News 

Events

Press Corner

Press Releases

Press Coverage

Multimedia Corner

Partners' Spotlights

Documents

Annual Reports

Newsletter

Technical Documents

Presentations

 

openlab Phase III

Automation Controls CC

Database CC

Networking CC

Platform CC

Previous Phases

Management

Education Corner

 

Student Programme

What is it?

How to apply-2012

Students-2012

Programme-2012

About CERN openlab

What is it?

Participants

Guiding Principles

 
 
 
 

Printable Version

Short biography of people currently involved in CERN openlab

 

Zbigniew Baranowski

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Oracle

Since 2003 I was studying information technology at Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology. In 2006 I did one year break joining CERN as a technical student in IT-PSS group. During my stay I developed Streams Monitor tool which provided dashboard for all experiments to the distributed database environment. In February 2008 I obtained bachelor degree of software engineering. I have designed system of load-balancing cluster with web interface. In June 2009 I defended my master thesis concerning formal verification of concurrent systems. Afterwards I came back to CERN to the same group as an openlab fellow sponsored by Oracle. Now I am starting to work on Oracle 11g testing concerning streams replication.

 

Renaud Barillere

Staff

Renaud Barillre has been working at CERN since 1989 for the control of the CERN experiments. He is currently leading a team responsible for the design, development and procurement of the control for all the gas systems of the LHC experiments. He is the section leader of the Industrial Controls and Electronics Group in EN Department which provides support to the users of the CERN experiments in the domain of field buses, Programmable Logic controllers, OPC, middleware protocols (DIP, DIM) and National Instrument components. He graduated as engineer from the Ecole Suprieure d'Electricit (SUPELEC) in 1989 with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence.

 

Marcin Bogusz

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Siemens

Marcin studied software engineering at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2006, he joined CERN PH-CMG group as a technical student to work on online-offline conditions data replication software for the CMS detector. He was also working on optimization of the Oracle streams performance for large transactions as a part of his CERN assignment. Marcin defended his M.Sc. thesis on implementing cryptographic algorithms on graphics accelerators in 2008. After graduation, he decided to pursue his IT career as a web applications designer and developer at Hewlett-Packard. He has been working on designing large workflow web-based systems for major international companies and the Polish Government. He returned to CERN as a Fellow in September 2010 to work on the Oracle archiving module for the future SCADA system from Siemens. Marcin is an Oracle Database 10g Certified Professional and Oracle Certified Java Programmer.

 

Tony Cass

Group Leader, Database Services

Tony Cass joined CERN's Information Technology Department in 1987 after completing a PhD in Particle Physics at the University of Liverpool. After initial assignments in the CERN Program Library and working with CERN’s IBM/VMCMS service, Tony played a leading role in the development of workstation based interactive computing, had major responsibilities in the operation and management of large scale batch processing and data storage systems and was responsible for the refurbishment of the 30-year old computer centre to meet the needs of LHC computing. Tony currently oversees the various database services at CERN, a remit ranging from corporate databases, through databases central to the operation of LHC, the world’s highest energy particle collider, to databases supporting the work of the LHC physics experiments.

 

Sebastien Ceuterickx

Staff

 

Sebastien Ceuterickx studied micro-wave telecommunication systems and networks in the French telecommunication engineer school Telecom Lille-1 where he obtained a M.Sc. degree in telecommunication Engineering. He has been working as a networks engineer in the Communication Systems group since 2006. Currently responsible for the design, development, deployment and third level support of the Wireless network at CERN, he is also the technical manager of HP/openlab WIND project.

 

Francois Fluckiger

openlab Manager

Francois Fluckiger, Manager of the CERN openlab, is the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Officer for Information Technologies department at CERN and Director of the CERN Schools of Computing. Before joining CERN in 1978, he was employed for five years by SESA in Paris. At CERN, he has been in charge of external networking for more than 12 years and held positions in infrastructure and application networking, including the management of CERN's World-Wide Web team after the departure of the Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. He is an adviser to the European Commission, a member of the Internet Society Advisory Council and the author of the reference textbook "Understanding Networked Multimedia" as well as more than 80 articles. He is also a Computer Sciences lecturer at the University of Geneva. He has more than 35 years of experience in networking and information technologies. Francois Fluckiger holds an MSc in Physics from the Paris IV University. He graduated from the Ecole Suprieure d'Electricit in 1973 and was awarded an MBA by the Enterprise Administration Institute in Paris in 1977.

