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The Team and Collaborators

Director:

• Dr.Rajkumar Buyya, Associate Professor and Reader (raj)*

Research Staff:

• Dr. Srikumar Venugopal (srikumar)
• Dr. Chao Jin (chaojin)
• Dr. James Andrew Broberg (brobergj)
• Mr. Xingchen Chu (xchu)
• Dr. SungJin Choi (lotieye)
• Dr. Rajiv Ranjan (rranjan)
• Dr. Christian Vecchiola
• Dr. Alexandre di Costanzo
• Mr. Chee Shin Yeo
• Mr.Tom Kobialka (tkob)

PhD Students

• Mr. Marcos Assunção (marcosd)
• Mr. Marco A. S. Netto (netto)
• Mr. Mukaddim Pathan (apathan)
• Mr. Mustafizur Rahman (mmrahman)
• Mr. Saurabh Garg (sgarg)
• Suraj Pandey (spandey)
• Mr. William Voorsluys
• Ms. Charity Laplap

Masters by Research Students

• Khaled Ahsan Talukder (akmkat)
• Michael Mattess

* [Note: Append @csse.unimelb.edu.au to the username for email]

Master by Coursework Students (Minor Thesis/Project)

• Masters and Honours students taking our Grid course!
• Students of our new Master of Engineering in Distributed Computing (MEDC)

Collaborators

• Prof. David Abramson, Monash University, Melbourne (Nimrod-G and related Grid activities).
• Dr. Kim Branson, CSIRO, Melbourne (Molecular Docking and BioGrid since 2001).
• Dr. Fazilah Haron, Universiti Sains Malaysia (CPM Project since 2001).
• Dr. Chan Huah Yong, Universiti Sains Malaysia (CPM Project since 2001).
• Dr. Susumu Date, Osaka University, Japan (Brain Activity Analysis on Grid since 2002).
• A/Prof. Martin Sevior, School of Physics, University of Melbourne (High Energy Physics and Grid since 2002).
• Dr. Glenn Moloney, School of Physics, University of Melbourne (High Energy Physics and Grid since 2002).
• Dr. Lyle Winton, School of Physics, University of Melbourne (High Energy Physics and Grid since 2002).
• Dr. Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide (Australian Grid activities since 2002).
• Dr. Paul Coddington, University of Adelaide (Australian Grid activities since 2002).
• Baden Hughes, Language Technology Research Group, CSSE, University of Melbourne (Natural Language Processing on Grid since 2003).
• Dr. David Barnes, School of Physics, University of Melbourne (Astronomy and Grid since 2003).
• A/Prof. Chen-Khong Tham, National University of Singapore (involved in GridSim, QoS, Workflows, Sensor Grids since June 2004).
• Dr. Aaron Harwood, CSSE, University of Melbourne (on Grid federation from 2004-2006).
• Dr. Brian Smith, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne (BioGrid since 2004).
• Dr. Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany (cross fertilisation between Gridbus and the EU CatNets Project since 2004!)
• Prof. Thamarai Selvi, Anna University, Chennai, India.
• Prof. Peter Harris, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Melbourne (KidneyGrid since 2006).
• All Participants of the Global Data-Intensive Grid Collaboration.

Industry Partners

• Dr. Charles Milligan, StorageTek, USA
• Mr. Lawrence Liew, Singapore Computer Systems (SCS)
• Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch, Sun Microsystems, USA (2002-April.2004)
• Mr. Benjamin Khoo, IBM Global Services, Singapore
• Satyam Computer Services Ltd

Research Visitors

Current:

• Xiao Feng Wang, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha, China, Nov 2007-Nov-2008. (China Scholarship Council's Fellowship)
• Professor H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA, June 2-20, 2008.
• Dr. Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria: June 1 - July 31, 2008.

Past:

