TeamFinder

In order to provide some assistance in finding possible project partners, we have setup a TEAMFINDER webpage. As John mentioned in the class, teams should have 2-3 members. Also, please try to form an interdisciplinary team: the class is 1/3rd ME and 2/3rd CS, so a suggestion would be to have 1 ME and 2 CS per team.

This is how the TEAMFINDER system works: Send an email to cs240a@cs.ucsb.edu with the subject "Teamfinder request". Put down your name, email, department, project interests and anything that you think might make people fall over each other to have you as a project partner (for ME people this will happen automatically ;). We will update this webpage with your advertisements as we receive them.

Name (email)

· Interests, possible project topics, etc

Michael Benny - CS (ucsbguy@umail.ucsb.edu)

 · Efficient Sparse Matrix operations, Cryptography, Network Applications

Haavar Valeur - CS (havarv@cs.ucsb.edu)

 · an AI for a game or a physical simulation of an explosion

Nicola Candussi - CS (nicola@cs.ucsb.edu)

 · computer graphics

Chunghau Lee - CS (chunghau@cs.ucsb.edu)

 · bioinformatics, games, simulations

Andy Pippin/Wilson Chen - CS (pippin/wilson@cs.ucsb.edu)

 · Wilson and I will be building a parallel password cracker. It is likely that we will optimize "John the Ripper" for parallelism. John is a dictionary-style attacker with varying levels of strength.

Vineet Birman - ME (birman@engineering.ucsb.edu)

 · project interests - simulations, grahics or games. I can join a project in these areas otherwise i also have a idea that deals with modifing a already parallel code so as to improve its performance. The code was not written with performace in mind so i think there is enought scope of improvement.

Ricky Wong - CS (inline@cs.ucsb.edu)

 · We need a non-computer science student. You don't need to have a specific project in mind (but it doesn't hurt if you do).

George Mathew - ME (gmathew@engineering.ucsb.edu)

 · Project Interests: computer graphics, simulation or animation of fluid flows or other physical phenomena.

Harith Vanaparthy - ME (harith@engr.ucsb.edu)

 · We need one CS student. We are working on a Stokes flow simulation problem and plan to parallelize an already existing Fortran90 code.

Mike Richmond - CS (mrichmon@cs.ucsb.edu)

 · Interests: graphics, simulations (stellar collisions etc)