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James R. Bottum
Vice President for Information Technology and CIO
Purdue University
As vice president for information technology at Purdue University, James
R. “Jim” Bottum is responsible for system-wide planning and
coordination of computing and information systems for the university.
He directs a staff of more than 450 full- time employees who handle the
academic research and administrative computing and networking for the
38,500 students and 14,000 faculty and staff on the West Lafayette campus.
Bottum has served on numerous national panels and committees, including
the Visitor’s Committee for the National Center for Atmospheric
Research’s Scientific Computing Division and the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing
Conference Executive Committee. He is chair of the Educational Division
of SC2005, the major international conference on high-performance computing,
networking, and storage.
Previous to coming to Purdue, Bottum was the executive director of the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before his appointment at NCSA, he
was an associate director in the NSF's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing
where he played a key role in the establishment of the Foundation's Advanced
Scientific Computing Initiative and NSFNet.
Miron Livny
Miron Livny received a B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1975 from the Hebrew University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1978 and 1984, respectively. Since 1983 he has been on the Computer Sciences Department faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is currently a Professor of Computer Sciences and is leading the Condor project.
Dr. Livny's research focuses on distributed processing and data management systems and data visualization environments. His recent work includes the Condor high throughput computing system, the DEVise data visualization and exploration environment and the ZOO scientific database management framework.
 Brian D. Voss
Associate Vice President for Telecommunications
Indiana University
Brian D. Voss is the Associate Vice President for Telecommunications
in the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology at
Indiana University. He has nearly 20 years of leadership experience
across the information technology field -- both in higher education and
in the private sector -- spanning operations and production services,
application development, user support, and telecommunications.
Appointed to his current position in December 1999, his responsibilities
include executive leadership of IU's telecommunications organization,
including voice, data, and video networking. He represents IU in
national and international high performance, advanced networking initiatives
including Internet2 and TransPAC, and has oversight of IU's Global Network
Operations Center (which provides 7x24x365 support to Internet2's
Abilene network and various international high-performance networks and
peering points). He is also currently
serving as Chair of the CIC Telecommunications Group and is serving as
a member of ACUTA's Higher Education
Advisory Panel. In the former capacity, he has represented the CIC in meetings
founding the National Lambda Rail (NLR), an initiative to build a research-centric
optical fiber infrastructure within the United States.
Brian is also involved in research activities at Indiana University. He is currently
a co-Principal Investigator on IU's TeraGrid project, having served as the lead
writer for the IP-grid submission from Indiana University and Purdue University. The
grant yielded nearly $3-million in NSF funding for the two universities, to link
their computation, storage, and database resources into the TeraGrid community. Brian
serves as site-lead for IU in this important national initiative, and has served
on the TeraGrid Executive Committee representing Indiana VPIT &CIO (and IP-grid
PI) Michael A. McRobbie.
Brian is also currently the Chief Operating Officer for the Pervasive Technology
Labs at Indiana University. In this role,
he provides administrative leadership for the Lilly-funded world-class research
laboratories to advance pervasive computing technologies that will lead the
21st century information economy. Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University
serves as an economic development driver for Indiana's exploding information
technology sector by commercializing research through licensing agreements
and encouraging spin-off companies. Through this role, he has developed experience
with the University's research initiatives and has become well known within
the State and nationwide, as he advocates for the role that investments in
higher education research activities will play in the growth of an information
economy within nearby communities and regions.
Hasan
U. Akay,
Chancellor's Professor and Chair
Amit S. Baddi, Research Assistant
Resat U. Payli, Research Associate
 Laura Arns, Ph..D.
