Florida International University, Miami, Florida, U.S.A

Dr. Heidi Alvarez, PI
heidi@fiu.edu
305-348-2006

About: Heidi L. Alvarez is an Associate Director at Florida International University (FIU) Technology Services, where she was responsible for assisting in the strategic planning and implementation of connecting high performance Research and Education (R&E) networks and US e-Science initiatives in South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean with US and Non-US National Research and Education Networks.

Dr. Peter W. Arzberger , Co-PI
parzberg@sdsc.edu
858-534-5079

About: Peter W. Arzberger is the Executive Director of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure. He is also the Director of the National Biomedical Computation Resources, an NIH research resource. He is also involved with the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) community. As a former Executive Director of SDSC, he helped coordinate local computational biology activities. He is a former Deputy NSF HPPC Coordinator, and program director of the Computational Biology Program in BIO and program director of the Statistics and Probability program in MPS.

Julio Ibarra, Co-PI
julio@fiu.edu
305-348-2400

About: Julio E. Ibarra is Director of Grants and Acquisitions in the Florida International University Technology Services Division, where he holds responsibility for the strategic planning and development of advanced networking infrastructure and services for the University. Ibarra has been active in initiatives to advance networking and Internet technologies for the State of Florida. He serves on the Governor’s IT Florida Task Force subcommittee on Infrastructure and Technology Development as a subject matter expert. He is co-author of the policy recommendation for the development of a Network Access Point (NAP) in South Florida to enhance the State’s eCommerce opportunities with Latin America.

Kuldeep Kumar, Co-PI
Kuldip.Kumar@fiu.edu
About: Kuldeep Kumar is with the Alvah H. Chapman Graduate School of Business, College of Business, Florida International University and is also a visiting professor at City University, Hong Kong.

Dr. Masoud Sadjadi, Co-PI
sadjadi@cs.fiu.edu
305-348-1835

About: Dr. S. Masoud Sadjadi received the BS degree in Hardware Engineering from University of Tehran in 1995, the MS degree in Software Engineering from Azad University of Tehran in 1999, and the PhD degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 2004. He is currently an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University. He is the Co-Director of the Autonomic Computing Research Laboratory (ACRL, http://acrl.cis.fiu.edu ), the leader of several projects under the Latin American Grid (LA Grid, http://latinamericangrid.org), and one of the Co-Founders of the Global CyberBridges (GCB, http://cyberbridges.net ). He is also affiliated with the Research and Education for Undergraduates (REU, http://www.cis.fiu.edu/reu) and the Communication Virtual Machine (CVM, http://www.cis.fiu.edu/cvm) projects at FIU. He has extensive experience in software development and leading large scale software projects. Currently, he is leading several international research projects in the Latin American Grid and is co-chair of the program committee for IEEE ICNSC 2008. His current research interests include Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, and High-Performance Computing with the focus on Autonomic, Pervasive, and Grid Computing. He is PI or Co-PI of 8 grants from NSF and IBM for total of over $3.5 million. He is a member of the IEEE.