Dr Roman Markowski

• Resume
• Address: EECS, 111 College Place
  Syracuse University
  Syracuse, New York 13244 -4100
• Office Phone: 315-443-3921
  Mobile: 315-373-6346
  Fax: 315-443-1973
• E-mail: roman@webwisdom.com
• Home page:
  http://www.webwisdom.com/users/roman/index.html
• Date and place of birth: 1 August 1955, Krakow, Poland
  Nationality: Polish
  Family status: married, 1 daughter (born 1980)

• 1993 Ph.D. in Computational Physics, Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland
• 1979 Master of Science in Theoretical Physics, Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland

• Information Systems Manager, L.C. Smith College of Engineering & Computer Science, July 2000 to present
• Chief Operation Officer, WebWisdom.com Inc., July 2000 to present
• Managing Partner, WebWisdom.com LLC, 1997 to July 11, 2000
• Information Systems Manager, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, 1996 to June, 2000
• Computational Research Scientist, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, 1993 to 1996
• Director, Computer Center, Jagellonian University, 1990-1993
• Deputy Director, Computer Center, Jagellonian University, 1987-1990
• Computer Systems Analyst, Computer Center, Jagellonian University, 1982-1987
• System Manager, Computer Center, Jagellonian University, 1979 - 1982

• Current (2000 - ...):
  1. Design, development and technical management of CSA (Center for Systems Assurance) facility, a state of the art computing infrastructure with inventory including clusters of high performance workstations interconnected via Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and Giganet.
  2. Teaching Graduate Courses at Syracuse University
  3. Managing (COO) the Internet startup company, WebWisdom.com, Inc.
• Previous (1993-2000): Design, development and technical management of NPAC facility, a state of the art computing center with inventory including clusters of high performance workstations interconnected via ATM, FDDI, Fast Ethernet, Ethernet, ISDN and wireless technologies. Providing supervision of the team of systems administrators. Delivery of stable, production level computing services to NPAC sponsors and research groups. Development of advanced technology computing and communications' services for NPAC research activities. Integration of new web software with the leading edge networking system.

• Thorough technical knowledge of UNIX, MS-DOS/Windows 95/NT. Tweleve years of practical experience in UNIX systems (Sun, IBM, DEC, SGI) management and administration
• Expertise in system-level administration of complex network of Unix-based clusters of workstations and Windows-based computers
• Programming languages: C, C++, Fortran, Pascal, Perl, Cobol, Lisp, Java, JavaScript
• Theoretical knowledge and a few years of practical experience in setup, management and administration of Ethernet (shared, switched), Fast Ethernet, ISDN, FDDI, ATM and wireless (CDPD, CSC) networks
• Experience in Unix, Windows and network security
• Practical knowledge in the World Wide Web technologies (HTTP, HTML, XML), collaboratory, Information Services (httpd, ftpd, gopherd, nntpd, etc.) and multimedia tools
• Experience with Oracle database administration: Oracle 7, Oracle 8i, SQL, backups
• Experience in image, audio and video capture and compression technologies including WAVELET, JPEG, Fractal, MPEG, mJPEG, MVC1. Good theoretical knowledge of wavelet compression technology
• Five years of practical experience in designing and implementation of ATM-based Wide Area Networks
• Practical experience in image processing technologies for medical applications
• Expertise in theoretical physics (solid state theory and astrophysics), computational physics (optical properties of semiconductors) and advanced mathematical methods
• A few years of experience in management of team of researches and system professionals
• Fluent in English and Polish

• Multimedia Information Systems and Multimedia Applications
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Distance Learning
• Web-based Information Systems
• Videoconferencing, collaboration and telecommunication software
• High speed networking (ATM, FDDI, Fast Ethernet)
• LAN and WAN technologies and protocols
• Next Generation Internet / Internet 2
• Networking standards, internetworking and design
• Use of high speed networks for K-12 education
• Unix, Windows and Network Security
• Application of high-level computer technologies in medicine
• Audio, video and image compression technologies
• Heavy calculations in solid state physics

