Founding Members
The founding members of CENTRA are the Advanced Computing and Information Systems (ACIS) Laboratory of the University of Florida with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the USA, the Center of Excellence for Cyber-Enablement of Applications (CECEA) of the National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) with support from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of Taiwan, and the ASEAN International Virtual Organization (IVO) funded by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technologies (NICT), Japan.
Each partner hosts workshops, supports researcher visits to other partners, hosts CENTRA collaborators and provides access to cyberinfrastructure testbeds. In addition to scientific outcomes, CENTRA is developing a framework to coordinate research involving these and other partners in order to achieve scientific progress and engage junior researchers in international activities.
Partners - Institutional Members
- Advanced Computing and Information Systems (ACIS) Laboratory, University of Florida, USA
- ASEAN International Virtual Organization (ASEAN IVO), National Institute of Information and Communications Technologies (NICT), Japan
- Center of Excellence for Cyber-Enablement of Applications (CECEA), Taiwan
- The Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), Portugal
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Republic of Korea
- The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
- Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA)
Operations Committee - Members
Operations Committee members consists of staff from Partner organizations and CENTRA meeting host organizations. Members are nominated and approved by the Steering Committee. The role of the Operations Committee is to support the operational needs of CENTRA.
Current Operations Committee Members:
- Vivian Haga (Chair), The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
- Andreia Passos, The Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), Portugal
- Robert Ping, Indiana University, USA
Researchers
Member researchers who engage and advise junior researchers in CENTRA-related projects include the following:
Name | Role and Institution | Interests |
Peter Arzberger | University of California at San Diego | |
Corey Baker | Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky | Cyber physical systems, opportunistic wireless communication for IoT, smart cities, smart homes, mobile health environments |
James Beach | Assistant Director for Informatics, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas | Biodiversity informatics, open-source biocollections software |
Maxine Brown | Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago | Scientific visualization, collaboration, human-computer interfaces, high-performance computing, international network infrastructure |
Charlie Catlett | Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago | Urban data science, cyber security and privacy, mobile devices and social networks |
Bill Chang | Special Advisor in the Office of Vice President for Research and Innovation, the University of Hawaii Systems | International Science and Engineering Programs Development |
Ken-Hsuan Chang | Researcher, National Museum of Marine Science & Technology, Taiwan | |
Ling-huang Chang | Professor, National Taichung University, Taiwan | Software-defined networking, wireless sensor networks |
Yi-Chun Chang | Researcher, National Museum of Marine Science & Technology, Taiwan | |
Ling-Jyh Chen | Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | Participatory urban sensing, networked sensing systems, smart cities |
Yen-Jong Chen | Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan | Urban systems, housing economics, energy application, green city |
Kum Won Cho | Vice President, KISTI, South Korea | High-performance computing |
Hsiu-Mei Chou | Associate Researcher, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan | Large-scale scientific data management, data visualization, user experience |
Susumu Date | Associate Professor, Osaka University, Japan | Grid, cloud, software-defined network |
Peter Dinda | Professor, Dep. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University | Virtualization, HPC, emphatic computing, performance models |
Tung-Yun (Tony) Fan | Researcher, National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Taiwan | Integrated coastal zone management research; reproduction, physiology, ecology and cultivation of coral reef organisms |
Renato Figueiredo | Professor, University of Florida | Peer-to-peer, cloud and autonomic computing, virtualized systems |
José Fortes | Professor, AT&T Eminent Scholar, University of Florida | Distributed software-defined systems |
Kazutoshi Fujikawa | Researcher, NARA Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan | |
Masanori Goto | Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan | Cloud computing, testbed |
Andrew Grimshaw | Professor, University of Virginia | Grid computing, high-performance parallel computing, compilers for parallel systems, operating systems |
Jason Haga | Chief Senior Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan | Continuum computing, immersive visualization, interdisciplinary collaboration |
Thomas Harmon | Professor, University of California at Merced | Environment sensors, soil, aquatic and groundwater systems |
Julio Ibarra | Assistant Vice President for Technology Augmented Research, Florida International University | Cyberinfrastructure, Networking, Internet Technologies |
Kohei Ichikawa | Associate Professor, NAIST, Japan | Distributed systems, virtualization, software-defined network |
Shantenu Jha | Professor of Computer Engineering, Rutgers University | High-performance distributed computing, computational science, cyberinfrastructure |