Visualization and Computer Graphics Applications Engineer
Purdue University
Laura Arns is a Computer Graphics and Application Engineer with the
Envision Center at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. in Computer
Science from Iowa State University in 2002. She also holds an M.S. in
Computer Science from Iowa State University and a BA in Computer Science
and Mathematics from Wartburg College. While working towards her Ph.D.
she was the recipient of the 11th Annual Interservie/Industry Training,
Simulation & Education Conference (I/ITSEC) Scholarship. Prior to joining
Purdue, Dr. Arns was a postdoctoral researcher with the Virtual Reality
Applications Center at Iowa State University, where she worked on a
number of VR projects ranging from multivariate statistical data visualization
to oil field exploration. Her research interests are in the areas of
applied virtual environments, human factors in virtual reality, and
virtual reality usability.
Tejas Bhatt
Research Associate
Krannert Graduate School of Management
Purdue University
Mr. Bhatt earned the Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from
Purdue University, West Lafayette, in May 2003. He has been working
with SEAS Laboratories for nearly three years, initially as a student
Java developer, and currently as a research associate. He has
been actively involved in the development of the “Measured Response”
project from writing code for the backend simulation to development
of the front-end interfaces. Currently, he is involved mainly
with the technical aspect of the project.
 Larry Biehl
Purdue University
Mr. Biehl is a remote sensing specialist in the Department of Agronomy
at Purdue University and will be the operations manager for the Purdue
Terrestrial Observatory. He received his Bachelor’s Degree
from Purdue University in Electrical Engineering (1973) and his Master’s
Degree from Purdue University in Engineering (1974).
He has been a research engineer with Purdue University's Laboratory
for Application of Remote Sensing (LARS) from 1974 to 1985, and 1988
to the present. He participated in Skylab and Landsat MSS and
Thematic Mapper research, and had major responsibilities in NASA-sponsored
field research programs including field spectral data acquisition and
calibration procedures, data preprocessing and software development.
Geoffrey C. Fox
Professor Geoffrey C. Fox
Pervasive Technologies Laboratories
Indiana University
Prof. Geoffrey Fox, head of the Community Grids Lab, holds faculty
positions in the Indiana University Computer Science and Physics Departments
and the School of Informatics. Dr. Fox leads a team of seven postdoctoral
researchers and over 20 graduate students. His research efforts include
tools for audio/video collaboration, Grid and Web service computing
applications, high performance messaging systems, and component-based
Web portal technologies. Prof. Fox holds a Ph. D in theoretical physics
from Cambridge University.
Sebastien Goasguen
Visiting Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering (in the area of Nanoelectronics)
Purdue University
Born in France in 1974, Dr Goasguen graduated with a BS in electrical
engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France in 1997.
He earned the MS degree with honors in 1998 from King’s College
in London, UK, and the Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona
State University in 2001.
During study for the Ph. D., Goasguen specialized in Computational
Electrodynamics. In the summer of 2001, he joined Purdue University
as a post-doctoral student to work on Computational Nano-electronics
within Prof. Mark Lundstrom’s group. There he developed parallel
applications for transport problems in nanoscale devices and set up
a 200 CPU Linux cluster. In August 2002, he became visiting professor,
and was appointed acting technical director of the NSF-funded Network
for Computational Nanotechnology.
Since 2002, Goasguen has been leading the strategic planning and development
of the NCN cyber-infrastructure, which includes web-collaboration tools,
user portals, community building, and support of scientific applications
and distributed computing. He manages the nanoHUB, a portal for web
computing in nanotechnology, and the deployment of new middleware initiative
to support the nanoHUB. With this activity, he is now involved in the
I-Light and Teragrid projects.
Charles J. Horowitz
Professor, Physics Department,
Member of IU Nuclear Theory Center,
Indiana University, Bloomington
Chuck Horowitz received his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from
Stanford University in 1981. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Niels
Bohr Institute in Copenhagen from 1982 to 1983, and an Assistant Professor
at MIT from 1984 to 1986. He has been a professor in the IU Physics
Department since 1987.
