"CRI: Experimental Research in High-Performance Computing and Wireless Networking"
The University of Texas at San Antonio
6900 North Loop 1604 West, San Antonio, Texas 78249-0669, USA.
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Principal Investigator/Project Director: G.V.S. Raju
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering
Senior Personal:
Rajendra V. Boppana (Co-PI)
David Akopian (Senior Person)
Artyom Grigoryan (Co-PI)
Turgay Korkmaz (Co-PI)
Oscar Moreira-Tamayo (Co-PI)
Students:
Fatma Arslan (PhD) - graduated in 2007
Rehan Akbani (PhD)
Phani K. Sagiraju (PhD) - graduated in 2007
Su Xu (PhD)
Yaddanapadi Prasad (PhD)
Gali Praveen (PhD)
Naghdali Khalil (PhD) - new student (2008)
Shruthi Sreekanta (MS)
Elias Gonzalez (MS)
Collaborators and Contacts:
Dr. Borries Demeler, Dept. of Biohemistry, UT Health Science Center
Abstract of the Proposal
This proposal is an extension of the MII planning grant (CNS--0424583) awarded in 2005 to ECE at
the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to develop research infrastructure (human and equipment)
and to develop research collaborations with faculty in CS and biomedical engineering programs.
MII program is merged with Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) program.
The main purpose of an MII award is to build infrastructure and to attract
and retain minority students and to graduate them through graduate school.
UTSA is currently implementing its strategic plan to become a Research One university.
UTSA was recently designated by the University of Texas System Board of Regents
to become the systems next flagship institution. In the past academic year,
enrollment at UTSA was over 26,000 with
59% minorities and 54% women. CS and ECE programs have 50 doctoral students, out of
which 10% are women and minority students. Though our PhD programs
are new, we have several researchers working in highly active areas
of national importance such as wireless networks and their security,
high-speed networking, parallel and distributed computing, and image processing.
This is a collaborative request from the faculty in the ECE and CS programs at
UTSA to enhance research infrastructure and to increase graduation rates of
women and minorities in CISE fields.
The key characteristics of this proposal are: multidisciplinary infrastructure development,
multi-program sharing of research resources, enhancing current research efforts
and creating new synergy among various research groups involved,
leading to scholarly publications and additional research ideas,
improving gender and ethnic diversity in graduate programs at
UTSA and expanding pool of minority students electing to pursue academic positions or high tech jobs.
This grant supports five Ph.D. students in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and purchase of equipment needed to conduct research.