Principal Investigators, Administration, and Infrastructure Support

E–H

CHARBEL FARHAT Center Director and
Tech Area 1 Lead

Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures, Chairman, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University

(650) 723-3840

cfarhat@stanford.edu.

http://me.stanford.edu/me_profile.php?sunetid=cfarhat

Projects 1–1: Multifield Simulation of Accelerated Environmental Degradation of Fabric, Composite, and Metallic Shields and Structures;
1–4: Flapping and Twisting Aeroelastic Wings for Propulsion;

1–8 High-Performance Computation of Projectile Impact with Electromagnetic Fabric

Mathematical models and computational methods for high-performance simulations of multidisciplinary scientific and engineering problems, especially distributed computing and massively parallel processing. Structural dynamics, contact problems, nonlinear aeroelasticity of fighter aircraft, fluid-structure interaction, underwater acoustics, inverse problems, and shape optimization. Multiscale methods, dynamic data-driven systems, model reduction, near-real-time computing, and large-scale applications in aerospace, mechanical, naval, and marine engineering.

GRACE FONTANILLA
Acting Program Manager
(650) 725-4107
grace.fontanilla@stanford.edu

Stanford University
Army High Performance Computing Research Center
Aeronautics & Astronautics Department, Rm 256
496 Lomita Mall
Stanford, CA 94305

LEONIDAS GUIBAS

Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University

(650) 723-0304

guibas@cs.stanford.edu.

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~guibas

Project 3–1: Information Dissemination and Aggregation under Mobility

Computer representations and algorithms for sensing, modeling, manipulating, and rendering physical objects and processes. Data structures for mobile data, global illumination algorithms, image database browsing and navigation, visibility and motion planning algorithms, and probabilistic and robust techniques for handling geometric data.

PATRICK HANRAHAN Tech Area 4 Lead

Canon Professor in the School of Engineering,

Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory,
Stanford University

(650) 723-8530

hanrahan@cs.stanford.edu

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~hanrahan

Project 4–1: Stream Programming for High Performance Computing

Rendering algorithms, high performance graphics architectures, and systems support for graphical interaction. Raster graphics systems, computer animation, and modeling and scientific visualization—volume rendering in particular

JING HE

(20072009)
Associate Professor, Computer Science,
Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA)

(757) 683-3915

jhe@cs.odu.edu

Project 2–4: Protein Structure Prediction for Virus Particles (PI, 2007–2009)

Computational structural bioinformatics, protein structure prediction, image processing.

TERRY HOLST

NASA Ames Research Center,
Moffett Field, CA
Terry.L.Holst@nasa.gov

Project 1–5: Numerical Simulation of Flapping Flows

Computational fluid dynamics, micro-aerial vehicles.

HONG HUANG

Assistant Professor, Electronic and Computer Engineering,
New Mexico State University

(575) 646-3639

e-mail: hhuang@nmsu.edu

http://www.ece.nmsu.edu/~hhuang/

Project 3–3: Secure Sensor Data Dissemination and Aggregation

Wireless networks, sensor networks, and optical networks.