• "LMTO Calculations". For a few years I worked as a physicist in the field of computational material science. I designed and implemented a package of programs for calculation of response functions to electromagnetic radiation for some semiconductor materials. The calculations were quite complicated conceptually and rather intensive from computational point of view. They involved: (1) self-consistent, fully relativistic calculation of electronic structure (2) calculation of the dipole transition matrix elements (3) calculation of the joint density of states, the imaginary part of the dielectric function and optical absorption in the energy range from infrared to hard X-ray. May calculations supported the experimental work carried out by a group of physicists in Krakow (Poland) and Rome (Italy). The software is used in several European laboratories. The complete package of programs carrying out the calculation of the optical properties of materials has been implemented and used on several platforms, including vector machines (Convex), symmetric multiprocessors (Sun 670 MP) and also on Novell network for small structures. My Ph.D. thesis "The Analysis of Applicability of One-particle Approximation to the Theoretical Description of Optical Properties of Semiconductors" described the results of those calculations.
• "CAREWEB" (http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/careweb/) is a Web based health care community system, targeted on the school nursing domain. It includes support for heterogeneous distributed patient record database and collaboratory tools for interactive consultation involving nurses, nurse practitioners and pediatricians. CareWeb, a pioneering project to develop new technology that could provide access to health care for schoolchildren, debuted May 6 1996 during a telemedicine conference at OnCenter (Syracuse, NY) cosponsored by the SUNY Health Science Center and NYNEX. A partnership between Syracuse University, the Syracuse City School District and SUNY Health Science Center led to building the first-known computerized system design for public school nurses. CareWeb developed by the team including Roman Markowski was demonstrated at the HealthInfo Conference in Washington DC and attracted considerable interest in the health community. The goal of the CareWeb project which is in the second round of prototyping activities is to develop and deploy better health care system in all (~60) schools in the Syracuse City School District, and thereby become a better healthcare provider based on coordinating functions of the planned Nursing Community Center. Web technologies used and/or developed in the CareWeb system are naturally scalable to larger communities and portable/adaptable to other healthcare domains including telemedicine projects for US Army
• "COLLABORATORY AND TELECOMMUNICATION EXPERIMENTS" sponsored by USAF Rome Laboratory, $200.000, 1994 - 1995, supervised by Roman Markowski. The project concentrated on the design and implementation of "Telepathology workstation" based on ATM/ISDN network connectivity, collaboratory technology and Oracle database access. The project, supported by Rome Laboratory, focused on developing and demonstrating telemedicine applications in cooperation with neuropatologists from the SUNY Health Science Center (HSC). This effort included investigation of the appropriate collaboration technology required to support joint decision making involving physically dispersed information and user locations. It prototyped the technology for multimedia service in the area of collaboration. The telemedicine experiment involved the demonstration of capabilities over ATM high speed network to enable neuropathologists to conduct remote, collaborative diagnoses. Telemedicine advanced technologies can transmit very accurate microscope images that will help doctors detect a problem earlier and increase the chances of their patients' survival.
• "NYNET" is an experimental broadband communications network constructed in New York State, under the sponsorship of NYNEX. Using fiber optics and emerging Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switching technology, the NYNet network provides a perfect testbed for the National Information Infrastructure (or Information Superhighway) and a phenomenal opportunity for business. The National Information Infrastructure is considered a critical asset for the economic future of this country. Industry and governmental programs have made significant progress in establishing the feasibility and in developing the network technology. ATM is an emerging broadband switching technology being adopted by the computer and communications industry and will equally support the transfer of voice, data and video. Operating at rates as high as 2.4 gigabits per second, NYNet will permit development of a broad range of applications in industries such as health care, education, and finance. Future focus will be on new applications that will transform the way people work, learn and receive social services. Roman Markowski has been involved in design and implementation of ATM technologies in the NYNET project since the very beginning of its existence. He takes active role in implementation of ATM network connecting Syracuse University with Cornell University, Rome Laboratory, Museum of Science and Technology, Rome Free Academy, Fowler High School, Whitesboro Middle School and SU School of Education.
