Chandrika Kamath is Sapphire's project leader. The team won an R&D 100 Award in 2006 (see pp. 10–11 in Science & Technology Review). Funding sources (in alphabetical order): the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program through DOE, Department of Homeland Security, the Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program at LLNL, and the DOE Office of Science SciDAC Program.

Alumni

  • Chuck Baldwin
  • Samson Cheung (postdoc)
  • Erick Cantú-Paz
  • Imola Fodor
  • Abel Gezahegne
  • Cyrus Harrison
  • Nicole Love (postdoc)
  • Siddharth Manay (postdoc)
  • Ron Musick
  • Shawn Newsam (postdoc)
  • Thinh Nguyen (postdoc)
  • Nu Ai Tang

Summer Students and Visitors

  • Emily Eder, UCLA, summer 2005
  • Michael Maire, UC Berkeley, DHS Graduate Fellow, summer 2005
  • Ryan White, UC Berkeley, DHS Graduate Fellow, summer 2004
  • G. Marlon Roberts, Georgia Tech, Summer 2004, summer 2005
  • Abraham Bagherjeiran, University of Houston, summers 2004–2006
  • Mark Moelich, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, summer 2003
  • Aglika Gyaourova, Department of Computer Science, University of Nevada, Reno, summers 2002–2003
  • Ty Jones, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Nevada, Reno, summer 2001
  • David Littau, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, summers 2000–2001
  • David Nault, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, Undergraduate Research Semester fall 2000, summer 2000
  • Imelda Kirby, University of Washington, Seattle, National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellow, summers 1999–2000
  • Matt Giamporcaro, Computational Sciences Graduate Fellow at Boston University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, summer 1999
  • Rachel Karchin, University of California, Santa Cruz, National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellow, summer 1999
  • George Bebis, Faculty, Department of Computer Science, University of Nevada, Reno, summer 1998

University Collaborators

  • George Bebis, University of Nevada, Reno
  • Serge Belongie, University of California, San Diego
  • Leo Breiman, University of California, Berkeley
  • Michael Burl, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
  • B. S. Manjunath, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Padhraic Smyth, University of California, Irvine