Research & Development Teams | Personnel

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION TEAM

Membeship: James Frew (leader), Michael Freeston, Greg Janée, Greg Hajic, Jason Simpson, Qi Zheng

Mission: Design, implement, and integrate the ADL testbed system.

INFORMATION RESEARCH TEAM
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Membership: Jianwen Su (leader), Amr El Abbadi, Divyakant Agrawal, James Frew, Ravi Kothuri, Sunil Prakhabar, Ambuj Singh, Terence Smith, Daniel Wu

Mission: The Team's research is focused on a number of issues pertaining to the architecture of digital libraries including resource discovery, extensible data store, and the implications of building a geographically referenced database. In relation to geographically referenced databases, issues under investigation include multi-dimensional indexing, data placement, tertiary storage, content-based retrieval, and performance tuning.

PERFORMANCE AND PARALLEL PROCESSING TEAM
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Membership: Tao Yang (leader), Dan Andresen, Omer Egecioglu, Oscar Ibarra, Athanassis Poulakidas, David Watson, Qi Zheng

Mission: The goal of the performance and Parallel Processing Team is to identify and investigate aspects of ADL that will benefit from high-performance computing on multi-computers. Current investigation is focused on various performance issues arising from the ADL environment in terms of both space and time complexities, including WWW applications. It is also developing algorithms and software techniques for efficient image processing for high performance digital libraries.

IMAGE PROCESSING TEAM
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Membership: B. S. Manjunath (leader), Wei-Ying Ma, Sanjit Mitra, Norbert Stroebel, Yuan-Fang Wang

Mission: The goal of the Image Processing Team is to investigate issues concerning the representation, storage, and access of image-related data. The Team also aids the implementation team in adapting their research findings and recommendations for the testbed system. Particular foci of activity for the Team are wavelet decompositions for storage, manipulation and transmission of images, and access of images by content

GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION RESEARCH TEAM

Membership: Michael Goodchild (leader), Larry Carver, Steve Geffner, Linda Hill, Ravi Kothuri, Mary Larsgaard, Terence Smith

Mission: Responsible for investigating a variety of issues relating to the integration of spatially referened information objects into ADL.

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Membership: Larry Carver (leader), Michael Goodchild, Greg Hajic, Mary Larsgaard, Jason Simpson, Terence Smith

Mission: Oversee ADL collection development plans, including criteria for new additions to the collection. Prioritization and schedule for loading new data into ADL. Track issues related to data formats, data ingest and analysis tools, catalog maintenance.

EVALUATION TEAM
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Membership - UCSB Subteam: Linda Hill (leader), Larry Carver, Ron Dolin, James Frew, Mary Larsgaard, Robert Nideffer, Mary-Anna Rae, Jason Simpson

Membership - UC Boulder Subteam: Barbara Buttenfield (leader) Suzanne Larsen, Rene Reitsma, Kersky, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Rokoske, Michael Rock, Andrew Smith, James Kole

Mission: Evaluate the effectiveness of the ADL system from the perspective of potential user of the system. Knowledge gained from these evaluation activities is used to inform the design and implementation of ADL, and to document in detail the effectiveness of ADL and areas calling for improvement, both in the interface design and in the underlying system functionality and content.

DIGITAL LIBRARY REQUIREMENTS TEAM

Membership: Terence Smith (leader), Larry Carver, Joy Colucci, James Frew, Linda Hill

Mission: Define set of library services that will define current and future ADL systems.

PERSONNEL

ACADEMIC PERSONNEL

TERENCE R. SMITH (Project Director and member of the Departments of Computer Science and Geography, UCSB) is interested in the development of distributed knowledge environments, particularly environments that support both access to, and processing of, geospatial information and the modeling of complex phenomena.
805.893.2966
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~smithtr

MICHAEL GOODCHILD (Associate Director and Professor of Geography, UCSB) is interested in the future of the library generally, and geolibraries specifically. His work with the Alexandria Digital Library focuses on metadata and concepts in geographic information science.
805.893.8049
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu

AMR EL ABBADI (Professor of Computer Science, UCSB) is interested in the fields of fault-tolerant distributed systems and databases. Recently he has been exploring efficient ways to retrieve data in a distributed library as well as to do content-based searching using multi-dimensional index structures.
805.895.4239
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~amr

