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Gagik KARAPETYAN |
INFN, Padova - Italy |
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Currently I work in RareNoise project. The goal of the project is to
study the statistical properties of very-low loss mechanical oscillators
in non equilibrium steady-states. Currently my responsibilities include
data acquisition and room temperature experimental setup maintains and
cryogenic setup assembling. My programming skills are C++ and NI
LabView. Also I'm familiar with Matlab and started to discover ROOT
package. My preferred operating system is Windows. |
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Tomas KARASEK |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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I work in the IT-PES-PS group and I participate in the implementation
and deployment of new cloud infrastructure to an external datacenter. My
main tasks are management of internal git hosting service, development
and maintenance of puppet modules for general use in the infrastructure,
and implementation of runtime instance configuration logic. I mostly
deal with python, puppet, git and ruby on RedHat-based operating
systems. |
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Nikolaos KASIOUMIS |
CERN, Geneva - Switzerland |
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I first arrived at CERN in 2009 as a technical student where I completed
my MSc thesis in Electrical and Computer Engineering working on
searching and personalization services for the CERN Document Server
software. In 2011 I returned as a fellow working as the software
infrastructure work package leader for the European project
"BlogForever". The project's objective is to create robust facilities
for the preservation, management and dissemination of weblogs. Currently
I am a staff member for the Digital Library Services section of the
Collaboration and Information Services group in the IT Department
working as a software engineer for the development and automation of the
ePublishing service at CERN as well as for the open source digital
library software suite Invenio. I am an everyday user of Debian Linux
and I currently mostly program using Python and related web technologies
such as HTML, CSS, XML and JavaScript. |
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Wolfgang KIESENHOFER |
Austrian Academy of
Sciences, Vienna - Austria |
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I studied physics at the Vienna University of Technology and did my
diploma thesis at the Institute of High Energy Physics were I analyzed
test beam data from semiconductor test structures measured at SPS. I am
now a PhD student, starting my 3rd year and I'm currently working for
the CMS experiment. My primary interest is the search for super
symmetry, but I also participated in the muon and the missing energy
object groups. I am currently
working on a background estimation technique for SUSY decay channels
with a single lepton in the final state. Operating systems I use in my
daily work are Linux and OSX, sometimes Windows.
Programming languages I am familiar with are C++, Python and
Matlab. I have also extensively used ROOT and RooFit during the last 4
years. |
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Blazej KOLAD |
CERN, Geneva -
Switzerland |
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I have been graduated in 2009 with MSc degree in Physics from Wroclaw
University of Technology. In
October 2011 I joined software section of BE/BI department at CERN.
I work on low-level real-time server and expert GUI application
for beam instrumentation. The main tools which I am using are C++, FESA
framework and Java. During past
few months I was involved in several projects related to the beam
profile measurement (Wire Scanner, Fast Wire Scanner, SEM-GRID). |
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Georgios KOLOVENTZOS |
CERN, Geneva -
Switzerland |
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am currently a fellow at IT-PES-IS. I am working with the Version
Control Systems of CERN. In my job I have to maintain 3 clusters of
machines. To accomplish this I have expertise in bash, perl and python
scripting languages. Moreover as we have some web servers my knowledge
of html, css and php came handy for such jobs. As a technical student I
have widen my knowledge in the apache web server introducing a new load
balancing scheme for our machines. With so many services in order not to
lose anything we have also some databases. So we are expertized in SQL
in various backends as MySQL, ORACLE and sqlite.
I have a B.Sc in Informatics from the University of Athens.
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Ji̍ří
KUNČAR |
CERN, Geneva -
Switzerland |
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I am a M.Sc. student at the Charles University in Prague, Czech
Republic, where he also got the Bachelor degree in Computer Science. In
2010, I became a student at the Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden
and I have recently graduated with a Master degree in Software
Engineering there. During my stay at CERN I am part of the ID-CIS
department working on Invenio digital library software infrastructure,
notably (i) the database configuration manager and the use of SQLAlchemy
for DB independence (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Oracle); (ii) help with
the migration of Invenio's web framework to Flask/Werkzeug/Jinja
platform. |
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Jan Ǻge LAVIK |
CERN, Geneva -
Switzerland |
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I am currently working as a developer and system administrator for the
CERN library, focusing on digital library systems such as CERN Document
Server and INSPIRE-HEP - the one stop shop for scientific articles in
high-energy physics. Also I am involved on the technical implementation
and monitoring of the ingestion of content from various sources such as
scientific publishers and online repositories. Both systems are built on
top of CERN's in-house digital library software Invenio, which is based
on the LAMP stack, using Python as the main programming language. In
addition to LAMP and Python, I’m familiar with C/C++, Java, MySQL and
web technologies such as PHP, JavaScript/jQuery and CSS. I work mostly
on the GNU/Linux platform. |
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Claudia LAZZARO |
INFN, Padova - Italy |
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I studied physics at University of Padova obtaining the master degree in
2006; I took the PhD at ETH (Zurich), involved in the OPERA experiment,
working on the software to reconstruct the events. I am currently a
post-doc at INFN (Padova) involved in the RareNoise project, to develop
the software of analysis data. The project is devoted to the study of
non-equilibrium fluctuations in macroscopic systems. The experimental
data are analysed using software implemented mainly in C++ language, as
standalone program, using the ROOT library. I mainly develop software in
C++ languages, and in Linux operating systems. |
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Dzmitry MAKATUN |
Nuclear Physics
Institute, Prague – Czech Republic |
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Starting from 2011 I am a PhD student at Czech Technical University. My
specialization is programming and subject of thesis is “Distributed data
processing”. I carry out my research in Nuclear Physics Institute (CZ)
in collaboration with BNL (US). The research faces the problem of
resource usage optimization by coupling the computational, storage and
network resources. The goal is to develop a scalable, automatic,
self-adjustable and flexible software environment for data-processing.
