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Session: Grids Around Asia "The APAC Grid Program
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Professor
Rohl is a world recognized leader in the
field of computer simulation of surfaces.
He has focused on the simulation of surface
interactions in growing crystals but the
methods and programs that he has developed
are directly relevant to many areas of materials
science and nanotechnology. He has been involved
in the development of two leading computer
simulation packages for materials science
called MARVIN and GULP, both of which are
used in hundreds of laboratories worldwide.
He is the author of over 90 refereed papers
and has attracted millions of dollars of
research funding. In 2004, he became the
CEO of iVEC, 'The hub of advanced computing
in Western Australia' This unincorporated
joint venture involves three Universities,
a vocational educational and training (VET)
provider and the Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
and provides access to advanced computing,
large-scale storage, high-speed communications
and scientific visualisation. iVEC has enthusiastically
embraced grid technologies and is a very
active partner in the development of the
APAC National Grid. 
Dr
Saiful Azmi Husain is the Chairman of the
ASEAN Science and Technology Research and
Education Network Alliance (ASTRENA), a project
of the ASEAN sectoral Committee on Science
and Technology (COST). He is currently Dean
of Student Affairs and Lecturer, Department
of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Universiti
Brunei Darussalam. He obtained his BSc Ed
from Brunei, MSc from University of East
Anglia, and his PhD from the Australian National
University. His current research mainly focuses
on modelling, analysing and simulating the
visco-elastic materials, such as food dough,
household plastics, glasses, bone and muscles.
He is a visiting scientist at the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
(CSIRO) and the Australian National University
(ANU), Canberra, Australia.
Hai
Jin is a Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering at the Huazhong University of Science
and Technology (HUST) in China. He is also
the Dean of School of Computer Science and
Technology at HUST. He received his PhD in
computer engineering from HUST in 1994. In
1996, he was awarded German Academic Exchange
Service (DAAD) fellowship for visiting the
Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany.
He worked for the University of Hong Kong in
1998 - 2000 and participated in the HKU Cluster
project. He worked as a visiting scholar at
the University of Southern California in 1999
- 2000. He is the chief scientist of the largest
grid computing project, ChinaGrid, in China.
Dr. Jin is a senior member of IEEE and member
of ACM. He is the member of Grid Forum Steering
Group (GFSG). His research interests include
cluster computing and grid computing, peer-to-peer
computing, network storage, network security,
and high assurance computing. 
Satoshi Sekiguchi joined Electrotechnical
Laboratory, Agency of Industrial Science and
Technology in 1984, and is the founding director
of Grid Technology Research Center (GTRC),
AIST since 2002. He is a member of IEEE, SIAM,
IPSJ, and is a chair of the SIGHPC. He has
served as a steering committee member of the
Global Grid Forum (GGF) till 2003, and now
a member of GGF advisory committee. He has
been one of technology and community leaders,
who is in particular one of the PIs of the
Ninf project since 1995, the founder of the
Asia Pacific Grid partnership (ApGrid), National
Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI), and chairing
Japan Grid Consortium (JpGrid).
Simon
Lin is Director of Computing Centre,
Academia Sinica and the Executive Officer
of the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium.
He is also the Chair of the General Support
Division, which supports the infrastructure
operation and maintenance of Taiwan's
National Digital Archives Program. Simon
Lin received his PhD degree from Edinburgh
University in Theoretical Physics. His
research interests include Computational
Physics and Scientific Computing, Statistical
Physics and Field theory, Grid Computing,
Metadata and Digital Archives. He is
also an adjunct professor in several
universities.
Fang-Pang
Lin is a key developer for developing
a national cyber-infrastructure, namely
Knowledge Innovation National Grid (KING).
He initiated the Ecogrid project within
PRAGMA as well as within KING to overarch
international collaboration and extended
development of KING for the year 2003.
His recent major efforts include Grid-based
Lake Metabolism research and Telescience
in PRAGMA, World Wide Meta-computing
with HLRS, Germany and workflow model
with AIAI, Edinburgh University. Fang-Pang
Lin obtained his PhD in University of
Wales at Swansea, UK. He worked in Rolls-Royce
University Computing Center in Oxford
University as a research scientist after
one-year postdoctoral research in Swansea.
He joined NCHC in 1997 and has been working
in numerical simulation and software
engineering regarding application integration. 
