EPIC's Minority Serving Institution Network Virtual Institute will be showcasing lectures in specific topics for 15 months. Topics to be covered as part of the MSI Virtual institute include mechanical and materials engineering, Biomedical engineering, assistive technologies and Neuroscience, outreach and partnerships, digital signal processing, 3D modeling and Visualization, cluster computing, Access Grid, nanotechnology, and nanofabrication. Below you will find a list of leaders, scientist and researcher who will be contributing to the MSI VI. |
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Richard
Tapia Director - Center for Excellence and Equity in Education Noah Harding Professor Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics RICE University |
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Gustavo
Roig Associate Dean - College of Engineering Director - Center for Diversity in Engineering Vice-President - Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institution Florida International University a. Diversity in Engineering b. k-16 |
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Roscoe
Giles -
EPIC Principal Investigator Center for Computational Science Executive Director - Institute for African American E-Culture Boston University 50 Most Important Blacks in Research, 2004 |
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Stephenie
Mclean President - Minority Serving Institutions Network Renaissance Computing Institute Director - Education and Outreach a. Minority Serving Institutions b. Emerging High Performance Communities |
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Amado
Gonzalez - EPIC VI Principal Investigator |
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Jennifer
Teig Von Hoffman Access Grid Documentation Project Scientific Computing and Visualization Boston University a. Access Grid Pioneer |
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Malek
Adjouadi - Director Center for Advanced Technology and Education The Engineering Center Florida International University a. Assistive Technologies and Neuroscience research b. electroencephalogram (EEG) one sensor per machine in a 256 sensor head cap c. (EEG) is a test to detect abnormalities in the electrical activity of the brain |
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Alson
Been |
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George
Dulikravich - Chair Mechanical and materials Engineering Multidisciplinary Analysis, Inverse Design, Robust Optimization and Control Laboratory The Engineering Center Florida International University a. Optimized Design of Cooling of Turbine blades b. Cooling of Human Brain of Stroke victim c. Materials Processing using Magnetic and Electric Fields |
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Allison
Clark Director - Humanities, Arts, Science, Technology, Advanced Collaboratory Creative Computing and Technologies University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign a. Humanities and Cyberinfrastructure |
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Eric
Crumpler Biomedical Engineering The Engineering Center Florida International University McNair Program Coordinator a. Bioreactors, bioengineering, and biomaterials for drug delivery and tissue engineering |
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Cynthia Lanius Associate Director Math Forum @ DREXEL Drexel University a. Women in Math and Computing b. k- 12 |
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Anthony
McGoron Biomedical Engineering The Engineering Center Florida International University a. Drug Delivery and Drug Transport Modeling b. Modeling and Simulation c. Specific fields targeted are a. Biology b. Chemistry c. Life Science |
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Robert J. Moorehead |
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Sakhrat
Khizroev Nanosystems Research Center The Engineering Center Florida International University a. Computational Nanotechnology b. Nanofabrication c. Perpendicular Magnetic Recording |
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Tom
Coffin |
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Armando
Barreto Digital signal Processing Laboratory Electrical and Computer Engineering The Engineering Center Florida International University a. Neural Networks and Digital Signal Processing b. 3D Spatial Sound |