Tung-Ju Hsieh | CECEA Lecturer and Associate Professor, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan | Scientific Visualization, Scientific Visualization, Virtual Reality, Earthquake Engineering |
Chung-I Huang | Associate Researcher, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan | Computer vision, image processing |
Weicheng Huang | Senior Researcher, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan | Could, big data |
Krishna Kant | Professor, Temple University | Communications for disaster response, smart grid security, IoT configuration and security, data center emergy, storage systems |
Eiji Kawai | Laboratory Director, NICT, Japan | SDI, tesbed, IoT |
Hana Khamfroush | Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, USA | Cyber-physical systems (CPS) and social CPS, edge computing, online social networks, and social computing |
Myat Thiri Khine | Assistant Lecturer, University of Computer Studies, Myanmar | GIS |
Yoshiyuki Kido | Associate Professor, Osaka University, Japan | Tile-Display Wall, software-defined network |
Tae Sung Kim | Post-Doc Researcher, Seoul National University, South Korea | Video processing, hardware accelerator, SoC design |
Chih-Yu Kou | CECEA Lecturer and Researcher, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | |
Li-Chi Ku | Engineer, National Center for High-performance computing, Taiwan | Software defined network |
Hyuk-Jae Lee | Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea | Smart sensors, high-performance computing, image processing |
Jen-Gaw Lee | Associate Researcher, National Center for High-performance computing, Taiwan | Data visualization, collaboration technologies |
Jason Leigh | Professor of Computer Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa | Data visualization, virtual reality, collaboration technologies |
I-En (Ian) Liao | Professor, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan | Data mining, XML database, big data analytics, information security |
Fang-Pang Lin | Division Director, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan | Could computing, sensor network, disaster management, smart cities |
Jason Liu | Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University | Modeling and simulation, computer networking, parallel computing, computer systems |
Te-Lung Liu | Research Fellow, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan | High-speed communication network, fiber internet, network planning and management, design and planning for future platform |
Jing Yuan Luke | Senior Staff, MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia | Disaster Management, Software-Defined Network |
Francisco Maia | Post-Doc Researcher, INESC TEC, Portugal, and CEO of SafeCloud Technologies Sàrl | Large-scale data management and privacy, non-relational databases, cloud computing and distributed coordination |
Toshiyuki Miyachi | Director of Hokuriku StarBED Technology Center, NICT, Japan | Network testbed |
Ikuo Nakagawa | Associate Professor, Osaka University, Japan | Wide-area virtualized environment, Software-Defined Network |
Akihiro Nakao | Professor, The University of Tokyo, Japan | Software-defined network |
Tho Nguyen | Managing Director of the Center for Automata Processing and Senior Research Program Officer, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Virgina | Cyber-physical systems, environmental sensing, resiliency, large-scale system modeling |
Rong-Rong (Delphia) Nien | Research Assistant, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan | Sensor automation, GUI programming |
Katia Obraczka | Professor, University of California at Santa Cruz | Networks, distributed/operating systems, Internet, mobile systems |
Rui Oliveira | Associate Professor and Director of HASLab, INESC TEC, Portugal | Distributed systems |
Hong Hoe Ong | Senior Director, MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia | Disaster Management, Software-Defined Networking |
Phil Papadopoulos | Chief Technology Officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California at San Diego | High-Performance Computing, cluster computing, middleware |
João Paulo | Post-Doc Researcher, INESC TEC, Portugal | Large scale distributed systems, cloud storage security |
Frederick Kin Hing Phoa | Associate Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | Social network analysis, nature-inspired evolutionary algorithm, paralle computer, big data |
José Pereira | Assistant Professor, INESC TEC and Universidade do Minho, Portugal | Distributed systems, data management |
Beth Plale | Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University | Data science and systems |
Calton Pu | Professor, John Imlay Jr. Chair in Software, College of Computing, Georgia Tech | Distributed systems, Internet, data management, disaster management |
Glenn Ricart | Founder and CTO, US Ignite | Smart cities, networking and security |
Myint Myint Sein | Assistant Professor, University of Computer Studies, Myanmar | GIS, Image Processing, Optical Character Recognition, 3D reconstruction |
Woojin Seok | Researcher, KISTI, South Korea | Networking, testbed, cyberinfrastructure for climate services |
Steven Shiau | Researcher, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan | Parallel processing, open source development, cloud and big data |
Ce-Kuen Shieh | Director, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan | Distributed and parallel processing, internet and wireless communication, micro-computer system, operation system |
Shinji Shimojo | NICT and Osaka University, Japan | IoT, software-defined system, commons, smart cities |
João Rocha Silva | Researcher, INESC TEC, Portugal | Research data management, Dendro development, semantic web technologies |
