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Gyorgy Balazs

openlab technical student,  CERN technical student - 01.03.2008 - 31.12.2008

Bio as of his openlab time

Gyorgy Balazs joined openlab in March 2008 as a Technical Student. He studies computer engineering in Hungary at the John von Neumann Faculty of Budapest Tech and preparing his BSc thesis at CERN. His project at openlab revolves around comparing different benchmarking methods and measuring power consumption and power efficiency on different computer setups for identifying possible opportunities of power saving.

 

Ian Bird

LHC Computing Grid Project Leader - 2007

Bio as of his openlab time

Ian Bird is the LHC Computing Grid Project Leader and has line management responsibility in the CERN IT Department for Physics Computing activities. Dr Bird joined CERN in 2002 to participate in the WLCG project as Grid Deployment Area Manager, with responsibility for building up and deploying the LHC Computing Grid service. When the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project began in 2004, he also took on the role of EGEE Operations Manager, responsible for deploying, operating and supporting the EGEE grid infrastructure. Prior to joining CERN, he spent six years at Jefferson Lab in Virginia, U.S., where he was head of the computing group and responsible for all aspects of computing for the laboratory. His background and PhD are in particle physics, having spent many years coordinating the software and computing for the CERN muon experiments studying nucleon structure functions and later in the Nomad neutrino experiment.

 

Havard Bjerke

openlab technical personnel,  funded by partner Intel  2005 - 2009

Bio as of his openlab time

Havard Bjerke holds an MSc in computer science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. In the summer of 2004 he worked as a Summer Student in the openlab and, in January 2005, he re-joined CERN as a Technical Student in the IT-ADC group, again working in the openlab.

 

Axel Busch

openlab technical student,  CERN technical student - 01.04.2009 - 30.09.2009

Bio as of his openlab time
Axel Busch entered openlab in April 2009 as a Technical Student. At CERN, he prepares his BSc. thesis for his computer science studies at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern/Germany. In the openlab, he evaluates the energy consumption, efficiency and performance of Intels Nehalem architecture using benchmarks as SPEC CPU2006 or applications like the CERNs ALICE framework. The evaluation of the performance gain that Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) provides is also one of the major tasks.

 

Max Boehm

Senior technical personnel, from EDS contributor 2007 - 2009

Bio as of his openlab time

Max Boehm is an EDS senior systems engineer and architect working in a joint project of EDS and CERN openlab since April 2007. Boehm received his masters degree in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker) from the University of Dortmund in 1990 and his doctors degree (Dr.rer.nat.) from the University of Cologne in 1996. From 1990 to 1999 he was a research and teaching assistant at the Universities Dusseldorf and Cologne. Since 1999 Boehm is with EDS where he has worked in different architect and technical leadership roles, across multiple industries, with responsibilities for software and system architectures, new technologies, and technical governance at an EMEA level. Boehm has given lectures in Computer Science and is author or co-author of more than 20 research papers and 1 patent. His main research interests are parallel and distributed computing and efficient algorithms and data structures. Boehm is a member of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.

 

Charlotte-Anais Cornaton

openlab intern, from 16/02/2009 to 27/03/2009

Bio as of her openlab time

Charlotte-Anais studied English, German, Spanish and Romanian at Saint Etienne university (France) and at Bucharest university (Romania). She actually also speaks a bit of Russian and Italian. She came to CERN for 6 weeks as part of the third year of her curriculum and was extremely successful in supporting us in tracking the openlab press articles from Eastern countries. Charlotte-Anais also did some translation work for the team and worked on a quote repository.

 
Jose Dana Perez

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner EDS 2006 - 2009

Bio as of his openlab time

Jose Miguel Dana studied at University of Almeria (Spain) where he obtained a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and worked for the "Computer Architecture and Electronics" department for the last two years of his degree. Moreover, he is member of the "Supercomputing: Algorithms" research group of his University since 2004. During his collaboration he has written several papers about scalable image and video coding. He was a CERN Summer Student in 2005 and he worked in compiler optimization related tasks (in CERN openlab).In October 2006 he re-joined CERN openlab as a Fellow working this time in Grid deployment and virtualization subjects. Right now, he is combining his work in CERN openlab with his PhD studies.

