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Professor Kuldeep Kumar, Co-PI of Global Cyber Bridges Program (GCB, http://www.cyberbridges.net), visited Computer Network Information Center (CNIC) of Chinese Academy of Sciences and issued certificates to the four students, from CNIC, involved the projects of this program on October 13, 2008.
It is one of the most crucial aspects in training graduate students for CNIC to broaden the view of the students and improve their abilities in international cooperation. GCB, one of important international cooperation programs CNIC participates, is an implementation of multinational efforts to improve the technology training for a new generation of scientists and to increase the rate of discovery for all domains, launched by Florida International University and made possible by a grant from National Science Foundation of the United States. This program started in 2007 and will last for 3 years. Currently, there are three institution members in addition to Florida International University including City University of Hong Kong, CNIC and the University of San Paulo in Brazil. Every year a bunch of students from these institutions will get together and work on specific collaborative projects resulting in research papers with the help of the GCB Co-PIs and their faculty advisors.
In 2008, the second year for GCB program, four graduate students from CNIC participate in three projects respectively, Finding Repeats and Signatures in DNA Sequences by Using MPI Clusters (LIU Guangyuan), SAGE-enabling Mozilla Firefox (ZHAO Juan and BI Shuren), A Distributed Multimedia Data Management over the Grid (LUO Dongri). After the students’presentations, a discussion relating to the technologies and difficulties of the projects was held. Professor Kumar gave a high evaluation on the students’efforts which will bridge the divide between the information technology and science communities.
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