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Ian Alderman received a BA degree in Government in 1992 and a MEng degree in Computer Science in 1999, both from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He has been a graduate student in the UW Computer Sciences department since 2000, performing research on vulnerability analysis and testing before joining the Condor group in 2002. His work experience includes security consulting and testing, software engineering, and system administration. Within the Condor group, his present research focus is on data security.
Himani Apte is a graduate student in UW Computer Sciences department and is working as a research assistant for the Condor project since Fall 2004. Her current focus is on building dynamic DAGMan using ClassAds. She has received a B.E. degree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India in 2004.
Dan Bradley became a member of the Condor staff in November 2002. Dan also works in the UW High Energy Physics CMS computing group, which collaborates closely with the Condor team. He is the current maintainer for condor_glidein, schedd-on-the-side, and is an active member of the Grid Laboratories of Wisconsin (UW campus grid) technical group. Dan received his B.S. in computational physics from Harvey Mudd College in 1996.
Tim Cartwright joined the Condor team in April 2005. Tim received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1996, and has worked as a programmer and consultant since then. Now, his primary focus is on building and maintaining the Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT).
Nick Coleman is a Ph.D. student working as a research assistant for the Condor project. Before coming to the UW he received a BA in Computer Science from Wesleyan University and worked as a web application developer at IBM. He is currently working on enhancing the Condor match making process. Specifically, he is researching methods for providing diagnostic information about failed matches. Nick is a Madison native who also enjoys collecting CDs and playing badminton in his spare time.
Peter Couvares began working on the Condor Project as a full time academic staff researcher fall of 1999. Along with the shared duties of all Condor staff, his focus is on efforts to enhance Condor's support for dedicated resources such as our own cluster. Peter also helps support the Condor Project's collaboration with other research projects such as EMERGE, a high-speed QoS-enabled data network, and the Particle Physics Data Grid (PPDG). Peter graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA with a degree in Computer Sciences, and worked in the telecommunications industry as an infrastructure & applications developer and project architect before coming to UW Madison.
Alan De Smet joined the Condor team as a staff member in April 2002. Alan received a degree in Computer Science from the UW Madison in 1997. Alan's work for the Condor team has focused on grid computing, including Condor-to-Globus (Condor-G) and direct Condor-to-Condor (Condor-C).
Matthew Farrellee joined the Condor project as a research assistant in 2003, and is currently working toward his Ph.D. He received BS degrees in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Indiana University in 2003, and his Masters in Computer Sciences from the UW-Madison in 2005. His current interests are in reliability guarantees of Grid systems. His most noticeable contribution to Condor is Birdbath, Condor's SOAP interface.
Jaime Frey joined the Condor team in September 1999 as a student, later becoming a staff member. He received a bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences from UC-San Diego in June 1998 and a master's degree in Computer Sciences from UW-Madison in December 2001. His work in Condor focuses on its interaction with computational grid systems, pariticulary Globus.
Becky Gietzel joined the Condor team as a staff member in April 2003. Becky received a BS degree in Computer Science from UW Eau Claire in 2000. Becky has worked primarily on the NMI project, with a focus on testing.
Deirdre Joyce comes to the Condor team as an assistant to Professor Miron Livny. She is a graduate student at UW-Madison specializing in British and Irish history, and is firmly committed to the idea that a humanities background should not automatically translate to computer illiteracy. If she can find free time, she enjoys travel, hiking, playing with her niece and nephew, and an occasional film.
Pete Keller joined the Condor team in 1999 after achieving his B.S. in Computer Science at UW-Madison. He performs and maintains many ports of Condor to new platforms, works to design, implement, and document new features, increases Condor's reliability and stability, and enjoys teaching software engineering skills, debugging methods, and the internals of Condor to new members of the team. When he is not working on Condor, Pete spends his time writing experimental: operating systems, compilers, computer graphics algorithms, distributed AI algorithms, and exploring functional programming in Scheme, learning Homeric Greek, playing black metal guitar, as well as doing charcoal drawings.
