NCSA awards fellowships to 13 UI faculty members The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has named 13 UI faculty members as faculty fellows for the 2006-2007 academic year. The NCSA/UIUC Faculty Fellows program extends opportunities in advanced computing and information technology to UI faculty members. In addition to financial support, faculty fellows have access to NCSA’s high-performance computers, visualization- and data-analysis tools, and other advanced information technology, as well as opportunities to collaborate with NCSA staff members. Awards are administered through NCSA’s Campus Relations office, directed by Radha Nandkumar. The program is funded by NCSA and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. “The fellows program offers opportunities for faculty and NCSA staff members to collaborate on projects of common interest and to be exposed to the breadth of research on campus. Nandkumar said “This is a truly beneficial win-win situation.” The 2006-2007 fellows and their projects:
- N.R. Aluru, mechanical and industrial engineering, “Cyber Tools for Multiscale Analysis of Electrostatic NEMS”
- Rohit Bhargava, bioengineering, “Computational Framework for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis”
- Lynne Dearborn and Kevin Hinders, School of Architecture, “Comparative Urban Design Changes Generated by Planning Policy in the 20th and 21st Century”
- Carlos Armando Duarte, civil and environmental engineering, “PAGFEM: Parallel Adaptive Generalized Finite Element Methods for Large Scale Fractures”
- Jiawei Han, computer science, “Mining Outliers and Rare Events in Data Streams”
- Paul Kelter, chemistry, “Enhancing First-Year Chemistry Education via the Implementation of Computational Chemistry”
- Susan Kieffer, geology, “Dynamics of Catastrophic Volcanic Eruptions”
- Yu-Feng Lin, Center for Groundwater Science, “The Development of Point-to-Zone Pattern Learning (P2Z) for Groundwater Recharge”
- Jordana Mendelson, School of Art and Design, “Spanish Civil War Print Culture”
- Marilyn Ruiz, veterinary pathobiology, “Evaluation of Critical Spatial Elements for Animal Disease Surveillance in Illinois”
- Uday V. Shanbhag, mechanical and industrial engineering, “Grid-Computing Algorithms for Large-Scale Stochastic Games”
- Kenneth Watkin, speech and hearing science, “Remote Web Service-Based 3D Medical Volume Reconstruction, Segmentation and Interrogation”
