Speakers Bio Data

Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch, (wolfgang.gentzsch@sun.com) is Director of Grid Computing at Sun Microsystems in Palo Alto, USA, and Regensburg, Germany. He is responsible for Sun's Grid Computing technology strategy and for the development of Cluster and Grid resource management. Prior to Sun, from 1990 to 2000, he was founder and CEO of Genias Software GmbH, and CTO, President and Co-Founder of Gridware, Inc. where he worked with a strong research focus on distributed and parallel computing, parallel applications and tools like Codine (Computing in Distributed Network Environments), GRD Global Resource Director and the PaTENT MPI Toolset.

From 1985 to 2000, he was a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Engineering College of Regensburg, Germany. He published over 150 papers and books, on numerical mathematics, computational fluid dynamics, parallel tools and applications, and computer science.

Dr Simon See, (simon.see@sun.com) is currently the High Performance Computing Technology Director for Sun Microsystems Inc, Asia. His research interest is in the area of High Performance Computing, broadband internet, computational science, Applied Mathematics and simulation methodology. He has published a number of papers in these areas and various awards.

Dr. See graduated from University of Salford (UK) with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1993. Prior to joining Sun, Dr See worked for SGI, DSO National Lab. of Singapore, IBM and International Simulation Ltd (UK). He is also providing consultancy to a number of national research and supercomputing centers. Dr See is also an adjunct research fellow in the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.

Vincent Quah is the Business Development Director, Education & Research, Asia South, Sun Microsystems. He is responsible for the major industry development activities, including partnership, collaboration and sales. He is also responsible for the HPC and Computational Biology sectors. He works with universities and research institutes on special initiatives and projects that drives the adoption of Sun's technology. Vincent comes with almost 12 years of research, education and business experience.

Mr Lim Teck Sin is the co-founder and CEO of KOOPrime Pte Ltd, a spin-off company from the National University of Singapore, Institute of Molecular & Cell Biology and Glaxo Smith-Kline. Prior to that, he was the IT Manager at the Center for Natural Product Research (CNPR) from 1993 to 2000. While at CNPR, Teck Sin was cross-appointed to NUS and successfully obtained $4M worth of funding and resources to lead the IT team in setting up an enterprise-wide computing platform to satisfy the diverse needs of the center. Among his numerous accolades, Mr Lim was the 1st runner up for the Young Research Engineer Award (Imperial College-Massachusetts Institute of Technology) based on his work at CNPR. In addition, it allowed the technology benefactors to file 2 patents. Having won the Raffles/British Airways Scholarship, he completed his MSc in Computation at Oxford University in 1994. His research interest includes Evolutionary algorithms and he is presently working towards his PhD at the Nanyang Technological University.

Ramana Rao is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding member of KOOPrime, a company that provides IT solutions for Life Sciences sector in Singapore. He is an integral part of the core management team and heads the technical team. Ramana is in charge of the day-to-day management of technical staff and deliverables. This also involves looking into the development of IT strategies leading to innovative products and solutions for the life sciences and maintaining KOOPrime's competitive edge. He is actively involved in the development and productisation of various core technologies including an Enterprise Integration Engine KOOP, and prepares them for rollout into the market. This includes envisioning the future development of the product, design and planning of the implementation cycle and follow through to technical pre-sales. Prior to joining KOOPrime, he was with the IBM Singapore and was a key member of teams providing cutting edge e-Business solutions using both wired and wireless technologies. In 1998, he worked with a leading IT consulting firm in India where he was involved in implementation of web-solutions. He has the experience of working in the Centre for Natural Products Research where he developed models for pervasive computing solutions for data integration and workflow automation He was also involved in a DNA microarray fabrication and workflow integration system at the National Cancer Centre, Singapore.

Dr Teo Yong Meng is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. He graduated with a Bachelor of Technology (1st Class Honours) in computer science from the University of Bradford (UK) in 1983. He received his MSc by research in 1987 and PhD in computer science from the University of Manchester (UK) in 1989. The National University of Singapore, the Overseas Research Studentship Award (UK) and the Research Studentship Award (University of Manchester) sponsored his graduate study. He is a Chartered Engineer (UK) since 1992.

His current research focuses on grid computing, distributed simulatiuon and cluster-based web server architecture. He has received numerous external research grants including European Commission, Fujitsu Computers (Singapore) Pte Ltd, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd (Japan), Hitachi Central Research Laboratory (Japan) and PSA Corporation (Singapore). He has served as programme chairs, steering committee and program committee members at numerous international conferences. He is currently an advisory member of the IEEE CS Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC). He is a member of The British Computer Society, IEEE Computer Society, and The Society for Computer Simulation.

Bertil Schmidt received the diplom-Informatiker degree from the Kiel University, Germany, in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree from Loughborough University, UK, in 1999. He has worked with the company ISATEC in the area of embedded parallel systems. After temporary appointments as Research Associate in Aachen, Karlsruhe and Braunschweig he is now an Assistant Professor with the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests include parallel algorithms and architectures, visualization, bionformatics and video compression.

Rajkumar Buyya is an Australian Government Research Scholar in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He was awarded Dharma Ratnakara Memorial Trust Gold Medal for his academic excellence during 1992 by Mysore/Kuvempu University. He has authored three books Microprocessor x86 Programming, Mastering C++, and Design of PARAS Microkernel. He has edited a popular two volumes book on High Performance Cluster Computing published by Prentice Hall, USA. He also edited proceedings of six international conferences and served as guest editor for major research journals. He has contributed to the development of system software for PARAM supercomputers produced by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore, India. At Monash University, he is conducting R&D on the use of Economics paradigm for Peer-to-Peer Grid computing. Rajkumar is a speaker in the IEEE Computer Society Chapter Tutorials Program and Co-founder/Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC). He has organised and chaired IEEE/ACM international conferences in the area of Cluster and Grid Computing. He has lectured on advanced technologies such as Parallel, Distributed and Multithreaded Computing, Internet and Java, Cluster Computing, and Java and High Performance Computing in many international conferences and institutions. For further information, please browse: http://www.buyya.com

Raj Godhia Consultant, Cray Inc. c/o Mega Computing (S) Pte Ltd Cray Inc's sales consultant for South East Asia. Mr. Godhia is also the founder and Managing Director of Mega Computing (S) Pte Ltd - a company that focuses on sales and support of various simulation software. Prior to this, Mr. Godhia was Director of Business Development at Silicon Graphics in ASEAN, and Managing Director for Cray Research in ASEAN.

Shen Haige received a Bachelors degree Electronic Engineering in 1995 and a Ph.D. degree from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2000. She has been working with BioInformatics Centre at National University of Singapore as a post-doctoral fellow since August 2000. Her current area of research is the application of signal processing theories and methods to chemical analysis, drug discovery, and bio-instrument data processing. The research areas she is interested in include bioinformatics, medical data 3-D visualization and image processing.