Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University

Geoffrey C. Fox

Distinguished Scientist and Director

Ph.D. , Cambridge University (Theoretical Physics), 1967

Geoffrey Fox is a professor and distinguished scientist, nationally renowned for his work in the development and application of parallel computers. He currently serves as Director of the Digital Science Center and has served as Director of the Community Grids Lab at Indiana University since 2002.  Fox holds faculty appointments in computer science and physics and serves as Chair of the Department of Informatics within the IU School of Informatics.

Prior to coming to IU, Fox was director of the Computational and Information Science Laboratory at Florida State University. He was also the director of the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University from 1990-2000. His research has led to two commercial spinoffs-WebWisdom.com and Anabas Inc.

Fox has worked with many distinguished scientists in his career; while at CalTech he worked with Nobel Prize winner in physics, Richard Feynman.

Fox’s current projects include research on parallelism and multi-core chips, eScience, cloud computing, and grids to support polar science and life sciences research.

email: gcf@indiana.edu

Marlon Pierce

Assistant Director

Ph.D. Florida State University (Physics), 1998

Since earning his Ph.D. in computational condensed matter physics, Marlon Pierce has focused his postdoctoral research on computational sciences with an emphasis on Grid computing and computational Web portals. Prior to joining the Community Grids Laboratory (CGL), Pierce served as Information and Communication/Enabling Technologies On-Site Lead at the Aeronautical Systems Major Shared Resource Center for the U.S. Department o f Defense. In his role as Assistant Director of the Community Grids Lab Pierce supervises the research activities of numerous Ph.D. students and acts as principal investigator on multiple federally-funded research projects.

Pierce leads research efforts in the following areas: the application of service-oriented architectures and real-time streaming techniques to geographical information systems and sensor networks; the development of open source science Web portal software for accessing Grid computing and data resources; and Grid-based distributed computing applications in computational chemistry and material science, chemical informatics, and geophysics.

Scott Beason

Yu Ma

Siddharth Maini

Gary Miksik

Sangmi Pallickara

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Josh Rosen

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