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AMPATH™ Workshop: Fostering Collaborations and Next Generation InfrastructureSpeaker Bios and Presentations (right click to download). Heidi Alvarez, Assistant Director, AMPATH, and Associate Director at Florida International University (FIU) Technology Services. As one of the principals of the AMPATH project, Heidi has been working with the research and education community that need high-performance networking to the region of South and Central America, and the Caribbean. She recently collaborated with leading high-energy physicists on a successful proposal to create and operate An Inter-Regional Grid-Enabled Center for Research and Educational Outreach at FIU, encompassing an integrated program of research, network infrastructure development, and education and outreach. This proposal will help develop an advanced networking and Grid computing infrastructure that will draw in new collaborators from South America to the CMS experiment at CERN. Her work with the astronomy community led to the successful connections of the Gemini South telescope in Chile and the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico to Internet2’s Abilene network via AMPATH. Lixion A. Avila [PRESENTATION] obtained a PhD in Meteorology at the University of Miami. During his school days, Lixion worked at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) providing hurricane warning information in Spanish for Press-radio and TV. After working as a meteorologist at NHC for two years, he became a Hurricane Specialist in 1989. Lixion has been heavily involved in coordinating vital hurricane information and training to the World Meteorological Organization agencies and people of the Caribbean and Central America. For these services, Lixion obtained the 1999 National Hurricane Conference Outstanding Achievement Award. He also received the NOAA Administrator’s Award for Public Education and the Bronze medal Unit Award for Superior Federal Service in October 2000. Lixion is currently serving as the Chairman of the American Meteorological Society ( AMS) Tropical Meteorology Conference and is a member of the AMS Tropical Meteorology Committee. Azael Barrera
SENACYT [Presentation
on Optical Networking] Robert Bradford [Astronomy Presentation] NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center Maxine D. Brown [Presentation: How to Work with Scientists] is an associate director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), responsible for the funding, documentation, and promotion of its research activities. In 1995 she served as one of several USA technical advisors to the G7 Global Interoperability of Broadband Networks (GIBN) activity, which was a precursor to her being co-principal investigator of the NSF STAR TAP, StarLight and Euro-Link initiatives to provide a persistent infrastructure to facilitate the long-term interconnection and interoperability of advanced international networking. Brown was project manager of the SC'95 Information Architecture/I-WAY/GII Testbed, as well as the iGrid 98, iGrid 2000 and iGrid 2002 high-performance application demonstrations. Along with Tom DeFanti and Bruce McCormick of Texas A&M University, she co-edited the landmark National Science Foundation report, "Visualization in Scientific Computing." Brown has a long history of service to the computer graphics and supercomputing communities, and has been active in both the ACM SIGGRAPH organization and the Supercomputing (SC) conferences. In recognition of her services to the University and the community at large, Brown was a recipient of the 1990 UIC Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) award, the 1998 ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award, and the 2001 UIC Merit Award. Carlos Casasus [Optical Networking Presentation] [How to Work With Scientists] has been the CEO of the Corporacion Universitaria Para el Desarrollo de Internet (CUDI), a non-profit corporation in charge of Mexico's Internet2 Project, since April of 1999. Prior to this position, he served as Undersecretary for Communications and Technological Development for the Ministry of Communications and Transportation, and then was the first President of Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Commission. He received his BA from the Universidad Iberoamericana, and his MBA from Harvard. Dr. Marta Cehelsky is Senior Adviser for Science and Technology in the Department of Sustainable Development of the InterAmerican Development Bank, responsible for assisting the IDB with the incorporation of science and technology into its strategic planning and lending and technical assistance activities. Prior to assuming her position at the IDB in 2002, Dr. Cehelsky served for ten years as the Executive Officer of the 24-member Presidentially appointed National Science Board the governing board of the National Science Foundation and advisory board to the President and Congress for science and engineering policy. NSF, an independent Federal agency, supports competitive grants programs in all fields of science and engineering research and education. Dr. Cehelsky served as Special Assistant to the Director of NSF for Issues and Policy Development, as Senior Policy Officer of NSF’s International Division. and director for Speeches and Issues Development for the NSF Director. She served as Special Assistant for Policy on the staff of Senator Ernest Hollings, and as policy analyst at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration supporting NASA leadership on the development of remote sensing and advanced communication technology policy. Dr. Cehelsky has served as a faculty member at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and the University of Houston. She holds a doctorate in political science from Columbia University. Victor Cid US National Library of Medicine [Disaster/Crisis Management Presentation] Walfredo Cirne[THOR