• "VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT" (http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/3Dvisiblehuman/3dvisiblehuman.html) . The National Library of Medicine has taken to provide a set of digitized images of the human body for use in education, research and medical applications. The Visible Human is a set of digital images of the body such as transverse CT, MRI and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals. The Northeast Parallel Architecture Center(NPAC) at Syracuse University has obtained a copy of the Visible Human data set and is working on processing the raw data to produce two and three dimensional images that can be accessed over the Internet for educational purposes. Intended uses and applications of the 2D/3D images include teaching and modeling applications (such as virtual surgery), most of these uses require the segmentation and classification of the volume data into anatomical objects. Teaching applications range from identifying anatomical structures on the cross sections to visualizing full motion of the human form. Our very near term aim is to get a very crude reconstruction of various body parts and use it as visual/navigational icons for CareWeb and other patient record pages/dirs/spaces. After getting more 3D material, we are planning to develop educational pages. A long term aim is to accomplish a realtime support for minimal invasive surgery, such as a natural 'wet surgery' interface to endoscopic instruments in which surgeon's gestures are translated into the actual coordinates of the minimal invasive surgery instruments (cameras, scissors, scalpels) and the 3D human data acts as a lookup table to generate the mapping.
• "EXPERT NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM". This project aims at designing and developing a prototype of an intelligent network management system based on NetView using Expert system technology. Most current expert systems use production rules and/or frames for knowledge representations. Case-based reasoning(CBR), which uses analogical reasoning methods is particularly applicable to solving problems in large systems, problems such as arise in traffic congestion in large distributed network systems. The advantage of this approach is the ability to use the large-grained knowledge representation of "cases"- the previously used solutions- rather than finer-grained rules, hence potentially enhancing the real-time performance of the systems. The main objectives are as follows: (1) Investigate methods for adding values to existing NetView network management system (2) Design and implement expert network management modules and interfaces for NetView
• "LIVING SCHOOL BOOK" (http://lsb.syr.edu/). Based on leading NII technologies, such as databases, digital video, the WWW, and advanced networking, the Living SchoolBook demonstrates Educational Information Infrastructure (or EII) services. Teacher and students are discovering ways in which state of the art information systems support development of pioneering educational resources within the culture of the classroom and the larger school community. Roman Markowski is involved directly in the design and implementation of the ATM-based network infrastructure for participating Schools.
• "NETWORK DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT" (http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/roman/network/) and (http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/networkbasicjan98). R.Markowski is responsible for design, development and everyday management of complex NPAC networking facility including supercomputers, clusters of high performance workstations interconnecting via advanced networking technologies. He is involved in network designing in other departments at the university.
• "INTERNETWORKING". A set of lectures given at Xi'an Jiaotong University on September 1998:
  • Introduction
  • Local Area Network Technologies
  • Wide Area Network Technologies
  • Protocols
  • Bridging,Switching,Routing
  • Network Management
  • Network Design
• Lectures in Summer 1999:  CPS714 Case Studies in Information Applications
  • Security Infrastructure for Electronic Commerce and  Internet
  • Directory Services for the Internet
• Syracuse University Graduate course Fall: 1999: CPS640/CIS600s7 Topics in Networking and Multimedia Applications
  • The primary objective of the course is to provide a comprehensive panorama of networked multimedia applications and the underlying computer and networking technology. The course covers LAN and WAN Technologies, Bridging, Switching, Routing, Networking Protocols, Management, Design and Security  as well as Multicast, Videoconferencing, Multimedia Collaboration Technologies and Audio/Video compression and coding
• Online course  CPS640 Topics in Networking and Multimedia Applications provided in Fall 1999 over Internet to
  • Jackson State University
  • Mississippi State University
  • Morgan State University,
  • ASC - Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
  • NRL - Naval Research Laboratory
  • ARL - Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, MD
  • NAVO - Naval Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, MS
• Intensive course for 25 students from South Korea, summer 2000
  " Internet Infrastructure for e-commerce and multimedia"
• Syracuse University Graduate course Fall 2000: CPS640/CIS600s2 Topics in Networking and Multimedia Applications: Networking and Data Security
  • The primary objective of the course is to provide a comprehensive panorama of networked multimedia applications and the underlying computer and networking technology. The course covers LAN and WAN Technologies, Bridging, Switching, Routing, Networking Protocols, Management, Design and Security  as well as Wireless LAN and WAN, Internet 2 and Next Generation Internet
• Syracuse University Graduate course Spring 2001: CIS710.s2 Topics in Applications of Computer Systems: Computing Architectures for e-Commerce
  • This course is designed to provide graduate students with the technical insight into the emerging e-Business landscape. The course provides a thorough review of advanced technologies used to build commercial data centers for global e-Commerce. It is divided into 2 parts. The first one, entitled "From Business to e-Business", is focused on the process of converting a company into an Online Business. In the second part, entitled "Design and Implementation of e-Business Solutions" concentrates on discussion of current technologies and applications necessary to setup an e-Business

