Indiana University

 

People

Leadership


Andrew Lumsdaine

Andrew Lumsdaine

Director

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992

Professor Andrew Lumsdaine is an Associate Director of the Digital Science Center and Director of the Open Systems Lab. Lumsdaine received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1992 and from 1992 through 2001, he was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include computational science and engineering, parallel and distributed computing, software engineering, generic programming, mathematical software, and numerical analysis. Professor Lumsdaine is a member of ACM, IEEE, and SIAM, as well as the MPI Forum, the BLAS technical forum and the ISO C++ standards committee. In 1995, he received the Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation.

    Contact Andrew Lumsdaine at lums [at] osl [dot] iu [dot] edu.

 

Research Scientists


 

William Byrd

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Ph.D., Indiana University, 2009

Will Byrd is a postdoctoral researcher at the Open Systems Lab. His research interests are in programming languages, with an emphasis on functional, logic, and declarative programming. He is co-author of The Reasoned Schemer (MIT Press, 2005).

    Contact Will Byrd at webyrd [at] osl [dot] iu [dot] edu.

 


Randy Heiland

Research Scholar

M.A., Mathematics, Arizona State University
M.S., Computer Science, University of Utah
B.S., Computational Mathematics, Eastern Illinois University

My research interests are in various areas of [high performance] scientific computing, applied mathematics, and visualization. I enjoy working closely with application scientists, helping them solve interesting problems which are hopefully benefiting society in some way. I also enjoy educational outreach activities aimed at K-12 students that involve science and mathematics. For more information, see: http://mypage.iu.edu/~heiland/

    Contact Randy Heiland at heiland [at] indiana [dot] edu.

 


Jeremiah Willcock

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Ph.D., Indiana University, 2007
M.S.C.S.E., University of Notre Dame du Lac, 2002
B.S., Northern Michigan University, 1999

Jeremiah Willcock is a postdoctoral researcher at the Open Systems Lab. His research interests include graph algorithms, communication methods for parallel computing, and programming languages.  For more information, see: http://www.osl.iu.edu/~jewillco/

     Contact Jeremiah Willcock at jewillco [at] osl [dot] iu [dot] edu.

 


Marcin Zalewski

Marcin Zalewski

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Ph.D., Chalmers University, 2008
M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2003

Marcin Zalewski is a postdoctoral researcher at the Open Systems Lab. His research interests lay in the area of programming languages. In particular, his interests include topics such as generic programming (C++, concepts, property-based, staged...), metaprogramming techniques, software libraries, and algebraic specification. For more information, see: http://osl.iu.edu/~zalewski/

    Contact Marcin Zalewski at zalewski [at] osl [dot] iu [dot] edu.

 

Graduate Research Assistants

 

Joseph Cottam

Graduate Research Assistant

Joseph is currently a PhD student in Comptuer Science. He is working on visualization of the status of running software and software systems.

   Contact Joseph A. Cottam at jcottam [at] cs [dot] indiana [dot] edu.

 

 

Nicholas Edmonds

Graduate Research Assistant

B.S. Vanderbilt University 2003 (Computer Science and Math)

Nick is currently enrolled in the Computer Science Ph.D. program. His primary interests are generic programming, parallel programming, graph algorithms, general high performance computing, and microsensor networks. His current project is a Parallel Boost Graph Library.

   Contact Nick Edmonds at ngedmond [at] osl [dot] iu [dot] edu.

 

 

Andrew Friedley

Graduate Research Assistant

B.S., University of Northern Iowa, 2005
M.S., Indiana University, 2008

Andrew Friedley is a Ph.D. Candidate in Compute Science at Indiana University. His interests include high-performance networking, parallel programming, and performance optimization techniques for emerging architectures.

 

 

Mike Hansen

Graduate Research Assistant

B.S. University of Wyoming, 2006 (Computer Science)

Mike is a research assistant in the OSL and is currently working towards his Ph.d. in Computer Science / Cognitive Science. His interests include intelligent systems, algorithmic information theory, and meta-programming.

   Contact Mike Hansen at mihansen [at] osl [dot] iu [dot] edu

 

 

Eric Holk

Graduate Research Assistant

B.S., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2006 (Computer Science and Mathematics)

Eric is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include programming languages, distributed computing and network security.

   Contact Eric Holk at eholk [at] cs [dot] indiana [dot] edu.

 

 

Abhishek Kulkarni

Graduate Research Assistant

M.S., Indiana University, 2009 (Computer Science)

Abhishek is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include parallel and distributed middleware, fault tolerance, reactive systems and programming methodologies and languages.

   Contact Abhishek Kulkarni at adkulkar [at] osl [dot] iu [dot] edu.

 

 

Staff

 

DongInn Kim

System Administrator

M.S. Indiana University, 2011 (Computer Science)
B.S. Indiana University, 2004 (Computer Science)

DongInn Kim takes care of all the OSL computing resources: 10 server machines and 23 Apple(G5) workstations. He is also working for OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resources) and is one of the OSCAR core members. His interests include parallel computing and clustering computing.

    Contact DongInn Kim at dikim [at] osl [dot] iu [dot] edu.

 

 

Rebecca Lowe

Lab Manager

M.P.A, Indiana University, 2005
B.S., Indiana University, 2003

Rebecca Lowe is the Manager for the Open Systems Lab.  Her primary duties include financial management, personnel administration, grant submissions, project management, and reporting. 

    Contact Rebecca Lowe at mrslowe [at] indiana [dot] edu.

 

 

Benjamin D. Martin

Research Assistant

B.A., Valparaiso University, 2001 (Computer Science and Mathematics)
M.S., Indiana University, 2003 (Computer Science)

Benjamin D.Martin is currently doing research in generic programming.

    Contact Benjamin Martin at benjmart [at] indiana [dot] edu.