presentation] is a faculty member at the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, in Brazil. His research efforts concentrate in Grid Computing and Service Availability, areas in which he leads two research projects. MyGrid (http://www.dsc.ufcg.edu.br/mygrid/) aims to provide user-level support for light parallel applications running on computational grids. Smart Alarms (http://www.dsc.ufcg.edu.br/~smart/) investigates how to determine the root cause of problems in large electrical transmission networks based on the sequence of alarms originating from the components of the network. Dr. Cirne received his B.S. and M.S. from the Universidade Federal da Paraíba and his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. Steve Corbató -[Optical Networking Presentation] is the Director of Backbone Network Infrastructure for UCAID and has project responsibility for the Abilene Network. Abilene currently provides high-performance connectivity and access to advanced services for over 180 research universities and affiliated institutions in the United States. Prior to joining Internet2 in June, 2000, he was the technical lead for the Pacific/Northwest Gigapop at the University of Washington, Seattle. He remains an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering there. He is active in the networking effort for the annual SCxy high performance computing and networking conference. He is a member of the boards for the Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation (IEEAF) and Organization to Support Advanced Network Development (OSAND). Donald "Chip" Cox Vanderbilt University - [Faculty Collaboration Presentation] Thomas A. DeFanti, PhD [Optical Networking] is a distinguished professor in the department of Computer Science, director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), and director of the Software Technologies Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is principal investigator of the NSF/ANIR Science, Technology And Research Transit Access Point (STAR TAP/StarLight) and Euro-Link initiatives to provide a persistent infrastructure to facilitate the long-term interconnection and interoperability of advanced international networking. He is an internationally recognized expert in computer graphics, visualization, and virtual reality as well. In the 29 years he has been at UIC, DeFanti has amassed a number of credits, including: use of EVL hardware and software for the computer animation produced for the 1977 “Star Wars” movie; contributor and co-editor of the 1987 National Science Foundation-sponsored report “Visualization in Scientific Computing;” recipient of the 1988 ACM Outstanding Contribution Award; an ACM Fellow; a Fellow of the International Engineering Consortium; and appointed one of several USA technical advisors to the G7 GIBN activity in 1995. He shares recognition along with EVL director Daniel J. Sandin for conceiving the CAVE virtual reality theater in 1991. Roosevelt Ferreira [Optical Networking in the Americas] is a Professional Services Consultant with Juniper Networks. He has 15 years experience with data and telecommunications networks, having designed large enterprise networks for financial, banking and government agencies and for the past 5 years has worked designing and implementing IP networks for service providers in Latin America. At Juniper Networks, Mr. Ferreira is responsible for service provider's IGP and BGP network designs, deployments and proof of concept testing. Mr. Ferreira has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Industrial Engineering College in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Hugo Fragnito UNICAMP - [Optical Networking in Brazil] Carlos Frank RETINA / CRIBABB / UTN-FRBB [CLARA Presentation] Douglas Gatchell [NSF - Optical Networking] is the Senior Information Technology Manager in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering at NSF. As Information Technology Manager of the CISE Directorate, he is responsible for IT areas used in the day-to-day business of the staff and NSF customers. This includes support issues as well as development and implementation of hardware, software and processes to facilitate the business needs of our Divisions. Prior to joining the National Science Foundation, he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is a federally funded nuclear weapons laboratory managed by the University of California. At LANL, he worked in the Computing, Information and Communications Division. Over the course of his fourteen years at the Lab, he was involved in systems management, network systems development, network applications, systems development and desktop support. For three of these years, Ihe was loaned to the National Science Foundation where he served as a program officer on the NSFnet program. Marvin Goldberg [Global Cyber-Infrastructure Presentation] is the Program Officer, Experimental Particle Physics, in the Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Tom Greene ["All About NSF" Presentation] has worked at the National Science Foundation in the ANIR Division of the CISE directorate since the Fall of 2000. His 30 year career in university computing began as a physics graduate student at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston . The computation that became a doctoral dissertation was sponsored by NASA. Since then his activity has included
