Administrative Experience (Academic)

Elected Chair IEEE TCPP (2007-09):

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP). TCPP acts as an international forum to promote parallel processing research and education, and participates in setting up technical standards in this area. Issues related to the design, analysis and implementation of parallel, distributed and concurrent hardware and software systems and solutions are of interest. These include design and analysis of architectures and algorithms, and application development. The TCPP sponsors professional meetings, brings out publications, sets guidelines for educational programs, and coordinates academia, funding agency, and industry activities in the above areas. We have initiated a number of new activities to promote active graduate student participation in TCPP and its dozen-strong sposnored conferences, inclyding its flagship IPDPS conference. Theses include PhD Forum, students travel award assistance (through NSF and TCPP grants), Outstanding service awards, and a new workshop on recinfigurable computing. Details are at http://tcpp.computer.org.

2000 - : Director, GSU-GEDC Distributed and Mobile Systems Research (DiMoS) Laboratory.

As P.I. of the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC - formerly Yamacraw) Embedded Software Research Contracts (2000-04), led a GSU team of seven faculty and over dozen and a half Ph.D./M.S. students, with active collaboration of three Georgia Tech faculty and their students. It had resulted in about 6,000 Square Feet of research space in the Technology Square Research Building on Georgia Tech campus with a 800 SF of software/hardware laboratory space (housing Distributed and Mobile Systems Laboratory (DiMoS)), and offices for seven faculty members and their students, and numerous workstations, handheld devices, and other equipments. Five utility patent applications and over two dozen provisional patent filings have resulted, in addition to several publications and work on theses and dissertations. The average research spending was over $200K.

The lab is now located in the Georgia Tech campus at Room 438, 85 Spring Street, Atlanta, GA, and currently houses about a dozen Ph.D./M.S. students. Current research thrusts includes distributed workflows over web services, flexible security architecture in grids, ad-hoc sensor networks, distributed simulation data structures and algorithms, collaborative editing systems, and platform technologies for collaborative and distributed applications.

2008 - 09: Chair, College Bylaws Committee

Revamped the bylaws working with the Dean's Office, with focus on college committee structure.

2007 - 09: Chair, Honors and Awards Committee, Dept. of Computer Science

2007 - 08: Member, College Bylaws Committee

2003 - 05: College Bylaws Committee

(member 03-04, elected chair 2004)

1996 - Present: Help direct the Core Facility on High Performance Computing

currently consisting of an Origin -2000 with 24-CPU, 4G main memory, and 200GB hard-drive. We are supplementing it with a infiniband interconenct based 86-core cluster with GPGPU chips. Directed the software and hardware upgrades, maintenance, and operations in conjunction with Chair, System Administrator, and the faculty at large from CS, Biology, and Chemistry departments. Activities included acquisition of 8-CPU Silicon graphics `SGI1' from computing center under my direct initiative in 1996, and its subsequent replacement by a 16-CPU Origin-2000 high performance computer in 1999 and then its extension by another eight CPUs in 2000, representing a total inves tment of $308K on the part of the college and the university.

Also participated in a successful proposal process to Georgia Research Alliance to procure funding for an 80-CPU myrinet-based linux cluster - configured and negotiated with several vendors and obtained bids.

2000 - Present: Chaired Committee for Ph.D. Qualifier Examinations in Algorithms Area

for setting up syllabus, preparing the qualifier exam, and grading papers in spring and in fall. Also, served on the corresponding Committee for Automata area (2000 - 03).

2000 - 02: College Graduate Council.

I was elected to the at-large position in 2000, nominated by Chair of Physics and Astronomy, Prof. Nelson. I brought my experiences as the Graduate Director of CS, and have actively participated in all deliberations and contributed to key issues.

2002: Chair Evaluation Committee

of Prof. Fraser, Chair of Computer Science (triennial review) for the College of Arts & Sciences.

2000 - 01: GSU Internal Grants Programs Peer Review Committee.

This was the unique first-time committee organized by VP for Research to review all the proposals submitted through a number of programs that provide financial support for faculty research, scholarships, and artistry.

1998 - 2000: College Curriculum Committee:

Evaluated over 100 course proposals in each spring.

1999 - 00: Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Changing Credit Hours.

Proposed, revised, and obtained faculty approval on changing all senior and graduate courses to four hours, and on the new B.S. program based on concentrations, and the new M.S. program. This work resulted while serving on the department and college curriculum committees and has helped reduce course load for students and number of courses taught by faculty as we went through semester conversion.

1998 - 99: Founding Director of Graduate Studies, Computer Science Dept.

I have worked hard throughout my tenure at GSU to push research into the agenda of CS program in general and that of parallel/distributed high performance computing research in particular, with a keen eye on obtaining a Ph.D. program in CS. Toward this goal, I initiated thesis-only M.S. program to demonstrate a solid activity in research involving faculty and students to the college and university, worked toward Ph.D. proposal, prepared and obtained faculty approval on the new Ph.D. degree requirement as department's first Director of Graduate Studies, and procured high performance computing infrastructure.

I developed a 72-hour curriculum for the Ph.D. program in computer science including its examinations, admission requirements, and over 20 new courses at 8000 and 9000 level. Also, I revamped the degree and admission requirements for M.S. in computer science and developed and installed a web site for graduate program in computer science with online request and download facility for application material.

1998 - 99: Ad Hoc Committee for Developing P&T Manual for Computer Science.

Took lead role in defining the criteria for professional development category, and participated in defining the criteria for instruction and service categories.

1998: College Ad Hoc Committee for Faculty Selection in Newly-Created Dept. of Computer Science.

A high-powered committee that defined the criteria for defining memberships to the newly-created department as it split from earlier Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, and reviewed faculty credentials to create initial set of faculty members in the CS dept (other members included Associate Dean Boykin and Prof. Nelson, Chair of Physics and Astronomy).