He does research on neutrino interactions in dense matter and supernova
explosions, very dense matter and properties of neutron stars, laboratory
measurements of nuclear properties important for astrophysics, measuring
the neutron radius of heavy nuclei such as 208Pb via parity violating
electron scattering, neutrino-proton elastic scattering and strange quark
contributions to the nucleon spin, symmetry tests in nuclei, and the
role
of charge symmetry breaking in subtle differences between up and down
quarks. In 2000 he organized a conference on parity violation in atomic
and nuclear systems in Trento Italy. He is also involved in a theoretical
collaboration to relate the cross section to isospin violating terms
in
chiral perturbation theory.
Donald K. Berry
High Performance Computing Analyst
HPC Support Team, UITS
Indiana University, Bloomington
Don Berry received a B.S. in physics from
The Georgia Institute of Technology
in 1976, an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Georgia Tech in 1987,
and
an M.A. in Mathematics from Indiana University in 1992. He has worked
as
an HPC analyst for UITS since 1993. He has extensive experience in
in both engineering and high performance scientific computing. At
IU he
has worked on code parallelization projects in phylogeny estimation
in
biology, oil reservoir simulation, groundwater modeling, astrophysical
hydrodynamics, lattice gauge theory, and tree code methods for n-body
problems
in astrophysics and molecular dynamics. He has programmed in Fortran
and C
on platforms such as the Intel Paragon, IBM SP, SGI Challenge, SGI
Origin2000, Sun Enterprise 1000, and on Beowulf clusters. He has
extensive
experience in parallel programming using PVM, MPI and OpenMP.
 W. Scott Meador
Visualization and Computer Graphics Applications Engineer
Purdue University
W. Scott Meador is an Application Engineer in the Envision Center
and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology.
He has an eclectic background in theatre design and technology, visual
art, video, and computer graphics. He received his Master of Science
in Technology from Purdue University, and his Bachelor of Science in
Theatre from the University of Central Arkansas. Scott is also in the
process of finishing a Master of Fine Arts in Scenography from Purdue
University. His primary teaching responsibilities include 3D lighting
and rendering as well as advanced animation. Scott's research interests
and support of the Envision Center are in the realms of design visualization
through 3D imagery and animation, motion capture, 3D compositing, and
real time graphics for live events. Scott has worked professionally
with companies that produce graphics for broadcast and live events,
architectural visualization, and video streaming over the Internet.
His most recent credits include computer graphic imagery for Metallica,
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, the Robin Hood Foundation, the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Lucent Technologies Achievers Club,
H.L. Mohler & Associates Architecture and Interior Design, and Purdue
Musical Organizations' Christmas Show.
Rob Quick
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Rob Quick is currently a Shift Supervisor (PA13) at the Global Research
Network Operation center. In this capacity he oversees a team of technicians
and that monitor national and international networks such as Abilene,
TransPAC, STAR TAP, AMPATH, and MAN LAN, as well as the state-wide Indiana
University network, the local IUPUI network, and the Indiana GigaPoP.
His responsibilities include all phases of daily operations for a large
NOC, from troubleshooting network problems to supervision of personnel,
to upkeep of tools and information distribution to staff. Having served
in this capacity for 3 years, he sees the expansion of the GRNOC to
include a GRID Operation Center as an opportunity to grow professionally
to meet the needs of an ever changing global computing infrastructure.
His experience prior to the NOC includes 2 years as an operational
manager with the IUPUI Student Technology Consulting Group and 10 years
as a district operations manager with a national data capturing and
reporting company based in San Diego. Rob managed their Mid-West operations
from St Louis, Minneapolis, and Indianapolis.
Rob's fascination with grid computing comes not only from his professional
interest and experience with Network Operation Centers, but with his
interest in the science that is pushing a need for a GRID. He is starting
his senior year of a Physics degree at IUPUI, and hopes to combine his
computing experience with his chosen education in the field of Computational
Physics. The iGOC offers Rob a chance to combine both his operational
experience and education to bring an advanced level of service to the
iVDGL community.
