| Q. Jim Chen |
q.chen@northeastern.edu |
Leading PI / Project Directory / Modeler |
Dr. Q. Jim Chen is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Marine and Environmental
Sciences at Northeastern University. He was the first CSRS Distinguished Professor of Coastal
Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at LSU and served as the Coast
to Cosmos Focus Area lead at CCT. His research interests include Coastal Engineering, Numerical
Modeling, Water Wave Mechanics, Coastal Hydrodynamics, Nearshore Sediment Transport, Coastal Hazard
Prediction and Mitigation, and High-Performance Computing.
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| Robert Twilley |
rtwilley@lsu.edu |
Co-PI / Chief Scientist / Modeler |
Dr. Robert Twilley has been executive director of the Louisiana Sea Grant Program since 2012 and
previously was Vice President for Research at University of Louisiana at Lafayette and director of
the Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute at LSU. He has been heavily involved in the coastal master
planning process and served on numerous advisory and technical committee guiding Louisiana’s coastal
work. Twilley founded the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio and the Center for Ecology and
Environmental Technology at UL Lafayette. His research interests include system ecology and
biogeochemistry of coastal wetlands, conceptual and simulation models, coastal ecosystem
restoration, and nutrient dynamics.
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| Honggao Liu |
honggao@tamu.edu |
Co-PI / Project Manager / HPC Specialist |
Dr. Honggao Liu is the Director of High Performance Research Computing (HPRC) at Texas A&M
University (TAMU). HPRC has supported a broader range of compute-intensive and data-intensive
projects and helped more researchers in more disciplines use HPRC resources to advance their
research. HPRC now participates the NSF XSEDE Campus Champion program to assist campus researchers
to use the national leadership resources, and provides a pathway for campus researchers to easily
connect to national and international activities. Dr. Liu conducted research on multiphase reactive
polymer flow in porous media and reservoir simulations during 1997-2002 at LSU. He received his Ph.D
in Chemical Engineering from LSU in 2002.
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| Steven Brandt |
sbrandt@cct.lsu.edu |
Co-PI / Lead of CaFunwave / HPC Specialist |
Dr. Steven Brandt is the Assistant Director on Computational Science at the Center for Computation
and Technology at LSU. Brandt obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
for his
research in numerical simulations of rotating black holes. He currently serves as an adjunct faulty
member in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and is involved in research into making
parallel programming more effective. He works with the STEllAR team led by Dr. Hartmut Kaiser, and
helps lead the Cactus Frameworks effort. He is Co-PI on grants relating to Cactus Frameworks
development and cyberinfrastructure for the Coastal Hazards Collaboratory.
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| Z. George Xue |
zxue@lsu.edu |
Co-PI / Modeler |
Dr. George Xue is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Studies. Dr.
Xue
started his Ph.D. study at NCSU in fall 2005 to pursue a better understanding of the transport and
deposition dynamics of Mekong River (the largest river in Southeast Asia) sediments. Being the first
ever U.S. marine science student working on the Vietnamese coast, Dr. Xue's Ph.D. dissertation
research dealt with geological processes of both contemporary (sediment transport modeling) and
post-Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) time scales (acoustic profiling and coring). Upon receiving his
Ph.D. degree in Marine Sciences in 2010, Dr. Xue joined the Ocean Observing and Modeling Group as a
postdoctoral research associate and has been exposed to a number of interdisciplinary oceanographic
studies including coupled ocean-wave- sediment transport modeling, operational Nowcast/Forecast
system development, tracer simulation for oil spill, storm surges assessment, and ocean glider
deployment. Dr. Xue is now working on a coupled physical-biogeochemical model trying to qualify
impacts of land use and climate changes on riverine inputs, mainly the Mississippi/Atchafalaya, and
the structure and productivity of marine ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico.
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| Xin Li |
xinli@cct.lsu.edu |
SI / Lead of Visualization and Data Interpretation |
Dr. Xin Li is an associate professor jointly in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and
CCT. He received his PhD in computer science from Stony Brook University in 2008 before joining CCT.
His research interests include geometric data processing, image processing and analysis,
computer graphics, vision, visualization, and medical imaging.
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| Qingyang Wang
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qywang@csc.lsu.edu |
SI / Lead of Coastal Model Repository / Science Gateway |
Dr. Qingyang Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at
Louisiana State
University. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2014.
His research is in distributed systems and cloud computing with a current focus on performance and
scalability analysis of large-scale web applications (e.g., Amazon).
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| Sam Bentley |
sjb@lsu.edu |
SI / Modeler |
Dr. Sam Bentley is a professor and Vice President at the Office of Research and Economic Development
of LSU. He is also the Billy and Ann Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology. As a marine
sedimentologist, his work involves field, laboratory, and modeling studies of sediments
and stratigraphy on continental margins of ocean basins, including the Mississippi Delta. His
specific interests include applications of sediment radiochemistry to studies of sediment flux and
accumulation along margins, among other things.
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| Clint Willson
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cwillson@lsu.edu |
SI / Modeler |
Dr. Clint Willson is the Mike N. Dooley, P.E. Professor of Civil & Environmental
Engineering and Director of the Center for River Studies. His research
interests include physical and numerical modeling of river hydrodynamics
and sediment transport and high-resolution X-ray tomography of porous
media.
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| Junhong Liang |
jliang@lsu.edu |
SI / Modeler |
Dr. Junhong Liang received a B.Sc. in Engineering Mechanics from Sun Yat-sen University in 2004, an
M.Phil. in Civil Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2006, and a
Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011.
Prior to joining LSU, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington. Dr.
Liang studies oceanic physical and biogeochemical processes by combining numerical simulations and
observations. He has active research efforts in air-sea gas exchange, boundary layer turbulence,
marine particles, and eastern boundary upwelling systems. The objective of his research is to better
predict future changes in marine environment under a changing climate.
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| Jian Tao |
jtao@tamu.edu |
SI / CRC CI Development Team lead / Developer |
Jian Tao is a research scientist and adjunct professor at Texas A&M University.
He received his Ph.D in Computational
Astrophysics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2008.
He is a contributor of the SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark suite. He is also an NVIDIA DLI University
Ambassador and XSEDE Campus Champion at Texas A&M University. His research interests include
computational physics, high performance computing, parallel programming, numerical algorithms,
computational framework, data analytics, machine learning, and workflow management.
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