Experts
An external pool of senior experts, Geoffrey Fox, Yannis Ioanndis, Paul Messina,
and Dora Varvarigou, form part of the VENUS-C External International Advisory
Committee. These leading community specialists bring expertise in data and
distributed computing infrastructures at European and global level. Together,
they are providing advice and guidance on the strategic progress of VENUS-C and
its positioning within the wider Distributed Computing Infrastructure landscape,
and will play a role in evaluating potential applications through the Open Call.
VENUS-C has also gained insights from Paolo Balboni, Founder, Balboni Law Firm &
Executive Director of European Privacy Association with particular reference to
legal issues surrounding Cloud computing.
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Geoffrey Fox, is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies & Research and Professor of
Informatics at the University of Indiana, and also serves as the Director of FutureGrid
in the U.S.. His involvement in the Advisory Committee focuses on providing input
on user community gaps in the U.S. scenario and understanding how FutureGrid could
benefit from close links with VENUS-C.
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Yannis Ioannidis is Director General at ATHENA Research Center and Chair of the Special Interest
Group on Data Management (SIGMOD) in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Through his involvement in the Advisory Committee, he will be providing expert know-how
from a data infrastructure perspective, while also bringing his expertise regarding
the potential applications submitted through the Open Call.
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Kimmo Koski is Managing Director of the Finnish IT center for science, CSC. He holds this position since August 2004. Prior to his present position, Koski spent over four years at the Nokia Research Center and Nokia Technology Platform, where he was responsible for various management tasks for both the Center's and the Platform's global IT services. His expertise in HPC and data infrastructures stems from his involvement in a number of national, European and international initiatives and task forces, including flagship project such PRACE, for which he serves as Chair, and prior to that DEISA. His current focus is on building the European Data Infrastructure based on his work as editor of the PARADE White paper published October 2009 and coordinator of European Data Infrastructure (EUDAT). His involvement as an Advisory Committee member will bring to VENUS-C an HPC perspective fundamental to ensure the widest adoption of the VENUS-C platform.
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Paul Messina, is Director of Science at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
(ALCF), U.S., guiding the ALCF science teams using the IBM Blue Gene/P system. He
is one of the authors of the report written by the Advisory Panel on Cyber-Infrastructure
for the National Science Foundation in the U.S. His participation in the Advisory
Committee will ensure VENUS-C benefits from an in-depth European and global understanding
of the landscape.
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Thierry Priol is a senior scientist at INRIA, and is Deputy Scientific Director assigned to the Research Department in charge of the Networks, Systems and Services, Distributed Computing domain. He has acted as the scientific coordinator of the CoreGRID network of excellence funded by the European Commission from 2004 till 2008.
His involvement as an Advisory Committee member will ensure VENUS-C benefits from his insights on Cloud computing uptake in general and in France in particular, and from his expertise in the distributed computing arena with particular reference to his foreground gained in EU funded in initiatives, such as the CoreGrid Network of Excellence. |
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Dora Varvarigou is Professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
with expertise in semantic web technologies, scheduling over distributed platforms,
embedded systems and grid computing. She is currently involved in the EC-funded
VISION project. Her involvement in the Advisory Committee provides key insights
into current and potential new user communities for VENUS-C.
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