CURRICULUM VITAE

Hayden S. Porter

Daniel Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

Furman University

Greenville, South Carolina 29613

Telephone: (803) 294-3223

PERSONAL:

Born June 2, 1945, Married -- Two children

EDUCATION:

B.S., Physics, 1967, University of Cincinnati

Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, 1973, University of Cincinnati

Various industrial courses and workshops in computer science.

POSITIONS:

Daniel Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, 1989-present, Furman University

President and Founder, A2D, Co., Inc., a computer hardware manufacturing and software consultant company, 1980-present

Sabbatical Leave Goddard Space Flight Center and Cimetrix, 1999 - 2000: Massively parallel computing, robot vision

Sabbatical Leave Michelin Americas Research and Development Corporation, 1992-1993. Developed new proprietary finite-element algorithms for Cray and nCube2 massively parallel computer

Chair, Department of Computer Science, 1986-1991, Furman University

Faculty Fellow, Summer 1989, Michelin Americas Research and Development Corporation

Sabbatical Leave and Faculty Fellow, 1986-87, Goddard Space Flight Center. Developed numerical methods for solving and visualizing electron transport equation solutions.

Associate Professor of Computer Science, 1984-1989, Furman University

Acting Chair, Department of Computer Science, Jan.-Aug., 1984, Furman University

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 1979-1984, Furman University

Consultant, 1979-1980, Computer Sciences Corporation

Senior Member of the Technical Staff, 1976-1979, Computer Sciences Corporation

Instructor and Postdoctoral Fellow, 1973-1976, University of Florida

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Selected as Founding Member of the Advisory Board for the Innovision Technology Awards Program for Upstate South Carolina. Served on the Innovision board from 1999 – 2001.

Recipient of Department of Energy National Award for Development of an Undergraduate Computational Science Course, 1994.
Meritorious Teaching Award, Furman University, 1991.
Named inaugural holder of the Daniel Chair in Computer Science, 1989.

Listed in American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in the Southeast, and Who's Who in Business.

Awarded ASEE/NASA Fellowships to Goddard Space Flight Center Summers of 1986, and 1987 for research in image processing. Selection was through nationwide competition.

Awarded National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowships to:
Goddard Institute of Space Studies (1976)
Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (1973)
Selection to both programs was though national competition.

Ford Foundation Three Year Master's Program Fellowship

NASA Traineeship, 1971-1973

NATO Fellowship to Brandeis Summer School in Theoretical Physics, 1969
Hanna Fellowship, 1968-1971

RESEARCH AREAS:

Finite difference and finite element algorithms for supercomputers and for massively parallel computers; object-oriented analysis and design of software systems; real-time data acquisition methods, image processing and image understanding; interactive 3-D computer graphics; machine learning, including neural networks and hidden Markov models; computer simulation of physical systems, the interaction of radiation with matter, and computer hardware interfaces and assembly language fast Fourier transform methods.

EXTERNAL RESEARCH AND EQUIPMENT GRANTS/CONTRACTS AWARDED:

Duration	Title	Amount	Source
2002	Doubling performance of new Furman University FUBIAC Cluster	$19,500.	NASA
2001	Summer South Carolina Space Grant Consortium undergraduate research	$6,000.	SCSG
2000-2001	Contract from Goddard Space Flight Center for Global Atmospheric Circulation Model research	$42,000.	NASA/GSFC
2001-2002	Grant for proposal “Mechanism for Solar Cycle Control of Mesospheric and Tropospheric Weather”	$16,000.	SCSG/Furman
2000	Summer South Carolina Space Grant Consortium undergraduate research	$3,000.	SCSG
1999-2000	Contract from Goddard Space Flight Center for Global Atmospheric Circulation Model research	$42,000.	NASA/GSFC
2000	Universities Space Research Association grant for travel to assist undergraduate student to attend NCUR.	$500.	USRA
1999-2000	Sabbatical Research Grant South Carolina Space Grant Consortium	$16,000.	SCSG/Furman
1999	Summer South Carolina Space Grant undergraduate research	$5,000.	SCSG
1999	ICUCS Grant to support undergraduate research student	$2,700.	ICUCS
1998-1999	Contract from Goddard Space Flight Center for Global Atmospheric Circulation Model research	$25,000.	NASA/GSFC
1998	Summer South Carolina Space Grant undergraduate research	$5,000.	SCSG Consortium
1998	Governor's School for Science and Mathematics High School Research	$360.	GSSM
1998-2000	Awarded 2000 processor hours on NASA 1024 processor Cray T3E	$20,000.	NASA/GSFC
1997-1998	Contract from Goddard Space Flight Center for Global Atmospheric Circulation Model research	$23,000.	NASA/GSFC
1997	Awarded research support from Greenville industrial firm	$10,000.	Advanced Automation
1997-2002	Principle writer Andrew W Mellon Foundation Proposal "Focus on Teaching and Learning with New Technology"	$675,000.	Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
1996	Principal Writer and Budget Developer for Johnson Endeavor Proposal "Center for Engaged Learning" Grant also established Center for Collaborative Learning and Communication	$1,000,000.	Johnson Endeavor Foundation
1999-1998	South Carolina Space Grant Award to support undergraduate research	$2,500.	SCSG Consortium
1997-1999	PI for JOVE augmentation grant	$20,000.	NASA
1996-1997	PI for SGI grant for partial match of NSF ARI award	$11,000.	SGI
1996-1997	ICUCS Grant to support undergraduate research student	$2,700.	ICUCS
1996-1998	PI for NASA award to upgrade computing resources	$4,000.	NASA
1996	Governor's School for Science and Mathematics High School Research	$360.	GSSM
1996-1998	PI for NSF ARI grant entitled " Acquisition of parallel supercomputer to support computer science modeling research in atmospheric systems and in software specifications."	$245,000.	NSF/Furman
1996	Participant in successful proposal to Culpeper Foundation for computer equipment for language laboratory	$230,000.	Culpeper Foundation
1996-1999	Principal writer and director of Mellon Foundation grant "Implementing Cost-Effective Strategies for the Widespread Application of Information Technology at Furman University and Wofford College”	$610,000.	Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
1994-1997	Investigator on NASA/Furman JOVE (JOint VEnture) research grant. My grant research for JOVE concerns the development of global circulation models for massively parallel computers.	$98,165.	NASA
1993-1996	PI for NSF ILI equipment grant to establish inter- disciplinary computational science course	$129,990.	NSF
1994-1996	PI for equipment donation of Silicon Graphics Computers for computer science research and special courses	$53,445.	SGI
1994	National Award for Computation Science Course Department of Energy through Ames Laboratory (with D Sloughter and F. Taylor)	$1,000.	DOE
1993	3 week NSF sponsored Workshop on Computation Science held at the North Carolina Supercomputer Center	$1,000.	NSF
1989-1992	PI "Developing a Multi-media CD-ROM Interactive Hypertext Book for Asian Studies", with K. Abernethy, J. Leavell, E. Jones, and D. Shaner	$25,000.	Apple
1988-1990	PI "Adding Fourth Generation Language and Real-Time Concepts to Computer Science 1"	$46,000.	NSF/Furman
1987-1988	PI "Macintosh Productivity Tools Laboratory"	$63,000.	Apple/ Furman
1983-1984	PI "A Direct Solution Method for Longitudinal and Radial Electron Energy Deposition"	$8,997.	NASA
1982-1983	PI "Computer Simulation Using Real-Time Microcomputer and Minicomputer Architectures"	$27,623.	NSF
1982-1983	Participant with T. Nanney and J. Runde in Hewlett Packard Foundation Equipment grant.	$187,000.	Hewlett-Packard
1980-1981	PI "Enhancement of a Computational Model for Electron Energy Deposition"	$10,333.	NASA
	Total Awards	~$3,800,000

