CURRICULUM VITAE
GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Herbert Rudolfo Hoeger Zibauer
Place and Date of Birth: Mérida - Venezuela, September 05,
1959
Nationality: Venezuelan
ADDRESSES
Home Address:
La Pedregosa Alta
-
Km. 4,7 -
Calle La Orquidea - Casa No. 1
Mérida 5101 -
Venezuela.
Phone: +58 (0)274
2663238
Postal Address:
Apartado 228 - Mérida 5101 -
Venezuela.
Work Address:
Centro de Simulación y Modelos
(CESIMO)
- Universidad de Los Andes
Edif. de Ingeniería - La
Hechicera - Piso 3 - Ala Norte
Mérida 5101- Venezuela.
Phone: +58 (0)274 2402879
Fax: +58 (0)274 2402872
Centro Nacional de Cálculo
Científico Universidad de Los Andes (CeCalCULA)
Av. 4 - Edif. General
Masini
- Piso 3
Mérida 5101 - Venezuela.
Phone: +58 (0)274 2524192
Fax: +58 (0)274 2525473
E-mail:
hhoeger@ula.ve
Web page:
http://webdelprofesor.ula.ve/ingenieria/hhoeger/
EDUCATION
- Ph.D.: Computer Science, May 1995, The University of
Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Thesis: "Integration of Distributed and
Concurrent Discrete-Event Simulation" (GPA 4.0/4.0).
- Master of Science: Computer Science, December 1991, The
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (GPA 3.89/4.0).
- Master of Science: Applied Statistics, April 1988,
Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela. Thesis:
"Computational
Implementation of the Loglinear Model in Establishing the
Structural
Relations Between Categorical Variables" (GPA 19.58/20)
- Bachelor: Systems Engineering, June 1984, Universidad de
Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela. Graduation Project: "Automated
System for
the Control and Management of Periodical Publications" (GPA
17.41/20).
ACADEMIC PREPARATION
Graduate courses in: Statistical Methods, Linear Models,
Statistical Inference,
Sampling, Experimental Design, Multivariate Analysis, Decisions
Theory,
Programming Language Foundations, Advanced Computer Organization
and
Architecture, Database Management Systems, Computation Theory,
Operating
Systems and Concurrent Programming, Artificial Intelligence,
Design and
Analysis of Algorithms, Compiler Construction, Real Systems, Brain
Theory,
Denotation Semantics, Automatic Theorem Proving, System
Evaluation.
AWARDS
- Bicentennial Distinction from The
Universidad de Los Andes, February 15, 2011.
- Among the 10 most visited
authors in SABER-ULA between May
2007and May 2008, 2008.
- Among the 10 most visited electronic articles in SABER-ULA:
Clusters
de
PCs,
2006
- Advisor of the best Systems Engineering Thesis, Universidad
de
Los Andes, 2005.
- National Commission for Academic Benefits (Comisión Nacional
de
Benéficio Académico - CONABA) Level II, 1998
- Researchers Stimulus Program (Programa de Estímulo al
Investigador - PEI) 1997
- Researchers Incentive System (Sistema de Promoción al
Investigador - SPI) Level I, 1995
- Recipient of The John Deere Foundation Scholarship (1994).
- Recipient of The Fundayacucho - LASPAU Scholarship (August
1990
- August 1993)
- Best Student of the School of Systems Engineering. Fifty
years
of the Faculty of Engineering of The Universidad de Los Andes,
Mérida,
Venezuela. 1982.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
- GISELA project: Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual
communities in Europe and Latin America
(http://www.gisela-grid.eu/) WP2: Dissemination and Outreach
Manager,
2010 - 2012
- EELA-2 project: E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin
America (www.eu-eela.eu) NA2: Dissemination and Training
coordinator, 2008 - 2010
- Coordinator of the Grid Computing Area, National Center
for Scientific Computing Universidad de Los Andes (CeCalCULA),
Mérida,
Venezuela. 2003 -
- Visiting Professor, Boise State University, Boise,
Idaho, USA.
