 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Sub-Contract: Personnel |
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 Art Wetzel awetzel@psc.edu Art's Web Site |
Arthur W. Wetzel, received a BA in chemistry from Thiel College in 1973 and did his Ph.D. work at the Interdisciplinary Department of Information Science of the University of Pittsburgh where he served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor from 1980 to 1981. From 1981 to 1983 he was a member of the technical staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel New Jersey developing VLSI design aids. In 1983 he joined Pixel Computer Inc. as a consulting engineer and became Vice President of R&D in 1985. Returning to Pittsburgh in 1988, he worked in the Computer Services Department of Carnegie Mellon University. Since September of 1995, he has been on the staff of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center working collaboratively with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Department of Pathology and serving as the principle investigator for PSC's portion of the Visible Human collaboration lead by the University of Michigan. He has also continued to serve as an adjunct faculty member to the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences since 1988. |
 Dave Deerfield deerfiel@psc.edu |
David W. Deerfield II, Ph.D. a computational chemist whose research interest is in metalloprotein chemistry, particularly as it applies to divalent metal ion specificity. His interest in the role of metal ions in defining tertiary structure has led to the development of a protein structure database and an inverted structure prediction algorithm. He received his BS in chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1977, his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1984, and was a postdoctoral research associate in chemistry at the University of North Carolina from 1984 to 1988. He joined the staff at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in 1988, was promoted to Coordinator in 1992, Manager in 1994 and Assistant Director in 1999 of the Biomedical Initiative. His molecular graphics have appeared in science museum productions, commercial and PBS television shows, educational videos, SIGGraph technical sessions, and as presentation graphics. |
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Anjana Kar |
Anjana Kar received a BS in Mathematics from Presidency College in India in 1979, an MA in Applied Math from University of Pittsburgh in 1982 and an MS in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 1986. She has been with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center since 1988, and has worked as a user consultant for graphics applications, and then as a systems administrator for a variety of graphics systems at the center. Currently she is working with the Visible Human Project and the Web100 project. |
| Demian M. Nave dnave@psc.edu |
Demian M. Nave received a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1997. He will complete an M.S. in Computer Science in 2001. Demian's research interests include the development of parallel algorithms and run-time systems for highly adaptive and irregular scientific applications (e.g. guaranteed-quality 2/3D unstructured Delaunay mesh generation). Currently, he is developing tools and algorithms for operator-assisted segmentation and surface extraction and meshing for the NIH Visible Human project. |
| Stuart Pomerantz Programmer smp@psc.edu |
Stuart M. Pomerantz received a BA in English and BA in Psychology from Penn State University in 1990 and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995. From 1995 to 2000 he worked as a Systems Analyst at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Mathematics operating the departmental computing cluster of Linux and Windows PCs. In 2000 he received an MS in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He joined the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in December 2000 as a Research Programmer applying his expertise in OpenGL graphics and C/C++ programming to the Visible Human and MCell projects |
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Jason Sommerfield |
Jason Sommerfield received a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering(ECE) from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. He was lead software engineer at PRR, Inc., in NY before returning to Pittsburgh for a position designing and implementing a new network infrastructure for the Port Authority of Allegheny County. Upon completion of that project, Jason joined the Advanced Systems group at the PSC in August of 1999, where he works mainly on facilities related cluster and networking projects. |
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