TCBG Profile
| Robert Brunner has long been interested in harnessing high-performance computing for solving scientific and engineering problems. His research background is with high-performance computing and the Charm++ parallel programming system. Brunner began as a graduate student with the TCB group in 1994, working on the molecular dynamics program, NAMD, with particular emphasis on improving performance through efficient parallel algorithms and load balancing techniques. Later, he became a full-time Research Programmer with the BioCoRE team, working to design and implement a system for accessing supercomputer resources within the web-based BioCoRE collaborative environment. Currently, Brunner is a Senior Research Programmer involved with developing computational tools for biotechnology applications. The TCB group's focus on biotechnology encompasses two ideas: first, the design of devices that interact with biomolecules at the molecular level to help understand their function, such as semiconductor devices for reading DNA sequences rapidly and economically, and second, the engineered modification of natural biochemical materials and processes for industrial or medical applications. Brunner is working to bring new computational methods and algorithms into NAMD and the molecular visualization and analysis program, VMD, to computationally model biotechnological devices and processes to screen prototype designs so that only the most promising ones need to be physically built and/or tested. |  Robert Brunner |
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