Rod A. Fatoohi

Associate Professor
Computer Engineering Department
College of Engineering
San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192
Phone: (408) 924-4059
E-mail: rfatoohi@email.sjsu.edu
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/fatoohi

Summary

Over twelve years experience in the computer industry and academia, researching, consulting and teaching in computer networking, distributed objects, performance evaluation, code optimization, software development, and algorithm analysis.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, December 1987.
Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, December 1982.
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, June 1976.

Grants

Principal Investigator, NASA, $175K, research grant entitled Assessment of Distributed Object Middleware, November 1998 – July 2001.
Principal Investigator, NASA, $190K, research grant entitled Integrated Legacy Applications Within a Middleware Environment, February 1998 – July 2001.
Principal Investigator, IBM, $85K, equipment grant: seven IBM RS6000 machines, 1997.

Employment

Associate Professor, Computer Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, August 1996 - Present.

Spearheaded networking effort at the Computer Engineering Department in both teaching and research.
Initiated, developed and taught two advanced courses in networking at the graduate level; enhanced and taught three other networking courses at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Advised many graduate students in their research and projects.
Developed and implemented a distributed-object problem solving environment for iterative jobs.
Developed and implemented strategies to migrate middleware applications to advanced environments.
Analyzed performance of middleware bridging technologies.

Computer Scientist, MRJ, Inc. at Numerical Aerospace Simulation (NAS) Facility, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, November 1995 – August 1996.

Analyzing and making recommendations about the usability of middleware at NASA

Computer Scientist, Computer Sciences Corp. at NAS, NASA Ames, July 1990 - November 1995.

Analyzed performance and provided guidance of network technologies (ATM, Fibre Channel, HiPPI, FDDI, Ethernet, IBM Allnode switch) - emphasis on performance impact of network topology, latency, and bandwidth at different programming levels.
Developed communication routines for measuring network performance.
Developed a wrapper to convert from a native message passing system to a standard system.
Developed, implemented and analyzed performance of algorithms on multiprocessor machines and clusters of SGI and IBM workstations - emphasis on code tuning, optimization, benchmarking and communication cost analysis.
Developed performance models which predicted performance within 10% for highly parallel machines - emphasis on modeling communication and computation costs.

Research Applications Analyst, Sterling Software, Inc. at NAS, NASA Ames, December 1987 - July 1990.

Multitasked codes and developed performance models for vector and parallel machines.

Research Assistant, Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE) at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, September 1985 - November 1987.

Assisted the institute personnel with their research on parallel computation.

Teaching Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, September 1982 - August 1985.

Taught a course in Electronics; taught several Labs.
Developed, installed and maintained software for a Texas Instruments minicomputer: TI 990.

Consulting and Professional Experience

Consultant, IP Infusion, Inc., San Jose, California, October 2000 – April 2001

Developed and designed architecture of software for network routing protocols.

Senior Education Engineer, Learning Voyage, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 2000 - July 2000

Provided training and course development for enterprise middleware including Java, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Application Servers and CORBA systems.

Consultant, MRJ, Inc., at NAS, NASA Ames, September 1996 - May 2000

Provided technical advice on distributed object technologies to NASA
Participated in evaluating a major NASA project.

Consultant, SiteMetrics Corp., San Jose, California, January 1999 – July 1999

Served on the Technical Advisory Board of the company
Provided technical advice on TCP/IP and networking issues

Consultant, MRJ, Inc., March 1995.

Assisted in writing a technical proposal, which won a contract at NASA.

Awards and Recognition

Julian Allen Award for NAS Parallel Benchmark with 12 colleagues, NASA Ames, July 1995.
The Atlantic, an article "At the Speed Limit" by Thomas Levenson recognizing my work in the area of high speed computing, March 1990.
Gigaflop Performance Award, Cray Research Inc., November 1989.
Doctoral Fellowship, Old Dominion University, 1984 - 1985.