Putchong
Uthayopas works at Department of Computer
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,
Kasetsart University, Thailand. He is
also Director of the Thai National Grid
Center, Software Industry promotion Agency
(SIPA), Ministry of Information and Communication
Technology. His research interests are
cluster and Grid computing technology
especially in middleware and tools. He
is actively involved in many Cluster
and Grid Computing activities in Thailand
and Asia Pacific. He is the co-founder
of Thai National Grid Project. In addition,
he is a co-chairman of Grid committee
and e-science working groups of APAN.
He is also a Thailand's representative
in PRAGMA, ApGrid, and ASTRENA project.
During summer of 1998, 1999, 2000, and
2001 he was a visiting scholar at Argonne
National Laboratory working with MPICH
team on cluster computing environment. 
Dr. Yike Guo is a professor in computing
science in the Department of Computing,
Imperial College London. His research
is in the area of parallel applications
and network computing including parallel
data mining algorithms, distributed data
mining systems, decision support systems
and parallel symbolic computation. He
is also leading two research and development
teams to build an 
Professor Ross D. King has an international
reputation in bioinformatics, chemo-informatics
and machine learning based on more than
20 years experience in these fields.
His first degree was in Microbiology
from the University of Aberdeen, he then
did an MSc in computer science from the
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His
PhD degree from the Turing Institute
was perhaps the first bioinformatics
Ph.D. in the UK. He has more than 100
refereed publications in computer science,
biology, and chemistry, including six
citation classics (papers with more than or equal to 100
citations). He founded and leads the
Computational Biology group in the Department
of Computer Science, University of Wales,
Aberystwyth. In 2000 RDK co-founded the
start-up company PharmaDM which carries
out contract research for big Pharma,
and markets drug-design software. Most
recently, he has led the Robot Scientist
project which demonstrated how biological
experiments can be automated efficiently
and in a closed-loop manner
Dr. Robert Stevens is a senior lecturer
in Bioinformatics in the bioHealth Informatics
Group (
Prof.
David De Roure is Head of Grid and
Pervasive Computing in the 
Mark
K. Smith is the Managing Director of
the Gelato Federation. He works with
Federation Members and Sponsors around
the world, fostering collaborative
relationships among Members, Sponsors,
and the general community to advance
the Linux Itanium platform. Mark leads
a technical team at University of Illinois
and dedicates time to educating the
general community about the advantages
of the platform. Prior to joining Gelato,
he worked in the software industry
for 10 years. Mark holds a Ph.D. in
engineering from the University of
Illinois.
Jeff
Adie has a very strong practical
background in visual and high-performance
computing with the ability to architect
solutions for a broad mix of customers
in the entertainment, simulation and
HPC sectors. As both an artist and a
technologist, Jeff has extensive experience
and a considerable depth of knowledge
in the areas of feature film, broadcast
television, post-production, visualisation,
simulation, performance tuning and software
design/development.
Jeff's wide range of
creative and technical skills enable
him to help clients select the appropriate
mix of SGI and third-party technologies
to solve problems, or to build entire
solutions.
Professor
Lawrence Pinsky is the chairperson of
the Physics Department at the University
of Houston. He holds a B.S. in
physics from Carnegie-Mellon University
and an M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from
the University of Rochester. Professor
Pinsky also holds J.D. and LL.M. degrees
from the University of Houston's Law
Center. He is licensed to practice
law in the State of Texas, specializing
in intellectual property and information
law, as well as being a licensed patent
attorney. Professor Pinsky is a member
of the ALICE-USA Collaboration and has
served as the Computing Coordinator for
that effort. He is a member of
the ALICE Computing Board and the CERN
Grid Deployment Board. At the University
of Houston he is a member of the Executive
Committee of the Texas Learning and Computation
Center. Professor Pinsky also has
an extensive NASA-supported research
effort in the development of Monte Carlo
Transport codes for use in simulating
the space radiation environment. 
Kumaran
is a serial entrepreneur who brings the
breadth and depth of executive experience
into the company. Prior to the founding
of Protege, Kumaran was the CEO of Zenith
Software Technology which qualified for
the Technology Incubation Program in May
2000, under the auspices of A*Star (formerly
known as the National Science and Technology
Board) in Singapore. His current responsibilities
include strategy formulation, financial
management, business development, product
development and marketing. Kumaran graduated
with a Bachelors of Information Technology
from the University of Queensland, Australia,
was a recipient of the Letter of Outstanding
Performance. His hobbies include writing,
listening to music, reading about history
and doing social work. He is blessed with
a wife and two children.
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