An XSEDE-wide effort is underway to expand the community by recruiting and enabling a diverse group of students who have the skills - or are interested in acquiring the skills - to participate in the actual work of XSEDE. The name of this effort is XSEDE EMPOWER ( Expert Mentoring Producing Opportunities for Work, Education, and Research ).
Marchese, C. (2021, July 21). Predicting Mental Health Outcomes with Deep Learning. Poster presented at 2021 ACM Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing — PEARC21.
Tanya Nesterova, University of Delaware:
"Targeting the Deadly Coils of Ebola." https://www.xsede.org/-/targeting-the-deadly-coils-of-ebola. December 22, 2021.
"Using supercomputers to combat Ebola." https://www.newswise.com/articles/using-supercomputers-to-combat-ebola. October 20, 2020.
Alan Andonian, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth:
"The Empower program has given me the opportunity to research and implement software for the conversion of tomographic images to 3D meshed volumes. The Goal being to take the 3D volume into Abaqus for FEA analysis. Participation in the EMPOWER program has helped me grow my capabilities with Finite Element Software and my ability to do computational research. The EMPOWER program has allowed me to learn about 3D visualization software and the process behind creating a CT to FEA workflow. For research projects I learned the important of creating a plan and documenting steps." (written October 2020)
Nicholas Grabill, Michigan State University:
Grabill, N. (2020, August 4). Analysis of Scaling Techniques in SEE Image Segmentation Software Utilizing Evolutionary Algorithms. Poster presented at the 2020 MID-SURE Research Symposium, Michigan State University.
Umair Khan, Portland State University:
"My work in the Reichow Lab, supported by the EMPOWER program, is actually the primary driver of my intent to pursue a computational research career in the life sciences. I have been exposed to a discipline and a community of scientists that I hope to contribute to and be a productive member of throughout my career. Moreover, the connections I've made so far will be invaluable in driving my future plans, into graduate school and beyond. In particular, the EMPOWER program has supported my long-term participation in the lab, particularly over the summer months. Otherwise, I would be unable to dedicate extended and uninterrupted time towards the Reichow Lab's various research projects. Continued support from XSEDE is the reason I have co-authored recent publications." (written October 2020)
Tanya Nesterova, University of Delaware:
Christopher Sherald, University of Kansas:
"As an aspiring physicist, the XSEDE EMPOWER program has helped me in realizing my career goals in a number of ways. The program is currently helping to familiarize me with programming and supercomputing, to learn more about data analysis, and providing computation resources that will help in speeding up sizeable simulations. My research with XSEDE and my current mentor is being used to create a presentation at the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) conference." (written October 2020)
Adith Srivatsa, Georgia Institute of Technology:
"My participation with the EMPOWER program has given me a better understanding of ion channels, its mechanism, and its generalizability across all fields. Under the guidance of my mentor, I was able to critically analyze literature, develop novel protocols, and reach out to experts in the field for advice on my scripts. I believe that EMPOWER has allowed me to have a better vision for the direction of simulation research. I hope to continue getting hands-on experience in the future. Two abstracts for poster presentations were submitted to the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting as a result of the work performed under the EMPOWER program. I am the first author on the submission "Molecular dynamic simulations suggest novel PIP2 binding sites for SK2 channels regulation". I am second author on the submission "Utilizing umbrella MD sampling to assess contradictory PIP2 binding site in the membrane embedded SK2-CaM complex to help further understanding of sk2 activation"." (written October 2020)
Billy Stone, University of Colorado Colorado Springs:
"I'm grateful for the program because it connected me to a professor that could teach me these techniques [in multiscale (quantum mechanical/ classical mechanical) chemical simulations]. I am presenting at the Biophysical Society annual meeting in Feb. 2021, and hopefully a publication will follow shortly after that." (written October 2020)
Alexandra Ballow, Youngstown State University:
Presentation at Scientific Computing with Python Virtual Conference (SciPy 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av5htgmVb3s
Olivia Shaw, University of Delaware:
Shaw, O.R., & Hadden-Perilla, J.A. (2020, July 23). TactViz: A VMD Plugin for Tactile Visualization of Protein Structures. Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.14448/jsesd.12.0015
Tori Zottarelli, University of Portland:
Zottarelli, T. & Taylor, B. (2020, July 29). DFT Studies of the Transmetalation Mechanism in Stille Cross-Coupling Reactions. Poster presented at the virtual MU3CCC Conference, Iowa State University.
Andrew Roberts, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, participant in spring 2020:
Roberts, A., & Evert, J. (2020, March). Using Supercomputers to Control Multiple Robots. Poster presented at Oklahoma Research Day, Weatherford, OK.