Professional Organizations

Member, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 1987 – Present.
Member, California Faculty Association (CFA), 2000 – Present.
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1982 – Present.
Member, IEEE Computer, 1985 – Present.
Member, IEEE Communications, 1996 – Present.
Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1990 – Present.

Professional Service

Member, International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Technical Committee on Software Engineering, 2001 – 2004.
Member, Program Committee for two workshops.
Referee for journals, conferences, NSF proposal, and NASA proposals.
Reviewer for several proposed books.
Session Chair for several conferences and workshops.
Technical Monitor, NASA grant to Emory University
Outside Reviewer of the research work of Assistant Professor for tenure
Grant Committee Member, NAS Applied Research Branch, NASA Ames.
Hiring Committee Member, NAS Applied Research Branch, NASA Ames.

University Service

Member, University Information Technology Board, San Jose State University, 2001 – 2004.
Member, Faculty-at-large, Chief Information Officer Advisory Committee, San Jose State University, 1997 – 1999.
Chair, Information Technology Committee, College of Engineering, San Jose State University, 1999 – 2000.
Member, Student Retention Task Force, College of Engineering, San Jose State University, 1996 – 1998.
Member, Student Recruitment Committee, College of Engineering, San Jose State University, 1996 – 1997.
Member, Curriculum Committee of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering programs, San Jose State University, 1999 – present.

Teaching

Developed and taught two undergraduate courses: Computer Networks I (CmpE 148) and Computer Networks II (CmpE 149), San Jose State University, 1996 – present.
Developed and taught three graduate courses: Computer Network Design (CmpE 206), Network Programming and Applications (CmpE 207) and Network Architecture and Protocols (CmpE 208), San Jose State University, 1996 – present.
Taught an undergraduate course in Electronics (became the first graduate student in the department to teach a regular course), Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Old Dominion University, 1985.
Taught Digital Lab (five times), Microprocessor Lab, Electronics Lab, Instrumentation Lab, and Circuits Lab, Old Dominion University, 1982 – 1985.

Personal

US Citizen
Enjoy traveling and playing tennis and chess.

References (available upon request).

Presentations

Performance of Zebra Routing Software, International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2001.
Integrating Legacy Applications within a Java/CORBA Environment, 3^rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Setubal, Portugal, July 2001.
Design and Implementation of CORBA-Based Subscription Server, 37^th International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, Sydney, Australia, November 2000.
An Object-Oriented Job Execution Environment, Supercomputing 2000: High Performance Networking and Computing, Dallas, Texas, November 2000.
Assessment of Distributed Object Middleware, NASA ESTO/ESDIS Technology Transfer Workshop, Greenbelt, Maryland, June 2000.
Performance Evaluation of Middleware Bridging Technologies, 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, Austin, Texas, April 2000.
Middleware, NASA Goddard Middleware Workshop, Greenbelt, Maryland, October 1998.
Performance Evaluation of Communication Software Systems for Distributed Computing, 30^th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, January 1997.
Performance Evaluation of Communication Networks for Distributed Computing, 4^th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 1995.
Performance Evaluation of Three Distributed Computing Environments for Scientific Applications, Supercomputing '94, Washington, D.C., November 1994.
Performance Analysis of Four SIMD Machines, 1993 International Conference on Supercomputing, Tokyo, Japan, July 1993.
Performance of NAS Simulated Application Benchmarks on a Cluster of SGI Workstations, PVM Users Group Meeting, Knoxville, Tennessee, May 1993.
Parallelizing the INS3D-LU Code on the CM2 and iPSC/860, NASA Computational Aero-science Conference, Moffett Field, California, August 1992.
Multitasking the INS3D-LU code on the Cray Y-MP, AIAA 10th Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1991.
Performance Comparison of Several SIMD Machines, 5^th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Houston, Texas, March 1991.
Vector Performance Analysis of The NEC SX-2, 1990 International Conference on Supercomputing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 1990.
Multitasking Domain Decomposition Fast Poisson Solvers on the Cray Y-MP, 4th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Chicago, Illinois, December 1989.
Vector Performance Analysis of Three Supercomputers: Cray-2, Cray Y-MP, and ETA10-Q, Supercomputing '89, Reno, Nevada, November 1989.
Multitasking on the Cray-2 and Cray Y-MP: An Experimental Study, 1989 SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, July 1989.
Implementation and Analysis of a Navier-Stokes Algorithm on Parallel Computers, 1988 International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, Illinois, August 1988.
Implementation of a Four Color Cell Relaxation Scheme on the MPP, Flex/32, and Cray/2, 1987 International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, Illinois, August 1987.

