Ocean: Team of Fall-2001


Left to right(standing): Nitin Chawla, Chaitanya Chokka, Heeyong Park, Rajesh Devarajan, Bongju Yu, Roopnath Grandhi, Mark Tobias, Erwin Jansen, Sriram Nallan, Nachiket Acharya, Pinkesh Desai, Gargi Sur, Chi-Kin Wong, Murali Negendranath, Pradeep Padala

Left to right(sitting): Sama Govindaramanujam, Dr.Michael P. Frank
University of Florida Faculty:
Name Research Area / Contribution
  • Michael P. Frank (CISE/ECE)
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  • Principal instigator. 
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  • Sumi Helal (CISE)
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  • Mobile agents and e-service workflow brokering.
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  • Joachim Hammer (CISE)
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  • Distributed applications including mobile-agent-based web crawlers and distributed databases. 
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  • Alan George (ECE dept.)
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  • High-performance computing, networking, & clusters.
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  • Wei Shyy (AeMES dept.)
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  • Distributed computational fluid dynamics algorithms. 
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  • Paul Avery (Physics dept.)
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  • Active in GriPhyN (Grid Physics Network) project, potential collaboration on market mechanisms. 
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  • Ali Haghighat (NRE dept.) 
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  • Interested in collaboration on applications in particle physics simulations.
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    Current Students:

  • Acharya, Nachiket  (nacharya@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Informal study
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  • Agrawal, Sheetul  (sagrawal@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Individual study
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  • Chawla, Nitin (nchawla@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Masters Research
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  • Chokkareddy, Chaitanya (cchokkar@cise.ufl.edu)
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  • Masters Research
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  • Desai, Pinkesh  (pbdesai@cise.ufl.edu)
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  • Informal Study
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  • Govindaramanujam, Sama (sug@cise.ufl.edu)
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  • Masters Research
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  • Jansen, Erwin (winnietoe@ufl.edu)
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  • Doctoral Research
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  • Menon, Prasad (pkp@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Individual study
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  • Nagendranath, Murali (muralimn@ufl.edu)
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  • Informal Study 
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  • Padala, Pradeep  (ppadala@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Informal Study
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  • Nallan, Sriram (sknallan@cise.ufl.edu)
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  • Masters Research 
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  • Pelfort, Nick (npelfort@cise.ufl.edu)
  • Individual Study
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  • Wadhwa, SahibSingh (ssingh@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Individual Study
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  • Yu, Bongju (bjyu@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Masters Research
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    Former Students:
  • Beniada, Albert 
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  • Senior project(Spring-Summer 2000)
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  • Daniel, Richard(rdaniel@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Senior project(Spring 2001)
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  • Devarajan, Rajesh (rd0@cise.ufl.edu)
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  • Individual study(Summer-Fall 2001)
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  • Grandhi, Roopnath (rgrandhi@cise.ufl.edu)
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  • Informal Study(Fall 2001) 
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  • Halembar, Srinivas(ssh@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Individual study(Spring 2001)
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  • Hong, SeongSeol(shong@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Individual study(Spring 2001)
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  • Je, HyungKwon 
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  • Senior project(Summer 2000)
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  • Orr, Michael 
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  • Senior project(Fall 2000)
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  • Park, Heeyong (hpark@cise.ufl.edu)
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  • Masters research(Spring-Fall 2001)
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  • Policard Jr.,Francklin (fpj@cise.ufl.edu)
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  • Informal study(Summer 2001)
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  • Rathod, Mohit(mrathod@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Senior Project(Fall 2001)
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  • Tobias, Mark (mjtobias@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Masters Thesis(Fall 2000-Fall 2001)
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  • Wong, Chi-Kin (cwong@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Individual study(Summer-Fall 2001)
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  • Wong, Tat-Chi (twong@cise.ufl.edu) 
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  • Individual study(Summer 2001)
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     Remote Collaborators:
  • Marc Garbey (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France) 
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  • Interested in collaboration on distributed computational fluid dynamics algorithms.
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  • Rajkumar Buyya (Monash U., Australia)
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  • Head of Compute Power Market, collaborator on market mechanisms.
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  • Edmund Wilson & Philip Pidot(University of Virginia-Darden School of Business)
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  • Grad student founders of VAX project (Virtual Asset Exchange, LLC). Collaborators on market and revenue concept
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  • Mark Torrance (Knowmadic, Inc.)
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  • Collaboration on XML languages and market mechanisms.
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  • Carl Witty (Newton Research Labs)
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  • Informal collaboration on architecture and test applications.
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  • Boleslaw Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytech. Inst.)
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  • Tentative collaboration on applications requiring distributed storage.
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    Early project participants:
  • Ron Bodkin:  Ron was a grad student at the MIT Lab for Computer Science and inspired Mike to start the OCEAN project in personal discussions. Ron is now Chief Technology Officer of C-bridge Internet Solutions.
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  • Mark Torrance: Mark, an alumnus of the MIT AI Lab, founded StockMaster, a successful web startup which was absorbed by Red Herring.
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  • Randy Sargent and Carl Witty:  Randy and Carl are also AI Lab alums.  They are co-owners of Newton Research Labs, which develops mobile robot systems and helped develop Microsoft's satellite web broadcasting service.
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  • Barney Pell Barney: Barney was a fellow Stanford student who led an autonomous agent software team at NASA which developed software for Deep Space One, the first AI spacecraft. Later he worked at StockMaster.
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  • Nelson Minar: Nelson was a graduate student in the Software Agents Group at the MIT Media Lab. Nelson worked on mobile agent concepts for distributed computing, and went on to found PopularPower, a company formed to provide an OCEAN-like service. (Which unfortunately went out of business - but we think we can do better!)
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