FURMAN INTERNAL GRANTS:

2001-SUMMER	Furman Advantage Research Fellow “Solar Cycle Effects in Troposphere Driven by QBO”	$2,500.
2000-2001	Furman Advantage Teaching Fellow CS34, CS30, &CS12	$1,100.
2000-SUMMER	Furman Advantage Research Fellow “Space Weather”	$5,000.
1999-SUMMER	Furman Advantage Research Fellow "Space Weather"	$2,500.
1998-SUMMER	Furman Advantage Research Fellow " Modeling Planetary Scale Atmospheric Circulation using Massively Parallel Computers "	$2,200.
1997-1998	Furman Advantage Teaching Fellow for Computer Graphics	$300.
1997-SUMMER	Furman Advantage Research Fellow " Modeling Planetary Scale Atmospheric Circulation using Massively Parallel Computers "	$2,200.
1996-SUMMER	Furman Advantage Research Fellow "Recursive Substructuring: Optimized Parallel Algorithm for Cluster Architectures"	$2,000.
1995-SUMMER	Furman Advantage Research Fellow "Modeling Planetary Scale Atmospheric Circulation using Massively Parallel Computers"	$2,000.
1994-SUMMER	Furman Advantage Research Fellow "Using Static Condensation for Finite Element Analysis on Massively Parallel Computers”	$2,000.
1993-SUMMER	Furman Advantage Research Fellow "A New Method for Solving Nonlinear Systems of Equations on Parallel Computers”	$2,000.
1993-1994	Furman Advantage Teaching Fellow for CS30, Information Structures and CS34 Computer Graphics and Image Processing	$500.
1992-SUMMER	Furman Advantage Research Fellow "An image recognition Green's function patterned after primate vision”	$2000.
1991-1992	Faculty Development Grant to Develop Computer Assisted Instructional Materials for Computer Science Education	$995.
1991-1992	Furman Advantage Teaching Fellow to assist in laboratory development for CS34, CS22, and CS25	$800.
1991-SUMMER	"Developing a Computer System That Learns To Recognize Objects", Furman Advantage grant to support two undergraduate research fellows	$3,500.
1990-SUMMER	"Using Parallel Processing to Enhance Image Understanding by Computer", Furman Advantage grant to support two undergraduate research fellows	$3,500.
1990-1991	Furman Advantage Teaching Fellow to assist in laboratory development for CS11, CS22, and CS30	$800.
1989-SUMMER	"Understanding Chaos", Grant from COSEN through PEW Memorial trust for summer stipend, honorarium supplies, and one undergraduate research fellowship	$3,700.
1988-1989	Grant for Furman Advantage Teaching Fellow in CS11 to assist NSF laboratory grant	$800.
1988-SUMMER	"Using Color, Gray Scale, and Depth Information from TV Raster-Scan Images to Aid Studies in Image Understanding by Computer” Grant from Charles H. Dana program to support two undergraduate research fellows.	$3,50.0
1986-SUMMER	"Raster-Scan Conversion Algorithm for a 3-D, Image-Recognition System" Grant from Charles H. Dana program to support an undergraduate research fellow during the s