Contributors: Faculty, Staff, Visitors and Students

Laboratory of Intelligent and Parallel Systems (LIPS) (Holmes 493)

Contact: D. Y. Y. Yun at http://ee.hawaii.edu/~dyun, email: dyun@hawaii.edu: phone: 956-7627

Faculty and Staff:

· Healani Chang, Assistant Professor PBRC, on topics of Ohana Health Online (OHO) and Chronic Disease Management (since 2004).

· Joshua I. Santos, UH Honor student, received the “Best Poster” award at National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Undergraduate Research Conference at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) on August 12, 2004.

· Dr. Joseph W. Humphry, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Medicine (since 1999), research collaboration and providing support on two projects: Ohana Health and the HMSA Foundation work, involving telemedicine efforts with diabetes patients.

· Prof. Vassilis L. Syrmos, Electrical Engineering Department, research collaboration and providing support as Co-I (since 1995) on two projects: simulation and modeling of electric and hybrid electric vehicles for the EHV DNC Project and finite element solution of inverse problems for the Bio-Photonics Project.

· Milton Staackmann, (currently) Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, as administrative assistant and project specialist, contributed to the EHV NDC and the OHO projects from 2000 to 2004.

· Prof. Hong-Mei Chen, Decision Sciences Department, College of Business, research collaboration and providing support as Co-I (1995-2001) on two projects: database applications for electric vehicle performance data for the EHV NDC Project and distributed data sharing and graphic visualization for Project MISSION.

· Prof. Mehrdad G. Nejhad, Mechanical Engineering Department, research collaboration and providing support as Co-I (1996—1999) on composite material and crash simulation of electric vehicles for the EHV NDC Project.

· Dr. Borr Yan Liaw, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, research collaboration and providing support as manager for the EHV NDC project (1994—1999), with research activities involving battery testing operations

· Prof. Ming Pi Mi, emeritus, Department of Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine (1997-2001), research collaboration and providing support on the Bio-Photonics project, with emphasis on statistical data analysis.

Visitors and Post-Docs:

· Dr. Hai Wei from Beijing Polytechnic University, People’s Republic of China, post-doc for research on imaging processing in bio-medical systems (Since February 2001).

· Dr. C. H. Liao from People’s Republic of China, post-doc on laser characterization and measurement analysis for the Bio-Photonics Project (January 2001—March 15, 2001)

· Prof. Milan Sonka, Electrical Engineering, University of Iowa, visiting faculty for collaborative teaching of EE491f – Image Processing (using his text book) and collaborative research on computer image processing and graphics (1/6—2/11/00).

· Dr. Junhai Wen from People’s Republic of China, post-doc on helmet device and hemisphere simulation and validation for the Bio-Photonics Project (January 2000—December 2000).

· Dr. Jun Ge from Tsin Hua University, People’s Republic of China, post-doc for research on simulation and validation in bio-photonics (July 1998 – January 2000).

· Dr. Guenter Randolf from Austria, post-doc for research on battery simulation and life extension by use of supercapacitors (April 1998 – July 1999).

· Dr. Yaoyu Wang from People’s Republic of China, post-doc on battery performance monitoring and analysis for the EHV NDC Project (January 1999 – September 1999).

· Dr. Mangesh Tamhankar from India, post-doc for the development of on-line reporting systems for technical/economic information of electric vehicles and research on data mining from electric vehicle performance data (August 1997 – July 1999)

· Dr. Susan Spiessberger from Austria, post-doc on photon physics and measurement verification for the Bio-Photonics Project (Dec.1998 – July 1999).

Students (degrees completed recently):

· Tianyu Lu (1996-2000), Advisor and Chairman of Ph.D. dissertation committee, passed defense on June 8, 2000, Ph.D. degree completed in August 2000, Title: Triangular Mesh Generation for Surfaces of 3D Objects.

· Kevin Chao-wen Chen (1995-1999), Advisor and Chairman of Ph.D. dissertation committee, Ph.D. degree completed in August 1999, Title: Algorithms for Maximal Common Subgraph Problem Using Resource Planning.

· Sixiang Nie (1999-2003), Advisor and Chairman of MS thesis committee, “Solving Photon Diffusion Equation by Lanczos Algorithm for Rectangular and Hemisphere Phantoms”.

· Dan Shnidman (2001-2003), Advisor and Chairman of MS thesis committee, “Solving Two-Dimensional and Three-dimensional Packing Problems using Constraint Resource Planning”

· Zisheng Le (1998-2000), Advisor and Chairman of MS thesis committee, passed defense on May 30, 2000, M.S. degree completed in June 2000, Title: Geometric Compression.

· Ashutosh Deepak Gore (1998-2000), MS thesis committee member, degree completed in February 2000, Title: Simulation and performance analysis of optical WDM networks with limited wavelength conversion.

· Zong Ling (1994-1998), Advisor and Chairman of Ph.D. dissertation committee, Ph.D. degree completed in May 1998, Title: Subgraph Isomorphism

· Javed I. Khan (1993-1997) Advisor and Chairman of Ph.D. dissertation committee, Ph.D. degree completed in August 1997, Title: Content-based Image Retrieval.

· Zisheng Le (1998-2000), Advisor and Chairman of MS thesis committee, passed defense on May 30, 2000, Title: Geometric Compression.

· Julie Yu, (1995-1998), Advisor and Chairman of MS thesis committee, degree completed in May 1998, Title: EHV National Data Center Website and Database.