Suggested external reviewers
Daniel Andresen
Promotion to Full Professor
Fall, 2013
1. Dr. James Guikema
associate vice president for research and associate dean of the Graduate School
785-532-7927
guikema@ksu.edu
Guikema, associate vice president for research and associate dean of the Graduate School, also
has served as associate director of the NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training in
Gravitational Biology, associate director of operations for the Division of Biology, and senior
scientist for BioServe Space Technologies.
2. Dr. Amy Apon
Professor and Chair, Division of Computer Science, Clemson U. School of Computing
864-656-5769
aapon@clemson.edu
Dr. Amy Apon joined Clemson University in August, 2011, as Chair of the Division of Computer
Science. Apon brings a distinguished record of contributions at the University of Arkansas
where she held the position of Director of the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center
and Professor of Computer Science. Apon was awarded the University of Arkansas Alumni
award for Service in 2010, the highest award given by the University of Arkansas Alumni
Association each year, and was awarded the Arkansas College of Engineering Imhoff Award for
contributions to research in 2009. Amy Apon holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt
University, M.A. in Mathematics, M.S. in Computer Science, and B.S.Ed. in Mathematics
Education from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Apon has held faculty positions at the
University of Arkansas, Fisk University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Belmont
University, and East Central University.
Her areas of research interest include performance modeling and analysis of parallel and
distributed system, data-intensive computing, emerging parallel architectures, scheduling
policies in parallel systems, parallel file systems, networks for high performance computing,
impact of high performance computing to research competiveness, sustainable funding models
for research computing, and data center design.
3. Dr. Gordon Springer
Scientific director, U. of Missouri Bioinformatics Consortium; Director, Research Support
Computing; Assoc. Professor, Computer Science
573-882-7422
Springer@missouri.edu
Gordon K. Springer is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the
University of Missouri as well as scientific director of the UM Bioinformatics Consortium, a UMSystem-wide resource that facilitates intercampus communication and bioinformatics research
collaborations. Springer also serves as MU’s director of Research Support Computing for the
Division of Information Technology, MU’s campus computing organization. A former director of
graduate studies for MU’s Computer Science Department, Springer has worked since the late
1980s with the MU Molecular Biology Program and in the Life Science Center to develop and
support computer systems and software required to carry out various research projects that
need computer analysis of biological data. He has received research funding from such
institutions as Cisco Corp., IBM, the Department of Agriculture, the National Institutes of Health,
the National Library of Medicine, the National Science Foundation and Monsanto Co.
4. Dr. David Swanson
Director, Holland Computing Center, U. of Nebraska
Research Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
402-472-5006
dswanson@cse.unl.edu
Dr. David Swanson received his Ph.D. as a computational chemist at UNL, after which he
continued modeling organic monolayers and molecular solids as an NSF-NATO Fellow at the
Technical University of Wroclaw (Poland). He was next an NRC Research Fellow at the Naval
Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. He then returned to UNL where he is now the Director
of the Holland Computing Center, which provides supercomputing resources to researchers
throughout the University of Nebraska system.
5. Dr. Jennifer Schopf
Director of international networking, Indiana University
(812) 855-0295
jmschopf@indiana.edu
Indiana University has named Jennifer M. Schopf its new director of international networking.
On August 1, Schopf officially joined the Office of the Vice President for Information and
Technology and CIO to lead IU’s advanced, high-performance networking efforts around the
world. Schopf brings a wealth of expertise in high performance computing, distributed systems
and international networking. She previously served as a program officer at the National Science
Foundation (NSF), where she jointly led the EarthCube program and initiatives for international
networks, distributed systems and pragmatic software. She was also a member of the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Ocean Informatics team, where she assisted with
cyberinfrastructure planning across the institute. Prior to this, she spent seven years as a
scientist in the mathematics and computer science division at Argonne National Laboratory.
Schopf also spent more than three years as a researcher at the National eScience Center in
Edinburgh, UK. She was a member of the Globus Alliance, the director for the SciDAC Center for
Enabling Distributed Petascale Science (CEDPS), technology coordinator for the Globus
Monitoring and Discovery System (MDS) and director of outreach for Globus.