 

 

Carlos Garcia Fernandez

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Oracle

Carlos Garcia Fernandez studied Computer Science Engineering at the EPSIG (2007), University of Oviedo (Spain). He also holds the degree in Computer Science Technical Engineering in Management (2005). For achieving these degrees he had to develop two different thesis. The first one was done in collaboration with a primary school, developing a system that was able to manage the most important operations for them (public information, teachers and pupils management, material, registrations, marks...). The second one was developed with a private enterprise, developing the system 'ACGETool' which was able to generate automatically all the layers of management web applications, including the database connections, internal layers, until the user basic interface. After finishing his degree, he started at CERN as a PJAS in collaboration with the University of Oviedo, joining the group IT-DES to develop System Administration task. In January 2009 he joined the openlab as Oracle Fellow.

 

Eric Grancher

Staff

Eric Grancher has been working at CERN since 1996 in the Information Technology Division. He has been working on different aspects of databases and application server products: database design consulting, cluster database administration and usage with commodity hardware, application server consulting, database and application server monitoring. He is currently responsible for a team that focuses on database oriented application deployment. He holds an engineer diploma from the French telecommunication engineer school "ENST - Telecom Paris" and a Magistre (Master) of Parallel Computing from "Ecole Normale Suprieure de Lyon".

 

Manuel Guijarro

Staff

Manuel Guijarro has been working at CERN since 1990 in the Information Technology Division. He is a System Analyst specialised on Distributed and High Availability Systems with wide experience on both commercial and Open Source based platforms. He has been main architect for a lot of Computing Infrastructure for Mechanical Engineering (PARC, CAD/CAM, EDMS, etc) and Software Development (CVS, SVN, TWiki, etc). Currently, he is responsible for Oracle Enterprise Manager service and IT/DES Monitoring Services Working group. He holds a degree on Computing Science and a Magister (Master)on Computer Architecture by the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona.

 

Frederic Hemmer

Head IT Department

Frederic Hemmer studied Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (and Computing) in Brussels. He joined CERN in 1984 where he served as Systems Engineer in Databases, Real-Time Systems and more generally Distributed Computing. In the 1990s he became the software architect of the ComputerWorld Honors awarded CERN SHIFT project aiming at moving High-Energy Physics applications from Mainframes to Distributed RISC/Unix systems, later migrated to PC/Linux systems. He has been the initial author of the RFIO remote file access protocol, still in use today. From 1994 he took the responsibility of operating the Physics Data Processing Services at CERN (100s of machines, Terabytess of data, Gigabit/second interconnections). As of 1998 he took responsibility of CERN Windows service (> 5000 computers) and later Mail and Web Services. In 2004 he joined the EGEE (Enabling Grid for E-sciencE) project where he served as Middleware Reengineering Manager (coordinating Grid Middleware development of 80 people across 8 countries). In 2005 he was appointed as CERN Deputy IT Department Head (230 Staff, 150 visitors, 40 MCHF budget in 2006), He served as EGEE related projects (EELA, SEE-GRID, EUMEDGRID, EUCHINAGRID, DILIGENT, ICEAGE, ETICS, Health-e-Child, etc) Management Boards formal representative of CERN and holds the same role for the current EGEE-III related projects (BalticGrid-2, D4Science, ETICS-2, GridTalk, SEEGRID-SCI). He acts as a deputy to the CERN representative of the EGEE and EGI_DS PMBs. He has been appointed as CERN IT Department Head for the period 2009-2013. He is a member of IEEE and ACM

 

Morag Hickman

openlab junior communications officer

 Morag Hickman graduated from Warwick University with a bachelor's in physics, and worked in research publishing including traditional engineering and open-access physics research journals for several years before undertaking an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London. She joins the team as an administrative intern for a year, and will be working as junior communications officer, including such projects as web design.

 

Milosz Hulboj

openlab technical personnel,  funded by partner HP ProCurve

Milosz Hulboj studied at Warsaw University of Technology. He did his B.Sc. degree in the area of Telecommunication and was then involved in ALICE Detector Construction Database project. Later on he was a Technical Student at CERN in IT-CO-BE section, where he was developing PVSS SCADA applications for controlling the cooling and ventilation and was involved in initial PVSS Oracle performance testing. For his M.Sc. thesis he analysed the performance issues related with Explicit Model Predictive Control and Multiparametric Optimisation. After finish his studies he was working for the Statconsulting company, where he was developing software for data mining, statistical analysis and text mining. In July 2007 he re-joined CERN openlab as a Fellow working in the HP ProCurve networking project. Milosz's current fields of interest include network security, data mining and statistical analysis.

