PEOPLE

Gabriele Wienhausen received her Ph.D. from the Westfalische Wilhems-Universitat, Munster, Germany. UCSD Division of Biology Associate Dean of Education, was the Founding Provost of Sixth College. Director and PI of NSF Award, Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduates (PRIME); Co-Director of the Doctoral Program in Mathematics and Science Education offered jointly by UCSD and SDSU.

Professional Interests: Establishing and evolving undergraduate educational programs. Research focused on (1) how to promote "meaningful learning" in college science teaching, i.e., how to assure that students store more information in a memorable, readily usable fashion, and (2) how to facilitate the development of effective problem solving skills.

Website: http://biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/gwienhausen

Peter Arzberger received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Purdue University. Serves as Chair of PRAGMA (link), Director of NBCR (link), and PI of project on redeployable sensor networks. Has served at the U.S. National Science Foundation at several levels. Is co-Director of PRIME.

Professional Interests: Developing international, multidisciplinary teams to advance cyberinfrastructure through driving applications, and providing opportunities for students in this environment. Key projects in addition to NBCR are PRAGMA, PRIME, and contribution to GLEON.

Website: http://www.pragma-grid.net/p-arzberger.php

Teri Simas received her Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Spanish from Central Washington University. She serves as PRIME Program Manager, the PRAGMA Program Manager, and has been with both programs since their inception; Analyst with the National Biomedical Computation Resource.

Professional Interests: Inspiring students to perform at levels higher than their expectations.

Jim Galvin received his Master's degree in History with a specialization in international diplomacy from the University of Minnesota. Is Director of Opportunities Abroad and Faculty-Led Programs at the UCSD Programs Abroad Office in the International Center. Previously in charge of the Health and Natural Science advising center in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. Leads cultural awareness training for PRIME.

Professional Interests: Understand the impact of international experiences on students. Has been certified to interpret the Intercultural Development Inventory, which is used with PRIME students to assess the impact of the abroad experience on their cultural awareness. Innovating approaches to improve cultural awareness.

Jason Haga is a Senior Researcher in the Information Technology and Research Institute at AIST in Tsukuba, Japan. He has helped innovate cultural awareness training with Japan-bound students

Professional Research: His research uses a variety of approaches combining information technologies and different domain sciences, resulting in applications that facilitate the use of data for discovery and by public. Two specific areas include virtual screening for drug discovery and the creation of interactive applications for cultural heritage institutions. These activities are performed using an interdisciplinary team and created results with high social impact.

Ilkay Altintas has a Ph.D. in Computational Science at University of Amsterdam; leads Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies Lab in UCSD’s San Diego Supercomputer Center, where she also is Assistant Director of National Laboratory for Advanced Data Research.

Research Interests: Scientific workflows, in particular with applications; conceptual data querying, and software modeling. She is a co-initiator of and active contributor to the open-source Kepler Scientific Workflow System.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Automating the Analysis of Microscopy Images through Nimrod/K Project in Kepler Workflow System, with Harriet Hu (PRIME 2012); David Abramson (Monash/MURPA); Mary Vail (Monash).

Website: http://swat.sdsc.edu/ilkay/

Rommie Amaro has a Ph.D. in Chemistry, Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry, American Chemical Society, Division of Computers in Chemistry, Alternate Councilor; NIH New Innovator Awardee and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2010. She has started a Computational Chemistry Camp to encourage more women researchers in this scientific area.

