George K. Thiruvathukal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Loyola University Chicago
http://gkt.etl.luc.edu
gkt@etl.luc.edu

1  General Information

Preparation

Lewis UniversityRomeoville, IL USAComputer Science and PhysicsB.A. 1988
Illinois Institute of TechnologyChicago, IL USAComputer ScienceM.S. 1990
Illinois Institute of TechnologyChicago, IL USAComputer Science[t]0pt Ph.D. 1995

Academic and Professional Experience

2004–PresentAssociate Professor, Loyola University Chicago (CS), Chicago, IL, USA
1999–2007Adjunct Professor (Visitor), Northwestern University (ECE), Evanston, IL USA
2001–2004Visiting Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago (CS), Chicago, IL, USA
1999–2000Assistant Professor, DePaul University (CS), Chicago, IL, USA
1998–1999Visiting Assistant Professor, Loyola University (Math/CS), Chicago, IL, USA
1996–1998Postdoctoral Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory (MCS Division), Argonne, IL, USA
1996–1997Adjunct Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (CS), Chicago, IL, USA

Professional (Industry) Experience

2002–2004President and CEO, Nimkathana Corporation, Chicago, IL, USA
1995–1996Development Manager, R.R. Donnelley and Sons, Lombard, IL, USA
1993–1995Senior Member of Technical Staff, R.R. Donnelley Technical Center, Lisle, IL, USA
1991–1993Member of Technical Staff, Tellabs, Lisle, IL, USA

Dissertation

Title An Enhanced Actors Model for Parallel and Distributed Processing Advisor Professor Thomas W. Christopher

Academic Recognition

2008-2009 Faculty Fellow, Center for Urban, Environmental Research and Policy, http://www.luc.edu/cuerp 1989-1990 Argonne National Laboratory Graduate Scholars Program, Environmental and Information Sciences Division 1988-1994 Teaching and Research Assistantships (for entire studies) 1989 Summer Institute in Parallel Processing, Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division (one of 26 students selected competitively from a national pool of nearly 90 pre-Ph.D. graduate students)

2  Publications

Most items on this list can be downloaded from http://gkt.etl.luc.edu/articles.

Books

  1. T. W. Christopher and G. K. Thiruvathukal. High Performance Java Platform Computing. Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle Ridge, NJ, 2000.
  2. G. K. Thiruvathukal, J. P. Shafaee, and T. W. Christopher. Web Programming in Python: Techniques for Integrating Linux, Apache Web Server, and MySQL. Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle Ridge, NJ, 2001.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

  1. W. T. O’Connell, G. K. Thiruvathukal, and T. W. Christopher. Distributed Memo: Heterogeneously Distributed Directories of Unordered Queues. In International Journal of Mini and Microcomputers, 1997. (Conference paper below selected for special-issue journal publication.)
  2. I. T. Foster, G. K. Thiruvathukal, and S. Tuecke. Technologies for Ubiquitous Supercomputing: A Java Interface to the Nexus Communication system. Concurrency: Practice and Experience, June 1997.
  3. I. T. Foster, J. Geisler, W. Gropp, N. Karonis, E. Lusk, G. K. Thiruvathukal, and S. Tuecke. A Wide-Area Implementation of the Message Passing Interface. Parallel Computing, 24(12):1735-1749, 1998.
  4. G. K. Thiruvathukal, L. S. Thomas, and A. T. Korczynski. Reflective Remote Method Invocation. Concurrency: Practice and Experience, 1998.
  5. I. Foster, G. Laszewski, G. K. Thiruvathukal, and B. Toonen. Computational Framework for Telemedicine. Future Generation Computer Systems, 14:109-123, 1998.
  6. G. K. Thiruvathukal, P. M. Dickens, and S. Bhatti. Java on Networks of Workstations (JavaNOW): A Parallel Computing Framework Inspired by Linda and the Message Passing Interface. Concurrency: Practice and Experience, 12(13):1093-1116, November 2000.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