DIVYAKANT AGRAWAL (Professor of Computer Science, UCSB) is involved in several projects developing new technologies for large-scale information systems such as databases and digital libraries.
805.893.4385
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~agrawal

BARBARA BUTTENFIELD (Professor of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder) current research interests focus on user interface evaluation, map generalization, and scientific visualization. Her work for ADL applies spatial interaction models to monitor and map user navigation through the interface.
303.492.3618
http://www.colorado.edu/RESEARCH/alexandria

HSINCHUN CHEN (Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona, head of the UA/MIS Artificial Intelligence Group, and Visiting Senior Research Scientist at National Center for Supercomputing Applications) current interests include the development of large-scale digital libraries.
520.621.2748
http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu/html/faculty.html

KEITH CLARKE (Professor of Geography, UCSB) is interested in the compilation, dissemination, and use of digital map data and the design and construction of computer-based user interfaces for interacting with cartographic data bases.
805.893.7961
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke

OMER EGECIOGLU (Professor of Computer Science, UCSB) researches parallel computation, design and analysis of algorithms, graph-theoretical issues in distributed systems, and bijective and enumerative combinatorics.
805.893.3529
http://www.internet-cafe.com/sb/sb.html

JAMES FREW (Professor of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB) in interested in the scalability, evolvability, and interface architecture of large, distributed Earth science information systems. He leads the design and implementation of the Alexandria Digital Library testbed system.
805.893.7356
http://www.esm.ucsb.edu/~frew/

JUDITH GREEN (Professor of Graduate School of Education; Language, Culture & Literacy, UCSB) focuses on the social construction of knowledge and ethnographic analysis of communication in institutional contexts. Her work with ADL examines user practices and literacy demands of the interface.
green@education.ucsb.edu

OSCAR IBARRA (Professor of Computer Science, UCSB) research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, the theory of computation, computational complexity, and parallel computing.
805.895.4171
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ibarra

RICHARD KEMMERER (Professor of Computer Science, UCSB) researches formal specification and verification of systems, computer system security and reliability; programming and specification language design, and software engineering.
805.895.4232
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kemm/

B. S. MANJUNATH (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSB) current interests are in content-based access to images and video, and developing algorithms for efficient delivery of image data based on content information.
805.893.7112
http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/Faculty/Manjunath/manjunath.html

SANJIT MITRA (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSB) is interested in digital signal and image processing. In his work with Alexandria Digital Library he develops multiresolution representations of images for efficient storage and browsing.
805.893.3957
http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/

ROBERT NIDEFFER (Professor of Studio Art, UCI) is interested in interface theory and design, virtual environments, and online public space. In his work with Alexandria Digital Library he directed the User Interface Design and Implementation from 1997-1998.
949.824.4218
http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/~nideffer/

AMBUJ SINGH (Professor of Computer Science, UCSB) is interested in multidimensional indexing, placement of images on secondary and tertiary storage, and the architecture of the digital library (representing an opportunity to combine ideas from a number of fields).
805.893.3236
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ambuj

JIANWEN SU (Professor of Computer Science, UCSB) researches in the area of database systems and applications. He is currently studying query optimization issues occurring in the database systems that store the catalog and gazetteer data of the Alexandria Digital Library.
805.893.3698
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~su/

VICTORIA VESNA (Professor of Art Studio, UCSB) researches in the area of multiuser environments. Currently she is a principal investigator on a Research Across Disciplines Initiative on Online Public Space. She is also Director of the Electronic Art & Theory (EAT) lab.
805.893.8448
http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~vesna/

YUAN-FANG WANG (Professor of Computer Science, UCSB) research activities center around computer vision, image processing, and computer graphics. He has conducted research on shape modeling, sensor data fusion, designing and implementing a distributed object-oriented 3D graphics system, and digital libraries.
805.893.3866
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~yfwang

TAO YANG (Professor of Computer Science, UCSB) is a member of the Parallel Systems Group at UCSB. He is currently investigating the partitioning and scheduling methods and systems for program parallelization, irregular sparse matrix computations, and WWW/digital libraries.
805.893.4384
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~tyang

