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Adrien DEVRESSE |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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I am currently a Doctoral Student at CERN in computer sciences in the
Grid department, my research and my work are on the distributed grid
storage system, especially on the storage federation and on the data
access. My two main projects are
Ugr (the federation system in research) and gfal 2.0 (the new grid file
access library). I am also a student of Université de Lorraine in Nancy,
in France where I did my studies. My preferred OS is Linux, with a
preference for Debian and my specialities are networks and system
software development in C/C++. |
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Daniel DIEGUEZ |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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In July 2011, I obtained a Master’s Degree in Computer Science at the
University of Vigo, Spain. During the last year of my studies I took
part in the Erasmus Program as an exchange student at University of
Coimbra, Portugal, where I developed my thesis at “Knowledge and
Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Cognitive and Media Systems Group”
research group. At present, I continue studying with the goal of obtain
the specialization in Master on Intelligent and Adaptable Software
Systems at University of Vigo. At the same time, I am Technical Student
at CERN, where I am working on The WLCG Transfer Dashboard project which
involves monitoring file transfers on the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
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Andrei DUMITRU |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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Currently I am a CERN openlab fellow in the IT Databases group. I work
in the monitoring area, involved in projects related to monitoring
databases and virtual machines, testing new rdbms features and
integrating them with our current infrastructure. Besides databases, I
am interested in system administration, virtualization and security. I
joined CERN for the first time in 2008 as an openlab summer student
working on virtualization technologies in the Databases group and in
2010 I returned as a technical student and worked on integrating various
monitoring systems and task automation. I graduated from the Computer
Science department of the “Politehnica” University of Bucharest. |
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Christian ELSASSER |
University of Zürich -
Switzerland |
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I received my master degree in physics in 2011 from the University of
Zurich, working in the field of very rare B decays at the LHCb
experiment. Before I was setting up a test facility to monitor silicon
sensors using IR lasers. Subsequently to the master degree I started my
PhD thesis where I've continued the work on very rare B decays, mainly
in the context of particle identification. Further I am also developing
a tool to monitor the radiation damage in the silicon trackers of LHCb
and have just started to study hadronic tau reconstruction in LHCb which
will be used in many Electroweak as well as Flavour Physics analyses. |
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Xavier ESPINAL |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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I studied Physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). In
2000 I joined IFAE (High Energy Physics Institute in UAB) where I did
the Diploma Thesis by contributing to MEDIPIX project by developing a
Digital X-ray imaging system based on semiconductor detector. In 2006 I
obtained the PhD in Particle Physics devoted to the study of the axial
vector mass in neutrino carbon interactions in K2K experiment (long
baseline neutrino experiment). Teaching assistant in Physics at the UAB
for the Physics and Chemistry degrees during 2002-2005 and 2009-2011. In
2006 I joined PIC (LHC-Tier1) as a contact person for the ATLAS
experiment where I also worked actively with the ATLAS distributed
computing team from 2006 to 2011. In 2010 and 2011 I was leading the
services and production group at PIC. In February 2012 I joined IT
department at CERN. I'm currently working in the Data Storage and
Services group. |
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Edgar FAJARDO |
Universidad de Los Andes,
Bogota - Colombia |
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I am a Computer Scientist and Mathematician. I came to CERN to work as
the Team Leader of a Workflow Team for CMS Computing Operations as part
of the Cat-A program for Los Andes University. The main objective has
been to operate central processing and production workflows using all
CMS Computing Resources (Tier 1 and Tier 2/Tier3 levels) to achieve a
99% efficiency in the production and processing of CMS MonteCarlo and
Data. It involves the coordination of a team of worldwide distributed
operators (United States, Belgium and CERN) in order to achieve almost
24 hour coverage at monitoring of the production system. My main
interest is computing and mathematics applied to other domains of
science. Specifically I am interested on how to run more jobs in a
faster way and in Computer Graphics to provide visualization aid.