• "Description of the Stochastic System of the Concentration Forecasting of SO in the Atmosphere" K.Twardowska, M.Slowik, R.Niemiec, R.Markowski, K.Franczak, Wiadomosci IMGW, XII, 15 (1989)
• "Optical Absorption in CdTe : d-core Transitions" R.Markowski, M.Podgorny, Journal of Physics :Condensed Matter 3, 9041 (1991)
• "The XANES K-edge Spectra for HgMnSe and HgFeSe" A.Kisiel, J.Oleszkiewicz, J.Goniakowski, R.Markowski, G.Dalba E.Burattini, F.Rocca, Acta Physica Polonica A, 80, 373 (1991) Proc.of the XX Inter. School of Semicond. Comp., Jaszowiec 1991
• "The Influence of the Dipole Transition Matrix Element on the XANES and Optical Spectra for CdTe" R.Markowski, J.Oleszkiewicz A.Kisiel, Acta Physica Polonica A, 80, 369 (1991) Proc.of the XX Inter. School of Semicond. Comp., Jaszowiec 1991
• "Calculated Optical Properties of Zincblende Semiconductors ZnTe, CdTe i HgTe" R.Markowski, M.Podgorny, Journal of Physics : Condensed Matter 4, 2505 (1992)
• "X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Spectra for CdTe - Theoretical Study" J.Oleszkiewicz, R.Markowski, A.Kisiel, Acta Physica Polonica A, 82, 323 (1992), Proc.of the ISSSRNS'92, Jaszowiec 1992
• "Theoretical Study of Optical and XANES Spectra for CdTe within the k-dependent Matrix Element Approach" R.Markowski, J.Oleszkiewicz A.Kisiel, Acta Physica Polonica A, (1992) Proc.of the XX Inter. School of Semicond. Comp., Jaszowiec 1992
• "CdFeSe room temperature reflectivity in the 10-25 eV energy range" M.Piacentini, D.Debowska, R.Markowski, A.Kisiel, Journal of Physics :Condensed Matter 5, 3707 (1993)
• "X-Ray absorption near Edge Structure Analysis of HgMnSe, HgFeSe and HgTeSe", E.Burattini, R.Markowski, A.Kisiel, G.Dalba, W.Giriat, Acta Physica Polonica A, 83 (1993)
• " Electronic Structure of Zinc-blende ZnSe; Theory and Experiment" R.Markowski, M.Piacentini, D.Debowska, M.Zimnal-Starnawska, N.Zema, A.Kisiel, J.Phys.Cond.Matter 6, 3207 (1994)
• "InfoVISION - A Prototype of The Future NII", K.Mills, G.Fox, M.Podgorny, S.Hariri, R.Markowski, SCCS-624, Supercomputing Symposium '94, Toronto, Canada, June 6-8, 1994
• R.Markowski, A.Holda, D.Debowska, A.Kisiel, M.Zimnal-Starnawska, M.Piacentini, N.Zema, F.Lama, Acta Phys. Pol. A 88 1023 1995
• A.Holda, R.Markowski D.Debowska, A.Kisiel, M.Zimnal-Starnawska, M.Piacentini, N.Zema, F.Lama, Acta Phys. Pol. A 90 817 1996
• "Collaboratory and Telecommunications Experiments", R.Markowski, G.Fox, Rome Laboratory Griffiss Air Force Base, Technical Report RL-TR-96-58, May 1996
• " The influence of transition metals on the electronic structure of ZnSe host crystal: fundamental reflectivity analysis" A.Kisiel, M.Piacentini, D.Debowska, N.Zema, F.Lama, M.Zimnal-Starnawska, W.Giriat, A.Holda, R.Markowski, J.Phys.Cond.Matter 9, 8767 (1997)
• "Synchronous Learning at a Distance: Experiences with TANGO" Tom Scavo, David E. Bernholdt, Geoffrey C. Fox, Roman Markowski, Nancy J. McCracken, Marek Podgorny, and Debasis Mitra, Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station Major Shared Resource Center (CEWES MSRC)/Programming Environment and Training (PET) Technical Report 98-29
• "Synchronous Learning at a Distance: Experiences with TANGO" David E. Bernholdt, Geoffrey C. Fox, Roman Markowski, Nancy J. McCracken, Marek Podgorny, Thomas R. Scavo, Qutaibah Malluhi, and Debasis Mitra in SC98 Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Association for Computing Machinery, 1998