More recently at MIT his duties have included managing a High Performance Computer Project (CM5) and helping establish the World Wide Web Consortium. The assignment at NSF in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) in the Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research (ANIR) is to establish and manage new programs that advance the national research and education network infrastructure. Alexandre Grojsgold [RNP Update] has been responsible for network operations and engineering at RNP since 1997. Prior to this, he was the data processing manager at Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Científica, also involved with the building of the Brazilian academic network and the regional network at Rio de Janeiro. and was a professor at the Institituto Militar de Engenharia (Rio de Janeiro). He received his Engineering Doctorate from the Université Paris VI and his MsC from COPPE/UFRJ. Bob Grossman University of Illinois at Chicago [Data Mining for the Americas] Saul Hahn [Presentation on OAS] is currently Coordinator of Basic Sciences and Networking at the Organization of American States (OAS), with headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he has been since 1987. He has coordinated the Hemisphere Wide Inter-University Scientific and Technological Information Network project (RedHUCyT) project which was established in 1991 to help integrate academic electronic networks in the 34 Member states of the OAS. A subproject of RedHUCYT, the Caribbean University Network (CUNet) was also started in 1991. Both projects have played an important role in enhancing the development of national networks in the Western Hemisphere, http://www.redhucyt.oas.org. Dr. Hahn holds an Electronics and Communications Engineering degree from the National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico). He earned a M.Sc and a Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics from New York University (Courant Institute). After a period of research in the U.S., Dr. Hahn returned to Mexico and became a Professor of Mathematics and Co-coordinator of the Computer Lab at the Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV) in Mexico City. He worked as a consultant in digital image processing at the IBM Scientific Center where he also coordinated special projects. The author of several monographs and numerous articles, he was appointed to several Commissions at the Mexican National Science and Technology Council and the National University of Mexico. In 1985, he was distinguished as a National Researcher. He has lectured in mathematics and has done research at several universities across the U.S. On sabbatical leave from CINVESTAV, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico in 1985. James Hale,[Evaluation & Engineering] a researcher with National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) and The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN). Educated in San Diego, California in Commercial Art and Computer Science. Worked in the Computer industry for over 15 years. Worked in computer simulation development and network engineering for commercial and military projects. Then brought this experience to NLANR and HPWREN to participate in the development of the Network Analysis Infrastructure. Cristian Henry, [WDM Presentation] obtuvo el título de Ingeniero en Computación e Informática en la Universidad Católica del Norte en 1993, el grado de licenciado en Ciencias de la Ingeniería en la Universidad de Atacama en 1995, y el Título de Especialidad en Arquitectura de Conmutación y Comunicación de Datos en la ETSIT de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid en 1997. Adicionalmente obtuvo las Certificaciones Internacionales en el área de Routing y Switching Cisco CCNA en 2001, CCNP en 2002 y actualmente es candidato del examen de laboratorio para la obtención de la certificación CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) en Estados Unidos. El área de desarrollo profesional es en telecomunicaciones, redes para aplicaciones multimedias y protocolos de routing y switching para redes avanzadas. Julio Ibarra [AMPATH Update] is the Director of Grants and Acquisitions for the Florida International University Technology Services Division, where he holds responsibility for the strategic planning and development of advanced networking infrastructure and services for the University. He oversees the University’s Internet and Internet2 services and the AmericasPATH (AMPATH) project, which he created in 2000. Ibarra is the administrative and technical lead for Internet and Internet2 services for the University, and is responsible for the strategic planning and development of the regional GigaPOP. Dr. James R. Kennedy [Astronomy Presentation] is the Associate Director for Operations of the Gemini Observatory. He is responsible for the operational and administrative aspects of the entire observatory, including Gemini North in Hawaii and Gemini South in Chile. He is the Chief Information Officer for the Observatory. The successful realization of high-performance Internet2 and commodity connections between the observing sites, the science archives, and the international astronomy community has been a key element of his efforts Robert E. Kohler [AOML Presentation] is the Director of the Computer Networks and Services Division at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), a position he has held since October 1998. He is responsible for the management of the computing, network, and telecommunications infrastructure at AOML and for the connections to the Internet and Internet2. AOML is an applied and basic research laboratory of the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR or NOAAResearch). Mr. Kohler represents AOML in the OAR Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) as a Senior IT Manager and as chairman of the OAR Technical Committee on Computing Resources. Mr. Kohler is also the representative for the Southeast Region for the High Performance Computing and Communications Program and is a member of the Network Advisory Technical Team in the NOAA Office of the CIO. Dr. Laird Kramer[CHEPREO Presentation] is a faculty member in the department of physics at Florida International University. His research interests are experimental nuclear and particle physics where much of his current research program is focused on the study of color coherence in vector meson production. Laird is leading education and outreach