Ken Hahn has been working for Condor as a sysadmin since May 2006.
Ameet Kini Ameet Kini is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UW-Madison. Before coming to Madison, he spent a good amount of time in the Washington DC metropolitan area, obtaining his undergraduate degree along the way from University of Maryland Baltimore County. At UW-Madison, he focuses his research interests in databases and condor, his coding skills by developing and maintaining Quill, and his extra-curricular interests by playing tennis during the summer and skiing during the winter.
Scot Kronenfeld joined Condor in February 2007. Scot graduated with a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from UW-Madison in 2005. He is working with the Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT).
Nick LeRoy joined the Condor team in September of 2001. Nick grew up in Sister Bay, Wisconsin and graduated from Carroll College (Waukesha, Wisconsin) in 1989, with a Computer Science major, and minors in Mathematics and Physics. Since then he's worked as a Software Engineer for various medical related companies in the area. Nick's responsibilities include "Linux Czar", and are still being defined fully. Nick is the primary developer of the Hawkeye System Monitoring Tool. When not working on Condor, Nick enjoys spending time with his family. Nick's computer related interests include Linux & Linux development, software development (mostly Unix based), and Unix system administration. Nick's other interests include particle physics, astronomy, woodworking, and fixing up his 100 year old house.
Miron Livny received a B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1975 from the Hebrew University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1978 and 1984, respectively. Since 1983 he has been on the Computer Sciences Department faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is currently a Professor of Computer Sciences. He has been leading the Condor project since 1986.
Anthony Magro is an undergraduate student at the UW-Madison. Anthony is working mainly as a Windows programmer for Condor team. He is seeking a BS degree in Computer Sciences.
Joe Meehean received a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 2003 and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. He is currently in the process of earning a PhD, and has been a member of the Condor team since 2004. The focus of his work has been mobile computing as it applies to the grid.
Karen Miller does technical writing for the Condor team. She grew up in the Bay area of California, and completed a BS in EECS at Berkeley. Karen has been in Madison since 1985, initially doing digital design work, followed by completing an MS in Computer Sciences at UW Madison. She has been teaching in the department and has authored two popular assembly language textbooks.
Todd Miller received his master's in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. He joined the Condor team in February of 2007, to work on NMI.
Zach Miller received his Computer Sciences degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in December of 2000 and began working for Condor shortly thereafter. His main focus is the development of the core Condor software, particularily aspects related to security features and policy. His other interests include reading, traveling, hiking and biking, and both listening to and playing a lot of music, especially Brazilian percussion.
Ross Oldenburg graduated from UW-Madison in May 2007 with a B.S. in mathematics and computer science. He is one of Condor's two sysadmins, alongside Ken Hahn. Before starting at Condor in June 2007, Ross worked under Jeff Ballard (a Condor alum) as a student hourly sysadmin at CAE. Ross likes BSD unix, synthesizers, guitars, sketch comedy, beer, and reading about physics. He also enjoys bicycling and the writing of David Foster Wallace. Ross does not like coffee that comes in cans.
Erik Paulson is the only person on the Condor Team to have had three roles: undergrad hourly, academic staff, and graduate student. He started with the Condor Team in 2000, and following his graduation spent five years as an academic staff member. He returned to graduate school in the fall of 2005, where he is interested in far too many things. Before Condor, he spent two years in the College of Engineering's Model Advanced Facility, where he worked with the lab's Immersive Virtual Reality and Parallel Computing systems, as well as the college's Condor pool.
Andy Pavlo received a BS degree in 2005 and a Masters degree in 2006 in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has been with the team since September 2005 and works on Condor, the VDT, and NMI.
Greg Quinn received his BS in Computer Sciences and Computer Engineering in 2003, and his MS in Computer Sciences in 2005, all from UW-Madison. He joined Condor Team in 2006, with a focus on maintaining and advancing the Windows port.