Vatsal Shah, New Jersey Institute of Technology:
Tong, A., Pham, Q.L., Shah, V., Naik, A., Abatemarco, P., & Voronov, R. (2020, February 12). Automated Addressable Microfluidics Device for Minimally Disruptive Manipulation of Cells and Fluids within Living Cultures. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng., 6(3), 1809-1820. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b01969
Olivia Shaw, University of Delaware:
"A Bright Future in Research." https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2020/april/blind-chemistry-student-research/. April 3, 2020.
Lindsey Tam, Pomona College:
(email from mentor) "We released V2.0 of the app that was developed in part with the grant from Shodor/EMPOWER program which is mentioned in About section. Lindsey Tam, a Math major from Pomona College worked on the content last summer and led a group of 6 or so students to develop additional functionality using Pomona College’s Hahn grant the rest of the year. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hpc-pondr/id1486499863" (written March 2020)
Braden Box, Southwestern Oklahoma State University:
"SWOSU Students Win Two Firsts at High Performance Computing Competition" https://www.swosu.edu/news/2019/2019-09-30b.php. September 30, 2019.
Matthew Veter, Portland State University:
"I will presenting the preliminary data I have collected at a computational conference scheduled on August 22 for dissemination of my findings at the NSF-sponsored PacNOW symposium held in Portland, OR." (written August 2019)
Alfonso Guevara, University of Houston Clear Lake:
Guevara, A., & Kindla, N. (2019, July). Solving the Traveling Salesmen Problem with IBM Q Quantum Computers. Poster presented at PEARC '19: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, Chicago, IL.
"College of Science to Honor Two Valedictorians." http://polycentric.cpp.edu/2019/05/college-of-science-to-honor-two-valedictorians/. May 17, 2019.
Diego Losada Rubio, Wofford College:
"As first year student I had the opportunity to experience by first hand the world of High Performance Computing and so this was an experience that I will never forget and regret. Thanks to XSEDE EMPOWER Program, apart from learning, working and exploring with my mentor about parallel computing concepts using Little Fe on Physics, I was able to travel to the Petascale Institute and get to know with other students the main ideas of the concepts on parallel computing that I was going to learn right after during that summer and also I was able to go to the PEARC18 and meet lots of passionate and intelligent people that work on the world of High Performance Computing. The XSEDE EMPOWER Program helped me to understand and learn complicated concepts and challenges on parallel computing and simulations. And those challenges that I once overcame are going to help me now in a new summer research experience where I am going to be doing molecular dynamics simulations using a supercomputer." (written May 2019)
Tanya Nesterova, University of Delaware:
Daniel Norment, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona:
YouTube video summarizing project work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7fqzHzSpdI
Ryan Oostland, Bluffton University. "Senior and professor collaborate on research." https://www.bluffton.edu/news/_beaversall/Beavers062019ryanoostland.aspx. June 20, 2019.
Manuel E Santiago Rodríguez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez:
Bimarsh Sharma, West Virginia University Institute of Technology:
Sharma, B., Carter, T., & Rai, S. (2019, June 15). Using NetLogo to Simulate Building Occupancy of a University Building Environment. Presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida.
April Horton, Bluffton University:
(email from mentor) "Last week April Horton received offers from two REU programs in Astronomy: The University of Hawaii, and The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Both had a computational slant—based on her EMPOWER project, a computational science course I taught and other programming courses at Bluffton. The University of Hawaii was her top choice for REU; she’ll be headed there soon after spring semester." (written March 2019)
Xinlian Liu (EMPOWER mentor), Hood College:
"Researchers Attempt To Predict & Prevent Suicide Using Deep Learning And Math." https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinseatonjefferson/2019/04/15/researchers-confident-deep-learning-and-math-can-help-end-veteran-suicide. April 15, 2019.
Phan Phu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona:
Kundu, S., Phu, P.N., Ghosh, P., Kozimor, S.A., Bertke, J.A., Stieber, S.C.E., & Warren, T.H. (2019, January 2) Nitrosyl Linkage Isomers: NO Coupling to N2O at a Mononuclear Site. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141(4), 1415-1419. http://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b09769
Diego Losada Rubio and Taeyoung Shin, Wofford College:
"Paid to learn: Students delve into the world of high performance computing." http://wofford.edu/newsroom/2018/Paid-to-learn/. September 14, 2018.
Mark Hisle, Centre College, and Maxwell Meier, Earlham College:
Hisle, M.S., Meier, M.S., & Toth, D.M. (2018, July). Accelerating AutoDock Vina with Containerization. Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 36, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3219104.3219154
Brandon Ubiera, Hood College:
(email from mentor) "First of all, we deeply appreciate this opportunity. This opportunity of the exposure to HPC and computational research means a lot for a small regional institution like Hood College. Our EMPOWER intern Brandon Ubiera was able to learn about parallel computing, deep learning, UNIX administration while helping me with system configuration and out-reaching. We have a student poster accepted by PEARC 18 [...]." (written June 2018)