- Director of Operations , National Center for Scientific
Computing Universidad de Los
Andes (CeCalCULA), Mérida, Venezuela. 1997 -
- Coordinator of the Parallel Computing Area,
National
Center for Scientific Computing Universidad de Los Andes
(CeCalCULA),
Mérida, Venezuela. 1997 -
- Director, Simulation and Modeling Research Center
(CESIMO), Universidad de Los Andes, Facultad de Ingeniería,
Mérida,
Venezuela. 1996 -
- Coordinator, South Research Laboratory, Universidad
de
Los Andes, Facultad de Ingenieria, Mérida, Venezuela. 1996 -
1997.
- Professor, Universidad de Los Andes, Merida,
Venezuela,
1984 -
. Courses taught: Economic Engineering, Probabilities,
Inference,
Simulation, Computer Theory, Parallel Computing, Introduction
to
Computer Science, Introduction to C++, Introduction to Java,
Design and Analisi of Algorithms, Advanced Operating Systems,
Programming Laguages, Numerical Analysis.
- Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, The
University
of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1992-1995. Courses assisted: Texture
Recognition, Data Structures, Pascal, Operating Systems,
Artificial
Intelligence.
- Electronic Programmer, Universidad de Los Andes,
Mérida,
Venezuela, 1982-1984.
- Olympic Gymnastic Coach, National Institute of
Sports,
Mérida, Venezuela, 1982-1983.
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WOORKSHOPS AND
TRAINING
- Joint CHAIN/GISELA/EPIKH Workshop, December 10, 2010,
Valparaiso, Chile.
- 2nd EELA-2
Conference, November 25 to 27 2009, Choroni, Venezuela.
Papers: "LAGOVirtual.
A Collaborative Environment
for the Large Aperture GRB Observatory"
y "GridChoque: A
grid environment to experiment on Spherically Symmetric
General
Relativistic Radiation Hydrodynamics"
- 7th EELA-2
workshop.September
18th 2009. Panama City, Panama.
- EELA-2 User
Forum. July 20 2009. Montevideo. Uruguay.
- 6nd
EELA-2
workshop.July 20 2009..Montevideo. Uruguay.
- Seminario de Redes Avanzadas, May 27 2009, San José,
Costa
Rica.
Organized
by
the ALICE-2/CLARA
project. Invited
conferencist
-
Talk: "La Computación
Grid"
y
"El
Proyecto
EELA-2".
- 5nd
EELA-2
workshop. May 15 2009. Lima. Peru.
- 1st
EELA-2
Conference, February 25 to 27 2009, Bogota, Colombia.
Paper: "Scattering Grid knowledge under EELA-2".
- 4nd
EELA-2
workshop. December 8 2008..Quito.
Ecuador.
- 3rd
EELA-2
workshop.December 5 2008..Loja.
Ecuador.
- 2nd EELA-2
workshop. October 6 2008..Monterey.
Mexico.
- 3rd EELAConferencia,
December
3
to
5de
2007, Catania, Italia.
Trabajo "e-Science perspectives in Venezuela".
- VI Jornadas Científico Técnicas, Facultad de Ingeniería,
Universidad de Los Andes, October 8 to 11 2007, Mérida,
Venezuela. Paper: "El Grid Académico Venezolano".
- VI Jornadas Científico Técnicas, Facultad de Ingeniería,
Universidad de Los Andes, October 8 to 11 2007, Mérida,
Venezuela. Paper: "Adaptación
de
Clusters
de
Linux
para Servicios de Redes".
- Third EELA conference,
December
3
to
5,
2007, Catania, Italy.
Paper
"e-Science perspectives in Venezuela".
- Latinamerican Conference of High Performance Computing.
August
13 to 18, 2007, Santa Marta, Colombia. Invited Speaker.
- Fifth EELA workshop. March 29 and 30, 2007, La Plata,
Argentina.
- Fourth EELA
workshop and 9th EELA, Tutorial, March
5 to 9, 2007, Bogotá,
Colombia.
Coorganizer
and
speaker.
- Spanish
Conference on E-Science Grid Computing, March 1 and 2, 2007,
Madrid,
Spain.
Paper "e-Science initiatives in Venezuela".
- Third EELA
workshop, January 11 and 12, 2007, Lima, Perú.