Research Interests: Development and application of state-of-the-art computational and theoretical techniques to investigate the structure, function, and dynamics of complex biological systems. At interface of chemistry, biology, physics, and pharmacology, her research integrates both applied and basic science components, with goals to bridge the interface between basic and clinical research. Fundamental enzymological and drug discovery studies are tightly coupled to a wide range of biochemical and biophysical experiments enable engagement in dynamic and exciting collaborations with various experimental labs.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Membrane-bound Cytochrome P450 1A2, with Tiffany (Yu-Ting) Sun (PRIME 2012); Sy Bing Choi, Habibah Wahab (Universiti Sains Malaysia); Luke Czapla (UC San Diego)

Website: http://amarolab.ucsd.edu ; http://www-chem.ucsd.edu/faculty/profiles/amaro_rommie_e.html

Peter Rose, Ph.D., leads the RCSB Protein Data Bank group at UCSD’s San Diego Supercomputer Center and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The PDB is the single worldwide archive of 3D biomolecular structures. Prior to joining UCSD, he held research and management positions of at Pfizer La Jolla, formerly Agouron Pharmaceuticals, where he was instrumental in the establishment of the structure-based design platform. As Director of Computational Chemistry and Bioinformatics, he oversaw Structural Bioinformatics, Structure-Based Drug Design, and Scientific Computing groups. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the UC Irvine and received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich in computer-assisted prediction of chemical reactions. He is active in community outreach, including event supervisor for Biology related competitions of the San Diego Science Olympiad, he mentors students for Science Fair projects, and participates in the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering.

Research Interests: Computational chemistry and biology, structure-based drug design, development of algorithms and software for the analysis of 3D protein structures, structure prediction, macromolecular visualization, and drug design.

Tony Fountain is Director of the Cyberinfrastructure Lab for Environmental Observing Systems (CLEOS) at UCSD division of California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2); principal investigator for NSF-funded Open Source DataTurbine Initiative.

Research Interests: Rsearch and development of middleware and tools for a variety of sensor network applications in engineering and science (notably ecology, oceanography, civil engineering). Primary interests are real-time distributed computing applications, streaming data cyberinfrastructure, intelligent systems, data mining, and decision support.

Note about PRIME 2015: Not accepting students in 2015.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Automated Image Classification for the Vespidae Family of Wasps, with Adrian Teng-Amnuay (PRIME 2011), Chau Chin Lin, Sheng-Shan Lu, Yu-Huang Wang (Taiwan Forestry Research Institute); Serge Belongie (UC San Diego).
• Customization and Deployment of a Sensor System for Terrestrial Ecology, with Ariana Tsai and Sara Taghizadeh (PRIME 2012), Chau Chin Lin, Sheng-Shan Lu, Yu-Huang Wang (Taiwan Forestry Research Institute).

Website: http://www.dataturbine.org/

Jason Haga is a Senior Researcher in the Information Technology and Research Institute at AIST in Tsukuba, Japan. He has helped innovate cultural awareness training with Japan-bound students

Professional Research: His research uses a variety of approaches combining information technologies and different domain sciences, resulting in applications that facilitate the use of data for discovery and by public. Two specific areas include virtual screening for drug discovery and the creation of interactive applications for cultural heritage institutions. These activities are performed using an interdisciplinary team and created results with high social impact.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Prototype Mobile Gallery Guide Using Novel Location-Based Technology, with Michael Yao, Scott Mo (PRIME 2012); Vivian Kung Haga, Christina DePaolo (Balboa Park Online Collaborative); Alexander Jarman (San Diego Museum of Art); Masaki Chikama, Tomoaki Takata, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Shinji Shimojo (National Institute for Information and Communication Technology, Japan)
• Virtual Screening for High Specificity Inhibitors of SSH-2, with Vicky Hwang, Joshua Wei, Olivia Yang (PRIME 2012); Brian Tsui (PRIME 2011); Susumu Date, Shinji Shimojo (Osaka University);

Masahiko Hoshijima is M.D., Ph. D. Cardiology in the UCSD School of Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Medicne. Affiliated with Christian Soeller lab (Biophysics and Biophotonics group, Physiology, Univ Auckland) and Hoshijima lab (Cardiology) with NCMIR (National Center for Microscopic Imaging Research, Mark Ellisman).

Research Interests: Appication of novel microscopic imaging technologies to explore biology of functional micro-domains in cardiac myocytes. Hoshijima lab with NCMIR applies advanced 3-D electron microscopy. 2012 PRIME project followed success of PRIME 2011 as part of effort to converge their unique technologies and correlatively to study shared biological materials, such as cells obtained from cardiac disease animal models. Microscopic sample preparation, image acquisition, and computational processing involved.