 

Eva Dafonte Perez

openlab technical personnel,  funded by partner Oracle 2007 - 2009

Bio as of her openlab time

Eva Dafonte Perez studied Computer Science Engineering at the ESEI, University of Vigo (Spain). She holds the Best Academic Record for the School of Computer Science and Engineering. During her University Scholarship Technical Computer and Network Service at the ESEI, she was researching on data exchange about university information with standardization purposes. She obtained the highest grade possible in her Final Year Thesis Project Automatic Database Migration Tool.  After finishing her degree, she joined the openlab.

 

J. Franco-Turner

openlab Administrative Assistant 2004-2005

Bio as of her openlab time

Jackie was a Senior Administrative Assistant and had been working at CERN since 1970.  She previously worked at IOS, Ferney-Voltaire, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Geneva, and the UN (UNCTAD), Geneva.  On joining CERN in 1970, she was first Group Secretary in the Scientific Information Group of DD (now IT), then moved to the DD Secretariat in 1972 becoming Head of the Secretariat and in 1987 the tasks of Divisional Administrative Officer and provisional Secretary to the Division Leader were also added.  In 1990 she became Secretary to the Division Leader and in 1994 also took over the job of Administrator of the CERN Schools of Computing. Her task as Secretary to the Division Leader came to an end in December 2003, but she continued as Administrator of the CERN Schools of Computing and took on a new task of Administrative Assistant to the CERN openlab in 2004. She retired in November 2005.

 

Maria Girone

Staff

Bio as of her openlab time

Maria Girone studied physics at the University of Bari, Italy. She obtained her Ph.D in High Energy Physics in 1993, on the CERN OMEGA/WA76 experiment. She then joined CERN as a research fellow in the ALEPH experiment and later worked at Imperial College, London, as a research associate. In 2001, Maria joined the LHCb collaboration, where she worked in the development of photon detectors for the RICH system. Maria moved to the LCG project in 2002 and has been a member of the Data Base group of the CERN-IT department since 2003. She currently works on the LCG POOL project and is responsible for the database and related services that the group offers to the physics community.

 

Xavier Grehant

openlab technical personnel,  funded by partner HP - 15.01.06 - 15.01.09

Bio as of his openlab time

Born in 1982, Xavier Grehant studied in France and worked as research associate in biometrics at Arizona State University in 2004. In 2005 he was assigned the research for the launch of a start-up company and wrote a new algorithm and prototype for face fiducial points extraction. He obtained a MSc at Telecom-Paris (ENST) in 2005, where his latest work pertained to real-time adaptive noise cancellation. Since 2006 he is employed at CERN openlab, funded by HP Labs and working on a PhD in the field of high-throughput computing.

 

Francois Grey

openlab Communications  2003- 2008

Bio as of his openlab time

Since 2002, Francois Grey has been based at CERN, in charge of developing the CERN openlab for DataGrid applications and supporting the openlab's communication activities. He developed the CERN openlab student programme, which brought 11 undergraduate students from seven countries to CERN in 2003, to work on Grid technology. He hosted First Tuesday events on Grid-related technologies for industry and investors at CERN, attracting several hundred participants (see www.rezonance.ch archives). He has published widely on the Grid [The Economist, Public Service Review: European Union, CERN Courier] and was on the Editorial Board of the EGEE project proposal, which made the successful bid to build Europe's Grid Infrastructure. Recently, he helped develop the Grid Caf website, an educational site hosted by CERN (see www.gridcafe.org ).