Publications

Journal Papers

Fatoohi, R. and Jensen, D., Migration of DCE Applications into CORBA and SOAP Environments, submitted to the International Journal of Computers and Applications, 2001.
Fatoohi, R., Nguyen, T., and Nguyen, B., A Distributed-Object Video Server, submitted to the International Journal of Computers and Applications, 2001.
Fatoohi, R., Gunwani, V., Wang, Q., and Zheng, C., Performance Evaluation of Middleware Bridging Technologies, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 33, No. 3, August 2001, pp. 161 – 173.
Fatoohi, R. and Smith, L., Development and implementation of a distributed-object job-execution environment, Journal of Scientific Programming, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, pp. 27 – 37.
Fatoohi, R., Performance Evaluation of Communication Software Systems for Distributed Computing, Distributed Systems Engineering Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3, Sept. 1997, pp. 169 – 175.
Fatoohi, R. A., Adapting a Navier-Stokes Solver for Three Parallel Machines, The Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1994, pp. 91 – 115.
Bailey, D. H., Barszcz, E., Barton, J. T., Browning, D. S., Carter, R. L., Dagum, L., Fatoohi, R. A., Frederickson, P. O., Lasinski, T. A., Schreiber, R. S., Simon, H. D., Venkatakrishnan, V., The NAS Parallel Benchmarks, The International Journal of Supercomputer Applications, Vol. 5, No. 3, Fall 1991, pp. 63 - 73.
Fatoohi, R. A., Multitasking on the Cray Y-MP: An Experiment with a 2-D Navier-Stokes Code, International Journal of High Speed Computing, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1989, pp. 433 -- 447.
Fatoohi, R. A, Multitasking a Navier-Stokes Algorithm on the Cray-2, The Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1989, pp. 109 -- 124.
Fatoohi, R. A. and Grosch, C. E., Implementation of an ADI Method on Parallel Computers, Journal of Scientific Computing, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1987, pp. 175 -- 193.