Recent Projects:

• Immunostaining and SuperResolution Imaging of Structures In Cardiac Myocytes, with Shirley Zhang (PRIME 2012), Christian Soeller (University of Auckland School of Medical Sciences).
• Super-resolution Microscopic Imaging of Excitation-Contraction Coupling Regulatory Machinery in Heart Muscle Cells, with Joseph Wong (PRIME 2011), Christian Soeller, Vijay Rajagopal (University of Auckland).

Koichi Masuda is a Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine at UCSD. Dr. Masuda practiced as an orthopedic surgeon at the National Defense Medical College in Japan for 15 years. In 1992, completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Biochemistry at Rush Medical College. In 1996, established laboratory focusing on translational research at Rush Medical College in Chicago. As of 2008, he is Director of Skeletal Translational Research Laboratory in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Note about PRIME 2014: Not accepting applications in 2014.

Note about PRIME 2013: Professor Masuda is primarily looking for students planning for a PRIME experience in 2014 and who would be willing to gain experience in his lab during the coming year.

Research Interests: Leading preclinical studies on novel therapies for intervertebral disc degeneration, and a number of therapies now being tested in clinical trials. Conducts research on cartilage and bone regeneration, particularly under the context of osteoarthritis and similar disorders.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Study of Endplate Vascular Channels in the Vertebral Body, with Kristine Tan (PRIME 2012) and Iris Shieh (PRIME 2011); Dr. Nozomu Inoue, MD PhD (Doshisha University) ; Dr. Robert Sah, MD ScD (UCSD)
• Study of the Vascular System Around the Intervertebral Disc, with Jade He (PRIME 2011); Dr. Nozomu Inoue, MD PhD (Doshisha University); Dr. Robert Sah, MD ScD (UCSD)

Philip Papadopoulos holds Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is Director of SDSC's Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory (ACIL). He is a co-PI on the PRAGMA award, and was co-PI of a major Information and Technology and Research award, OptIPuter, in optical computing. He is also PI of other NSF Middleware Initiative awards (http://users.sdsc.edu/~phil).

Research Interest: Key player in the cluster and grid community, and co-developer of the cluster software package Rocks. Creates data grid solutions for biomedical researchers. Currently assisting in Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA) project, whose aim is to serve the needs of the microbial ecology research community, and other scientists using metagenomics data, by creating a rich, distinctive data repository and a bioinformatics tools resource that will address many of the unique challenges of metagenomic analysis.

Website: http://users.sdsc.edu/~phil

Jurgen Schulze is a Research Scientist in UCSD division of Calit2. He received his doctorate in computer science from University of Stuttgart, Germany, and M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

Research Interests: Scientific visualization for real-time rendering of large data sets; volume rendering and transfer function design; efficient use of programmable graphics hardware; parallel computing algorithms for high-performance computer graphics; coupling simulation results to real-time visualization; human-computer interaction through augmented reality; and digital cinema.

Recent Projects:

• Kinect Navigation and Animation, with Sarah Larsen (PRIME 2011); Dr. Shinji Shimojo, Masaki Chikama, Taku Morinobu (NiCT)

Sameer Tilak is an Assistant Research Scientist in UCSD division of Calit2, and is part of the Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory for Environmental Observing Systems (CLEOS) in San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Research Interests: Sensor networking, stream data processing, mobile computing, and cloud computing. He is also involved in designing and developing cyberinfrastructure for large-scale sensor-based observing systems.

Recent PRIME Projects: TBD

Lelli Van Den Einde has a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, is a Lecturer in Department of Structural Engineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. She is also Assistant Director of the NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center (NEESit, http://it.nees.org/) affiliated with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).