• "The LMTO Method - the calculation of electronic band structure in semiconductors", R.Markowski, invited lecture, Douisburgh University, Instute of Experimental Physics, Germany, 1992
• "Theoretical Study of Optical and XANES Spectra for ZnSe within the k-dependent Matrix Element Approach", R.Markowski, invited lecture at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati INFN, Frascati, Italy, 1993
• "Internetworking", R.Markowski, invited lectures at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, 11-27 September 1998

• Ph.D. defense committee
  • Feb. 6, 1998 - Dr. Sung-Yong Park defense committee (Advisor - prof Salim Hariri)
    " NYNET Communication System (NCS): A Multithreaded Message Passing System For ATM-based High performance Distributed Computing Environments"
  • April 7, 1998 - Dr. Sang-Gue Oh defense committee (Advisor - prof Alok Choundhary)
    "A File System Prototype for Cluster-based Server Machines Using Network-attached Storage Device"
  • December 4, 1998 - reader of Dr. Kyoungro Yoon Ph.D. dissertation (Advisor - Prof Bruce Berra)
              "Layered Hypervideo Document Database System: Design and Modeling of Hypervideo Document Database"
  •  June 20, 1999 - Dr Haluk R.Topcuoglu defense committee (Advisor - prof Salim Hariri)
       " Scheduling Task Graphs in heterogeneous Computing Environments"
  •   December 3, 1999 - Dr Myeogjin Lee defense committee (Advisor - Dr David Warner)
       " Information Architecture of Interactive and Customizable Learning Environment"
  •  May 12 , 2000 - Dr Bokyun Na defense committee (Advisor - prof Geoffrey Fox)
       " Comprehensive Taxonomy and Designs of ATM Host-network Interfaces"
  •  August 4, 2000 - Dr Yoonhee Kim defense committee (Advisor - prof Salim Hariri)
       " Application Centric Management: Design and Evaluation"
  •  November 30, 2000 - Dr Mehmet Sen defense committee (Advisor - prof Geoffrey Fox)
       " Distributed Open Asynchronous Information Access Environment"
  •  February 15, 2001 - Dr Il kyeun Ra defense committee (Advisor - prof Salim Hariri)
       " Adaptive Communication System (ACS): Design and Evaluation"
  •   May 31, 2001 - Dr Shrideep Pallickara defense committee (Advisor - prof Geoffrey Fox)
       " A Grid Event Service"
• Ph.D. proposal examination
  • June 21, 1999, Mr. Dongmin Kim
       "Evaluation and Implementation of Adaptive Distributed Virtual Computing Environment 2 "
  • June 21, 1999, Mr. Il Kyeun Ra
       "An Adaptive Communication System for High-Performance Distributed Computing Applications"
  • July 2000, Mr. Ko, Sung-Hoon
  • August 2000, Ms. Yoonhee Kim
• M.Sc defense committee
  • March 1998 - member of Mr. Hyungkeun Lee defense committee (Advisor - prof Salim Hariri)
    "Design and Analysis of Voice Multiplexer over ATM: Case Study of Scalable Digital Switching System"
• M.Sc Project Supervision
  • December 2000 - Mr. Manish Kumar, " Remote Access Networking"
  • December 2000 - Ms. Nayana Singh, " 3G Wireless Technology"
  • December 2000 - Mr. Satyanarayan Rao, " Wireless Local Area Networks"
  • April 2001 - Mr. Hariharan Balasubramanian, " Network Security"
  • May 2001 - Mr. Jaime A. Tangarife, "Internet 2 and Next Generation Networks"
  • May 2001 - Mr. Shreyas Kejariwal, "Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)"
  • June 2001 - Mr. Sabin Nair, "Online Banking"

