Dataflow Analysis for Modern Software Systems is the title of the work Dr. Rountev is doing under this grant. Rountev's project will design and evaluate novel approaches for software analysis of reusable components, distributed software, and run-time-adaptable systems. This effort is a significant step towards building powerful software tools that are truly usable and useful in the software industry. Nasko joined CSE in 2002 after receiving his PhD and a Masters in computer science from Rutgers. His advisor was Barbara Ryder. His undergraduate career was spent at Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria, culminating in with B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering in 1995.
The CAREER is the NSF's most prestigious award for junior faculty members. Established in 1995, the CAREER program aims at recognizing and supporting the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER winners are selected on the basis of creative, career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.
Dr. Yusu Wang has entitled her work Feature Extraction, Characterization, And Visualization For Protein Interaction Via Geometric And Topological Methods. This research focuses on feature identification issues arisen in molecular structural biology, recasting them in a generic framework and developing novel techniques within this framework to capture and represent features. In particular, features from multiple functions will be investigated. Dr. Wang obtained her M.S. and Ph.D degrees from Duke Univ. in 2000 and 2004, respectively, where she studied under Professors Pankaj K. Agarwal and Herbert Edelsbrunner. After a year's postdoc working in Stanford's Geometric Computing Lab with Leonidas J. Guibas, she came to Columbus and OSU in Autumn 2005. Her Bachelors degree was earned at Tsinghua Univ. in 1998.
According to the website of the DOE, "the overall objective the ECPI program is to stimulate academic research in scientific areas of interest to the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) programs, especially among faculty in the early stages of their academic profession. The specific research areas of interest to ASCR include: applied mathematics, computer science, and high-performance networks."
Computer Science and Engineering has a standing tradition of fostering its junior faculty members and is very proud of the faculty achievements at all levels. Since 1985, faculty members at the CSE Department have received:
3 NSF PYI/NYI Awards
1 NSF PECASE Award,
14 NSF Career Awards,
3 ONR Young Investigator Awards,
4 DOE Career Awards, and
2 Sloan Foundation Fellowships.
We know this is only the beginning of long and distinguished careers ahead for both of these outstanding researchers.