Research Interests: Introducing cyberinfrastructure and technology into educational curriculum. Primary interest lies in earthquake engineering data and metadata development and management, performance-based earthquake engineering and large-scale experimentation in earthquake engineering with primary focus on reinforced concrete, FRP composite, and hybrid bridges.

Recent Projects:

• Seismic Testing of Anchor Failures on Unreinforced Masonry Buildings, with Katie Chuh (PRIME 2012); Dr. Jason Ingham (University of Auckland)
• Seismic Testing of Anchors in Unreinforced Masonry Structures, with Esther Gudiel; Dr. Jason Ingham; Dr. Liam Wotherspoon (University of Auckland)

Andreas Prlic is Senior Scientist at the Protein Data Bank. He is Editor for Software Section of the journal PLOS Computational Biology, and project leader of the BioJava project.

Research Interests: Development of software for analyzing the complex relationships that exist between DNA, RNA, proteins, and protein assemblies. Development of algorithms and software for analyzing and visualizing protein sequences and 3D protein structures. Investigating the consequences of genetic variation on protein structures. Cloud computing, scholarly communications.

Shinji Shimojo received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He has been a Professor with the Cybermedia Center (then the Computation Center) at Osaka University since 1998, and from 2005 to 2008 had been Director of the Center. He is an executive researcher at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and a director of JGN2plus, part of the national testbed network. He was awarded the Osaka Science Prize in 2005. He is a member of IEEE and IEICE.

Research Interests: Wide variety of multimedia applications, peer-to-peer communication networks, ubiquitous network systems, and grid technologies; tiled display walls, networking, e-science grid applications in recent PRIME projects; 2P-based Virtual Cluster Computing, wireless sensor network testbed, smartphone-based DTN and Cloud.

Recent Projects:

• Prototype Mobile Gallery Guide Using Novel Location-Based Technology, with Michael Yao, Scott Mo (PRIME 2012); Jason Haga (UCSD); Vivian Kung Haga, Christina DePaolo (Balboa Park Online Collaborative); Alexander Jarman (San Diego Museum of Art); Masaki Chikama, Tomoaki Takata, Yoshinori Kobayashi
• Virtual Screening for High Specificity Inhibitors of SSH-2, with Vicky Hwang, Joshua Wei, Olivia Yang (PRIME 2012); Jason Haga (UCSD); Susumu Date (Osaka University)
• Homology Modeling and Virtual Screening of Dual Specificity Phosphatase Inhibitors, with Daniel Li and Brian Tsui (PRIME 2011); Dr. Susumu Date (Osaka University) and Dr. Jason Haga (UCSD)

Haruo Takemura is Director and Professor in Cybermedia Center of Osaka University’s Infomedia Education Division. He is also professor in Graduate School of Information Science and Technology. He is a board member of the Virtual Reality Society, Japan (VRSJ) and editorial board member for the Institute for Television and Image Engineers (ITE), Japan. Member of ACM, IEEE, IEICE, IPSJ, and HIS.

Research Interests: Tiled display walls, CAVE virtual reality environments, SAGE, 3-D user interfaces, video-see-thorugh augmented reality, applications using omni-directinal image sensors, virtual space teleconferencing systems, real-time tracking of multiple moving object contours.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Interactivity with 3D Models using Body Gestures, with Matthew Religioso (PRIME 2011); Jurgen Schulze (UCSD), Kiyoshi Kiyokawa (Osaka University) and Susumu Date (Osaka University)
• Old-Town Osaka Viewer on Android Device, with Sumin Wang (PRIME 2012); Dr. Kiyoshi Kiyokawa (Osaka University), Dr. Jurgen Schulze (UCSD), Dr. Shinji Shimojo (Osaka University)

Kohei Ichikawa received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He is an associate professor in Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST); Visiting Scholar at UCSD in 2005. He is a member of IEEE, IPSJ, and JSAI.

Research Interests: Distributed systems, virtual clusters, virtual network, software-defined network (SDN), Cloud infrastructures, high-performance computing systems, e-Science Grid applications, Grid middleware.