- 3er Congreso
de Ingeniería en Computación, November 21 to 24, 2006,
Ixtlahuaca,
México, Invited speaker - Talk: "Computación Grid"
- First
National e-Science congress, September 6 and 7,
2006, Santiago
de Chile, Chile.
- First EELA conference, September 4
and 5, 2006, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
- Second
Latinamerican EELA workshop and 2nd. Latinamerican EELA Tutotial ,
June
23
to
26,
2006, Itacuruca, Brazil.
- Second
Latinamerican EELA
grid computing workshop,
1st. Latinamerican
EELA
workshop
y 1st. Latinamerican EELA Tutotial,
24
al
29
de
abril de 2006, Mérida,
Venezuela. Organizador.
- EELA: E-infraestructure shared between Europe and
Latinamerica
(http://www.eu-eela.org)Kick-off meeting, January 30 to
February 2
febrero 2006 Madrid, Spain.
- X Convención Universitaria de Ingeniería - Vision 2005.
Univesidad de San Martin de Porres,
Lima, Peru.
October 19 to 21, 2005. Invited Speaker - Talk: "Introducción
a la
Computación Grid".
- I Taller de Computacón Paralela y Distribuida. Univesidad
Nacional Experimental del Tachira (UNET). San Cristobal,
Tachira,
Venezuela.
October 03 to 07, 2005. Invited Speaker - Talk: "El Grid
Europeo LCG:
Plataforma para Grid Venezuela".
- Primer Taller Nacional de Adistramiento Grid . Mérida,
Venezuela, March 31st to April 2nd 2005. Organizer.
- II Ciclo de Conferencias "Tendencias Actuales en
Computación".
Núcleo Punto Fijo de la Universidad del Zulia, Punto Fijo,
Falcón,
Venezuela. June 02 & 03, 2005. Invited Speaker - Talk:
"Introducción a la Computación Grid".
- Primer Taller Nacional de Adistramiento Grid . Mérida,
Venezuela, March 31st to April 2nd 2005. Organizer.
- First EELA Meeting (E-Infrastructure shared between Europe
and
Latin America
), Itacuruca, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, January 07 to 10, 2005.
- Primer Taller Latino-Americana de Computación Grid. Mérida,
Venezuela, Noviembre 15 al 20 de 2004. Organizer.
- Seminario Reacciun2: Aplicaciones Científicas y Educativas
en
Redes de Alto Rendimiento (Internet2), Caracas, Venezuela,
April 29 and
30 2004,
Invited Speaker.
- Latin-American School in High Performance Computing on Linux
Clusters
, Mérida, Venezuela, October 27th to November 7th 2003.
Organizer.
- First GridLAC Meeting (Grid Latino-Americano y del Caribe)
, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, June 19 and 20
2003.
- First Annual IBM Advanced Computing Technology Center
(ACTC) SP Scientific Applications and Optimization Meeting,
San Diego,
California, United States, March 1999.
- I Taller Latinoamericano de Paralelismo y Computación de
Alto
Rendimiento (EL-P-CAR), Mérida, Venezuela, November 1998.
Speaker
(Tutorial on parallel computing and Message Passing Interface
- 8
hours) and
member of the program committee.
- II Taller Latinoamericano de Redes de La Habana, La Habana,
CUBA, September 1998. Invited speaker (Tutorial on parallel
computing
and Message Passing Interface - 15 hours).
- Taller de Programación Paralela en IRIX, CeCalCULA. Mérida,
Venezuela. January 1998. Attendant and member of the program
committee.
- IASTED International Conference on Applied Modeling and
Simulation, Banff, Canada, July - August, 1997. Speaker.
- Training program in the management of high performance
computing centers. San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego,
California, United States, June-July 1997.
- Workshop on New Computing Techniques and Tools for the
Science.
CeCalCULA. Mérida, Venezuela, December 1996. Speaker.
- Workshop on Parallelism, Tuning and Management of High
Performance Computing Services. CeCalCULA. Mérida, Venezuela,
December
1996. Speaker and member of the program committee.
- I Jornadas de Investigación Basica Orientada en Exploración
y
Producción. INTEVEP. Caracas, Venezuela, November 1996.