John A. Walsh
Manager of Electronic Text Technologies
Indiana University
Biography John Walsh has been working with SGML and XML texts in an
academic setting for over eight years. He is currently the Manager of
Electronic Text Technologies for Indiana University's Digital Library
Program and Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS). His main
area of expertise is in the development of SGML and XML full-text literary
and humanities digital collections. Current projects include The Swinburne
Project a digital collection of the works of nineteenth-century British
poet Algernon Charles Swinburne; and CBML, or Comic Book Markup Language,
a TEI-based project to create an XML vocabulary for encoding comic books
and graphic novels. John also holds a Ph.D. in English literature and
as a humanities and literary scholar conducts research in the application
of XML-related technologies to the preservation, presentation, and analysis
of literary texts and pop culture media
Randall Bramley
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Indiana University Bloomington
E-mail: bramley@cs.indiana.edu
Randall Bramley received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. He has been
director of the COAS Scientific Computing Program since 1992 and
is currently an associate professor in the Computer Science Department
at Indiana University Bloomington. In addition to an excruciatingly
long list of
university committees, he serves on a dozen National Science Foundation
and Department
of Energy (DoE) review panels and conference program committees each
year. Currently he
serves on the DoE's Office of Fusion Energy committee for developing
integrated simulations of magnetically confined fusion systems.
His research interests all have a common theme: making high performance
computing easier to use by scientists and engineers in other
disciplines.
That effort includes access to and use of data and information
management, software components for parallel computing, and creating
Grid interfaces for scientific sensors and instruments.
Felipe Bertrand
Graduate student
Department of Computer Science
Indiana University Bloomington
Felipe Bertrand received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the
Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) in 1997 and his M.S. in Computer
Science from Indiana University in 2002. He is currently pursuing a
Ph.D. in
Scientific Computing under the supervision of Dr. Bramley. Prior to
that he
worked for GMV, writing code for the ground segment of the European
satellite ENVISAT. His research interests are in component
architectures and
the communication of parallel data in the context of scientific
applications.
 Randy
Heiland
Associate Director, Scientific Data Analysis Lab
Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
E-mail: heiland@iupui.edu
Randy Heiland received a M.A. in Mathematics from Arizona State University,
M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Utah, and B.S. in Computational
Mathematics from Eastern Illinois University.
 James
Glazier
Director, Biocomplexity Institute
Department of Physics and School of Informatics
Indiana University Bloomington
E-mail: glazier@indiana.edu
James Glazier received his B.A. in Physics and Mathematics at Harvard
and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Chicago. After
postdoctoral positions in biophysics at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Tohoku
University, Sendai, Japan, he spent eight years on the Physics faculty
at the University of Notre Dame, where he established the Interdisciplinary
Center for the Study of Biocomplexity. Glazier came to IUB in 2002 to
establish the Biocomplexity Institute. His funding includes grants from
NSF, NASA, DOE and the Whitaker Foundation, an Innovation Institute
award from IBM and a fellowship from the Pervasive Technologies Laboratories.
His research areas include computational and experimental studies of
limb development and the development of microfluidics techniques. He
has also organized a series of International Workshops on Biocomplexity,
each addressing a different area of Biocomplexity.
Chris J. Johannsen
Professor Emeritus of Agronomy
Purdue University
www.lars.purdue.edu
Chris J. Johannsen and Professor Emeritus of Agronomy, Purdue University.
His BS and MS degrees are from University of Nebraska and Ph.D. from
Purdue University. Dr. Johannsen has worked in over 52 countries working
on soil conservation, land use and precision farming topics using remote
sensing and geographic information systems technology. He is the author
or co-author of over 225 articles, papers, and book chapters and has
edited a book on remote sensing. At Purdue the served as Director of
Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (LARS) from 1985 through
2003.
Dr. Johannsen is active in many professional societies, having served
as International President of the Soil and Water Conservation Society.
He is recognized with the distinction as "Fellow" of five
professional societies: Soil and Water Conservation Society, American
Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America, the American Society
of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and the Indiana Academy of Sciences.
