Alain Roy is currently an Associate Researcher with the Condor Project at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.
He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Chicago in
2001, where he did research about advanced reservations for Quality of
Service across heterogeneous resources. Today, Alain is the Open Science
Grid (OSG) Software Coordinator, where he guides the creation, deployment,
and support of the VDT, a grid software distribution used by OSG, EGEE,
and other grids. He is also co-principal investigator on the NMI nanoHUB
project which is deploying a grid infrastructure for running nanotechnology
jobs.
Alain will be tutoring Condor technology slot.
:: gLite
Emidio Giorgio
Emidio Giorgio obtained his MSc. degree in Computer Science in 2003; and soon after began his collaboration with INFN on computational grids, joining the EGEE project in the areas of training and applications support. As trainer, he has delivered more than 30 grid tutorials in 4 years. In the context of the ICEAGE project, he managed one of the work packages, concerning the operations for its shared training Infrastructure.
He also has interests in programming and system administration, and he has developed several tools and configured services for both the grid and IT infrastructures in Catania."
Emidio will be tutoring gLite technology slot.
:: Globus
Ben Clifford
Ben Clifford started developing grid software at the University of Edinburgh in the summer of 2000. Subsequently he worked on Globus at ISI in Los Angeles for several years. At present, he is employed by the University of Chicago Computation Institute working as a developer on the Swift workflow system and exercise-master for the Open Science Grid education programme.
Charles Bacon
Charles Bacon is packaging coordinator for the Globus Toolkit. He is the author of the GT4 Sysadmin Guide as well as the GT4 Quickstart, and a co-author of the GT4 Build A Service Tutorial.
Ben and Charles will be tutoring Globus technology slot.
:: UNICORE
Rebecca Breu
Rebecca Breu is a researcher at the Forschungzentrum Julich GmbH. She
joined the Distributed Systems and Grid Computing group at the Julich
Supercomputing Centre (JSC) in January 2006. She has been studying at
the University of Bremen and finished her diploma in mathematics in
2005. Currently, she works in German research projects in the area of
Grid computing, e.g. D-Grid, where she is mainly responsible for
operation and support of the Grid middleware UNICORE. She has given
several UNICORE tutorials on workshops and summer schools like the
GridKa school, and she participates in writing documentation for
UNICORE.
Mathilde Romberg
Mathilde Romberg studied Computer Science and received her master degree (Diplom) from Aachen University of Technology. She is working as a research scientist at the Julich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) of Forschungszentrum Julich (FZJ) where she has been involved in the development of UNICORE since 1997. She is in charge of UNICORE operation and support at FZJ. Her research interests are in Grid monitoring, Grid applications, and Bioinformatics.
Rebecca & Mathilde will be tutoring UNICORE technology slot.
:: OGSA-DAI
Dr Mario Antonioletti
Mario Antonioletti did a BSc in Mathematical Physics at the University
of Edinburgh and followed this up by getting a Certificate in Advanced
Studies in Mathematics (otherwise known as Part III) from Cambridge
University. He then undertook a PhD at the University of Wales College
of Cardiff modelling galaxies using parallel computers. To continue
funding his protracted PhD he got a job at EPCC in Edinburgh where he
has been ever since (and also eventually managed to complete the PhD).
Currently Mario is a Principle Consultant at EPCC, the University of
Edinburgh. He has been part of the OGSA-DAI group at Edinburgh almost
since its inception. He has also been involved in the standards process
at the Open Grid Forum - he currently is a working group chair for the
DAIS (Database Access and Integration Services) and OGSA-DMI (Data
Movement Interface) and was one of the contributing authors to the OGSA
Data Architecture document. He is currently part of the operations
management team for the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK.
Tilaye Alemu
Tilaye is part of the OGSA-DAI developers team at EPCC. He also develops system administration tools with the middleware team at NeSC.
Tilaye got his first degree in computer science from Addis Ababa University. He then worked in the same university as a system administrator, tutor, and programmer. More recently, Tilaye received his MSc in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Edinburgh. This led to his current position at NeSC and EPCC.
Tilaye's interests include Grid Computing, Machine Learning and Data Mining.
Mario & Tilaye will be tutoring OGSA-DAI technology slot.
:: Tutor Support
Hamza Mehammed
Hamza Mehammed is currently working as senior trainer of grid computing specifically for the EGEE and NGS projects at the National e-Science Centre in UK. He worked as a computer scientist researcher at the technical university of Munich, Germany from 2002 to 2005 where he was involved in the CrossGrid project and also in the education. From 2005 to 2007 he was working at the Leibniz Computing Centre (LRZ) in the national grid project of Germany (D-Grid) where he was responsible for the installation and training of Globus Toolkit 4 and also in the DEISA project by the integration of Globus services specially GridFTP.
Hamza will be providing additional tutor support to the technologies.
Contacts
Alain Roy is currently an Associate Researcher with the Condor Project at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.
Emidio Giorgio obtained his MSc. degree in Computer Science in 2003; and soon after began his collaboration with INFN on computational grids, joining the EGEE project in the areas of training and applications support. As trainer, he has delivered more than 30 grid tutorials in 4 years. In the context of the ICEAGE project, he managed one of the work packages, concerning the operations for its shared training Infrastructure.
He also has interests in programming and system administration, and he has developed several tools and configured services for both the grid and IT infrastructures in Catania."
Ben Clifford started developing grid software at the University of Edinburgh in the summer of 2000. Subsequently he worked on Globus at ISI in Los Angeles for several years. At present, he is employed by the University of Chicago Computation Institute working as a developer on the Swift workflow system and exercise-master for the Open Science Grid education programme.
Charles Bacon is packaging coordinator for the Globus Toolkit. He is the author of the GT4 Sysadmin Guide as well as the GT4 Quickstart, and a co-author of the GT4 Build A Service Tutorial. 
Rebecca Breu is a researcher at the Forschungzentrum Julich GmbH. She
joined the Distributed Systems and Grid Computing group at the Julich
Supercomputing Centre (JSC) in January 2006. She has been studying at
the University of Bremen and finished her diploma in mathematics in
2005. Currently, she works in German research projects in the area of
Grid computing, e.g. D-Grid, where she is mainly responsible for
operation and support of the Grid middleware UNICORE. She has given
several UNICORE tutorials on workshops and summer schools like the
GridKa school, and she participates in writing documentation for
UNICORE. 
Mathilde Romberg studied Computer Science and received her master degree (Diplom) from Aachen University of Technology. She is working as a research scientist at the Julich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) of Forschungszentrum Julich (FZJ) where she has been involved in the development of UNICORE since 1997. She is in charge of UNICORE operation and support at FZJ. Her research interests are in Grid monitoring, Grid applications, and Bioinformatics. 
Mario Antonioletti did a BSc in Mathematical Physics at the University
of Edinburgh and followed this up by getting a Certificate in Advanced
Studies in Mathematics (otherwise known as Part III) from Cambridge
University. He then undertook a PhD at the University of Wales College
of Cardiff modelling galaxies using parallel computers. To continue
funding his protracted PhD he got a job at EPCC in Edinburgh where he
has been ever since (and also eventually managed to complete the PhD).
Currently Mario is a Principle Consultant at EPCC, the University of
Edinburgh. He has been part of the OGSA-DAI group at Edinburgh almost
since its inception. He has also been involved in the standards process
at the Open Grid Forum - he currently is a working group chair for the
DAIS (Database Access and Integration Services) and OGSA-DMI (Data
Movement Interface) and was one of the contributing authors to the OGSA
Data Architecture document. He is currently part of the operations
management team for the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK.
