Dr. Donald F. (Rick) McMullen
Director

Dr. Rick McMullen is Director and Principal Scientist of the Knowledge Acquisition and Projection Lab in the Pervasive Technology Laboratories at Indiana University. He received a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1982 and served in a variety of engineering and management roles in the chemical and electronics industries before joining the Supercomputer Computations Research Institute as a Research Scientist in visualization and high performance computing. Dr. McMullen came to Indiana University in 1990 as a staff scientist at the newly formed Center for Innovative Computer Applications. Since that time he has served as Director of CICA, co-Director and Principal Scientist of the Advanced Information Technology Laboratory, and as an adjunct member of the faculty of the Computer Science Department at the Bloomington campus.

Dr. McMullen's primary research interests are in ubiquitous computing, knowledge-based support systems, high-speed international networking, visualization, and virtual reality. Recent projects include work with the U.S. Navy to develop knowledge-based remote maintenance and repair (tele-maintenance) systems, development of distributed data acquisition with the Department of Energy Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, and management to develop distributed data acquisition, management and reduction systems for the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory and the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley. Dr. McMullen has also participated in the development of the TransPAC network to link the Asia Pacific Advanced Network to R&E networks in the U.S., and established a connection from Indiana University to the NSF vBNS high speed research network. The general theme of all of these projects is the development of software systems that use high speed, low latency networks to couple data, instruments and real-time processes into large scale information grids that facilitate the conversion of data into knowledge. Other research activities include the use of components in parallel scientific computation and remote instrument applications, grid computing on a global scale, QoS and network performance analysis. Other research interests include telepresence/tele-immersion and shared virtual spaces, visualization of multivariate data, the cognition of visualization, creating network based collaborative work spaces.

Dr. Michael Evans
Research Scientist

Dr. Evans is a Research Scientist for the Knowledge Acquisition and Projection Lab in the Pervasive Technology Laboratories at Indiana University. Before joining the lab, Dr. Evans was an instructional and human-computer interaction designer for public organizations and higher education institutions in the US and abroad. From 1991-1999, Dr. Evans was a lecturer of English and Information Science at I-Shou University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC. Dr. Evans’ current research focuses on topics in areas including human performance technology, knowledge management, organizational informatics, and ubiquitous computing. For example, one area of interest is to understand and optimize the performance of virtual teams. From both a strategic and tactical position, it is necessary to explain and predict the cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions and consequences of this new form of organization. When it comes to the management and performance of virtual teams, “distance does matter.” Development work in the area of virtual organization includes a 3-year project sponsored by the Department of the Navy. The goal is to develop a next-generation, collaborative tele-maintenance system for electronics technicians and engineers. As part of the project, Dr. Evans is conducting organizational and performance analyses as well as developing an interface prototype for the proposed system. Dr. Evans received his B.A. in psychology and M.A. in cognitive science from the University of West Florida. He received his Ph.D. in instructional systems technology from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Dr. Kenneth Chiu
Research Scientist and Post-Doctoral Fellow

Educated at Princeton University (1988 A.B.) and earning his PhD at Indiana University in 2001, Dr. Chiu’s research interests lie in scientific computing, distributed systems (including Grid computing and Web services), and computer graphics (global illumination algorithms and techniques, cluster rendering). Within these areas, Dr. Chiu enjoys working at the interface between theory and applications.
Dr. Chiu is currently working on an NSF Instrument Middleware project and DoE Common Component Architecture project.

Dr. Randall Bramley
Associate Professor, School of Computer Science

Past projects and projects currently underway: Software component systems for scientific computing; Protocols for parallel components;Large data and metadata management for scientific and engineering computing; Scientific digital libraries; Software component systems for scientific computing, and in particular the XCAT <http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xcat>, the Indiana University distributed computing implementation of the Common Component Architecture specification.

Dr. David Leake
Associate Professor of Computer Science, member of the Cognitive Science faculty, and affiliate member of the School of Informatics at Indiana University

Dr. Leake received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University in 1990. His primary research interests are artificial intelligence and cognitive science, including case-based reasoning, intelligent information systems, intelligent user interfaces, knowledge management, knowledge modeling, multimodal reasoning, multistrategy learning, and introspective reasoning. Dr. Leake served as Chair to the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-03) and co-Chaired the Second International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-97).

Dr. Beth Plale
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Prior to joining Indiana University, Dr. Plale held a Postdoc in the Center for Experimental Research and Computer Systems at Georgia Tech. Dr. Plale's Ph.D. is in computer science from State University of New York Binghamton. Her research interests are in distributed systems, middleware, data management, streaming data, and database query processing.

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