PIRE is an NSF sponsored program intended to advance global partnerships in cyberinfrastructure research, innovation, and education. FIU-SCIS and FAU continue to nurture and expand this consortium of researchers and educators. It is exciting to see these collaborations serve our students and research partners so effectively. The summer 2009 cohort engaged in research with industry and universities across five nations. The program's multicultural, professional working experience will provide the student participants with experiences and a collaborative network that will benefit them throughout their careers.

Dr. S. Masoud Sadjadi, SCIS Assistant Professor and PIRE PI, led a panel
discussion among collaborators and PIRE students to explore the
"Opportunities and Challenges of International Research Collaborations".

Dr. Jainendra K. Navlakha, SCIS Professor and Interim Director, moderated a
complementary panel discussion focused on "Research Directions and
Applications".

Eric Meyer, FIU PhD Candidate
Enhanced Grid Enabled Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)/Superensemble Portal
Mr. Meyer was awarded First Place for his work in creating and presenting this poster.

Scott Roepnack, FAU Master’s Student
Enhancing Item-Based Collaborative Filtering by Incorporating Tags
Mr. Roepnack was awarded Second Place for his work in creating and presenting this poster.

Andrew Allen, FIU PhD Candidate
Automatic Behavioral Aspects for Model-Driven Communication Applications

Michael Armella, FIU PhD Candidate
Multi-Type Data Clustering across Multiple Feature Spaces

Javier Delgado, FIU PhD Candidate
Performance Prediction of Scientific Applications

Adriana Garcia, FAU Master’s Student
Mobile Web Services using Globus

Peter Greko, FIU Bachelor’s Student
Automatic Installation of an IT Automation Software System

Yanelis Hernandez, FIU PhD Candidate
A case study to support testing of dynamic SPL

Seijiro Ikeda, FIU Bachelor’s Student
A Competitive Analysis of Some IT Automation Solution Providers:
Kaseya, LANDesk, Altiris, N-Able and SilverBack

Ricardo Koller, FIU PhD Candidate
Working Set: Model and Characterization

Gabriel Lizarraga, FIU Bachelor’s Student
Parallelized Analysis using Subdural Interictal EEG

Lester Melendez, FIU PhD Candidate
Computing Object Similarity using MapReduce

Alfonso Munive, FIU Bachelor’s Student
Meta-Monitoring: Proactive Monitoring of an IT Automation Monitoring Server

Jake Petersen, FAU Bachelor’s Student
A Comparison Framework of Rule Engines

Mark Rajan, FAU Master’s Student
Motion Estimation using NVIDIA CUDA

Jonathan Sanchez, FIU Bachelor’s Student
A Competitive Analysis of IT Automation Solution Providers:
Kaseya, Numara, KACE, LPI and LabTech

Yali Wu, FIU PhD Candidate
Engineering a Communication Modeling Language using Kermeta

Sajjad Zaidi, FIU Bachelor’s Candidate
A Competitive Analysis of IT Automation Solution Providers: Kaseya, LogMeln, ManageEngine, Zenith InfoTech and IT Control Suite

FIU's School of Computing and Information Science gathered with its LA Grid and FAU partners to welcome the first cohort of PIRE (Partnership for International Research and Education) students back from their international assignments. One track of the Sixth LA Grid Summit was dedicated to learning about the research collaboration these students experienced in the summer of 2008. The Summit sponsored a poster contest showcasing students' work.

Dr. Yi Deng, SCIS Dean and PIRE PI led a panel of international faculty collaborators and PIRE students in a discussion focused on "How to Establish Sustainable International Research Collaborations?"

PIRE is an NSF sponsored program intended to advance global partnerships in technology research, innovation, and education. FIU-SCIS and FAU have built a strong consortium of researchers and educators and are successfully leveraging these collaborations to better train their students via the PIRE program. Our 2008 summer students engaged in research with industry and universities across five nations. This multicultural, professional working experience will provide the students participants with experiences and a collaborative network that will benefit them throughout their careers.

Kasturi Chatterjee, FIU PhD Candidate
Using Graph Similarity for Social Network Analysis
Ms. Chatterjee was awarded First Place for her work in creating and presenting this poster.

Ricardo Koller, FIU PhD Student
APOS: An Application Level Power Oracle for Virtualized Servers
Mr. Koller was awarded Second Place for his work in creating and presenting this poster.

Juan Bernal, FAU Bachelor’s Student
Data Mining and Machine Learning Cross Validation over Distributed Networks

Justin Beyer, FAU Bachelor’s Student
Gene Selection for Cancer Classification

Ingrid Buckley, FAU Master’s Student
Web Services Reliability Patterns

Paula A. Carrillo, FAU Master’s Student
Data Mining for Video Encoding (Low complexity H.264)

Christopher Holder, FAU Master’s Student
Data Mining for Video Transcoding and Encoding

Selim Kalayci, FIU PhD Candidate
Pattern Based Fault-Tolerance at Workflow Management Systems

Tariq King, FIU PhD Candidate
Leveraging Traceability Recovery in Test Planning and Optimization

Alex Kotlarchyk, FAU PhD Student
BioInformatics Algorithms for High Performance Computing

Allison Lanager, FIU Master’s Student and Sean Leslie, FIU Master’s Student
A Web-Based Portal for Hurricane Mitigation

Jan Mangs, FAU Master’s Student
Accessing the Grid from Mobile Devices

Lina Ortega, FAU Bachelor’s Student
Text, Image, and Audio/Video Datasets

Simone Pasmore, FAU Master’s Student
Web Accessibility for the Hearing Impaired

Camilo Silva, FIU Bachelor’s Student and Michael Robinson, FIU PhD Student
Finding Repeats and Signatures in DNA Sequences Using MPI Clusters