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Featured Speakers Carolina Cruz-Neira, Ph.D. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Ph.D.
Until 2005, she was the associate director of the Virtual Reality Applications Center and the associate chair of the Human-Computer Interaction Graduate Program at Iowa State University. In 1997, she was featured by Business Week magazine as a "rising research star" in the new generation of computer science pioneers. In March of 2000, Dr. Cruz received the Iowa State Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Research. In June 2001, she received the Boeing A.D. Welliver Award. Providing applicability and simplicity has driven her research as a computer engineer. These two factors have defined her three current areas of work, all of them in the context of virtual reality:
Dr. Cruz completed her doctoral studies in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago in May 1995. Her Ph.D. dissertation included the design of the CAVE(TM) Virtual Reality Environment, the CAVE Library software specifications and implementation, and preliminary research on CAVE-Supercomputing integration. She shares the Record of Invention of the CAVE with Tom DeFanti and Dan Sandin. In 1991, she received a Master's degree in EECS at EVL at the University of Illinois at Chicago and graduated cum laude in systems engineering at the Universidad Metropolitana at Caracas, Venezuela in 1987. Jason Leigh, Ph.D.
His current areas of interest include: developing techniques for interactive, remote visualization of massive data sets over high-speed photonic networks; and supporting long-term collaborative work in amplified collaboration environments. Dr. Leigh is co-chair of the Global Grid Forum's Advanced Collaborative Environments research group and is a co-founder of the GeoWall Consortium. He now leads EVL's research on the OptIPuter, a cluster of distributed computers interconnected by photonic networks. Leigh has led EVL's tele-immersion research agenda since 1995 after having developed the first networked CAVE application in 1992. The outcome of his work has been in active use by General Motors, Hughes Research Labs, Searle/Monsanto, members of the NSF-funded PACI Alliance, the Next Generation Internet and Internet2, and collaborators around the world including: the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Computational Systems in Australia, Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore, Intelligent Modeling Laboratory at Tokyo University, and the National Center for High-Performance Computing in Taiwan; and many others. Greg Jones, Ph.D.
Guy Almes, Ph.D.
While at NSF, Dr. Almes is a 'rotator', whose home institution is the Internet2 project, where he serves as Chief Engineer. Dr. Almes is a leader and a pioneer in the development of the Internet. He was the founder and director of Sesquinet, an NSFnet regional network for Texas universities, colleges and corporations. He has served as Chairman of the Federation of American Research Networks (FARnet) and Chairman of the Interconnectivity Working Group and the IP Performance Metrics Working Group of the IETF. Dr. Almes was a member of the computer science faculties at the University of Washington and Rice University. The author of many technical papers on operating systems, software and networking, his current research interests are in the design of advanced wide-area networks appropriate for supporting advanced university applications, network performance measurement and analysis, and application of advanced Internet functionality, such as quality of service and multicast protocols. Dr. Almes received his B.A. in Mathematics and Engineering, magna cum laude, and M.E.E. from Rice University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. A native of Texas, Dr. Almes and his family reside near White Plains, New York. |
Dr. Carolina Cruz is the Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering and a professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. She is also the founder and vice president for business relations of Infiscape.
Dr. Jason Leigh is an associate professor of computer science and co-director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
Dr. Greg Jones joined the SCI Institute in April of 2000, where he is presently the associate director. His previous experience includes positions in research, industry, and management. During his graduate years at the University of New Mexico's School of Medicine, he combined fluorescence spectroscopy with mathematical modeling methods to describe intra-molecular interactions between bacterial lipopolysaccharide and lipopolysaccharide binding protein, an acute phase, hepatic protein. After receiving his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences in 1997, Dr. Jones did post-doctoral work in the Department of Radiology at the University of Utah as a member of the Functional Brain Imaging Group where his work focused on functional MRI and magnetoencephalography. Before joining the SCI Institute, he worked as a senior project manager in the Health Sciences Group for Storage Technologies Inc. Dr. Jones holds a Bachelor's degree in physics from the University of New Mexico and a Masters of Business Administration from the Executive MBA Program at the David Eccles School of Management at the University of Utah.
Guy Almes is a Program Officer in the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. There, he oversees a number of activities including the Extensible Terascale Facility.
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