VCGR People

Dr. Andrew Grimshaw Dr. Grimshaw is the founder, director, and leading visionary of the VCGR and is a full professor at the University of Virginia. He has been a pioneer in the fields of parallel, distributed and grid computing research for the past two decades as well as an evangelist in facilitating and promoting their use to improve the efficiency of scientific and other areas of research. He has written numerous articles, talks, and book chapters on grid computing and has served on various grid research related comittees.

Mark Morgan Mark Morgan is a research scientist with the UVa Department of Computer Science and the VCGR with more than 10 years of distributed and grid computing experience. In addition to basic grid research, he is responsible for leading several grid standards efforts, including serving as the current chair of the OGSA Byte I/O group, for developing reference implementations of grid standards and for developing and maintaining VCGR software toolkits.

Duane Merrill Duane is a PhD student at the University of Virginia in the area of grid systems. Duane is currently is developing and extending VCGR software toolkits, including a portal from the VCGR's Legion software to certain OGSA compliant Web Services.

Karolina Sarnowska Karolina is a third year PhD student at the University of Virginia. She is currently researching grid data management issues related to replication selection and system configuration. Karolina is also involved with the implementation of the OGF RNS and ByteIO standards for Genesis II as well as for LFCs in the EGEE gLite middleware. In previous work, Karolina extended the Genesis II data sharing service to support replication.

Chris Sosa Chris is a PhD student at the University of Virginia. His current work is designing and implementing G-ICING, an installable file system for the Grid (for Windows). Since, G-ICING is standards-based, it is meant to interoperate with other standard-based Grid platforms. He plans on extending G-ICING to be the platform for Grid-aware caching research.

Howie Huang Howie was a PhD student at the University of Virginia who did basic research in grid systems. Howie worked with VCGR helping port, parallelize and tune collaborator codes, such as the ALLD simulation code used to model the adsorption and interactions of biomolecules in biomembranes and in hydrophobic chromatography systems. He also developed software to monitor campus-wide computer statistics in an effort to identify to opportunities to share computer resources, such as excess disk capacity and to reason about the proper levels of replication or fault tolerance required to provide good service levels for such sharing. He graduated in 2008 and is currently working in the DC area.

Krasimira Kapitanova Krasimira is a PhD student at the University of Virginia. She built a resource discovery service -Information service, for Genesis II. Currently she's working on implementing the OGSA-DAI (Data Access and Integration) standards.