reform in his department, spanning curricular changes to grid-enabled communities. He brings these experiences to and collaborating on a recent NSF proposal to create and operate An Inter-Regional Grid-Enabled Center for Research and Educational Outreach at FIU, encompassing an integrated program of research, network infrastructure development, and education and outreach. Laird received his PhD from Duke University and then went on the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT where he worked at a Research Associate before arriving at FIU. Kuldeep Kumar Florida International University [Crisis Management Issues] Ronald M. Lee [Digital Divide Presentation] is currently Eminent Scholar at the School of Business at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA. For the previous ten years, he was Professor and Director of the Erasmus University Research Institute for Decision Information System (Euridis) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He was also a Research Fellow at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Texas at Austin, and earlier served as a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna, Austria, and as Visiting Professor of Management at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Lisbon, Portugal. He has a PhD in Decision Sciences (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, 1980). Current research focuses on applications of artificial intelligence, Petri nets, and logic modeling to electronic commerce; including representations of electronic trade procedures for international, business-to-business commerce. Other interests include the role of the Internet on health care and providing patient health information; and the role of the Internet in providing cultural heritage information about tourism destinations. George Markowsky University of Maine [Disaster/Crisis Management Issues] John McGowan CIO, Florida International University Dale Miller [Optical Networking Presentation] is managing director of Global Crossing Latin America & Caribbean. In this capacity, he works directly with the functional and regional leaders on the day-to-day operations in the region. In addition, Mr. Miller is vice president of carrier sales for the region. His main responsibility is to oversee all sales and marketing activities related to Global Crossing’s carrier customers in Latin America & the Caribbean including resource assessment for sales contracts; commercial, network and technical sales support, as well as new carrier business opportunity development Harvey Newman
[Digital Divide
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[Astronomy WG Presentation] Stephen Parsley [Astronomy Presentation] is Head of Technical Operations at the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) in the Netherlands. His involvement in Radio Astronomy began in 1993 when he joined Penny & Giles Data Systems Ltd. in Wells, UK. There he managed several projects designing and manufacturing data acquisition and recording equipment for the VLBI community. Before this he worked in the UK defense industry developing airborne display and data recording systems for military aircraft. Current responsibilities include the day-to-day well being of the EVN data processor and management of associated R&D projects. Of particular interest is the prospect of replacing the magnetic media currently used for VLBI data transport with fibre optic networks. Steve is a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and registered with FEANI as a European Engineer. Jose Fernando Perez FAPESP [Keynote Presentation] Ana Preston [SURA Optical Networking Cookbook] is Program Manager for the International Program of Internet2. Ana works closely with over 40 Internet2 International partner organizations and activities that include working with and leveraging the work of many of our internationally-focused members (universities, gigapop, and corporate). She also has management responsibilities for Internet2's relationship with non-US advanced networking initiatives and projects. Ana is based at the University of Tennessee (an Internet2 member university) and has worked at UT (Knoxville campus) since 1999. At UT, she is a Research Consultant at the Office of Research and Information Technology, where her role is to support researchers, faculty and the academic community as they pursue the use of high performance networks. Since 1999, she has been active in the Internet2 community, representing UT in many regional and national initiatives, including chairing the first higher ed conference in the US on peer to peer technologies and currently as one of the project leads in SURA's optical networking cookbook Tony Rimovsky [Evaluation & Engineering Presentation] is the Assistant Director for Network Engineering and Research, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. In this position, he is responsible for production, experimental and research networking at NCSA. He serves on the MREN executive committee, is a Senior Contributor to the NLANR DAST project and is on the networking teams for I-Wire, TeraGrid and NaukaNet. He has been with NCSA and working in high-performance networking since 1998. Arturo Serrano Santoyo [Digital Divide Presentation] (CICESE/TELEDDES) Tom Snook is currently Director for Internet2, Technology and Information Systems at the New World Symphony on Miami Beach, Florida, directing all aspects of the technology and communications infrastructure, networking, Internet2, Internet, wireless and audio & video transmission. Mr. Snook has an extensive background and knowledge in technology and communications. Before joining NWS he owned his own turnkey networking and communications business; worked for Bell Labs, MITRE Corporation, TRIAD Systems, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. He served in the U.S. Navy as Communications Officer and attended MIT, the Sorbonne and the University