Website: http://sdlab.naist.jp/members/ichikawa

Nozomu Inoue received MD, Ph.D. from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine; Professor in Department of Orthopedic Surgery, RUSH University Medical Center; Professor in Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University; Chairman of Committee on Biomedical Materials, Japan Society of Material Sciences, Japan; Program Director, Biomedical Engineering Research Center, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.

Note about PRIME 2013: Professor Inoue and his colleagues at Doshisha University are primarily able to host students in 2014.

Research Interests: Biomechanics and tissue engineering of musculoskeletal system; mechanical properties of cancellous bone- dependence of strength and elastic modulus on trabelcular orientation; quantitative analysis of trabelcular orientation of cancellous bone by Fourier analysis.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Study of Endplate Vascular Channels in the Vertebral Body, with Iris Shieh (PRIME 2011), Kristine Tan (PRIME 2012); Dr. Robert Sah (UCSD) and Dr. Koichi Masuda (UCSD)
• Biomechanical Function of the Osteochondral Interface, with Pooja Makhijani and Akshay Maheshwari (PRIME 2012); Dr. Koichi Masuda (UCSD) and Dr. Robert Sah (UCSD)

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (NICT) (Japan)

Shinji Shimojo (see above)

Habibah Wahab is Associate Professor and Deputy Dean in the School of Pharmaceutical Science. She is Lead PRIME Mentor at USM; co-lead of Biosciences Working Group in PRAGMA, and involved in the Avian Flu Grid Project. She has Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology, and interest in use of grid technologies to understand chemistry and biology, and is keenly interested in engaging middle-school students in education process.

Research Interests: Great interest in computational chemistry and grid computing. She studies absorption of poorly bioavailable compounds with the aim of designing novel delivery systems; biopharmaceutical studies of novel molecules from herbal sources; the roles of the P-glycoprotein extrusion pump and the metabolic enzyme CYP3A in the absorption of drugs; design and development of controlled release dosage forms; monitoring of their gastrointestinal transit in relation to the drug absorption in human volunteers using gamma-scintigraphy and an indirect monitoring method ;development and physical characterization of some gelucire and liposome based novel drug delivery systems.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Advancement of Chagas Disease Treatment through the Identification of Potential Natural and Synthetic Product Targets in the Trypanosoma Cruzi Proteome, with Jenny Jia Xin Liang (PRIME 2012); Dr. Philip Bourne, Dr. Li Xie and Chirag Krishna (UCSD); Dr. Sy Bing Choi (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
• Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Membrane-bound Cytochrome P450 1A2, with Tiffany (Yu-Ting) Sun (PRIME 2012), Sy Bing Choi, Habibah Wahab (USM); Rommie Amaro, Luke Czapla (UCSD).

Chau Chin Lin is a senior scientist of TFRI and a fire ecologist and programmer. He is currently leading the information management project of Taiwan Ecological Research Network (TERN) and TFRI. He also chairs the information management committee of East Asian and Pacific International Long Term Ecological Network (EAP-ILTER).

Research Interests: Promoting cyberinfrastructure applications in ecology research, such as senior network and data turbine services. He also works on developing multilingual, open-source software for ecologists.

Note about PRIME 2014: Not accepting students in 2014.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Data Turbine Android Sensor Pod Taiwan Forest Research Institute (TFRI), with Sara Taghizadeh (PRIME 2012); Tony Fountain, Peter Shin, Gesuri Ramirez (UCSD); Sheng-Shan Lu, Yu- Huang Wang (TFRI)

Sheng Shan Lu is associate scientist of TFRI. His research background is in entomology. In 2004 he became involved in long-term ecological information management and works closely with US LTER colleagues on metadata standards.

Research Interests: Using sensor network to collect bee image data and analyze bee defense behavior through new technology; application of ecoinformatics to sorting of ecological databases.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Data Turbine Android Sensor Pod Taiwan Forest Research Institute (TFRI), with Sara Taghizadeh (PRIME 2012); Tony Fountain, Peter Shin, Gesuri Ramirez (UCSD); Chau Chin Lin, Yu- Huang Wang (TFRI)

Yu-Huang Wang is an associate scientist for the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (TFRI) and node manager for the Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF).