• For many years I lived in Wieliczka, Poland, where my family roots are. The town is famous for having the oldest operational salt mine in Europe which has been working for over 700 years.
  This mine, a centuries old tourist attraction, cannot be compared to anything else in the world. The mine has been visited from its beginning by the famous and the mighty of this world. Kopernik, Goethe, Humboldt, Paderewski, Mendelejew, Baden Powell, Karol Wojtyla - who later became Pope John Paul II, ordinary people and crowned heads of state, all have visited this remarkable site.
  Since 1978, the mine is on UNESCO's list of World Class Landmarks of Cultural and Natural Heritage - where it was listed among the top twelve attractions in the world.
  The most popular attractions are the enormous excavation chambers, the tallest being 36 meters high, and two others reaching 30 meters each. The tour includes a visit to three chapels, the oldest more than 300 years old and youngest a mere 100 years old. They are richly decorated with salt sculptures.
  The largest of the chapels - dedicated to the Blessed Kinga - is located 101 meters below the surface, it is over 50 meters long, 15 meters wide, 12 meters high, and has the volume of 10,000 square meters. It is entirely made out of salt, richly furnished with sculptures, bas-reliefs, and large chandeliers made from salt crystals. The Chapel is the work of my grandfather, Jozef Markowski, and his brother Tomasz (late 19th-early 20th cent.)
   
• My daughter's achievements:
   
  • NY State Gold Key for Excellence in Visual Arts, The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Oswego 1996
  • National Silver Key for Excellence in Visual Arts in drawing category, The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, New York 1996
  • NY State Gold Key for Excellence in Visual Arts, The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Oswego 1998
  • American Vision Award in drawing category, Oswego 1998
  • Nomination for the Pinnacle Awards, 1998
  • National American Vision Award in drawing category, New York 1998
  • Silver Key and Honorable Mentions at the Bell Atlantic Scholastic Art Competition, New York , April 1999
  • Student at Syracuse University since Fall 1999
  • Fall 1999 - Dean's List (College of Arts and Sciences)
  • April 2000 - Membership in The National Society of Collegiate Scholars