LIBRARY PERSONNEL, UCSB

JOSEPH A. BOISSÉ (University Librarian, Davidson Library, UCSB), interested in the complex management issues related to operating a digital library, is focused on the steps necessary to implement the results of Alexandria research and provide access to the geo-spatial data held by the university library in its Map and Imagery Laboratory.
805.893.3256
boisse@library.ucsb.edu

LARRY CARVER (Director, Map and Imagery Laboratory) The MIL is unique in academia for providing state-of-the-art computing facilities to both student and researcher, and collections of more than 5 million images, maps and other spatial data.
805.893.4049
http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/~carver/

MARY LYNETTE LARSGAARD (Assistant Head of the Map and Imagery Laboratory) is currently an Investigator for ADL. Her specialties within the broad area of spatial data in libraries are metadata-creation/cataloging, and twentieth-century topographic and geologic maps.
805.893.4049
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/people/larsgaard/

GREG HAJIC (Library Assistant, Map and Imagery Laboratory) provides reference and assistance within the Map & Imagery Laboratory.
805.893.4545
hajic@alexandria.ucsb.edu

JASON SIMPSON (Systems Engineer, ADL investigator) is responsible for the computing and network infrastructure of the Davidson Library, the Map and Imagery Laboratory, and the Alexandria Digital Library. He assists users with applications and spatial data.
805.893.4545
simpson@alexandria.ucsb.edu

LIBRARY PERSONNEL, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER

SUZANNE LARSEN (Head of Earth Science Library, U. Colorado) research focuses on metadata management and integration in a digital library environment.
http://www.colorado.edu/RESEARCH/alexandria

RENE REITSMA (Research Associate, Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water Environmental Systems) research focuses on design and implementation of decision support systems; at ADL he works on interface statistical analysis.
http://www.colorado.edu/RESEARCH/alexandria

PROJECT PERSONNEL

MICHAEL FREESTON (Research Associate, Alexandria Digital Library, UCSB) has a background of research into multi-dimensional indexing techniques and deductive database systems. He is working on improved spatial indexing, a knowledge base, and a web-based distributed object model for the Alexandria Digital Library.
805.893.8589
freeston@oslo.sdc.ucsb.edu

LINDA HILL (Research Specialist, Alexandria Digital Library, UCSB) is working in the areas of user needs analysis, user evaluation, information representation (metadata), gazetteer information services, and information retrieval for georeferenced digital library systems.
805.893.8587
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill

GREG JANÉE (Programmer Analyst, Alexandria Digital Library, UCSB) has research experience in software engineering, including designing and developing large object-oriented systems. Prior to joining ADL, he was a senior software engineer at GRC International, Inc. in Santa Barbara.
805.893.8453
gjanee@alexandria.ucsb.edu

MELISSA MULLEN (Administrative Assistant, Alexandria Digital Library).
805.893.4933
mullen@alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu

QI ZHENG (Senior Software Engineer, Alexandria Digital Library, UCSB), Oversees all phases of server design, development and operation of the digital library system.
805.893.7684
zheng@alexandria.ucsb.edu

GRADUATE STUDENTS, UCSB

Dan Andresen, Computer Science
Morris Beatty, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jong-Jin Chae, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Xun Cheng, Computer Science
Jianyu Chen, Computer Science
Ron Dolin, Computer Science
Peter Fohl, Geography
Steve Geffner, Computer Science
Jon Gottsegen
Peter Karcher, Computer Science
Ravi Kothuri, Computer Science
Wei-Ying Ma, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kurt McClure
Shinichi Nishikawa, Graduate School of Education
Sarbani Palit, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Athanassis Poulakidas, Computer Science
Sunil Prahbakar, Computer Science
Mary-Anna Rae, Graduate School of Education
Norbert Strobel, Electrical and Computer Engineering
David Watson, Computer Science
Qiong Xu, Computer Science
Daniel Wu, Computer Science

GRADUATE STUDENTS, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER

Michael Rock, Geography
Andrew Smith, Geography
Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Geography

James Kole (undergraduate, History major)


Research & Development Teams | Personnel