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Dr. Chuck Anderson Advises McNair Scholar
Adedamola Omotosho, a senior Computer Engineering student at Virginia Tech and winner of a Space Grant scholarship, completed a summer 2008 research project in the department. Adedamola was visiting as part of the McNair Scholars program and also worked in Fort Collins as an intern at Intel. His research project was titled "Image Analyzing Algorithmic Tool for Tailored Cell Countng Application in BioMEMS." His advisor was Dr. Chuck Anderson.
New Research Awards
Dr. Dan Massey, WIT: A Watchdog System for Internet Routing. Department of Homeland Security. Project Lead: CSU; Subcontractors: UCLA, University of Arizona, University of Oregon.
Dr. Dan Massey, Secure Interzone Key Management for Large Scale DNSSEC Deployments. Department of Homeland Security. Project Lead: Secure64; Subcontractor: CSU.
Faculty and Staff Changes and Promotions
The department congratulates the following faculty and staff on their promotions:
Dr. Dan Massey to Associate Professor
Dr. Ross McConnell to Associate Professor
Debbie Bartlett to Assistant Director for Advising and Mentoring
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We are pleased to welcome Dr. Kathy Kwinn to the department as Coordinator of Underrepresented Student Support. Dr. Kwinn received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Iowa State University as well as Masters degrees in both Computer Science and Mathematics. She will be working with the department to help increase the success of traditionally underrepresented undergraduate students. |
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We also welcome Jessica Evans as our new student staff assistant. Jessica is from Dallas, Texas and is majoring in Political Science. She also plays the saxophone. |
Spring 2008 Graduate Degrees Awarded
The Computer Science Department congratulates the following students on the completion of their graduate degrees in spring 2008:
Doctor of Philosophy
Keith A. Bush, "An Echo State Model of Non-Markovian Reinforcement Learning". Dr. Bush is a postdoctoral reasearch fellow at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He is part of the Reasoning and Learning Laboratory under the direction of Joelle Pineau. The current research focus of this lab is treatment of chronic diseases (e.g., epilepsy, HIV, and depression) using machine learning techniques, particularly reinforcement learning.
Lakshminarayana Renganarayana, "Scalable and Efficient Tools for Multi-level Tiling." Dr. Renganarayana is a postdoctoral researcher at the IBM Watson Research Center. His work includes automatic parallelization, compiler optimization, and programming models.
Master of Science
Ward I. Fisher, Landon T. Flom, Dean E. Wetherby
Master of Computer Science
Amerah A. Alabrah, Muhammad Arrabi, Jason A. Chilton, Eric T. Galyon,
Vidhya Gurumoorthi, John L. Kelly, Jeremy R. Lindsey, Steven J. Loucks,
Brian S. Reaves, Young-Woong Shim, Jebb Q. Stewart, Douglas R. Tear
Congratulations to 2008 Upsilon Pi Epsilon Inductees
On April 16, the following students were inducted in to the Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor society for the computing sciences:
- Francis Ginther
- James DeWitt
- Jeremy Orban
- Jonathan Hajdu
- Kevin Burnett
- Kyle Traff
- Michael Szczepaniak
- Sathya Vadlamani
Dr. Bruce Draper Elected Faculty Member of MCIN
Congratulations to Dr. Bruce Draper who has been elected as a regular faculty member of CSU's Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN) Program. MCIN is an interdisciplinary graduate research and education program with 29 faculty participants. The program is one of Colorado State University's Centers of Research and Scholarly Excellence. Dr. Chuck Anderson and Dr. Asa Ben Hur, both from the Computer Science Department, are also faculty of MCIN. For more information on this program, please follow the link below.
Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN) Program
Dr. Michelle Strout Awarded NSF CAREER Grant
Dr. Michelle Strout, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department, has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant for the project "Parallelization using Inspector/Executor Strategies (PIES)."
Project Description:
This research involves developing a tool suite called PIES (Parallelization using Inspector/Executor Strategies) for the automatic incorporation of inspector/executor strategies into irregular applications. Inspector/executor strategies have been developed to parallelize irregular computations such as solving partial differential equations over irregular grids, molecular dynamics simulations, and computations over sparse matrices. Although inspector/executor strategies have been incorporated into many applications and libraries, these strategies are still hindered by the lack of a general framework for automating the process of incorporating inspector/executor strategies into programs. Use of the PIES tool suite will reduce software development time by automating the incorporation of inspector/executor strategies into existing code and enables the development of new inspector/executor strategies.
This project also includes an outreach program for local high school students based on applying the PIES tool suite to the molecular dynamics simulations that are part of the Molecular Workbench. The Molecular Workbench enables educators to easily develop educational modules to demonstrate physical concepts visually for students, but it is currently limited to simulating 1000 particles or less. As part of the PIES project, we will (1) apply the PIES tool to the Molecular Workbench simulation engine to enable larger simulations on multi-core processors, which are becoming standard on many desktops and laptops, and (2) develop an educational module with the Molecular Workbench software that interactively introduces students to parallelization concepts within the context of a multi-core parallelization of a molecular dynamics model relevant to their current chemistry curriculum. By presenting an opportunity to do computer science experiments in the context of parallelizing computational models, the students will be exposed to some of the exciting ways computer science is applicable to the natural sciences in general.
Dr. Dan Massey Awarded NSF Grant
Dr. Dan Massey, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department, has been awarded an NSF grant for the project "NeTS-ISG Collaborative Research: Enabling Future Internet Innovations thourgh Transit Wire (eFIT)"
Project Description:
We are developing a new Internet architecture design, eFIT, to achieve the objective of enabling future innovations by ensuring strong universal connectivity at the architectural level. eFIT places user networks and provider networks in different address spaces and routing spaces, removing the inter-dependency between the two worlds. With eFIT, users can treat the transit core of the Internet as simply a transit wire with strong universal connectivity, and providers are insulated from the various problems caused by explosive growth in user networks. Therefore both users and providers will be able to innovate freely on their own without any architectural constraints.
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