He has served on the prestigious Space Studies Board of the National
Research Council.
Dr. Johannsen is recognized as a national and international authority
in land use and agricultural applications of remote sensing.
Craig A. Stewart, Ph.D.
Director, Research and Academic Computing
Special Assistant for the Life Sciences
Office of the Vice President for Information Technology
Indiana University
E-mail: stewart@indiana.edu
Craig A. Stewart is director of the Research and Academic Computing division of University Information Technology Services, as well as director of the Indiana Genomics Initiative IT core. Stewart also serves as special assistant to the vice president for information technology and research for the initiatives related to the life sciences. Stewart received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in biology, and has worked in information technology at IU since. Stewart's own research and publications focus on high performance computing applications in biology, HPC systems architectures, and information technology service strategies.
Donna Cox
Donna Cox is an international pioneer in scientific visualization and computer art. She is associate director for Experimental Technologies at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and a professor in the School of Art and Design at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Cox has authored many papers and monographs on scientific visualization, computer graphics, information design, education and critical theory. Cox received the Coler-Maxwell Award for Excellence 1989 from the Leonardo International Society in Arts Science and Technology for her seminal paper coining "Renaissance Teams." This term describes interdisciplinary groups of experts collaborating to solve problems in supercomputer visualizations.
She is a widely sought international speaker and has been a Distinguished Lecturer at the T.J. Watson Research Center in New York and a Distinguished Visiting Technologist at Indiana University. Her collaborative work has been reviewed or published in Newsweek, Time, National Geographic, the Wall Street Journal, Science News, the New York Times, The Scientist, The Chronicle of Higher Education, EDUCOM, Cinescape, IEEE Communications magazine, Computer Graphics World, and Discover magazine.
Cox has exhibited computer art in international exhibitions, including a one-woman show at the Arts in the Academy, a program of the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington D.C. Professor Cox has appeared in numerous television programs including "Good Morning America," and PBS seven-part educational series "Life by Numbers." She was featured in the National Library of Medicine's 2001 exhibit, "The Once and Future Web."
Her most famous collaborative works include the first visualization of the NSFnet, "A Visualization Study of Network Growth & Traffic From 1986 to 1992," which has become an icon of the early Internet. She was also associate producer for Scientific Visualization and art director for the Pixar/NCSA segment of the IMAX science education movie, "Cosmic Voyage," nominated for an Academy Award in 1997. "Cosmic Voyage" was the first IMAX film to use data-driven supercomputer simulations instead of special effects to demonstrate scientific concepts. In 2000, Cox and two co-creators received a U.S. patent for a "Virtual Reality 3D Interface System for Data Creation, Viewing and Editing" as a result of new technology developed during the making of "Cosmic Voyage."
Recent projects include supercomputer visualizations for the Hayden Planetarium digital space shows, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City: "Passport to the Universe" premiering during new year's millennium and "Search for Life" in 2002. This sequence involves the visualization of 'never seen before' simulation data of the distribution of galaxies and the large-scale structure of our universe from supercomputer simulations. In June 2002, the Discovery Channel program, "Unfolding Universe," premiered nearly 20 scenes of scientific visualizations produced by Cox and her collaborators. Her team developed data-driven scientific visualizations for the HDTV NOVA/WGBH show, "Runaway Universe," and it received the 2002 Golden Camera, International Film and Video Festival award.
Cox has been involved in several National Research Council commissions and policy making committees including the National Research Council Committee on Modeling and Simulation: Opportunities for Collaboration Between the Defense and Entertainment, and the 2003 NRC report, "Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity," National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. Cox was elected as a member of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID) Strategic Council and currently serves on the editorial board for Leonardo (International Journal for Art, Technology and Science).