Refereed Conference Papers

Fatoohi, R., Nguyen, T., and Nguyen, B. Virtual Video Server, accepted for publication at TOOLS Eastern Europe 2001 conference, 2001.
Fatoohi, R. and Rupinder, S., Performance of Zebra Routing Software, Proceedings of IASTED International Conference: Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, (Honolulu, August 2001), ACTA Press, pp. 108 – 113.
Fatoohi, R. and Smith, L., Integrating Legacy Applications within a Java/CORBA Environment, Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Vol. 1, (Setubal, July 2001), ICEIS Press, pp. 157 – 162.
Smith, L. and Fatoohi, R., An Object-Oriented Job Execution Environment, Proceedings of SC2000: High Performance Networking and Computing, (Dallas, November 2000), IEEE Computer Society Press.
Maheshwari, R. and Fatoohi, R., Design and Implementation of CORBA-Based Subscription Server, Proceedings of the 37^th Int. Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS-37), (Sydney, November 2000), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 2 – 13.
Fatoohi, R., Gunwani, V., Wang, Q., & Zheng, C., Performance Evaluation of Middleware Bridging Technologies, Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Int. Symp. on Performance Analysis of Systems & Software (ISPASS-2000), (Austin, April 2000), pp. 34 - 39.
Smith, L., Fatoohi, R. and Harkey, D., NASA Flow Solvers Support Environments, Proceedings of Computational Aerosciences Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, February 2000.
Fatoohi, R., CORBA Framework for Distributed Virtual Manufacturing, In Proceedings of 1998 World Automation Congress (Anchorage, May 1998), Robotic and Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 7, TSI Press Series, pp. 597 – 602.
Fatoohi, R., Performance Evaluation of Communication Software Systems for Distributed Computing, Proceedings of the 30^th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol. I, (Maui, 1997), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 100 - 109.
Fatoohi, R. A., Performance Evaluation of Communication Networks for Distributed Computing, In Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, (Las Vegas, September 1995), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 456 -- 459.
Fatoohi, R. A. and Weeratunga, S., Performance Evaluation of Three Distributed Computing Environments for Scientific Applications, In Proceedings of Supercomputing '94, (Washington, November 1994), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 400 -- 409.
Castagnera, K., Cheng, D., Fatoohi, R., Hook, E., Kramer, B., Manning, C., Musch, J., Niggley, C., Saphir, W., Sheppard, D., Smith, M., Stockdale, I., Welch, S., Williams, R., and Yip, D., NAS Experiences with a Prototype Cluster of Workstations, In Proceedings of Supercomputing '94, (Washington, November 1994), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 410 -- 419.
Fatoohi, R. A., Performance Analysis of Four SIMD Machines, in Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, (Tokyo, July 1993), ACM Press, pp. 117 -- 126.
Fatoohi, R. A. and Yoon, S., Multitasking the INS3D-LU code on the Cray Y-MP, In Proceedings of the AIAA 10th Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, (Honolulu, June 1991), pp. 619 -- 626.
Fatoohi, R. A., Performance Comparison of Several SIMD Machines, in Proceedings of the Fifth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, (Houston, March 1991), SIAM Publication, pp. 419 -- 424.
Fatoohi, R. A., Vector Performance Analysis of The NEC SX-2, in Proceedings of the 1990 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, (Amsterdam, June 1990), ACM Press, pp. 389 -- 400.
Bailey, D. H., Barszcz, E., Fatoohi, R. A., Simon, H. D. and Weeratunga, S., Performance Results on the Intel Touchstone Gamma Prototype, in Proceedings of the Fifth Distributed Memory Computing Conference, (Charleston, April 1990), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 1236 -- 1245.
Chan, T. F. and Fatoohi, R. A., Multitasking Domain Decomposition Fast Poisson Solvers on the Cray Y-MP, in Proceedings of the Fourth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, (Chicago, December 1989), SIAM Publication, pp. 237 -- 244.
Fatoohi, R. A., Vector Performance Analysis of Three Supercomputers: Cray-2, Cray Y-MP, and ETA10-Q, in Proceedings of Supercomputing '89, (Reno, November 1989), ACM Press, pp. 779 -- 788.
Fatoohi, R. A. and Grosch, C. E., Implementation and Analysis of a Navier-Stokes Algorithm on Parallel Computers, in Proceedings of the 1988 International Conference on Parallel Processing, (St. Charles, August 1988), Vol. III, Penn State Press, pp. 235 -- 242.
Fatoohi, R. A. and Grosch, C. E., Solving the Wave Equation on the MPP, Flex/32 and Cray/2, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Supercomputing, (Boston, May 1988), International Supercomputing Institute, Inc., Vol. II, pp. 480 -- 487.
Fatoohi, R. A. and Grosch, C. E., Implementation of a Four Color Cell Relaxation Scheme on the MPP, Flex/32, and Cray/2, in Proceedings of the 1987 International Conference on Parallel Processing, (St. Charles, August 1987), Penn State Press, pp. 424 -- 426.
Grosch, C. E. and Fatoohi, R. A., An Implementation of a Barotropic Quasigeostrophic Model of Ocean Circulation on the MPP, in Proceedings of the First Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Scientific Computation, (Greenbelt, September 1986), NASA Conference Publication 2478, pp. 3 -- 11.

