EOT Team

Mike Wilde, member of the University of Chicago/Argonne Distributed Systems Laboratory, is the PI for the Swift NSF SDCI grant and also the project manager. Since 2006 he has served as the Open Science Grid coordinator for Education, Training and Outreach, and previously he was the Project Coordinator for the Grid Physics Network (NSF GriPhyN?).

Alina Bejan has joined OSG in the summer of 2007 as the coordinator for Education, Training and Outreach. She is based at the Computation Institute, University of Chicago and she is also a member in the Distributed Systems Lab at the Argonne National Laboratory. She received her PhD? in Computer Science from University of Iowa in 2006 in the area of distributed systems and held the position of Visiting Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota for one year. Her research interests include grid computing, peer-to-peer systems, agents and self-stabilizing systems. Her recent focus is on promoting grid computing through a series of educational events that target undergraduate and graduate students and faculty, researchers, highschool teachers and other professionals.

Ben Clifford has worked with grid technology on-and-off since 2000. At present, he is both an educator with the Open Science Grid and a developer and technology coordinator for the Swift workflow system at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago. Previous to that, he worked on the Monitoring and Discovery System, part of the Globus Toolkit at the Centre for Grid Technologies at USC ISI in Los Angeles.