Shava Smallen | Programmer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California at San Diego | Grid computing, parallel tomography |
Aimee Stewart | Research Architect, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute | Distributed computing, databases |
Cheng-Kai (Ceasar) Sun | Researcher, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan | HI-VISION |
Christopher Stewart | Professor, The Ohio State University | Performance modeling, distributed platforms, autonomic resource management, computer architecture |
Tso-Chung Sung | Assistant Researcher, National Museum of Marine Science and Technology, Taiwan | Integration of RFID and WSN technology, integration of shipyard production management, museum non-standard education |
Ryousei Takano | Group Leader, AIST, Japan | Operating systems, high performance networking, distributed parallel computing |
Yoshio Tanaka | Director of Information Technology Research Institute, AIST, Japan | Distributed computing, cyber physical systems, security |
Valerie Taylor | Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor, Texas A&M University | HPC, performance modeling of distributed applications, smart cities |
Naomi Terada | Technical Expert, Network Testbed Planning & Deployment Labratory, NICT, Japan | Software-defined network testbed, multimedia streaming, visualization of social data |
Hui Ping Tsai | Postdoctoral Fellow, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan | Remote sensing, land use and land cover change, climate variability |
Whey-Fone Tsai | Senior Researcher, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan | Environmental modeling, disaster management, big data application, geo-spatial application |
Nadya Williams | Systems Application Specialist, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California at San Diego | Software architecture, virtualization |
Taichi Wang | Assistant Researcher, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan | Social networks, spatial statistics, design of experiments |
Shyhtsun Felix Wu | Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean of College of Engineering, University of California at Davis | Cyber security, social computing |
Xinfu Wu | Associate Professor, Texas A&M University | High performance computing, performance and power modeling, energy-efficient computing |
Hiroaki Yamanaka | Researcher, NICT, Japan | Software-defined network, virtualization, edge computing, IoT |
Ming-Der Yang | Professor, National Chung Hsing University | Image processing, remote sensing, GIS, environmental modeling, disaster management |
Chu-Sing Yang | Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan | Internet technology, pervasive computing, surveillance system, SDN-OpenFlow |
Chi-Wei Yi | Professor, National Chiao Tung University | Sensor networks, intelligent transportation systems, mobile sensing, data mining |
Students
Name | Role and Institution | Interests |
Saumitra Aditya | PhD Student, University of Florida | Networked systems, network virtualization, social networks |
Nannapas Banluesombatkul | Graduate Student, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand | Cloud scheduling, machine learning |
Cláudia Brito | Ph Student, INESC TEC and U. Minho, Portugal | Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Privacy |
Chiao-Ming Chuang | Graduate Student, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan | Image processing, deep learning |
Michael Elliott | Graduate Student, University of Florida, USA | Distributed systems, relational databases, entity recognition, human-machine intelligence, SAGE2 applications |
Tânia Esteves | PhD Student, INESC TEC and U. Minho, Portugal | Security, Privacy-preserving storage systems |
Adam Grupa | PhD Student, The Ohio State University | Autonomic computing, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, neural networks |
Ming Tai Ha | PhD Student, Rutgers University | High-performance computing, distributed computing |
Courtney Hill | PhD Student, University of Virginia | |
Dylan Kobayashi | PhD Student, University of Hawaii at Manoa | SAGE2 development, data visualization, multiple tiled displays |
Shu-Wei Lee | Graduate Student, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan | Software-defined network, network function virtualization |
Ming-Hong Lin | Graduate Student, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan | Deep learning, IoT, AI |
Yu Shao Liu | Graduate Student, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan | Database, image processing |
Ricardo Macedo | PhD Student, INESC TEC and U. Minho, Portugal | Storage systems, Software-defined storage |
Sola Park | Master’s Student, Seoul National University, South Korea | Object detection and tracking, YOLO, autonomous driving |
Parth Patel | Undergrad Research Student, University of Florida | |
Rogério Pontes | PhD Student, INESC TEC and U. Minho, Portugal | Security, Privacy-preserving databases and storage, Multi-party computation protocols |
Srivattsan Sridharan | PhD Student, University of Florida | Autonomic computing, distributed computing, software-defined systems, model definition for information systems |
Kensworth Subratie | PhD Student, University of Florida | Virtual networks, distributed storage and resource access control |
Jyun-Yu Syu | Graduate Student, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan | Wireless technologies, media streaming and management service |
Hsin-Hung Tseng | Undergraduate Student, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan | HI-VISION |
Pongsakorn U-chupala | PhD Student, NAIST, Japan | Software-defined network, high-performance computing |
Ryan Vrecenar | PhD Student, Texas A&M University | Reverse engineering, security, binary modeling |
Juan Sebastian Aguirre Zarraonandia | Master’s Student, Osaka University, Japan | Software-defined network, Wide Area Network |