 

Sverre Jarp

openlab Chief Technology Officer

Sverre Jarp has been working in computing at CERN for over 35 years and has held various managerial and technical positions promoting  advanced but cost-effective computing solutions for the Laboratory. In 2001-02 he spent a sabbatical year at HP Labs (Palo Alto, USA). Upon his return, he started working as the Chief Technology Officer in the CERN openlab. His current fields of interest are, in particular, multi-threaded programming and performance tuning, but he tries hard to keep involved in all the technical activities in openlab. Sverre holds a degree in Theoretical Physics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Personal homepage.

 

Bob Jones

Head, CERN openlab

Bob Jones is the Head of CERN openlab, as well as a member of the IT department head office with responsibilities in EC co-funded projects. Following a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from Staffordshire University, Bob joined CERN in 1986 as a software developer with the information technology department providing support for the physics experiments running on the Large Electron Positron (LEP) particle accelerator. He completed his PhD thesis in Computer Science at Sunderland University while working at CERN. He has been involved in several research projects for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator and has held the position of leader of the online software system for the ATLAS experiment (http://www.atlas.ch/) at the LHC.

 

Jean-Michel Jouanigot

Group Leader, Communications Systems

Jean-Michel Jouanigot is the leader of the Communications Systems Group of CERN IT Department, providing networking solutions for the CERN LAN, WAN and High Performance Computing Infrastructures as well as fixed and mobile telephony services. He has more than 15 years of experience in networking technologies, infrastructure and software engineering. He graduated in Advanced Networking from the Ecole Superieure d'Electricite in 1988 (France).

 

Ryszard Jurga

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner HP ProCurve

Ryszard studied at University of Technology and Agriculture in Bydgoszcz (Poland) where he obtained M.Sc degree in Telecommunication and Electronics. After that, he started his PhD studies in the field of telecommunication and computing. He also worked at Electronic Firm SIMS in Poland for more than two years as a programmer and a network supervisor. His region of interests include linux servers management, computer networks, wireless communication and all issues connected with a computer security and programming.

 

Omer Khalid

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Siemens

Omer Khalid received his BSc Hons in Computer Science from the University of Greenwich, London in 2005 and currently is a doctorate candidate in Grid Deployment group in Information Technology department at CERN, Geneva.
His research interests includes Virtualization, Grid, High Performance Computing, Clouds, Scheduling and Batch Systems. Presently I am exploring how batch systems such as Condor, PBS etc could be virtualization enabled so that execution nodes could be brought up on demand by the master node for optimised resource allocations. He is also researching on optimally scheduling Atlas jobs in virtual machine containers deployed through PanDA pilot.
This involves number of issues to be addressed such as job profile, work load, application domain, job execution foot print. Security is another key issue.
In addition, he is a fellow in CERN openlab working on Siemens collaboration project in the Engineering Department.

 

Vlad Lapadatescu

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner HP

Born in Romania, Vlad Lapadatescu chose to pursue his studies at the National Institute for Applied Sciences (INSA) in Lyon, France, where he completed a Bachelor in Computing and Masters in Engineering in September 2009. During his studies, he worked as an intern for Microsoft, Schlumberger and WesternGeco. Vlad joined CERN openlab in February 2010, as a Fellow sponsored by HP. He works on wireless networks, with a strong focus on optimizing large-scale Wi-Fi network deployments.

 

Alfio Lazzaro

openlab technical personnel

Alfio Lazzaro graduated in Particle Physics at the University of Milan, with a thesis on measurement of CP violation in charmless B decays at BaBar experiment at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Afterward he started his PhD in Physics at University of Milan, working at the BaBar experiment, where he did several measurements on charmless B meson decays. He defended his thesis on January 12th, 2007. During this period he developed a data analysis program to perform such analyses, based on the ROOT framework. After his PhD, he had an "Assegno di Ricerca" (Italian PostDoc) at the University of Milan, with activity on the Babar experiment and the Atlas experiment at CERN. For the latter he spent 2008 and 2009 working on a development of a software tool for track resolution measurements. Since the beginning of his PhD he started a project of optimization and parallelization of data analysis software, collaborating with HPC Cineca group at Bologna and the ROOT team. In particular he is collaborating on the development of the RooFit and RooStats data analysis packages, which are part of ROOT framework.  In 2010, he joined CERN openlab with a COFUND-CERN and Marie Curie fellowship. Within openlab, he is working on the optimization and parallelization of software used in High Energy Physics community for many-cores systems, in collaboration with Intel.