  1. G. K. Thiruvathukal and T. W. Christopher. A Simulation of Demand-Driven Dataflow: Translation of Lucid into MDC Language. In IEEE International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1991.
  2. W. T. O’Connell, G. K. Thiruvathukal, and T. W. Christopher. A Generic Modeling Framework for Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed Computing. In International Conference on Advance Science and Technology 1994 (ICAST 1994), AT&T Bel l Laboratories, 1994.
  3. W. T. O’Connell, G. K. Thiruvathukal, and T. W. Christopher. Memo: An Environment to Support Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed Processing. In International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1994.
  4. W. T. O’Connell, G. K. Thiruvathukal, and T. W. Christopher. Distributed Memo: Heterogeneously Distributed Directories of Unordered Queues. In Sixth ISMM/IASTED Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, 1994.
  5. G. K. Thiruvathukal. Toward Scalable Parallel Software: An Active Object Model and Library for Parallel Processing. In First International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1994.
  6. G. K. Thiruvathukal, L. S. Thomas, and A. T. Korczynski. Reflective Remote Method Invocation. In ACM Java Grande, February 1998.
  7. G. K. Thiruvathukal, B. Cameron, L. Oliveira, and J. Shafaee. Invited Talk: The Computational Neighborhood. In International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), Workshop on Java, 1999.
  8. X. Shen, W. Liao, A. Choudhary, G. Memik, M. Kandemir, S. More, G. Thiruvathukal, and A. Singh. A Novel Application Development Environment for Large-Scale Scientific Computations. In International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), 1999.
  9. Java Grande Forum Report: Making Java Work for High-End Computing. http://javagrande.org, 2000.
  10. X. Shen, G. K. Thiruvathukal, W. Liao, A. Choudhary, and A. Singh. A Java Graphical User Interface for Large-Scale Scientific Computations in Distributed Systems. In High Performance Computing Asia, 2000.
  11. W. keng Liao, A. Choudhary, K. Coloma, G. K. Thiruvathukal, L. Ward, E. Russell, and N. Pundit. Scalable Implementations of MPI Atomicity for Concurrent Overlapping I/O. In International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2003.
  12. Benjamin Gonzalez and George K. Thiruvathukal, The Hydra Filesystem: A Distributed Storage Framework, In Proceedings of Linux Clusters International, 2006.
  13. Peter Aarestad, Avery Ching, Alok N. Choudhary, and George K. Thiruvathukal, Scalable Approaches for Supporting MPI-IO Atomicity, In Proceedings of CCGrid, 2006.
  14. N. Mehta, Y. Kanitkar, K. Läufer, and G. K. Thiruvathukal, A Model-Driven Approach to Job/Task Compisition in Cluster Computing, in Proceedings of IPDPS Workshop on Java Components for Parallelism, Distribution, and Concurrency, 2007.
  15. S. Herr, K. Läufer, P. Shafaee, G. K. Thiruvathukal, and G. Wirtz, Combining SOA and BPM Technologies for Cross-System Process Automation, In Proceedings of SEKE, 2008.
  16. M. Bone, K. Läufer, P. Nabicht, and G. K. Thiruvathukal, Taming XML: Objects First, Then Markup. In Proceedings of IEEE EIT, Ames, Iowa, 2008.

Other Journal Publications

  1. G. K. Thiruvathukal. The Middle Ages: Enabling Java for Computational Science. IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, January 2002.
  2. G. K. Thiruvathukal. XML in Computational Science. Computing in Science and Engineering, 6(1):74-80, January/February 2004.
  3. G. K. Thiruvathukal and K. Läufer. Natural XML for Data Binding, Processing, and Persistence. Computing in Science and Engineering, 6(2):86-92, March/April 2004.
  4. G. K. Thiruvathukal and K. Läufer. Plone and Content Management. Computing in Science and Engineering, 6(4):88-95, July/August 2004.
  5. G. K. Thiruvathukal. Gentoo Linux: The Next Generation of Linux. Computing in Science and Engineering, 6(5):66-74, September/October 2004.
  6. G. K. Thiruvathukal. Guest Editor’s Introduction: Cluster Computing. Computing in Science and Engineering, 7(2):11-13, March/April 2005.
  7. G. K. Thiruvathukal, Home Networking Issue, Computing in Science and Engineering, March/April 2006 (to appear).

