Gang Cheng                Research Scientist
                          Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
                          at Syracuse University

Education:

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY      Ph.D. Candidate, Computer and Information Science
                                       1991 - date
Huazhong University 
of Science & Technology, P.R. China    M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, 1988
                                       B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, 1983

Awards and Honors:

1. Supercomputing '93 Student Paper Award, Best student paper in the area of
Graphics Application.
2. Member of Phi Beta Delta - Honor Society For International
Scholars, Alpha Sigma Chapter at Syracuse University, 1994 - date.
3. Co-developer of a Patent issued by the People's Republic of China. 
"A New Intelligent Magnetic-card Lock", Patent No.: ZL 92 2 14120.7.
May 27, 1993.

Experience:

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University      08/1991 - date

   Mr. Cheng has participated in several MPP application projects at NPAC in the 
area of financial modeling, electromagnetic scattering simulation, four-dimensional
data assimilation, weather modeling and geographic information system.  Serving as 
a system analyst and a researcher in those projects, he has broad experience
in developing scientific and industrial applications of parallel computing.

In a financial modeling project funded by Digital Equipment Co. and Syracuse 
University, Mr. Cheng developed a set of parallel stock option pricing 
models on massively parallel systems, Connection Machines CM2 and CM5, DECmpp-12000, 
nCUBE2, and on networked workstations. He designed and implemented an interactive 
visualization environment for this application, in which computational 
models running on multiple MPP systems and workstations are coupled over 
a local area network with a network-based graphical user interface.

Mr. Cheng has developed a high performance computing and visualization 
system for an electromagnetic scattering(EMS) simulation. In this 
DARPA-funded project, he integrated parallel EMS programs on the CM5 into an 
interactive data visualization environment to take the advantages of high performance 
computing and sophisticated 3D graphical display. 

Mr. Cheng has played a major role in a NASA funded "Grand Challenge" 
application project in four-dimensional data assimilation. 
He has actively participated in the NSF REU programs at NPAC, served as 
a co-advisor of a REU student project in 1991 and gave seminars in 1991 and 1992.

Currently working with one of NPAC's industrial partners, he is a NPAC 
project leader in charge of a Air Force funded project "Development 
and Implementation of Computational Electromagnetics Techniques on 
Massively Parallel Architectures".

Mr. Cheng has also actively involved in a variety of other application projects at NPAC, 
including MPP implementation of a weather modeling system, a GIS-based environmental 
modeling system and a health application project. He has extensive expertise in MPP
software development, parallel databases, algorithm design,
network programming, computer graphics and programming languages.

Information System Support Laboratory,  	03/1991 - 08/1991
Virginia Tech, VA        

    Working as an application analyst in the VirGIS(Virginia Geographic 
Information System) project, Mr. Cheng developed a vector-based spatial 
database management and map display system which manages and generates 
high quality graphics of DLG maps in many ways. 

Chengdu Institute of Computer Applications, 	06/1988 - 01/1991
Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China
                                                                
    As a project leader and a senior software engineer, Mr. Cheng was 
involved in a number of application projects in the area of artificial 
intelligence programming environment, database and GIS systems, 
and magnetic-card data processing products.
   
Chengdu Institute of Geography, 		06/1983 - 07/1985
Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China    
                            
   Mr. Cheng was working as an application programmer in the area 
of computer applications in earth science, particularly, GIS 
applications in mountain disasters. 

Selected Publications:

G. Cheng, K.A. Hawick, G. Mortensen and G. C. Fox,
"Distributed Computational Eletromagnetics Systems,"
to appear in Proc. of the 7th SIAM conference on Parallel 
Processing for Scientific Computing, Feb. 15-17, 1995.

G. Cheng, G. Fox, K. Mills and Marek Podgorny, "Developing Interactive 
PVM-based Parallel Programs on Distributed Computing Systems within 
AVS Framework," in Proc. of the 3rd Annual International AVS 
Conference, JOIN THE REVOLUTION: AVS'94, Boston, MA, May 2-4, 1994.

G. Cheng, G.C. Fox, and K. A. Hawick, 
"A Scaleable Paradigm for Effectively-Dense
Matrix Formulated Applications", in Proc. of the European  
Conference  and Exhibition  on  High-Performance Computing and Networking 
(HPCN Europe) 1994, Munich, Germany, 1994.

G. Cheng, Y. Lu, G.C. Fox, K. Mills and T. Haupt, "An Interactive 
Remote Visualization Environment for an Electromagnetic Scattering 
Simulation on a High Performance Computing System," in Proc. of
Supercomputing `93, Portland, OR, Nov. 14-17, 1993.

G. Cheng, K. Mills and G. Fox, "An Interactive Visualization 
Environment for Financial Modeling on Heterogeneous Computing Systems," 
Proceeding of 6th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific 
Computing(Norfolk, Virginia, March 22-24, 1993) (R. F. Sincovec, eds.), 
SIAM, Philadephia, 1993.

K. Mills, M. Vinson, and G. Cheng, ``A Large Scale 
Comparison of Option Pricing Models with Historical Market Data,'' 
Proceedings of 4th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel 
Computation (McLean, Virginia, October 19-21, 1992), IEEE Computer 
Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, 1992.

G. Cheng, C. Faigle, G. Fox, W. Fumanski, B. Li and K. Mills,
"Exploring AVS for HPDC Software Integration: Case Studies Towards
Parallel Support for GIS,", to be presented at AVS Conference AVS'93, 
Lake Buena Vista, FL, May, 1993.
                                 
K. Mills, G. Cheng, M. Vinson, S. Ranka, and G. Fox, "Software Issues           
and Performance of a Stock Option Pricing  Model on the Connection Machine-2 
and DECmpp-12000," in Proc. of Fifth Australian Supercomputing Conference, 
World Congress Centre, Melbourne, Australia, December, 1992.

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.

G. Cheng, Z. Kang, "A Computer-Based Information System on Moving Elements 
of Debris Flow," in Proc. of Japan-China Symp. on Landslides & Debris Flows, 
1989, Tokyo, Japan. 

X. Huang and G. Cheng, "A Province-Wide Natural Disaster Precaution 
System: An Application of Geographic Information System to Natural 
Disaster Reduction," in Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on GIS, 
Beijing `90, 1990. 