• Mr. Kovacs Jozsef, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (Nov-Dec, 2002)
• Dr. Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France (June 2003)
• Dr. Jean-Patrick Gelas, INRIA, France (June 2003)
• Dr. Jemal H. Abawajy, Carleton University, Canada (June-Sept, 2003)
• Bohdan Durnota, Gridopia/Tjurunga, Australia (Sept'03 - 2005)
• Dr. Rafael Moreno-Vozmediano, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (Aug-Oct, 2003)
• Prof. Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, July 2004. Sponsored by Tewksbury Fellowship at University of Melbourne Faculty of Engineering.
• A/Prof. Chen-Khong Tham, National University of Singapore, June-Oct., 2004. Sponsored by Universitas 21 Fellowship.
• Prof. Dr. Wolfram Schiffmann, The FernUniversitaet in Hagen / University in Hagen, Germany, Jan-Feb 2005.
• Jihyoun Park, Seoul National University, Korea, July-Aug 2005.
• Prof. Sushil K Prasad, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA (July-Aug, 2006), Jointly funded by GRIDS Lab, NICTA, and ARC RN for Sensor Networks, July-Aug, 2006 (report).
• Prof. T. S. Selvi, Anna University, Chennai, India, (May-June, 2006), Funded by GRIDS Lab, May/June 2006.
• Julio López Albin, PhD student, University of Santiago, Spain, July-Oct. 2006.
• Agustin C. Caminero Herraez, PhD Student, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Oct-Dec.2006.
• Roberto Podesta, PhD Student, Universita degli Studi di Genova, Italy, Oct-Dec.2006.
• Prof. Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA, Nov. 2006.
• Dr. Yoshitake Kobayashi, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, May-Dec. 2006. - Joined Toshiba R&D in Japan after visiting us.
• Prof. Dr. Christoph Reich, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany, Oct 2006-March 2007.
• Christian Vecchiola, PhD Student, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy, Oct 2006-Jan.2007.
• Dr Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, November 2006-June 2007.
• Hui Li, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, March-June 2007.
• Prof. T. S. Selvi, Anna University, Chennai, India, (July/Aug, 2007), Funded by GRIDS Lab/ISSNIP Group, May/June 2006.
• Dr. Akiko Nakaniwa, Osaka Sangyo University, Osaka, Japan, Aug(19)-Sept.(15), 2007.
• Dr.Pramod Kumar Konugurthi, Indian Space Research Organisation, Hyderabad, India, Aug 2007-Jan 2008. On DEST Fellowship.

Alumni

• Mr. Shoaib Burq (Research Assistant), 2002 - developed VPM.
• Dr. Steve Melnikoff, mid 2002 - early 2003 - contributed to new version of VPM.
• Mr. Hussein Gibbins (Research Assistant), 2003 - developed Gridscape.
• Mr. Martin Placek (B.E student), July 2002-June 2003 - developed G-Monitor.
• Mr. Ding Choon-Hoong (Research Programmer), Oct. 2003-Aug. 2004 - enhanced G-Monitor and contributed to Gridbus Broker.
• Mr.Kwai Wah Ho - Sem 1, 2004 - developed G-Monitor support for Mobile devices (MIT Project)
• Ms.Deepa Nair - Sem 1, 2004 - co-developed Unicore adaptor for Gridbus Broker.
• Mr. Akshay Luther - 2004 - led the development of Alchemi, which is a .NET based Enterprise Grid system.
• Ms. Wendy Cameron - 2004 -- contributed to gridbus broker.
• Mr. Henry Lin - 2004 - -- fininsed honours thesis on grid economy and data replication.
• Ms.Parvin Asadzadeh - MIT project 2004 -- implemented Unicore adopter for Gridbus broker.
• Mr.Alan Yim - MIT project 2004 - DEMI (Decentralized Media Streaming Infrastructure (DeMSI): P2P network.
• Dr. Shushant Goel, April-Aug 2005 - worked as PostDoc.
• Dr. Tianchi Ma, Feb 2005-March 2006 -- researched on workflows and data grids.
• Mr. Alex Barmouta (from UWA), 2002-2004 - collaborated on GridBank as part of his Masters by research studies.
• Mr. Srikumar Venugopal, July 2002-July 2006 - pursued PhD studies.
• Mr. Martin Placek, July 2004-July 2006 - pursued Masters by research.
• Mr. Krishna Nadiminti, Aug 2004-March 2007 - worked as Software Engineer/Research Fellow.
• Mr.Rajiv Ranjan, July 2003- July 2007 - pursued PhD studies.
• Mr. Hussein Gibbins, Oct. 2004-March 2007 - worked as Software Engineer/Research Fellow.
• Dr. Kyong Hoon Kim, Oct. 2005-Sept.2007 - worked as PostDoc Research Rellow (funded by Korean Govt. and Melbourne University). Moved to Gyeongsang National University, Korea (Assistant Professor).
• Ms. Jia Yu (jiayu), Feb. 2003-Oct.2007 - pusued PhD studies.
• Mr. Chee Shin Yeo, April 2003-Jan 2008 - pusued PhD studies.
• Mr. Anthony Sulistio (anthony), April 2003-April 2008 - pursued PhD studies.