CS 2003-2004 Faculty Information - Department of Computer ...

Elias N. Houstis
Education:
BS, Mathematics, University of Athens, 1969
PhD, Mathematics, Purdue University, 1974
Position:
Professor of Computer Science
Bio-sketch:
Elias Houstis has served as acting and associate head of the Department of Computer Science. He is on the editorial
board of Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computational, Computational Engineering Science, and HPC Users Web-Based
journals and a member of the IFIP WG 2.5 Working Group in Numerical Software. Houstis’s current research interests
are in the areas of problem solving environments (PSEs), parallel computation, performance evaluation and modeling,
computational intelligence, computational finance, and on-line learning. He is one of the principal designers of several
domain specific PSEs (i.e., Parallel ELLPACK, PDELab) and numerous performance evaluation studies of PDE software
and parallel architectures. He is leading the Parallel ELLPACK group, which is developing infrastructure and
implementing methodologies for reusing “legacy” PDE software on a variety of physical and virtual parallel machines
and designing a Web Parallel ELLPACK server. Houstis has been involved in the designing of a knowledge based framework
(known as PYTHIA) to support the selection of algorithm and machine pairs for a given class of PDE problems
based on performance knowledge. This framework has been applied to a simulation system for designing HPC systems
(POEMS project), a virtual laboratory environment, and recommender system for mathematical software. He has published
several books and over 120 technical articles. He has supervised 14 PhD students and several MS students. His
research has been supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, DARPA, DOE,
ESPRIT, INTEL, IBM, AT&T, Kozo-Japan, Purdue University, National Science Foundation, and the Greek Research
Foundation.
Y. Charlie Hu
Education:
BS, Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 1989
MS, Computer Science, Yale University, 1992
M. Phil., Computer Science, Yale University, 1992
PhD, Computer Science, Harvard University, 1997
Positions:
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Courtesy)
Bio-sketch:
Y. Charlie Hu’s research interests are in Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Wireless Ad hoc Networking,
and High Performance Computing. He is currently investigating program-counter-based techniques for the I/O management
in operating systems, peer-to-peer overlay networking infrastructures, the synergy between
peer-to-peer and grid computing, and the synergy between peer-to-peer mobile ad hoc networking to address key
technical challenges in these areas. His work is published in over 40 papers, including publications in
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Journal of Parallel
and Distributed Computing, USENIX OSDI, USENIX HotOS, ACM NOSSDAV, IEEE INFOCOM, International Symposium
on High-Performance Computer Architecture, and IEEE/ACM SC Conference. He received the National Science
Foundation CAREER award in 2003, and the Honda Initiation Grant in 2002. He is a vice chair for the the 2004
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