 

Denise Heagerty

openlab Liaison person with contributor Stonesoft, 2006-2007

 

 

Andreas Hirstius

openlab technical personnel,  funded by partner Intel - 2003-2008

Bio as of his openlab time

Andreas Hirstius has a background in experimental particle physics. For his M.Sc. thesis at the Humboldt University Berlin he analysed data from the L3-Experiment at LEP. Later he joined the NA48 collaboration and changed to the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, from which he holds a Ph.D. During his studies he has been always involved with computing. First he was a system administrator at the computing center of the Physics dept. of the Humboldt University. In 2000 and 2001 he was responsible for the third level trigger and the central data recording of the NA48 experiment. His current field of interest is more hardware related and includes testing of 10GB networking hardware and the Storage Tank SAN filesystem. He was also involved in the 10GB WAN PHY long haul test and the latest DataTAG measurements.

 

Svetozar Kapusta

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Oracle - 01.11.2008 - 31.10.2010

Bio as of his openlab time
Svetozar graduated at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics at the Comenius University in Bratislava in 2003 obtaining a Mgr degree in Physics. His collaboration with CERN started in 2001 when he joined the ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector group as a summer student. Since 2004 he has been supporting the ALICE online physics community as a member of the ALICE Detector Control System team mainly in the field of schema and application design, optimization and data management. He joined the CERN openlab recently and is testing the Real-Time Query Capability of Physical Standby Databases.

 

Chris Lambert

Staff

Bio as of his openlab time

Chris Lambert has been working as an Oracle Database Administrator at CERN since 2003, after starting work as a DBA in New Zealand in 2001.  He has experience in RDBMS administration (8i - 11g), RMAN, Real Application Clusters, security, monitoring, and E-Business Suite (including outsourcing to Oracle OnDemand).

He is responsible for the administrative databases at CERN, along with the Enterprise Manager 10g installation used by the IT-DES and DM groups,

and the DES group 'security service'.  He holds a BSc (Hons) Information Systems from the Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), and is currently studying towards the MSc Strategic Business Information Technology from the University of Portsmouth (UK).

 

Ildefons Magrans de Abril

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner SIEMENS 02.2009 - 12.2009

Bio as of his openlab time

Ildefons Magrans de Abril studied at University Autonomous of Barcelona where he obtained a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (1998), a M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering (2001) and a PhD in Electronic Engineering (2008). He started his professional career In October 2000, in the Synchrotron Laboratory of Barcelona, implementing a data acquisition system for a multi-wire proportional counter. Since august 2002 he has been working in the CMS experiment at CERN, in the context of the Trigger and Data Acquisition Project. Since August 2004 until January 2009, he was coordinating the design and development of the control and monitoring system of CMS Level-1 Trigger. Ildefons was the main responsible of the conceptual design, development and sub-systems integration coordination. His technical contribution to the CMS experiment was acknowledged by the CMS Collaboration with an exceptional PhD thesis award, which the CMS Thesis Award Committee granted for the first time to an engineer.

 

Anton Topurov

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Oracle 2006 - 2009

Bio as of his openlab time
Anton graduated with excellence from the Master of Computer Science of the Technical University of Sofia. As an ERASMUS exchange student, he participated in the software development project at the Universit de Nice Sophia Antipolis. He got international exposure as a BEST-Sofia board member (Board of European Students of Technology), where he organized and participated in numerous BEST European courses, workshops and assemblies. During the last year of his studies he was awarded the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company's excellence scholarship and further joined the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company's IT department. In February 2005, he joined the Atlas Trigger and Data Acquisition project at CERN as a part of the networking team and, afterwards, the system administration team. Since April 2006, he has been a part of the openlab, working on testing, evaluation and deployment of new Oracle technologies at CERN.

 

Dawid Wojcik

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Oracle 2006-2008

Bio as of his openlab time

Dawid graduated Warsaw University of Technology in 2006 obtaining MSc degree in Computer Engineering. During the studies his main interest were databases and Decision Support Systems, especially optimization algorithms and applications of mathematical programming. He participated also in some commercial projects in electronics and computer engineering. In 2002 he started collaboration with ALICE experiment working on Detector Construction Data Base (DCDB) together with other students of his faculty and people from Faculty of Physics at Warsaw University of Technology. He was a technical student in 2005-2006 working on Oracle security and rejoined CERN as an openlab Fellow in 2006 working on high availability solutions in databases.

 

 


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