Rajesh Rajamani completed his undergraduate degree in Physics and Computer science, at BITS, Pilani. He was part of Condor's I/O group and was investigating techniques to facilitate large-scale data movement on the Grid. He also worked closely with the high-energy particle physicists at UW-Madison.
Alain Roy joined Condor in August 2001. Alain graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago in the fall of 2001, where he worked with Ian Foster and the Globus Project doing research in Quality of Service. His current duties include constructing the Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT) developing Classads, and other miscellanous tasks.
Marvin Solomon has been on the faculty of the Computer Sciences Department since 1976. He has conducted research in programming languages, operating systems, computer networks, and object-oriented databases. In connection with Condor, his principal interests are security, the ClassAd language, and Java.
Colin Stolley is a staff member working on the Windows version of Condor. He received his BS in Computer Sciences from UW Madison, and is currently working toward his JD at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL.
Todd Tannenbaum first became involved with the Condor Project in 1993, while working as the Unix systems manager for the UW Madison College of Engineering. In 1995, Todd became director of the Model Advanced Facility (MAF) at UW Madison, a center which focused on high performance (and high throughput) computing. In 1997, Todd joined the Condor team as a full-time researcher. On the Condor team, Todd's responsibilities include the day-to-day management of the full-time development staff. Todd is also heavily involved in the design and implementation details of future Condor releases. His contributions include the low-level libraries which provide Condor's communication framework, process management, and portability layers. As the Condor team resident Windows NT expert, Todd worked on most parts of Condor NT. In addition to research publications, Todd has over 25 articles published in several of the nation's leading software development and network administration publications such as Network Computing, Dr. Dobbs Journal, and Information Week.
Bill Taylor joined the Condor team as a staff member in August 2002. Bill received a degree in Computer Science from the UW Madison in 1980. Bill became interested in network programming in 1988 while working for a Unix manufacturer and has worked largely in this area under both Unix and Windows since. Bill's responsibilities and are still being defined.
Greg Thain joined the Condor team in November of 2004. He works on Condor's ability to run parallel codes, such as MPI, and more experimental parallel systems such as Condor's Master-Worker framework. Greg received a BS degree in Computer Sciences from the UW in 1990.
Jeff Weber joined the Condor Team in October 2003. His primary responsibilities include development for the Stork data placement scheduler, and liason for the CDF collaboration. Prior to Condor, he spent 20 years in Colorado developing spacecraft embedded control flight software.
Kent Wenger spends part of his time on Condor and part on DEVise (which includes working closely with the BioMagResBank). Kent grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Green Bay, Wisconsin, and received a degree in computer science from UW Madison in 1990 (after also studying some electrical and mechanical engineering along the way). His Condor responsibilities include the Classad Viewer and enhancements to DAGMan. When he's not working, you can often find Kent riding one of his bikes, cross-country skiing, or hiking, or, less often, scuba diving or traveling to interesting places.
Derek Wright helped bring Condor to the UW Physics department while working as a system administrator and pursuing Computer Science and Physics degrees as an honor student. He has been part of the Condor team since 1995 and has worked full time as a member of the academic staff since 1997. He now has a joint appointment with UW-Madison and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL) in Berkeley, CA. Derek's main responsibilities include development of the core Condor system and adding new features, such as support for Computing On Demand (COD), running MPI jobs on dedicated resources in Condor, support for SMP machines, etc. Derek is also the main keeper of the source code for Condor and the manager of the CVS repository for the project. At LBNL, he is working on a collaboration between the Condor Project and the Scientific Data Management group's Storage Resource Manager (SRM) Project. When he's not working on Condor, Derek is busy playing music and being politically active.
Jaeyoung Yoon received BS and MS degrees from Yonsei University in Korea. From 1999 to 2004, he worked for Samsung Electronics and a venture company as a research staff member on several projects about embedded network systems and operating systems. He has been a member of the Condor team since 2005, and is currently working towards his PhD. Return_to_top
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