Lenore P. Tedesco, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Geology &
Director, Center for Earth and Environmental Science
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
E-mail: ltedesco@iupui.edu
Lenore P. Tedesco received her Ph.D. from the University of Miami's
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in 1991.Her current
research interests involve sedimentologic studies that evaluate the
role of Holocene sea level rise on coastal evolution. The combined effects
of sea level rise and catastrophic storms are important controls on
both coastal evolution and wetland stability. An important research
focus is on the planning and evaluation of wetland restoration programs.
This includes research on the distribution of anthropogenic pollutants
in surface sediments within estuarine ecosystems and associated marshes;
and assessing sediments and water transport pathways between upland,
wetland and coastal areas.
New interdisciplinary research foci are evaluating ecosystem restoration
strategies in Midwestern floodplain forests associated with interdisciplinary
research at the Center for Earth and Environmental Science. A major
new research initiative will examine nutrient and sediment cycling in
reservoirs in the Indianapolis area.
 M.
Pauline Baker, Ph.D.
Director, Visualization and Interactive Spaces Lab
Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
E-mail: baker@iupui.edu
M. Pauline (Polly) Baker received her Ph.D. in computer science from
the University of Illinois. Her research is in exploring the design
and application of sophisticated, highly interactive visual environments
for data exploration and learning. Prior to joining Indiana University's
Pervasive Technology initiative, Baker spent many years at the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois,
where she worked with scientists to define and develop custom solutions
for advanced visualization problems. She provided leadership and direction
as the Center's Associate Director for the Visualization and Virtual
Environments group, and as Division Director for the Data, Mining, and
Visualization Division. Baker is the author of several widely used texts
in computer graphics.
Jon Dunn
Indiana University Bloomington
Jon Dunn is Assistant Director for Technology in the Digital Library
Program at Indiana University, overseeing the development and management
of software systems to support IU's digital library collections. Prior
to that, he worked in the Cook Music Library at IU Bloomington from
1994-1998 as Technical Director for the Variations Digital Music Library
Project. He is currently serving as an investigator on the Variations2
project, responsible for overseeing design and development of the Variations2
testbed system, and has written and presented on digital libraries and
music information technology.
Mark Notess
Indiana University Bloomington
Mark Notess is Systems Development Manager for the Variations2 Project
at Indiana University. Mark came to the Variations2 project from UNext,
an internet-based education company, where he was Director of User Experience.
Before that, he worked for Agilent Technologies, leading a global e-learning
portal project, and also spent many years at Hewlett-Packard designing
user interfaces, as well as managing software development projects and
launching human-centered design initiatives.
Sebastien Goasguen
Visiting Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering (in the area of Nanoelectronics)
Purdue University
Tejas Bhatt
Research Associate
Krannert Graduate School of Management
Purdue University
Brian King, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue School of Engineering and Technology
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
E-mail: briking@iupui.edu
Brian King received his Ph. D. in Mathematics from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
In 2000, he received a Ph.D. in Engineering (Computer Science) from
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In 2001, he joined the department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Purdue School of Engineering
and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
(IUPUI) where he is an assistant professor. Prior to joining IUPUI,
Dr. King worked in the Security Technologies Lab at Motorola Research
Labs. At Motorola he participated in several projects related to determining
security vulnerabilities of cellular hand-sets as well as enabling them
to participate (from a security point of view) in internet-based applications.
His research interests include public-key cryptography, secret sharing
and threshold cryptography, wireless security and security in lightweight
devices and electronic voting. Brian King is a member of IEEE, AMS,
and the IACR (International Association of Cryptologic Research). He
was named an Indiana University Pervasive Technology Labs Fellow for
the 2003-2004 academic year.