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Sergio FERNANDEZ CASADO |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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Currently I am working at CERN, in IT-OIS group. I work on the CERN
Search Project, an enterprise search solution where I have to support
all the operational aspects needed. I’m also doing several developing
tasks, like the creation/update of document extraction and processing
pipelines of the engine, automation on common tasks, or developing new
front-end webpages. Previously, I worked as a PHP web developer, as a
teacher, and as a RFID applications developer (including RFID devices
integration). I have experience
working with Windows and Linux, and I am comfortable developing in C#,
Java (ME and SE), C++, PHP, and nowadays, also with Python. |
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Anders FLODERUS |
Lund University - Sweden |
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I first started working at CERN during my MSc project, where I developed
analysis software for LUCID, one of the luminosity monitors in the ATLAS
experiment. At the start of my PhD, I continued this task while also
taking up the role as the main developer of the Online Luminosity
Calculator (OLC). This is a C++ program that calculates the luminosity
in ATLAS, as well as various beam diagnostics, based on hundreds of
measurements made by different subdetectors. The required information is
collected by OLC in real time over various channels in the ATLAS online
world, such as the Information Service (IS) and the Data Interchange
Protocol (DIP). As of late, my focus has started to shift towards SUSY
searches within the ATLAS 2-Lepton group. I have extensive experience
with C++ and ROOT, and to a somewhat lesser degree with C, Java and
Matlab. |
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Gorm GALSTER |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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I am a physics student from Denmark, currently working at CERN as a
technical student with virtualization and long term preservation
strategies for ATLAS trigger code. I have always had a strong interest
for computer science and have supplemented my physics classes with
classes from the computer science department. In particular I have a
personal and professional interest in IT security, multiprocessing and
virtualization, for the latter two especially where/how they merge with
high energy physics. |
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Jaime GARCIA LLOPIS |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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Currently, I am working for the EU project "BlogForever". The main goal
of this project (from CERN's point of view) is to extend Invenio in
order to build an archival repository for blogs. It is not intended to
be just a web archive for blogs: well-structured metadata, relations and
citation between blogs and authors and semantic metadata will make it
searchable, and will allow network analysis. The OS used for this
project is GNU-Linux, and the main programming languages are Python and
SQL. I am also a proficient user of Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows and I
know C, C++, Java and some .Net and Perl. |
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Alberto GARCIA MOLERO |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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I am a currently a Fellow in the Communications Systems Group of the IT
Department. I am mainly involved in the deployment of digital radio
communications systems based on the TETRA and UMTS standards. I am also
working on solutions to improve the mobile telephone signal coverage in
indoor and underground CERN facilities using femtocells, conventional
distributed antenna systems and leaky feeder cables. The Master's
program I completed was an interdisciplinary one, and included a strong
emphasis on computer programming. I feel comfortable working with C,C++
and Java, under both Windows and Unix-based systems. In addition, during
the last year of my studies I collaborated with engineering faculty in
the modeling of wireless communications systems using Matlab. |
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Roman GREDIG |
University of Zürich - Switzerland |
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I am member of the Mu3e experiment which is currently under development
and designed to search for the lepton flavour violating decay of the
muon to three electrons. The experiment will be operated at the Paul
Scherrer Institut, Switzerland. Currently I am working on the simulation
of the main detector using Geant4. I studied physics at the University
of Zurich where I did my Bachelor and Master thesis for the Cherenkov
Telescope Array experiment. I developed an automatic mirror control
system that allows to align the telescope-mirrors. Since October 2011
I'm working as a PhD student. |
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Martin HELLMICH |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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I am currently a fellow in the Grid Data Management section at CERN. I
am involved in EUDAT, a project to design and build a common data
infrastructure for researchers in Europe.
I studied Computer Science in Magdeburg, Germany and Distributed
Scientific Computing in Edinburgh. The latter brought him in contact
with the WLCG and CERN, so I decided for a openlab internship. My
interests lie in large-scale data management and processing, as well as
machine learning and all its applications. If I do not work, I am either
biking or skiing, depending on the weather. |
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Teodor IVANOAICA |
National Institute for
Physics and Nuclear Engineering Horia Hulubei – Romania |
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I graduated the Faculty of Physics Bucharest, also master's degree in
physical computing. At this time I am working as grid site
administrator and security officer for Romania's LHCb Collaboration grid
site, a site that is completely dedicated to the LHCb VO, also I am
trying to offer support for all the software and hardware requirements
that the group has. I am also one of the administrators for a bigger
grid site that supports almost all CERN's VO's and also local VO's for
users that want to run jobs in grid. I am in charge with upgrading and
backing up the main services and data bases of our sites. I am CCNA
(Cisco Certified Networking Associated, also CCAI the instructor
certification for CISCO Academies) and I intend to become a Certified
Networking Professional as we are trying to improve our sites
connectivity. As future plan I am beginning to study the DIRAC system
and data management as the group, which I am part of, is growing and
also the grid site will need to meet all theri demands. |
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