Personnel

Current Personnel

Yifeng Cui CV
Dr. Yifeng Cui has experience in regional scale high performance earthquake simulations, and an adjunct professor at San Diego State University. His expertise includes parallelization, optimization, and performance evaluation on both massively parallel and vector machines. He also has experience in distributed modeling, multimedia design, and visualization. He holds a Ph.D. in hydrology, a M.S. in hydroclimatology, and a B.S. in meteorology.
Alexander Breuer
Alexander Breuer received his diploma in mathematics in 2011 from Technische Universität München (TUM) and successfully finished his doctoral studies at the Chair of Scientific Computing of TUM in 2015. Alexander’s research covers optimizations in the entire simulation pipeline. This includes node-level performance leveraging SIMD-paradigms, hybrid and heterogeneous parallelization up to machine-size and co-design of numerics and large-scale optimizations. In 2014 Alexander was honored with an ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship for his doctoral research project. In addition he and his collaborators have been awarded with the PRACE ISC Award and nominated as ACM Gordon Bell finalists for their outstanding end-to-end performance reengineering of the seismic software package SeisSol.
	Amit Chourasia Personal Webpage
	Amit Chourasia is lead of Visualization Services at SDSC. His work centers around the development and application of software tools that allow simulation of massively large data sets produced by scientific and engineering applications. His academic research is in animation, computer graphics, and visualization. He holds a Baccalaureate degree in architecture and a Master's degree in Computers Graphics Technology.
Dawei Mu
Dr. Dawei Mu is a geophysicist. He received his Ph.D from University of Wyoming in 2015. His research is focused on developing paralleled scientific geophysical software.
	Efecan Poyraz Personal Webpage
	Efecan Poyraz is currently a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD. He got his B.S. degree from Bilkent University, Turkey and his M.S. degree from UCSD. His research is focused on efficient and robust parallel algorithms for distributed information dissemination and processing.
Daniel Roten
Daniel Roten is a computational seismologist. Prior to SDSC, he was a senior research and lecturer with Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zuerich. He received his Ph.D in seismology from ETH in 2007.

Students

	Harsha Basavaraj
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	Arjun Srinivasan
	Arjun Srinivasan is a High Performace Computing Research Assistant at SDSC. He is currently a second year undergraduate student at UC San Diego majoring in Computer Science. His work focuses on assisting the development, testing, and maintenance of seismic wave propogation software, and running this software on powerful supercomputers.
Josh Tobin
Josh Tobin is a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics, UCSD. He got his Masters degree at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he worked in the Mathematical Neuroscience Group. His current research centers around spectral graph theory and its applications.
	Gautam Wilkins
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Hui Zhou
Hui Zhou is a visiting scholarship who comes from Second Monitoring and Application Center, CEA. He received his Master Degree in CS from Chang'an University in 2009.

Alumni

	Sheau-Yen Chen
	Sheau-Yen Chen is Data Intensive Cyber Environment (DICE) Center's Data Grid System Administrator for iRODS. Currently she supported the DataNet (DFC) and CSDI projects which used iRODS for data management. Prior to DICE, she was with SDSC as a programmer/analyst and administered the Storage Resource Broker (SRB). Sheau-Yen had a M.S degrees in Biostatistics from Virginia Commonwealth University and Master of Science degree in Mathematics from Virginia State University.
	Dong Ju Choi
	Dr. Dong Ju Choi is a senior computational scientist with diverse exerptise in high performance computing software, programming, optimization, and visualization. He also has experience of database and web programming. His academic research is in the application of finite elements, acoustics, vibration, and control theory to nonlinear stress/strain analysis. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering. Dr. Choi holds an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UCSD.

Dr. Heming Xu, Shiyu Song, Lucy Chen, Susan He, Layton Chen, Boyan Zhang, Yuxiang Zhang

Dr. Cathy Zeng, Barry Lockwood, Kwangyoon Lee, Dr. Joey Reed, Dr. Hieu Nyugen, Dr. Sashka Davis

Dr. Yuanfang Hu, Jing Zhu, Dr. Timothy Kaiser, Sweta Gupta, Dmytro Sokolovskyy

External Collaborators

Dr. Scott Baden , Professor of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego

Dr. Xing Cai , Professor, Simula Research Laboratory, University of Oslo

Dr. Po Chen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming

Dr. Zizhong Chen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Riverside

Dr. Steven M. Day, Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University

Dr. James Dieterich , Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside`

Dr. Thomas Jordan , Professor in Geological Sciences, Director of Southern California Earthquake Center, University of Southern California

Dr. Timothy Kaiser , Director of High Performance and Research Computing, Colorado School of Mines

Mr. Philip Maechling , Information Technology Architect, Southern California Earthquake Center

Dr. Jean-Bernard Minster , Professor, Scripps Institute of Oceanography/University of California, San Diego

Dr. Kim Olsen, Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University

Dr. Dhabaleswar K. Panda , Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University