Gilbert L. Rochon
Associate Vice President
Collaborative Research and Engagement,
Purdue University
www.lars.purdue.edu
Gilbert L. Rochon is the Associate Vice President for Collaborative
Research and Engagement. He received his bachelor's degree in English
from Xavier University in Louisiana; his MPH in Health Services Administration
from Yale University School of Medicine, Dept. of Epidemiology &
Public Health; and his doctorate in Urban and Regional Planning from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Previous to coming
to Purdue he was a Research Community Planner-Remote Sensing with the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research &
Development (ORD) National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL)
Sustainable Technology Division (STD) Sustainable Environments Branch
(SEB) in Cincinnati, OH. He was formerly Chairperson of the Urban Studies
& Public Policy Institute at Dillard University in New Orleans and
Principal Investigator in the Remote Sensing & GIS Laboratory.
He has held joint appointments and/or research fellowships with Tulane
University's School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Oxford
University's Environmental Change Unit (Oxford, UK), United Nations
University (UNU) International Food & Nutrition Planning Program,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Stennis Space Center, NASA/Cal
Tech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), USDA Forest Service Institute
for Quantitative Studies (New Orleans, LA) and International Institute
for Tropical Forestry (Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico), DOD Naval Oceanographic
Office (NAVOCEANO) and the DOD High Performance Computing Modernization
Office's (HPCMO) Programming Environment & Training (PET) Program.
He has conducted field research in Sudan, Siberia, Brazil, Jamaica and
Puerto Rico and presented research findings in Australia, Turkey, Singapore,
Viet Nam and Russia. His primary research interests relate to remote
sensing, visualization, GIS and GPS applications to urban and regional
environmental sustainability under threat by anthropogenic impact and
biogenic disasters.
W. Scott Meador
Visualization and Computer Graphics Applications Engineer
Purdue University
W. Scott Meador is an Application Engineer in the Envision Center
and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology.
He has an eclectic background in theatre design and technology, visual
art, video, and computer graphics. He received his Master of Science
in Technology from Purdue University, and his Bachelor of Science in
Theatre from the University of Central Arkansas. Scott is also in the
process of finishing a Master of Fine Arts in Scenography from Purdue
University. His primary teaching responsibilities include 3D lighting
and rendering as well as advanced animation. Scott's research interests
and support of the Envision Center are in the realms of design visualization
through 3D imagery and animation, motion capture, 3D compositing, and
real time graphics for live events. Scott has worked professionally
with companies that produce graphics for broadcast and live events,
architectural visualization, and video streaming over the Internet.
His most recent credits include computer graphic imagery for Metallica,
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, the Robin Hood Foundation, the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Lucent Technologies Achievers Club,
H.L. Mohler & Associates Architecture and Interior Design, and Purdue
Musical Organizations' Christmas Show.
 Eric
A. Wernert, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Advanced Visualization Lab
Office of the Vice President for Information Technology
Indiana University
E-mail: ewernert@indiana.edu
Eric Wernert is senior scientist and manager of Indiana University's
Advanced Visualization Lab. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from
IU and has served as visiting assistant professor and lecturer in the
Computer Science Department and as adjunct faculty and lecturer in the
School of Informatics.
 Gary R. Bertoline
Associate Vice President for Information Technology
Purdue University
Gary R. Bertoline is the Associate Vice President for Visualization Computing. He formerly was Department Head
and a Professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology. He is the co-founder of the Digital Enterprise
Center in the School of Technology, and, in the 6 years he served as Department Head, he more than doubled enrollment,
funded projects, and donations to the department. Prior to becoming department head he was on the faculty in Computer
Graphics Technology for 4 years.
Prior to joining the faculty at Purdue, Gary served three years as a faculty member in the College of Engineering and Department
of Engineering Graphics at The Ohio State University. He has authored numerous papers in journals and trade publications on
engineering and computer graphics, CAD, and visualization research and has authored and co-authored eight books in the areas
of computer-aided design and engineering graphics. His research interest is in measuring and improving visualization in
engineering and technology students.
In the School of Technology, he led the effort to create a Master of Science and four bachelor's degree options that include
interactive media, construction graphics, computer animation and simulation, and engineering design graphics. These unique
degree options have become nationally recognized with 100% placement of students and strict enrollment management to control
the large number of students wishing to enroll in the program.
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