Radha Nandkumar. The program is jointly funded by NCSA and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.

"The fellows program offers opportunities for faculty and NCSA staff to collaborate on projects of common interest and to be exposed to the breadth of research on campus. This is a truly beneficial win-win situation," says Nandkumar.

The 2006-2007 fellows and their projects are:

• N. R. Aluru, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, "Cyber Tools for Multiscale Analysis of Electrostatic NEMS"
• Rohit Bhargava, Bioengineering, "Computational Framework for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis"
• Lynne Dearborn and Kevin Hinders, School of Architecture, "Comparative Urban Design Changes Generated by Planning Policy in the 20th and 21st Century"
• Carlos Armando Duarte, Civil and Environmental Engineering, "PAGFEM: Parallel Adaptive Generalized Finite Element Methods for Large Scale Fractures"
• Jiawei Han, Computer Science, "Mining Outliers and Rare Events in Data Streams"
• Paul Kelter, Chemistry, "Enhancing First-Year Chemistry Education via the Implementation of Computational Chemistry"
• Susan Kieffer, Geology, "Dynamics of Catastrophic Volcanic Eruptions"
• Yu-Feng Lin, Center for Groundwater Science, "The Development of Point-to-Zone Pattern Learning (P2Z) for Groundwater Recharge"
• Jordana Mendelson, School of Art & Design, "Spanish Civil War Print Culture"
• Marilyn Ruiz, Pathobiology, "Evaluation of Critical Spatial Elements for Animal Disease Surveillance in Illinois"
• Uday V. Shanbhag, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, "Grid-Computing Algorithms for Large-Scale Stochastic Games"
• Kenneth Watkin, Speech and Hearing Science, "Remote Web Service-Based 3D Medical Volume Reconstruction, Segmentation and Interrogation"

Both Aluru and Kieffer have been awarded fellowships in the past, Aluru in 1999-2000 and Kieffer in 2005-2006.

For more information about the NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows Program, go to http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/AboutUs/Directorates/CampusRelations/FFP/.

 

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