NASA Technical Reports
(Some of these reports appeared as refereed papers)

Fatoohi, R., McNab, D., and Tweten, D., Middleware for Building Distributed Application Infrastructure, NAS Technical Report NAS-97-026, NASA Ames Research Center, 1997.
Fatoohi, R., Performance Evaluation of Communication Software Systems for Distributed Computing, NAS Technical Report NAS-96-006, NASA Ames Research Center, 1996.
Fatoohi, R. A., Performance Evaluation of Communication Networks for Distributed Computing, NAS Technical Report NAS-95-009, NASA Ames Research Center, 1995.
Bailey, D. H., Barszcz, E., Barton, J. T., Browning, D. S., Carter, R. L., Dagum, L., Fatoohi, R. A., Frederickson, P. O., Lasinski, T. A., Schreiber, R. S., Simon, H. D., Venkatakrishnan, V., The NAS Parallel Benchmarks, NAS Technical Report RNR-94-007, NASA Ames Research Center, 1994.
Barszcz, E., Fatoohi, R., Venkatakrishnan, V., and Weeratunga, S., Solution of Regular, Sparse Triangular Linear Systems on Vector and Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors, NAS Technical Report RNR-93-007,NASA Ames Research Center, 1993.
Fatoohi, R. A., Performance Analysis of Four SIMD Machines, NAS Technical Report RNR-92-034, NASA Ames Research Center, 1992.
Castagnera, K., Cheng, D., Fatoohi, R., Hook, E., Kramer, B., Manning, C., Musch, J., Niggley, C., Saphir, W., Sheppard, D., Smith, M., Stockdale, I., Welch, S., Williams, R., and Yip, D., NAS Experiences with a Prototype Cluster of Workstations, NAS Technical Report RNR-92-024, NASA Ames Research Center, 1992.
Fatoohi, R. A. and Yoon, S., Multitasking the INS3D-LU code on the Cray Y-MP, NAS Technical Report RNR-91-015, NASA Ames Research Center, 1991.
Bailey, D. H., Barszcz, E., Fatoohi, R. A., Simon, H. D. and Weeratunga, S., Performance Results on the Intel Touchstone Gamma Prototype, NAS Technical Report RNR-90-007, NASA Ames Research Center, 1990.
Chan, T. F. and Fatoohi, R. A., Multitasking Domain Decomposition Fast Poisson Solvers on the Cray Y-MP, NAS Technical Report RNR-90-005, NASA Ames Research Center, 1990.
Fatoohi, R. A., Vector Performance Analysis of The NEC SX-2, NAS Technical Report RNR-89-013, NASA Ames Research Center, 1989.
Fatoohi, R. A., Vector Performance Analysis of Three Supercomputers: Cray-2, Cray Y-MP, and ETA10-Q, NAS Technical Report RNR-89-003, NASA Ames Research Center, 1989.
Fatoohi, R. A. and Grosch, C. E., Implementation and Analysis of a Navier-Stokes Algorithm on Parallel Computers, ICASE Report 88-5, NASA Langley Research Center, 1988.
Fatoohi, R. A. and Grosch, C. E., Implementation of an ADI Method on Parallel Computers, ICASE Report 87-43, NASA Langley Research Center, 1987.
Fatoohi, R. A. and Grosch, C. E., Solving the Cauchy-Riemann Equations on Parallel Computers, ICASE Report 87-34, NASA Langley Research Center, 1987.

Ph.D. Dissertation

Fatoohi, R. A, Implementation and Performance Analysis of Numerical Algorithms on the MPP, Flex/32, and Cray/2, Old Dominion University, December 1987 (Research funded by NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia).