Industry Advisory Board
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| IUCR/CERCS Industry Advisory Board |
Bryant E. Bigbee is an Intel Fellow, Enterpise Platforms Group and Director of Systems Software. Bigbee directs work on the design and optimization of processor and chipset interfaces to operating systems, drivers and firmware. Bigbee joined Intel in 1992 and has been involved with a wide variety of commercial operating system and firmware initiatives and optimizations. Bigbee holds four patents, with seven patents pending in the areas of microprocessors and systems software. He has received three Intel Achievement Awards. Bigbee was born in Santa Fe, N.M. and graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991 with an M.S. in Information and Computer Science. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at Emory University in 1990 after earning his M.D. there in 1989. Previously, he earned a bachelor's degree in Chemistry at Claremont McKenna College in 1985. |
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John Joseph Chilenski is an Associate Technical Fellow within Boeing Commercial Airplanes specializing in the verification of safety rated airborne software. He has twenty-five years of experience at Boeing in software verification. He is currently the project manager for the Software Verification research project for The Boeing Company's research and development organization: Phantom Works. |
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Ms. Whittlesey has more than 20 years experience in various areas of Information Technology including application development, database management systems, internet systems management, and Unix system engineering. She is currently the Director of Enterprise Architecture at Delta Technology, the wholly owned technology subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, based in Atlanta, Georgia. In her role at Delta Technology, she has responsibility for the development of application, infrastructure and information architecture direction and governance, as well as architecture consulting and ensuring alignment with Delta’s strategic business direction. |
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Rich Friedrich leads the Internet Systems and Storage Lab in HP Labs. The ISSL research team focuses on next-generation Internet computing and storage systems, and on inventing distinctive utility computing mechanisms to provide IT infrastructure on demand. His sustained record of innovative accomplishments spans his 20-year career in HP research and product positions. He led the system performance team that optimized the first commercial PA-RISC based systems in the mid-1980s and the first multiprocessor, online transaction processing RISC systems in the late 1980s. He led the architecture and design of a large scale, distributed measurement system for the OSF Distributed Computing Environment in the early 1990s. More recently, he led the teams that invented WebQoS, the novel technology for providing predictable and stable performance for Internet based applications, re-architected Linux for IA-64, and provided key technologies to HP's Utility Data Center. He has participated on many scientific program committees, published extensively, and is a co-inventor on a dozen patents. He is a graduate of Northwestern University. |
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Alan Ganek leads the IBM Corporate-wide initiative for autonomic computing which focuses on making computing systems more self-managing and resilient, lowering the cost of ownership and removing obstacles to growth and flexibility. This role reaches across IBM, touching virtually all functions. The activity includes leadership in architecture, technology and standards as well as business and market planning. Prior to joining IBM Software Group, Mr. Ganek was responsible for the technical strategy and operations of IBM's Research Division, a worldwide organization focuses on research leadership in areas related to information technology as well as exploratory work in science and mathematics. This entailed strategic and technology outlook, portfolio management, and Research Division processes. Mr. Ganek joined IBM as a software engineer in 1978 in Poughkeepsie, New York were he was involved in operating system design and development, computer addressing architecture, and parallel systems architecture and design. He was the recipient of Outstanding Innovation awards for his work on Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 and System/390 Parallel Sysplex Design. Mr. Ganek received his M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers University in 1981. He holds fifteen patents. |
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Dennis Gannon is a professor in the department of Computer Science at Indiana University and he is its current chair. His previous positions include the department of Computer Science at Purdue University where he was an assistant and associate professor. He was also a senior visiting research scientist at the Center for Supercomputer Research and Development, University of Illinois, from 1985-1990, where he worked on the Cedar multiprocessor project. From 1992-1996, he led the HPC++ and Sage++ projects which has produced a set of libraries for object-oriented parallel and distributed runtime systems and compiler technology for C++ and Fortran. His current work is on the design of software component architectures for distributed scientific applications, and the study of the architecture of Grid systems. From 1995-date he has been a member and one of the co-founders of the Common Component Archticture project (now supported by the DOE Center for Component Technology for Terascale Simulation Software). His particular emphasis is on the application of CCA concepts to Grid environments. In 1998-2000, he worked at NASA Ames on the Information Power Grid project and he was a founding participant in the Global Grid Forum (where he now co-chairs the Grid Computing Environments Reseach Group and the Open Grid Service Architecture working group. He also co-chaired the ``Concurrency and Parallelism'' subgroup of the Java Grande Forum. He is also keenly interested in the problem of building portals that allow users access to distributed services and Grid applications. Gannon is also the Science Directory for the new Indiana Pervasive Technologies Labs. From 2000-2003 he has taken on the job of Chief Computer Scientist for the NCSA Alliance. |
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Mathai Joseph joined TCS in 1997 and is Executive Director of Tata Research Development and Design Centre, the R&D division of Tata Consultancy Services. He is responsible for setting the research directions, monitoring progress and converting TCS R&D results into industrially applicable tools and products. He is responsible for taking the TRDDC technology tools to market. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, U.K., and worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research for many years. At various times he has been Visiting Scientist, INRIA, Rocquencourt (1974), Visiting Professor, at the Department of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University and Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven Technical University (1990 - 1992). He is now Visiting Professor at the University of York, U.K., and Chairman of the Board of the International Institute for Software Technology. From 1985--97, he had a Chair in Software Engineering at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, U.K. where he lead a research group working on the use of formal methods for safety-critical systems. |
