People

Thom Dunning is the director of the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He also holds an endowed position as Distinguished Chair for Research Excellence in Chemistry and professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/AboutUs/Leadership/dunning.html

William Gropp, the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science, is IACAT’s deputy director for research. His research focuses on parallel computing, particularly developing the message passing interface (MPI) and hierarchical numerical methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations. He is a co-principal investigator on the Blue Waters project, a petascale supercomputer that will be available for scientists and engineers across the country to use for the next five years.

http://www.cs.illinois.edu/homes/wgropp/index.htm
http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/

Athol Kemball is a faculty member in astronomy and a member of IACAT’s Center for Extreme Scale Computing. His research concerns data- and compute-intensive problems in observational astrophysics, with a specific focus on current and future radio interferometers.

http://www.astro.illinois.edu/people/akemball

Civil & Environmental Engineering professors Barbara Minsker is an an Arthur and Virginia Nauman Faculty Scholar. Her research focuses on modeling complex environmental systems and she co-leads IACAT’s virtual observatory project.

http://cee.illinois.edu/node/120

Donald Wuebbles is the Harry E. Preble Endowed Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences as well as in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  His research interests are climate and climate change, and atmospheric gases and particles; he, along with many others, shares in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  He co-leads IACAT’s virtual observatory project.

http://www.atmos.illinois.edu/people/wuebbles.html

Donna Cox is a recognized pioneer in computer art and scientific visualization. Her greatest passion is to bring science to a wide range of audiences through innovative, inspiring, and artistic presentations. Cox co-leads IACAT’s Computing and Creativity activities, is director of eDream (the Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute), leads the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at NCSA, and holds the University of Illinois’ Michael Aiken Endowed Chair.

http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/~cox/

Music professor Guy Garnett brings his interests in interactive computer performance to IACAT, where he co-leads Creativity and Computing projects. Garnett also is associate director for research of eDream (the Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute).

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/garnett/www/

Computer science professor Laxmikant Kale addresses the challenges of designing and implementing tools to facilitate development of efficient, scalable parallel applications. He leads the Parallel Programming Laboratory, which developed the Charm/Charm++ parallel programming system, and co-leads IACAT’s effort to develop petascale applications in tandem with the tools and technologies needed to support these applications.

http://cs.illinois.edu/people/faculty/laxmikant-kale
http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/~kale/

Mike Ross, director of the acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, is interested in the intersections of art, technology and culture and is active in numerous local, state, and national arts organizations. He co-leads IACAT’s Creativity in Computing activities.

http://www.kcpa.uiuc.edu/meetus/staff/mikeross.aspx

Civil & Environmental Engineering professor Praveen Kumar studies complex hydrologic processes, with particular emphasis on understanding and modeling mult-scale non-linear interactions. He co-leads IACAT’s virtual observatory project.

http://cee.illinois.edu/node/110

Wen-mei Hwu is the AMD Jerry Sanders Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of architecture, implementation, and software for high-performance computer systems, and he leads IACAT’s efforts to provide accelerator systems that will improve research productivity. 

http://www.ece.illinois.edu/people/profile.asp?w-hwu
http://impact.crhc.illinois.edu/people/current/hwu.php