Research Interests: Integration of specimen-based occurrence data and catalogue-based ecological research data, with TaiBIF focusing on natural history collections as well as national checklists, and TFRI focusing on integrating data publishing and analysis workflows with EML systems (IPT2, Morpho, MetaCat and Kepler). TFRI is also exploring the linked open data approach to integrate heterogeneous database systems by technique of resources description framework (RDF).

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Data Turbine Android Sensor Pod Taiwan Forest Research Institute (TFRI), with Sara Taghizadeh (PRIME 2012); Tony Fountain, Peter Shin, Gesuri Ramirez (UCSD); Chau Chin Lin, Sheng-Shan Lu (TFRI)

Fang-Pang Lin earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Swansea, Wales, and is a Research Scientist in Grid Computing Division, NCHC since 2003.

Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics; finite element analysis; multigrid methods; parallel and distributed computing; optimization design; grid computing; telescience; SARS Grid; EcoGrid; visualization.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Android Controller (tablet based multi-touch and sensor-enabled controller for real-time 3D visualization), with Jeanne Wang (PRIME 2011); Dr. Jurgen Schulze (UCSD) and Dr. Fang-Pang Lin (NCHC)
• Integrating Cameras for Coral Reef Monitoring into Environmental Observing Systems, with Michael Nekrasov (PRIME 2009); Tony Fountain and Sameer Tilak (CALIT2@UCSD), Tony Fan (NMMBA)

Website: http://www2.nchc.org.tw/~c00fpl00/

Whey Fone Tsai earned a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of Iowa. He is a PRAGMA Steering Committee Member; Principal Investigator - NARL 3D GIS Taiwan, NCHC; executive principal investigator for the Knowledge Innovation National Grid (KING) project; in charge of planning and implementing Taiwan Cyberinfrastructure; joint appointment as professor in the Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University; steering committee member of Taiwan Association of Cloud Computing; principal investigator of the “Disaster Management Service Cloud” project.

Research Interests: Human-centered applications and implementation of the Taiwan Cyberinfrastructure, such as ecology grid, flood mitigation grid, medical care grid, educational grid; multidisciplinary research on “Development of near real-time, high-resolution, global earth observation 3D platform for applications to environmental monitoring and disaster mitigation,” using satellite remote sensing and airborne image data, through incorporation of GEO Grid and 3D technologies, to build a 3D GIS Taiwan platform to support disaster monitoring, response, and recovery associated with typhoon, flood and inundation, earthquake, and landslide.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Android Controller (tablet based multi-touch and sensor-enabled controller for real-time 3D visualization), with Jeanne Wang (PRIME 2011); Dr. Jurgen Schulze (UCSD) and Dr. Fang-Pang Lin (NCHC)

Website: http://www.pragma-grid.net/committee-files/tsai.html

Weicheng Huang earned his Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Research Scientist in Software Development Division, built largest supercomputer and the first distributed storage system in Taiwan, Executive Secretary of national grid computing project, Designer and Principle Investigator of National Scientific Cloud Computing Environment, PerComp Lab. of NCHC

Research Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics; Numerical Analysis; HPC, Parallel Processing, Distributed System; Nonlinear Dynamical System, Grid Computing; Cloud Computing, Middleware Ezilla (http://ezilla.nchc.org.tw/), Cloud interoperability.

Recent PRIME Projects: TBD

Website: http://www2.nchc.org.tw/~c00wei00/

Jung Hsin Lin received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Duisburg, Germany. He is Associate Research Fellow in the Division of Mechanics, Research Center for Applied Sciences & Institute of Biomedical Sciences Academia Sinica; Associate Professor at the School of Pharmacy, National Taiwan University.