of Maryland and holds degrees in electronics, electrical engineering and certifications in computers, networking and telecommunications. He served as deputy chair on governor's task force to set the standards for computer literacy in the Florida Public School System. Tom Snook joined the New World Symphony June of 1995. Bill St. Arnaud [Optical Networking - CANet] CANARIE/CANet3 Michael Stanton [Optical Networking in the Americas] was born and brought up in England until he was 23. After two years of postgraduate study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, he moved to Brazil, and resides presently in Rio de Janeiro. He holds a PhD in mathematics from Cambridge University, and from 1972 onwards has been committed to the study, teaching and practice of computing and its applications. His present passion for communications networks dates from 1986, and he played an active role in the setting up of both Bitnet and Internet connectivity in Brazil, having served as coordinator of the Rede-Rio (Rio de Janeiro state academic network) and as R&D coordinator of the RNP (National Network for Research and Education) in their formative years. After long service as a professor of the Informatics Department at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), he now occupies the post of professor of computer networking at the Computing Institute of the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Niterói. In 2001 he returned to serve the National Network for Research and Education as Director of Innovation, responsible for oversight of R&D and new networking projects. Liane Tarouco
University Federal of Rio Grande do Sul - John Towns [TeraGrid Presentation] is the Division Director for Scientific Computing at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and is the Principal Investigator of the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) Distributed Application Support Team (DAST) that works with researchers using high-performance network applications and assists in the development of distributed applications and tools. He is co-Lead of the User Services Working Group of the TeraGrid Project, Chair of the Grid User Services Research Group of the Global Grid Forum and the primary NCSA coordinator of activities of the Partners for Advanced Computational Services organization within the Alliance that provide access to and support of Alliance high-performance computing resources. Among other activities, he plays significant roles in the deployment and operation of the Alliance computational Grid and related projects. These projects embody the deployment of technologies and services to support the establishment of a Grid computing infrastructure. Towns is a frequent invited presenter on high-performance computing and enabling science and engineering in Grid contexts. He received M.S. degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990 and 1991 respectively and a B.S in Physics from the University of Missouri - Rolla in 1987. Hisao Uose NTT Service Integration Laboratories (Astronomy WG) Douglas Van Houweling [Internet2 - Partnerships in the Americas] is President and CEO of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID), the formal organization supporting Internet2. Before being named to the position on October 1, 1997, Van Houweling served as Vice Chair of the Internet2 Steering Committee with responsibility for partner relations. Dr. Van Houweling has played a major role in Internet development in the United States. He was chairman of the Board of MERIT, Inc., a Michigan statewide computing network, when the National Science Foundation awarded it responsibility for operation and management of the NSFNET national backbone in partnership with IBM, MCI and the Michigan Strategic Fund in 1987. Van Houweling was also chairman of the Board of Advanced Network and Services Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that implemented and operated the world's largest Internet backbone network from 1991 until 1995. Eduardo Vera, Universidad de Chile. See the AMPATH Astronomy Working Group Page. Depto. de Ciencias de la Computación, Fac. de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile y NTT Bachiller (1974) y Magister en Física de la Universidad de Chile (1976) y Doctor en Física de Brown University (Estados Unidos, 1982). Director del Programa AccessNova, DCC - Universidad de Chile, entre NTT y la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile, y profesor adjunto del Departamento Ciencias de la Computación y del Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica de la misma casa de estudios. Hugh Willoughby [Atmospheric & Marine Sciences Presentation] is a Research Professor and Senior Scientist with the International Hurricane Center at Florida International University. Until December 2002 he was a Research Meteorologist at the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, where he had worked since 1975 and served as Director from June 1995 until July 2002. His research interests include analysis of instrumented aircraft observations of hurricanes and formulation of theoretical models of tropical–cyclone motion and intensification Curtis White [Challenges in Bandwidth and Tarriffs] has recognized expertise in the areas of domestic and international communications licensing, system(s) privatization, complex business development projects, corporate finance, joint ventures and multi-party negotiations. His regulatory communications experience includes representation and consultancies in the areas of common carrier, cable, wireless services (cellular, PCS, LMDS and mobile satellites), broadcast and direct broadcast by satellites. Clients have included governments, international organizations and private sector entities. He regularly works between the practice of telecommunications law and the development of telecommunications companies. |
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