Cluster Building Workshop - Urbana, Nov. 30 - Dec. 1, 2006

Participant Profile

There were 21 participants in the workshop. Participants applied for a seat, and were selected from a pool of 41 applicants.

Profile information indicates a range of educational levels, with a majority of participants having earned or close to earning a doctorate. All but one participant indicated an academic affiliation.  A distribution of education is provided in Table 1 and of affiliation in Table 2.

For the November 30 - December 1, 2006 workshop, the participant description is as follows:

Highest Degree Earned Number
Some College 1
College Degree 5
Masters Student 1
Masters 2
Doctorate in progress 5
Doctorate 7


Table 1: Breakdown of participants and their current educational standing.
Affiliation Number
Academic 20
Industry 1


Table 2: Distribution of types of participant work locations.

 

Name Affiliation Institution Education
Mohammad Almalkawi Academic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Master's Student
Nevo Band Academic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College Degree
Michael Brunsteiner Academic University of Illinois at Chicago PhD
Christopher Clausen Academic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Some College
Thomas Gilbert Academic Northern Illinois University PhD
Thomas Hoeffel Industry NIBR Emeryville Master's Degree
Changying Li Academic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PhD
Brent Magnusson Academic University of Tennessee College Degree
Patrick Moehlen Academic University of Tennessee PhD Student
Timothy Morrow Academic North Carolina State University PhD
Nils Oberg Academic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College Degree
Ken Olsen Academic Loyola University Chicago PhD
Albert Orriols Academic Ramon Llull University PhD Student
Padma Kumar Padmanabhan Academic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PhD
David Slater Academic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College Degree
Jean Standard Academic Illinois State University PhD
Henk ten Have Academic National Center for Supercomputing Applications College Degree
Reza Toghraee Academic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PhD Student
Reaz Uddin Academic University of Illinois at Chicago PhD Student
Ivan Ufimtsev Academic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Master's Degree
Wei Xu Academic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PhD Student


Table 3: List of participants