Research Interests: Statistical mechanics of biological macromolecules (e.g., proteins, nucleic acids, membranes, and drugs); development and application of computer models and simulation methods for molecular systems; study of atomic mobility in proteins and membranes by molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo computer simulations; quantitative modeling of recognition and binding in ligand-receptor systems with solvation effects; development of methods for computing free energy change efficiently in solution phase processes; calculation of diffusion constants and diffusion encounter rates of rigid and flexible molecules in solution and onto biomembranes by Brownian dynamics simulations; modeling of subcellular and cellular processes, including signal transduction, gene expression and cytoskeletal dynamics.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• A Fragment-Growing Method for the Discovery and Analysis of Novel Scaffold for Neuraminidase Inhibitor Design, with Howard Li (PRIME 2011); Dr. Wilfred Li (UCSD), Dr. Jung-Hsin Lin (NTU)
• Structural Analysis and Virtual Screening for Membrane Fusion Inhibitors targeting Group 2 Influenza A Hemagglutanin, with Cato Chan (PRIME 2010); Dr. Wilfred Li (UCSD)

Website: http://rx.mc.ntu.edu.tw/~jlin/

Kai Nan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is Associate Researcher in Computer Network Information Center (CNIC) of CAS; Director of Collaboration Environment Research Center (department dedicated to research and development for Collaboration Technology and e-Science Applications under CNIC); responsible for System Platform for Scientific Database of CAS; co-lead of Scientific Data Grid; serves on Steering Committee of PRAGMA; co-chair for Application Working Group of AOAN IPv6 Task Force.

Research Interests: Data grid, collaborative computing, e-Science applications.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Hierarchical Screening of Inhibitors Against Hemagglutinin and Identifying Possible Binding Pockets of the Trimeric Interface, with Victor Chu (PRIME 2011); Dr. Wilfred Li (UCSD) and Dr. Kevin Dong (CNIC)
• OPAL Dashboard with DUCKLING Tools, with Brian Zhang (PRIME 2011); Dr. Wilfred Li (UCSD), Dr. Kevin Dong (CNIC)
• Comparative Sequence Analysis of Circulating and Pandemic Flu Viruses in Swine and Humans, with Alicia Lee (PRIME 2010); Dr. Wilfred Li (UCSD) and Dr. Jianjun Yu (CNIC)

Kejun (Kevin) Dong, Ph.D. and M.S. from Institute of Computer Technology (ICT) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Computer Science; B.S. from Peking University; Associate Researcher at Computer Network Information Center (CNIC); Visiting Scholar at UCSD in 2010.

Research Interests: Collaboration technology, grid computing, mass data storage, grid visualization.

Recent PRIME Projects:

• Hierarchical Screening of Inhibitors against Hemagglutinin and Identifying Possible Binding Pockets of the Trimeric Interface, with Victor Chu (PRIME 2011); Dr. Wilfred Li (UCSD) and Dr. Kai Nan (CNIC)
• OPAL Dashboard with DUCKLING Tools, with Brian Zhang (PRIME 2011); Dr. Wilfred Li (UCSD), Dr. Kai Nan (CNIC)

Yongzheng Ma received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the Institute of Computer Technology (ICT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and B.S. from Shanxi University; Associate Research Fellow at the Computer Network Information Center (CNIC); Visiting Scholar at NCSA/UIUC in 2011.

Research Interests: Collaboration technologies; grid computing, e-Science applications.

Recent PRIME Projects: TBD

Karpjoo Jeong received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University and is a professor of Department of Advanced Technology Fusion (http://atf.konkuk.ac.kr). Currently serves as the director of Institute for Ubiquitous Information Technology and Applications (http://www.ubita.org).

Research Interests: Real time Water Quality Monitoring and Prediction for Lakes; Ecological Data Management for Lakes; Real-time Monitoring and Control for Indoor Air Quality Management; Event-driven Environmental Cyberinfrastructures; Event-driven Traffic Data Processing.