For this work I use my skills of: Linux, MySQL, C++, OpenMPI, Java and
Python. In my free time I do sport and photography. |
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Luca MAZZAFERRO |
University of Rome
"Tor Vergata" - Italy |
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I am PhD student in University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and an ATLAS
collaboration member and author. During my degree thesis I developed a
tool, integrated into the LCDS, to manage the Data Quality Assessment
analysis for the MDT chambers in ATLAS calibration center. Now for my
PhD studies I'm modifying it to manage the ATLAS RPC performance
analysis. On the same time I am working with the INFN-Tor Vergata
Computing Center supervisor to install and manage the local ATLAS farm
in grid. I am familiar with Unix systems, virtualization and cloud tools
(kvm, xen, openNebula). I use to program with python, C++ and php. For
my analysis I use ROOT/PROOF but also pAthena and pRun. |
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Ramón MEDRANO LLAMAS |
CERN, Geneva -
Switzerland |
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I
work at the IT-ES group, in which I am the main developer and
coordinator of HammerCloud, the functional testing tool for grid sites
of ATLAS, CMS and LHCb. This tool submits more than 115,000 grid jobs
world-wide daily and has improved the ATLAS analysis reliability by 50%.
Also, I'm involved in the HelixNebula project, to develop a cloud
computing infrastructure for science. Finally, I'm becoming and ATLAS
Computing Manager on Duty. I
finished past year my Research MSc, after obtaining a MSc in Computing
in Spain and currently I am also working in my PhD. Before CERN, I have
worked at Google. I use, administer and maintain a cluster of 17
machines for HammerCloud, work with shell scripting, Python, SQL, high
replication and high performance clusters. |
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Felice PANTALEO |
CERN, Geneva -
Switzerland |
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I am a technical student in PH-SFT group at CERN and MSc student in High
Energy Physics at the University of Pisa. I am currently working on the
development of a real-time software Level 0 trigger using multicore
CPUs, accelerators and high performance networks for the NA62 experiment
at CERN. Since 2010 I have worked with CERN openlab on parallelization
of RooFit and on numerical accuracy of Minuit. I have good experience
with: C, C++, Python, Perl and bash scripting. Parallel extensions:
OpenMP, CUDA, OpenCL, TBB, pThreads, MPI. |
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Omar PERA MIRA |
CERN, Geneva -
Switzerland |
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I am a software engineer working
in the Computing Facilities group at CERN. Currently working in the
Lemon Team, where we develop and support the monitoring framework for
the CERN Computer Center. I am involved also in the new Agile
Infrastructure project, focused on the development of new monitoring
components that fits into the new infrastructure. Before coming to CERN,
I did an internship in the European Bioinformatics Institute in
Cambridge and the University of Bremen, with protein visualization and
semantic web as domain fields, respectively. In the last 2 years, I've
been launching Android applications in my free time. Originally from
Spain, looking forward to the CSC!
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Petya PETROVA |
CERN, Geneva -
Switzerland |
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I am in my last year as a bachelor student in ¨Computer Science¨ at
Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski¨, Bulgaria. Currently, I am a
technical student at CERN and my main project here is to do data
migration between two bug-tracking systems. In particular, I have to
develop a data importer plugin. So that Savannah project, which has been
widely used at CERN until recently, would be replaced by another one -
JIRA. In the process of the transition between the two databases I learn
a lot about SQL and Java as well as how to handle the occurred problems
quickly and efficiently. The experience I gain, while doing the project,
helps me a lot in writing my thesis. |
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Ivan PRIETO BARREIRO |
CERN, Geneva -
Switzerland |
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I
have been working at CERN in the EN-ICE group since 2010 as a software
engineer for the UAB project (UNICOS Application Builder). UNICOS is a
CERN framework developed to produce control applications for three-layer
control systems. UNICOS provides developers with the means to rapidly
develop full control or monitoring applications and provides operators
with ways to interact with all the items of the process.
The main activities of my position are:- Analysis, design,
development and testing of software tools using Java and Jython
programming languages and XML technologies.- Give support to the UAB
users and developers. Other tasks
performed: - Testing the PLC code generated by the UAB tools. -
Programming and testing control script libraries for the SCADA system
WinCC OA. |
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