Technical Reports

  1. G. K. Thiruvathukal, U. Verun, R. Fuja, and T. Curry. Apt Compiler Toolkit.
    http://apt.googlecode.com/
  2. G. K. Thiruvathukal (Editor), Java Grande Forum Report: Making Java Work for High-End Computing. http://www.javagrande.org.
  3. A. N. Choudhary and G. K. Thiruvathukal. Cluster Based Repositories and Analysis. Technical report, Nimkathana Corporation, 2003, Available from:
    http://www.stormingmedia.us/20/2000/A200024.html.
  4. G. K. Thiruvathukal. Ad Hoc Human Interaction Networks. Technical report, Nimkathana Corproation, 2004, Available from http://www.stormingmedia.us/66/6646/A664614.html.

Public Software Releases

  1. http://hpjpc.googlecode.com/, High-Performance Java Platform Computing Book Source Code (with T. W. Christopher)
  2. http://betterxml.googlecode.com/, Better XML Framework for Straightforward XML data binding and persistence (with M. Bone, K. Läufer, and P. Nabicht)
  3. http://citep.googlecode.com/, Web-based free/open source business accounting software (with many collaborators)
  4. http://st-hec.googlecode.com/, Source code for the Hydra filesystem and distributed lockserver (with B. Gonzalez, P. Aarestad, and A. Ching)
  5. http://neighborhood.googlecode.com/, A Java framework for cluster and P2P computing (with M. Bone, N. Mehta, P. Shafaee, and K. Läufer)
  6. http://slither.googlecode.com/, A lightweight Python web programming framework (with T. W. Christopher and P. Shafaee)
  7. http://vclaboratory.googlecode.com/, A framework for maintaining laboratory virtual machine images that we use to provision the Free/Open Source laboratory in the CS department at Loyola University (with J. Kaylor)
  8. http://olfs.googlecode.com/, A layered filesystem that supports versioning and live updating (with J. Kaylor and K. Läufer)

3  Curriculum Development

4  Academic Grants and Other Extramural Funding

  1. W. Honig, K. Läufer, and G. K. Thiruvathukal. Learning the Wonders of Computing with Wireless Collaboration. HP Technology for Teaching Grant #1900784, $68,000.
  2. G. K. Thiruvathukal (PI), C. Sekharan (co-PI), and K. Läufer (senior personnel). ITR: The Community Information Technology Entrepreneurship Project. National Science Foundation, Information Technology Research (ITR) program, Grant #0205652, $1,034,500; 2002–2005.
  3. K. Läufer (PI) and George K. Thiruvathukal. A multi-platform application suite for enhancing South Asian language pedagogy. South Asia Language Resource Center (SALRC) Mini-Grant, $5,000; 2004–2005.
  4. G. K. Thiruvathukal, Donation for Free/Open Source Laboratory, Hostway Corporation, $55,000 (cash) and $7,500 (equipment, in-kind).
  5. Jerry Sanders (PI), Bryan Pickett (co-PI), Chandra N. Sekharan (co-PI), George K. Thiruvathukal (co-PI), and William A. Yost (co-PI). HPNC: HPNC for Science Research at Loyola University Chicago, $175,000, ANI-0228926, 2002-2004.
  6. Alok N. Choudhary, and M. T. Kandemir, and G. K. Thiruvathukal, Collaborative Proposal: Scalable Technologies for High-End Computing, $72,433, CCF-0444197, 2004-2007.
  7. H. Laten, G. K. Thiruvathukal, and T. E. O’Brien, REU Site: Integrated Cross-Disciplinary Summer Program in Bioinformatics, $292,412.
  8. G. K. Thiruvathukal, Ad Hoc Humint Networks for Assymmetric Threat Surveillance, DARPA SBIR Phase I Grant, DAAH01-03-C-R048, $100,000, 2002-2003.

5  Professional and University Service

This section lists my involvement in various areas of service, including professional, university, college, department and community service.

Peer Reviewing/Conference Committees

Other Professional Service

University Service

Department Service

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