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Undergrads Explore NCMIR Cyberinfrastructure in Japan
Students participating in the education abroad programs including (Back row, l-r) Ramsin Khoshabeh, Brandon Smith, Stephen Geist, John Colby, Duy Nguyen, and Jared Bell (Front row, l-r) Takumi Takahashi, Christopher Kondrick, and Robert Ikeda. Khoshabeh and Geist are participating through the NCMIR program.
August 2004 — As part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) project that prepares engineering students for the global workforce, two UCSD undergraduates are spending their summer enhancing NCMIR's cyberinfrastructure at Japan 's Osaka University.
Stephen Geist and Ramsin Khoshabeh, under the tutelage of NCMIR's Mark Ellisman, Steven Peltier, and Tomas Molina, are exploring NCMIR's Telescience in collaboration with researchers from the Cybermedia Center at Osaka University. Geist, a mechanical engineering major from Thurgood Marshall College, is using the Telescience Portal to migrate code from a camera at NCMIR to the same camera on a microscope at the Osaka facility. Khoshabeh, an electrical and computer engineering student, is investigating the impact the IPv6 protocol can have on the Telescience Project.
Geist and Khoshabeh were selected along with seven other UCSD undergraduates as part of Pacific Rim Undergraduate Experiences (PRIME), which sponsors collaborative projects abroad that hone students' research skills and give them greater insight into the cultural environments of their host countries. Other students in PRIME are participating in similar projects based in Taiwan and Australia.
PRIME is sponsored by the NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering, with additional support from its Division of Shared Cyberinfrastructure and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2 ]. The host institutions from the project, including the Cybermedia Center of Osaka University, are associated with the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) collaborative program.
This fall, the program's undergraduates will deliver presentations on their overseas experiences at a UCSD workshop. For further information, visit Grid Today.