 

Julien Leduc

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Intel

Julien Leduc graduated from ENSIMAG with a master degree in Computer Science, specialized in Distributed System. He then joined the INRIA (www.inria.fr) in Grenoble, to administrate local Clusters, develop cluster middleware and partipate in the CLIC project in collaboration with Mandriva and Bull. In 2004 he started the development of middleware for fast GRID reconfiguration (kadeploy.imag.fr) along with a GRID architecture prototype to prefigure a nationwide grid platform. This prototype was implemented in Grid'50000 (www.grid5000.fr) and he had to move to Orsay to continue the development of Grid'5000 and take care of GriDeXplorer (IDRIS). He joined openlab in march 2009 as a fellow.

 

Melissa  Gaillard

openlab Communications, funded by partners

Melissa Gaillard is the CERN openlab Communications Officer. Before joining CERN in July 2008, she has been working as the Latin America Marketing Manager and the International Division Business Intelligence Manager with Renault Trucks and as a Consultant and Project Manager with Frost & Sullivan, focusing on technology communication and marketing strategies. Melissa studied Marketing and Communication at Celsa - Paris IV Sorbonne after an hypohkagne and Khagne B/L.

 

Andrzej Nowak

openlab technical personnel

Andrzej Nowak is a staff researcher at CERN openlab - a collaboration of CERN and industrial partners HP, Intel, Oracle and Siemens. He holds a Master Engineer degree in Computer Science from the Gdansk University of Technology, specializing in distributed applications and internet systems. Andrzej's early research concerned operating systems security, mobile systems security, and wireless technologies. During his studies in 2005 and 2006, he worked at Intel, where he investigated custom performance optimizations of the Linux kernel and took part in developing one of the first implementations of the IEEE 802.16 "WiMax Mobile" standard. In January 2007, soon after obtaining his diploma, he joined openlab as a Marie Curie Fellow sponsored by the European Commission. Andrzej's current research is focused on performance tuning, parallelism and modern many-core processor architectures. Another significant area of his work is the teaching of these topics at courses both within and outside of CERN.

 

Alberto Pace

Group Leader, Data and Storage Services

Alberto Pace is a member if the IT department at CERN where he leads the Data and Storage Services group. In the past, he led the Data Management group after having led the Internet Services group-providing Electronic Mail, Central Web and Windows Desktops services for CERN. He has more than 15 years experience in computing services, infrastructure, software engineering, accelerator control and accelerator operation. He graduated in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 1987.

 

Daniel Rodrigues

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner SIEMENS

Daniel Rodrigues graduated in 2004 at University of Porto, Portugal in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. His final project was concluded at the European Space Agency on Neural Networks for power consumption and thermal behaviour predictions on spacecrafts. Coming to Cern afterwards as Portuguese trainee, he started his work on grid gLite software components. After a one year hiatus from research developing software at MFG.com, returned to Cern and initiated is collaboration with openlab. During 18 months, worked as a fellow with EDS on the Messaging System for the Grid (MSG), which is now available for enhancing Grid Monitoring and Operations Automation on the Grid. From 1st of March 2009, Daniel started collaborating as an openlab Staff with ETM/Siemens. The aim of the project is to improve their SCADA solution, PVSS, which is the solution adopted at Cern for supervising the control systems used at LHC and associated experiments.

 

Filippo Tilaro

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner SIEMENS

Filippo Tilaro studied at Informatics and Telecommunications University of Catania (Italy) where he obtained a M.Sc. degree in Informatics Engineering. Moreover, he worked with a research group of his University to develop a new strategy which allows to support fairness in a wireless mesh IEEE 802.11 network environment. In 2008, After the University experiences, he worked as a software developer in Microsoft (Avanade) where he had experience in IT solutions based on Microsoft frameworks. In February 2009 he joined CERN Openlab as a Fellow working in PLC security subjects.

 

Wolfgang von Rueden

Former Head, CERN openlab

Wolfgang von Rueden studied physics at Mainz University before coming to CERN in 1975. He worked during the first part of his career on real-time data acquisition systems. In 1990, he co-founded IBEX Computing, and returned to CERN in 1992 where he introduced industrial control systems for physics experiments. From 1994 until 1998, he was Technical Director at GSI, a German National Research Institute in Heavy Ion Physics. After his return to CERN, he was in charge of the Physics Data Processing Group in CERNs IT Department, before becoming Head of the IT Department (2003-2008). He has been leading CERN openlab, a joint venture between CERN and leading IT companies, till May 2011.

 


Last update: Thursday, 26. January 2012 13:12


Copyright CERN