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Jay recently completed a four-year tour of DARPA where he initiated and executed several programs in information assurance and survivability, including the Organically Assured and Survivable Information Systems (OASIS). From 1976 to 1999, he held a variety of technical, line management and program management positions at Draper Laboratory where he developed a number of fault-tolerant computer system architectures for real-time, mission- and safety-critical applications for NASA and the DoD. These include a quadruply-redundant, Byzantine-resilient fault-tolerant computer to perform swim-by-wire control of the US Navy's Seawolf Nuclear Attack submarines, a fault-tolerant parallel processor to perform flight critical functions for NASA's X-38 Crew Return Vehicle, and many research prototypes of dependable computers. Jay received Sc.D. and S.M. degrees from MIT in 1976 and 1973, respectively, and B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, in 1971. He has 5 patents, has published over 40 papers, and contributed chapters to several books. Most recently, he edited a volume of seminal research papers, "OASIS: Fundamentals of Intrusion Tolerant Systems," published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for "Leadership in the Development of Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computers" in 1994. He is also an Associate Fellow of AIAA and a member of IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Fault Tolerant and Dependable Computing. He was the General Chair of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems & Networks (DSN 2002), held in Washington, DC. Currently, he is serving as the Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault Tolerant Computing. Jay has served on a number of government consultative bodies and commissions, most recently, the Defensive Information Operations task force of the Defense Science Board. Jay was awarded the Exceptional Public Service Medal by the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2003 for expertly directing the formation and execution of several important information technology programs at DARPA to address the security of our nation's networks. |
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Dan Reed serves as founding director of the interdisciplinary Institute for Renaissance Computing, which spans Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State Universities. The term Renaissance computing is intended to both evoke and capture a broad range of intellectual activities, enriching and empowering human potential, as well as creating intellectual communities that span the sciences and engineering, the arts, the humanities and commerce. Leveraging the biological research strengths of the Research Triangle, the Institute is also targeting opportunities in biology, bioinformatics, biomedicine and public health. Reed holds the first William R. Kenan, Jr. Eminent Professorship at the University of North Carolina. Before coming to North Carolina, Reed was director of the fifty-institution National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In this dual directorship role, Reed provided strategic direction and leadership to the Alliance and NCSA and was the principal investigator for the Alliance cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. He was also the Chief Architect and one of two principal investigators for the NSF ETF TeraGrid, the largest computational infrastructure ever created for open scientific research. Reed is a member of several national collaborations, including the NSF Center for Grid Application Development Software and the Department of Energy (DOE) Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative. He has served on the advisory committee of the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and he is currently a member of the board of directors of the Computing Research Association. He is a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PIITAC), and he has testified to Congress on the importance of computational science and high-end computing Reed's areas of research include parallel computing, system performance and evaluation, and collaborative virtual environments for real-time performance analysis. He has edited or co-edited three books and has authored chapters in an additional 13 books. He has also written more than 120 articles for scientific journals and technical conferences. During his career, Reed has won numerous awards, including the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the IBM Faculty Development Award, and the Xerox Senior Research Award. At the University of Illinois, he held the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor, in recognition of his contributions to computing and the University of Illinois. Reed received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1983 from Purdue University. He holds an M.S. in computer science from Purdue and a B.S. in computer science from the University of Missouri at Rolla. |
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Dr. Raj Yavatkar is an Intel Fellow and Director of the Systems Technology Lab in the Corporate Technology Group. Yavatkar joined Intel in 1995 and leads advanced R&D in the areas of system architecture and platform technologies including autonomics, virtualization, low-power Intel Architecture, and platform physicals. Previously, Yavatkar was the Chief Software Architect for Intel's IXP family of network processors. Earlier, he also led Intel's advanced research and development activities in internet quality of service and programmable networks and designed a framework for policy-based network management that led to development of an industry-wide technical standard. He was a key player in the initial development of Intel's communications building block strategy that led to the formation of the Intel Communications Group. Yavatkar received his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1989 and holds eight patents, with more than 25 pending. He is recognized as a leading expert in the networking industry, and was the General Chair of ACM Sigcomm 2004. Yavatkar has published more than 30 papers in academic journals and conferences, and has co-authored the book, Inside the Internet's Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP). He serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Network magazine and, until recently, he was the vice-chairman of the Network Processing Forum, which develops standards for the network processing industry. |
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Dr. Zacharia is the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Computational Sciences at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). In this capacity, he leads the Laboratory's agenda in Terascale Computing and Simulation Science in support of DOE's missions in advancing science, national security, energy security and sustainable development. Advanced computing is critical to our science leadership and important national objectives in areas such as climate change, fusion energy, nanotechnology and biotechnology. Dr. Zacharia began his research career as a postdoctoral fellow at ORNL in 1987, and became a research staff member in the Metals and Ceramics Division in 1989. He established and served as Group Leader of the Materials Process Modeling Group in 1993 and four years later became the Director of the Computer Science and Mathematics Division. Dr. Zacharia was appointed Associate Laboratory Director in 2001. Dr. Zacharia's research in high performance computing and computational sciences has resulted in more than 100 scientific publications and two U.S. Patents. He has received numerous honors as a researcher including the A. F. Davis Silver Medal Award and the William Spraragen Award from the American Welding Society; the Champion H. Mathewson Award Co-Author Citation from the American Society for Metals; and three ORNL Technical Achievement Awards. Dr. Zacharia is also the recipient of a number of leadership awards, including the 2001 ORNL Leader of the Year Award. Dr. Zacharia has held visiting professorships and has served on organizing and program committees of several international conferences and workshops. He currently serves on a number of scientific, professional, and civic boards. Dr. Zacharia holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Masters in Materials Science and a Ph.D. in Engineering Science. |
