Principal Investigators

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Dr. Jason Liu

Principal Investigator

Office: CASE 351
Email: liux at fiu.edu
Phone: 305.348.1625

Dr. Jason Liu (PI) is a University Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor and Interim Director of FIU’s Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS). His research focuses on performance modeling and simulation, and parallel computing. Dr. Liu will oversee the overall success of the project implementation and ensure that domain science applications are facilitated by RAPTOR.  

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Dr. Julio Ibarra

Co - Principal Investigator

Office: PC312
Email: julio at fiu.edu
Phone: 305.348.4105

Dr. Julio Ibarra (Co-PI) is Assistant VP for Technology Augmented Research. Dr. Ibarra will assist the PI in the management of the project, and provide coordination between domain scientists, IT practitioners, and external resource providers. 

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Dr. Jayantha Obeysekera

Co - Principal Investigator

Office: AC1 214, AHC5 223
Email: jobeysek at fiu.edu
Phone: 305.919.4119

Dr. Jayantha Obeysekera (Co-PI) is the Director of the Sea Level Solutions Center in the Institute of Environment at FIU. He has expertise in climate change and sea level rise, and water resources modeling, planning and management. Dr. Obeysekera will be responsible for applying RAPTOR for the specific domain science applications on RAPTOR.  

Dr. Yuepeng Li

Dr. Yuepeng Li

Co - Principal Investigator

Office: AHC5-243
Email: yuepli at fiu.edu
Phone: 305.348.8369

Dr. Yuepeng Li (Co-PI) is a Research Scientist at the FIU Laboratory for Coastal Research. Dr. Li will assist Co-PI Zhang for developing and running the domain applications on RAPTOR.  


Starting Investigators

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Dr. Fahad Saeed

Research Scientist

Office: CASE 318
Email: fsaeed at fiu.edu
Phone: 305.348.3131

Dr. Fahad Saeed (SI) is an Associate Professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences. His research interests include parallel and distributed algorithms and architectures, computational proteomics, genomics, connectomics and big data problems in computational biology and bioinformatics. Dr. Saeed will be responsible for creating and running the mass spectrometry-based omics application on RAPTOR.  

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Mike Kirgan

RAPTOR platform Operations

Office: PC 532
Email: michaelk @ fiu.edu
Phone: 305.348.

Mike Kirgan (SI) is IT Director of the IRCC, Network Operations Center and Enterprise Systems. He has over 30 years of IT experience and has led the implementation of FIU’s first Identity Management Systems, first virtual server environment, the infrastructure startup efforts for FIU’s ERP, PeopleSoft, and the first centralized computational computing center. Mr. Kirgan will be responsible for the operations of the RAPTOR platform.  

Dr. Vasilka Chergarova

Dr. Vasilka Chergarova

Research Coordinator

Office: PC 307A
Email: vchergar at fiu.edu
Phone: 305.348.4105

Dr. Vasilka Chergarova (SI) is a IT Assistant Director at the FIU Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) and will be responsible for documenting and recruiting students.