David Abramson is Director of The University of Queensland’s Research Computing Centre, effective in early 2013. Previously, he was a Professor of Computer Science and science director of the e-Research Centre at Monash University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science. Abramson has also been a program leader at CSIRO and Associate Dean of Research at Griffith University. He is also a member of the ARC College of Experts. He is an ACM Fellow and Fellow of the Academy of Science and Technological Engineering (ATSE), and Member, IEEE.

Research Interests: Mixing grids and clouds: high-throughput science using the Nimrod tool family; the Nimrod/G Grid resource broker for economics-based scheduling; and infrastructure for the deployment of e-Science applications; cluster and grid infrastructure for computational chemistry and biochemistry; building an econinformatics platform to support climate change adaptation in Victoria; parameter exploration in science and engineering using many-task computing.

Recent PRIME Research Projects:

• Computational Modeling of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, with Brittni Baynes (PRIME 2010); Dr. Roy Kerckhoffs (UCSD) and Dr. Andrew McCulloch (UCSD)
• Automation of Microscopy Image Analysis via Kepler Scientific Workflows and ImageJ, with Harriet Hu (PRIME 2012); Dr. Ilkay Altintas (UCSD)
• The Use of Computational Methods for Investigating Potential Off-Target Bindings and Their Implications in the Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, with Xiaolong Qiu (PRIME 2011); Dr. Philip Bourne (UCSD), Dr. Lei Xie (UCSD), Dr. Li Xie (UCSD)

Website: http://www.monash.edu.au/research/profiles/profile.html?sid=171&pid=2585

Liam Wotherspoon is a member of the University of Auckland Centre for Earthquake Engineering Research (UACEER), and received his Ph.D. from University of Auckland in Civil Engineering.

Research Interests: Integrated structure-foundation design of reinforced concrete buildings; an integrated soil-foundation-structure model to capture the seismic response of bridge columns in seasonally frozen conditions; shallow foundation stiffness: continuous soil and discrete spring models compared; approach to design of shallow foundation for low-rise framed structures; three dimensional pile finite element modelling using OpenSees; effects of foundation model on the earthquake response of building systems; combined modelling of structural and foundation studies.

Recent PRIME Research Projects:

• Seismic Response of Bridges Located in Christchurch, New Zealand, with Sean Luong and Christopher Manco (PRIME 2011); Dr. Jason Ingham (University of Auckland) and Dr. Yael “Lelli” Van Den Einde (UCSD)
• Testing Nonstructural Components for Earthquake Resistance, with Negin Afagh (PRIME 2010); Dr. Jason Ingham (University of Auckland) and Dr. Yael “Lelli” Van Den Einde (UCSD)
• Effect of the Seismic Response of URMB on Timber Floor Diaphragms, with Ethan Uong (PRIME 2010); Dr. Yael “Lelli” Van Den Einde (UCSD)

Website: http://www.cee.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/liam-wotherspoon

Jason Ingham received his Ph.D. from UCSD, investigating the seismic response of elevated freeway frames, funded by the California Department of Transportation; MBA; Deputy Head of Department (research); part of the Faculty Staffing Committee (Engineering, Business, Health Science and Medicine) and Faculty Research Committee (Engineering, Business); part of the University of Auckland Centre for Earthquake Engineering Research (UACEER).

Research Interests: Seismic design of both reinforced and pre-stressed concrete masonry buildings and seismic assessment and retrofit of unreinforced clay brick masonry buildings; behavior and condition assessment of concrete bridges; performance verification of precast concrete assemblages; sustainable concrete technology.

Recent PRIME Research Projects:

• Seismic Testing of Anchor Failures on Unreinforced Masonry Buildings, with Katie Chuh and Esther Gudiel (PRIME 2012); Dr. Yael “Lelli” Van Den Einde (UCSD)
• Seismic Response of Bridges Located in Christchurch, New Zealand, with Sean Luong and Christopher Manco (PRIME 2011); Dr. Liam Wotherspoon (University of Auckland) and Dr. Yael “Lelli” Van Den Einde (UCSD)

Website: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4960-2010