Dr. Dali Wang

Climate and Environmental Modeling &

Environmental Data Sciences and Systems

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

1 Bethel Valley Road, B-2040
P.O. Box 2008; MS-6301

Oak Ridge, TN 37931-6301

Tel: 865-241-8679 Fax:865-574-4665

Email: wangd at ornl dot gov

 

Education

 

Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (Scientific Computation)

MS in Computer Science  

MSC in Computational Science and Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

MS in Environmental Chemistry

BS in Environmental Planning and Management

Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, P.R.China

 

 

Professional Experience

 

*      Research Scientist, Environmental Sciences Division & Climate Change Sciences Institute,

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN, 37831                                          2009 – present

Adjunct Professor, Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 37966       2010 - present

*      IT Infrastructure Manager,

Southeastern Universities Research Association, Washington DC, 20005          2007-2009             

*      Assistant Professor (Research), Computer Science                                                       2004-2007             
Computational Scientist, The Institute for Environmental Modeling, Ecology/Math     2003-2004
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
                            

*      Computational Scientist,

Computer Science/Environmental Engineering/Scientific Computing Research Center

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy                                                                     

*      Software Engineer, Pitney Bowes, Shelton, CT 06484                                              

*      Assistant Professor (Certified EIA Engineer), Environmental Sciences,

Nankai University, Tianjin, China                                                                                

 

Projects

 

*      High Performance Application Demand Analysis and Infrastructure Upgrade (ORNL, Lead)

*      Terrestrial Ecosystem Science, Climate Change Sciences Focal Area (DOE, Inverse modeling, Mechanic Carbon Cycle Modeling)

*      AmeriFlux Network Management Center Program Development (ORNL, Computing infrastructure )

*      Bioenergy Crop Modeling for Global Biofuel Sustainability Project (ORNL, HPC)

*      Climate Sciences for Sustainable Energy Future (DOE, Land Model Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification)

*      Great Lake Bioenergy Research Center (DOE, Land Change Modeling, Data Management)

*      Integration of Space-Time GIS with Climate Informatics for Climate Change Research (UTK, co-PI)

*      ORNL DAAC Hardware Refresh Project (NASA, Hardware Lead)

*      ORNL Climate Change Program: Climate Change Forcing (DOE, Data assimilation/HPC)

*      Enhancing Climate Impact Integrated Assessment for Water Through Climate Informatics (ORNL, Co-PI: Data System Integration)

*      TeraGrid XD: Enabling Transformational Science and Engineering Through Integrated Collaborative Visualization and Data Analysis for the National User Community, (Lead Institute: TACC, Subaward, co-PI, NSF)

*      SURA Regional Cloud Computing Initiative (SURA Tech Lead, SURA-NCSU-IBM)             

*      Promoting Computational Sciences within SURA Region (PI, TACC)

*      Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Multiphase and Multicomponent Flows (co-PI, TeraGrid)

*      SURA-Microsoft HPC Infrastructure for Academic Researches (PI, Microsoft)

*      A Pilot Distributed SURA-Microsoft HPC Computational Platform (PI, Microsoft)

*      Genetic Programming on Cell BE Processors (PI, Cell-HPC Consortium)

*      Interactive Cyberinfrastructure for Nature Resource Management (PI, TeraGrid)

*      Ecosystem Modeling on High Performance Computing Platforms (PI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)/University of Tennessee (UT) Computational Science Initiatives)

*      Grid Computing for Ecological Modeling and Spatial Control (HPC Lead, NSF)

*      Parallel and Grid Computing for Ecological Multimodeling (HPC Lead, NSF)

*      Environmental Transport Modeling on High Performance Computational Platforms (RPI- EEE/CS/SCOREC) (PHD thesis)

*      Investigation of Turbulent Fluctuations in Liquid Encapsulted Czochralski (LEC) Crystal Growth Systems (DOD/AFOSR) (MS thesis)

*      Spontaneous Intellilink Wireless Network (Pitney Bowes)

*      Computer Aided Design for Activated Sludge Model to Treat High Concentration Organic Wastewaters using Patented Technology (co-PI, MST, China)

*      An Optimization Model for Environmental Monitoring Networks (co-PI, Chinese NSF)

Computing Expertise

 

*      Programming: C/C++, JAVA, FORTRAN, SQL, MPI, Pthread, OpenMP, Perl, Python

*      OS: LINUX, AIX, Solaris, IRIX, BSD, Windows Server 2003/2008, WinXP/2000/7, DOS, WINCE

*      High Performance Computers: SMP: SGI Origin 2000 (12@RPI), SUN E25K (128@TACC), SGI Altix (256@ORNL). CLUSTER: IBM SP2 (32(4)@RPI), IA-64 Linux Cluster (32(2)@UI), SUN Fire Cluster (32(2)@UT), IBM Power4 (27(32)@ORNL), IBM BlueGene (3072(2)@SDSC), IBM p690(384(2)@SDSC), IBM p655(272(2)@SDSC), HP Alphaserver (750(4)@PSC), Cell Broadband Engine (20(9)@TerraSoft), DELL/nVIDIA (129/96@NCSA), CRAY XT5 (Kraken@NICS) , CRAY XT4/5(Jaguar@NCCS), SunBlade (Ranger@TACC)

*      Applications and Software: MATLAB, SAS, Oracle, TotalView, TAU, PAPI, GLOBUS, ArcGIS, Fluent, MapInfo, J2EE (Spring, Hibernate, etc), ASP.NET, Data Explorer, Together

Selected Publications

 

*      Dali Wang, Wilfred Post, Bruce Wilson, Climate Change Modeling: Computational Opportunities and Challenges, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 36-42, 2011

*      Ling Yin, Shih-Lung Shaw, Dali Wang, Eric Carr, Louis. J. Gross, Michael W. Berry, A framework of integrating GIS and parallel computing for spatial control problems — A case study of wildfire control, International Journal on Geographic Information Sciences, DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2011.609487

*      Dali Wang, Eric. A. Carr, Michael W. Berry, Louis. J. Gross, A Grid Service for Natural Resource Managers, IEEE Internet Computing, pp35-41, Jan/Feb 2005,

*      Dali Wang, Michael W. Berry, Eric. A. Carr, Louis J. Gross. On Parallelization of a Spatially-Explicit Structured Ecological Model, International Journal on High Performance Computer Applications, pp571-581, 2006

*      Dali Wang, Eric. A. Carr, Louis. J. Gross, Michael W. Berry, Toward Ecosystem Modeling on Computing Grids, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, p44-52, Sep/Oct 2005

        List of Publication and Presentations

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