Jim Humphries

Position

• Deputy Director, Center for Applied High Performance Computing , Howard University
• CEO, QuaTeams, Inc

Bio

Jim Humphries has over 12 years of experience in Information Technology. His background is in software engineering and high performance computing. He founded QuaTeams in 1998 while working at the University of Maryland Institute For Advanced Computer Studies ( UMIACS ) where he ran the Laboratory For Parallel Computation and was Implementation Team Leader on the NASA Earth Science Information Partnership ( ESIP ) project.

Jim has co-authored several scholarly publications related to applications of High Performance Computing and he has given invited presentations at the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), Maui High Performance Computing Center, and for NASA. Jim holds a degree in computer science from the University of Maryland , College Park.

Current Work

• Distributed Intelligence Visualization and Organization (DIVO)
• ItinerX

Previous Experience

• Implementation Team Leader, ESIP/Global Land Cover Facility
• Manager, Laboratry for Parallel Computation (now LDPC )
• Principal Engineer, NSF Grand Challenge For Land Cover Dynamics
• Researcher, Virtual Microscope project
• Research Programer, Multiblock Parti Library
• Researcher, Chaos Research group
• Systems Administrator, U of MD Network Infrastructure (now OIT )
• Systems Administrator, AACC, CS Department )

Contact:

Jim Humphries
301-498-7823 x701

My Mentors:

• Phil Bording, Ph.D.
• Chris Cherniak, Ph.D.
• Mohamed Chouikha, Ph.D.
• Joel Saltz, Ph.D., M.D.

Other Links:

• QuaTeams, Inc.