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Education
PhD, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Experience
Director, OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research Scientist for the Center for Analysis & Prediction of Storms
CONTACT
E-mail: hneeman@ou.edu
Web: hneeman.oscer.ou.edu/
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Thomas Ray
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Education
PhD, Biology, Harvard University
Experience
Professor of Zoology and Computer Science
CONTACT
E-mail: tray@ou.edu
Web: www.his.atr.jp/~ray/
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Dee H. Wu
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Education
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
Experience
Associate Professor of Radiological Sciences
Section Chief of Technological Applications and Translational Research in Radiological Sciences
CONTACT
E-mail: dee-wu@ouhsc.edu
Research: w3.ouhsc.edu/medical-physics/dwu
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David P. Miller
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Automated planning, robotics, and communications
with automated systems.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. David P. Miller is Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and
Computer Science and Wilkonson Professor of Intelligent Systems. He is also
the Technical Director of the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, located
in Norman, OK. He received the BA with Honors in Astronomy from Wesleyan
University, Middletown Connecticut and the PhD in Computer Science from
Yale University, New Haven Connecticut.
Before joining OU, he held research
positions with a variety of organizations including the NASA Ames Research
Center, the MITRE Corporation, MIT, and JPL. His general research interests
are in automated planning, robotics, and communications with automated
systems. For several years he concentrated on creating control architectures
that produce planful goal-directed behavior out of collections of real-time
reflexive routines, and then applying that work to real-world problems. He
led a team of researchers at JPL to apply these techniques to planetary
rovers which initiated a new class of low-cost planetary missions. This work
led to several NASA and JPL awards.
The application area he is currently
working with is assistive robotics for people who are mobility impaired.
While similar control techniques can be used, and the overarching
architecture is the same, this application opens up issues of communications
at the task and execution level, and managing the discourse at those
different levels between the user and the robot. This work has generated
interest from both the robotics and the rehabilitation community.
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Henry Neeman
RESEARCH INTERESTS
High performance computing,
scientific computing, parallel and distributed
computing, structured adaptive mesh refinement,
scientific visualization.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Henry Neeman is the Director of the OU Supercomputing
Center for Education & Research (www.oscer.ou.edu),
a visiting assistant professor in the School
of Computer Science and a research scientist
at the Center for Analysis & Prediction of
Storms. He received his BS in computer science
and his BA in statistics with a minor in mathematics
from the State University of New York at Buffalo
in 1987, his MS in CS from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990 and his
PhD in CS from UIUC in 1996. Prior to coming to OU, Dr. Neeman was a postdoctoral research
associate at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications, and before that served as a graduate
research assistant both at NCSA and at the Center
for Supercomputing Research & Development.
The OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research is a unique
partnership among OU Information Technology, the Vice President
for Research, and 25 academic departments from the Colleges of
Arts & Sciences, Business, Engineering, Geosciences and Medicine.
In addition to his own teaching and research, Dr.
Neeman collaborates dozens of research groups, applying High Performance Computing techniques
in fields such as numerical weather prediction,
bioinformatics and genomics, data mining, high
energy physics, seismology, astronomy, nanotechnology,
petroleum reservoir management, river basin modeling,
water resource management, engineering optimization.
He serves as an ad hoc advisor to student researchers
in many of these fields.
Dr. Neeman also has
taught a series of workshops on High Performance
Computing, directed at an audience of undergraduates,
graduate students, faculty and staff in not only
computer science but also a variety of physical
science and engineering fields. Dr. Neeman's
research interests include high performance computing,
scientific computing, parallel and distributed
computing, structured adaptive mesh refinement
and scientific visualization.
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Thomas Ray
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Evolution, evolution of complexity, evolution
in the digital medium, and evolution of differentiation.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Thomas S. Ray earned undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry at Florida
State University. He received his Masters and Doctorate in Biology from
Harvard University, specializing in plant ecology. He was a member of the
Society of Fellows of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In 1981 he
joined the faculty of the University of Delaware, School of Life and Health
Sciences. In 1993, he received a joint appointment in Computer and Information
Science at U. of Delaware, and was appointed to the External Faculty of the
Santa Fe Institute. In August of 1993, he joined the new Evolutionary Systems
Department at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International)
Human Information Processing Research Labs in Japan, as an invited researcher.
In August 1998 he became a Professor of Zoology at the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Ray is a tropical biologist who since 1974 has studied the evolution
and ecology of a variety of organisms inhabiting rain forests. His work
has focused primarily on the foraging behavior of vines in the family
Araceae, however, he has also studied ants, butterflies and beetles.
Most of his field work has been conducted in Costa Rica. Since 1982,
he has worked principally at Finca El Bejuco biological station located
in the lowland rain forests of northern Costa Rica, which he built, and
owns and operates. He is actively engaged in rain forest conservation in
Costa Rica. He is currently conducting research on evolution in the
digital medium.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biomedical Imaging Processing, 3D Visualization,
Functional and Molecular Imaging, Cancer Clinical Investigation,
and Biocommunication and Clinical Informatics.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Dee H. Wu is Associate Professor and Section Chief of Technological Applications
and Translational Research in the Department of Radiological Sciences at the
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City.
Dr. Wu received s BS in Mathematics, MS in Systems Engineer,
and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University;
all with high honors. Prior to joining OU, he held research and
clinical science positions for Marconi Medical Systems and
Philips Medical Systems. He also has held a senior programming position
at University Hospitals of Cleveland prior to that. His general research
includes fMRI (for the interrogation of brain function),
radiation therapy treatment planning/modeling, diagnostic and
therapeutic cancer biology, angiogenesis modeling, and
clinical investigation. Dr Wu holds 13 patents for inventions that he and
colleagues have created in the areas of image processing and
data acquisition of medical equipment. His major goals are to facilitate
clinical/translational investigation using both his current academic and
previous experience as an industrial imaging scientist.
The most recent application area that he is currently working with concerns
the development of regional angiogenic imaging biomarkers for cancer. He uses
time-based, spectral, and both deterministic and stochastic analysis to improve
the selection of preferential first line therapies for cancer. He is also
very interested in facilitating physician-to-physician interaction within
a hospital and the improvement to the analysis of tomographic understanding
of medical imaging modalities (CT, MRI and Ultrasound).
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