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Accelerators To Applications: Supercharging the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum
Parallel and Accelerated Computing Education (PACE) |
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Accelerators To Applications: Supercharging the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum
Parallel and Accelerated Computing Education (PACE) |
Dr. Steven Bogaerts is a rising faculty at Wittenberg University bringing fresh perspectives for the instruction of computer science and software development at the undergraduate level. He teaches a wide variety of courses across the curriculum, from introductory program to senior capstone. With material in parallel computation using MPI already in his algorithm course, Dr. Bogaerts is seeking for new opportunities to use emerging technologies. Dr. Bogaerts has represented Wittenberg University at the ACM sponsored meeting in January 2009 specifically looking at ‘rebooting’ the computer science curriculum. Dr. Bogaerts continues to research and publish in his research interest area of case-based reasoning problem solving methodologies.
Dr. Melissa Smith, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University, has more than 14 years experience with FPGA devices, the last nine of which have focused exclusively on using these devices in computing applications and as accelerators. Dr. Smith’s experience with advanced computing architectures and high-performance reconfigurable computing includes collaborative efforts in application development with scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) implementing scientific applications including computational chemistry, biomolecular simulations and bioinformatics on reconfigurable architectures. Dr. Smith also has substantial experience in performance evaluation, modeling, and scheduling with colleagues at ORNL, University of Florida, and at the University of Tennessee. Her current research focuses on reconfigurable architectures for high-performance computing, including performance analysis and modeling, application development, and methodologies.
Dr. Brian Shelburne is an associate professor of computer science and mathematics, with extensive experience teaching undergraduate students over twenty years. He has a proven track record of instruction including development of resources for use at the undergraduate level. This project will build on that experience to identify and develop enhancements to traditional computer science courses that will be certain to connect with the student and with his peer instructors.
Dr. Kyle Burke is also a rising faculty at Wittenberg University bringing fresh perspectives for the instruction of computer science and software development at the undergraduate level. He teaches a wide variety of courses across the curriculum, from introductory program to senior capstone. With special interests in game theory and its role in computer science, Dr. Burke has joined the A2A team bringing his experience in using Chapel as an instructional language at the undergraduate level for programming languages and algorithms.
Dr. Eric Stahlberg is former Director of Computational Science at Wittenberg University. He is a career-long computational scientist, experienced high-performance computing application developer, community leader and innovator, helping launch this project while a visition computational scientist at Wittenberg University. Dr. Stahlberg has helped to found and lead OpenFPGA as an international consortium of industry and academic leaders working to advance standards in reconfigurable computing.Dr. Stahlberg helped to expand Wittenberg’s growing computational science program, moving the program to the forefront of computing, use of innovative technologies, and regional workforce development with Future Jobs. Dr. Stahlberg has been very active in several communities, helping found and co-organize statewide events in bioinformatics (OCCBIO), nanotechnology (Ohio Innovation Summit), reconfigurable computing (Reconfigurable Systems Summer Institute and the High Performance Reconfigurable Computing Technologies and Applications workshop).