Research Interests and Participation

• Internet Information Discovery and Retrieval
  • ThinkQuest Search System
  • A WWW Searchable USENET Newsgroup Archive
  • Web Search Systems Using Oracle Context Server

• Data Mining and Parallel Relational Database Management Systems
  • Integration of Oracle RDBMS in WWW
  • DSS TPCD Benchmarking of Parallel Oracle 7 Server on IBM SP2 and nCUBE2
  • Benchmarking of Data Mining Software on Parallel Systems

• Scientific Data Visualization and Graphical User Interface
  • An Interactive Visualization Environment for Financial Modeling
  • Visualization of Electromagnetic Scattering Simulation
  • Visualization of Radar Cross Section Simulation
  • Scientific Data Visualization Using Application Visualization System (AVS)

• Parallel and Distributed Computing and Applications
  • Parallel Software Integration and Meta-Computing
  • Coarse Grain Parallelism Using AVS
  • Parallel Database Technology
  • Financial Modeling
  • Computational Electromagnetics
  • InfoMall - A HPCC Technology Transfer Program
  • High Performance Fortran Applications

• Education
  I have been involved in the following education programs and applications:
  • Research Experiences for Undergraduates in High Performance Computing and Communications
  • Computational Science Education programs and courses at Syracuse University
  • The Living Schoolbook project to use high performance computing and communications for K-12 education
  • The ThinkQuest program to use the Internet as a collaborative, interactive teaching and learning tool.

• Internet and WWW Technology
  • Tango: A Java/WWW-based Collaborative System
  • Integration of RDBMS and WWW for information retrival and navigation.
  • A RDBMS-based Web Chat Board on Parallel Web and Oracle7 Servers

Publications List

• Journal Publications
  1. G. Cheng, G. C. Fox "Integrating Multiple Parallel Programming Paradigms in a Dataflow-Based Software Environment," Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Vol. 8(9), 667-684, John Wiley & Sons Publisher, Nov. 1996. NPAC technical report SCCS 548
  2. G. Cheng, G. Fox, T. Lin and T. Haupt, " A Computing Framework for Integrating Interactive Visualization in HPCC Applications," accepted to appear in the special issue of Concurrency: Practice and Experience - Commercial and Industrial HPC Applications, John Wiley & Sons Publisher, 1997. (PS file)
  3. G. Cheng and Y. Zhang, "A Functional + Logic Programming Language in Interpretation-Compilation Implementation," Lisp And Symbolic Computation: An International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3, 133-156, 1992, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

• Conference Proceedings