JEFFREY NESHEIWAT

Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
Office: (518) 276-2094
Home: (518) 276-7376
Email: neshj@cs.rpi.edu
URL: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~neshj


Objective A position in the field of computer science with special interests in high performance computing, performance analysis, networking and applying computer technology to new areas.

Education Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY.
GPA: 3.9/4.0
In Progress
M.S. Degree in Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY.
GPA: 3.8/4.0
July 1996
B.S. Degree in Computer Science (Minor in Management)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
GPA: 3.4/4.0
December 1993

Work Experience Member Technical Staff
Jet Propulsion Laboratory / NASA Pasadena, CA
May 1991 to Present
High Performance Computing Systems and Applications Group
Conducted performance analysis of parallel adaptive mesh refinement software by designing, implementing, and testing scalable instrumentation library. Involved FORTRAN90 and C finite element codes using MPI on SGI/CrayT3E and Beowulf systems.

Avionics Systems Engineering Group
Designed improved scheduling algorithm used in the software simulation of spacecraft control and data systems. Implemented the new algorithm, gained experience in POSIX threads, C++, TCL, and concurrency issues of parallel discrete event simulation. Developed mathematical models to prove superiority of the new scheduling regimen.

RF and Microwave Subsystem Division, Deep Space Network
Designed and implemented Intelligent Front-end Annotation (IFA) software used in the design of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Reduced number of design iterations resulting in significant cost savings. IFA subsequently copyrighted by NASA, published in NASA journal, and made available to companies in the private sector.

Evaluated fiber optic switching equipment for use in the Deep Space Network. Developed user interface used to control next generation receiver remotely over TCP/IP network. Defined root configuration data format used during initialization of digital receivers prior to tracking interplanetary spacecraft.

Senior Helpdesk Consultant
Academic Computing Services, RPI, Troy, NY
January 1995 to Present
Provide consulting services to campus community. Requires strong working knowledge of engineering applications, graphics design packages, compilers, and utilities residing on Sun Sparc, IBM RS/6000, Silicon Graphics, IBM SP2, Macintosh, and Intel-based computers.

Spearheaded committee to provide Windows95/98 networking support and documentation for users connecting to campus network via Ethernet, modem, or IBX data line. Participated on committee of senior consultants responsible for interviewing prospective new hires, conducting performance evaluations, designing and administering staff training program, and overseeing maintenance and administration of consulting hardware.
Member Scientific Staff
Bell Northern Research / NORTEL , RTP, NC
January 1994 to August 1994
Participated in design and implementation of Generic Services Framework (GSF). A large-scale object oriented software engineering project to re-architect the DMS-100 switch. Designed modules essential to North American equal access dialing and global ISDN outpulsing. Learned important concepts of telephony, ISDN, and object oriented design through extensive corporate training programs.

Computer Skills Operating Systems: UNIX (Solaris, SunOS, AIX, Linux), Windows 95/98, & 3.11, MTS
Languages: C, C++, PERL, TCL/Tk, SQL, Protel-2, FORTRAN, Pascal, BASIC
Libraries: TCP/UDP Sockets, MPI, BSP, OSF-Motif, csim

Research Parallel Computation of Twin Primes Distribution 1997 - present
Experience Designed and implemented a distributed framework for parallel processing of applications using idle processor time on large numbers of heterogeneous computers. Currently, over 300 computers are in use. http://www.cs.rpi.edu/research/twinp
Scalable Instrumentation and Database Approach to Performance Analysis of Parallel Scientific Applications 1997 - present
Doctoral research in performance analysis of parallel finite element applications. Collect instrumentation data in a data scalable way uncoupled from underlying system architecture and tightly coupled with program structure. Exploit database technology by mapping program structure and statistical data onto database schema to facilitate query-based analysis, experiment management, and data mining.

Publications
Journal "Parallel Distributed Computation of Twin Primes Distribution" with P. Fry and B. K. Szymanski. To appear in Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices.
"Scalable Performance Analysis for Parallel Scientific Computations" with B. Szymanski. Electronic Modeling . Vol 22, Issue 2. pages 25-43, 2000.
Conferences "Computing Twin Primes and Brun's Constant: A Distributed Approach" with P. Fry and B. K. Szymanski. Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC7). Pages 42-49, 1998.
"Scalable Instrumentation and Database Approach to Performance Analysis if Parallel Scientific Applications," with B. K. Szymanski. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Languages Compilers and Real-time Systems (LCR98), Springer and Verlag, 1998.
Poster Session "Support for Performance Analysis of Object Oriented Parallel Applications," International Symposium Computing for Object Oriented Parallel Environments (ISCOPE98). Santa Fe, NM, USA. December 1998.

Extra-curricular Chair, Computer Science Advisory Board (RPI)
Activities Chair, RPI-ACM Parallel Computing Special Interest Group
Master Counselor, Yonkers Chapter Order of DeMolay
Vice Chair, RPI Association for Computing Machinery
Vice Chair, RPI-IEEE Computer Society
Treasurer, RPI-UPE Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Honorary Computer Science Fraternity
Member, RPI-ACM System Administration Committee

Community Awarded NASA GSRP Fellowship 1999
Service and Research Assistant (RPI) 1997 & 1998
Honors Meritorious and Honorable Mention, COMAP MCM 1993
Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Computer Science Honor Society 1992
DeWitt Clinton Masonic Award for Community Service 1992
Red Cross Commendation for Service 1992
Invited to Undergrad Curriculum Committee and Focus Group 1991
Member of Carmel Volunteer Fire Department 1987