- IASTED International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
Optimization. Gold Coast, Australia, May 1996. Speaker.
- Supercomputing 95. San Diego, California, United States,
December 1995.
- II Jornada Venezolana de Computación Paralela y Distribuida.
Caracas, Venezuela, November 1995. Speaker.
- Seminario-Taller en Técnicas de Muestreo Avanzadas, CIENES,
Santiago de Chile, Chile, November 1987.
REVIEWER OF THE FOLLOWING JOURNAL.
SIMULATION
PUBLICATIONS
- Brasileiro F., Gaudencio M., Silva R., Duarte A., Carvalho
D.,
Scardaci D., Ciuffo L., Mayo R., Hoeger H., Stanton M., Ramos
R.,
Barbera R., Marechal B., Gavillet P. Using
a Simple Prioritisation Mechanism to Effectively
Interoperate Service
and Opportunistic Grids in the EELA-2 e-Infrastructure
In:
Journal of Grid Computing, SPRINGERLINK Online First™, 11
January 2011.
Availabe in: http://www.springerlink.com/content/x211465745p36507/
- Camacho R., Chacón R., Díaz G., Guada C., Hamar V., Hoeger
H.,
Melfo A., Núñez L.A., Pérez Y., Quintero C., Rosales M.,
Torrens R., LAGOVirtual. A
Collaborative Environment
for the Large Aperture GRB Observatory, En
Memorias de la 2da
Conferencia de EELA-2, R. Mayo, H. Hoeger, L.N.
Ciuffo, R. Barbera, I. Dutra, P. Gavillet, B. Marechal
(Editors),
CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain, pp 249-256, 2009. Available in http://www.ciemat.es/portal.do?TR=A&IDR=1&identificador=3985
- Camacho R., Chacón R., Díaz G., Hamar V., Hoeger H., León
R., Núñez L.A., GridChoque:
A
grid environment to experiment on Spherically Symmetric
General
Relativistic Radiation Hydrodynamics, En
Memorias de la 2da
Conferencia de EELA-2, R. Mayo, H. Hoeger, L.N.
Ciuffo, R. Barbera, I. Dutra, P. Gavillet, B. Marechal
(Editors),
CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain, pp 333-340, 2009. Available in http://www.ciemat.es/portal.do?TR=A&IDR=1&identificador=3985
- Castro, H.; Marechal, B.; Carvalho, D.; Ciuffo, L.N.; Dutra,
I.; Gavillet, P.; Mayo, R.; Núñez, L.; Hoeger, H.; Hamar, V.;
López,
M.J. EELA: una
infraestructura para
e-ciencia en Latinoamérica In: Revista de Ingeniera
de la
Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, ISSN: 01214993.
May 2009.
Availabe in: http://revistaing.uniandes.edu.co/index.php?l=en&idr=38&ids=32&ida=442&ri=078
- Barbera, R.; Brasileiro, F.; Carvalho, C.; Dutra, I.;
Faerman,
M.; Gavillet, P.; Hoeger, H.; Pourailly, M.J.L.; Marechal, B.;
Mayo,
R.; Ciuffo, L.N.; Duarte, A.N.; Pollán, R.R. Approach to sustainable
e-Infrastructures:
The case of the Latin American Grid In: IST-Africa
2009
Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham
(Eds),
IIMC International Information Management Corporation, ISBN:
978-1-905824-11-3. 2009.
- Bruno, R., Hoeger, H., Lopez, M.J., Scattering Grid knowledge under
EELA-2.
In
Proceedings
of
the
First EELA-2 Conference, R. Mayo. H. Hoeger,
H. Castro, L. Ciuffo, R.
Barbera, I. Dutra, P. Gavillet, B. Marechal, (Editors),
CIEMAT,
Madrid, Spain,
pp 119 - 127, 2009. Available in http://www.ciemat.es/portal.do?TR=A&IDR=1&identificador=3418
- Díaz, G., Hamar, V., Ruíz,
N., Torrens, R., Uzcátegui, M., Flórez-López, J., Hoeger, H.,
Mendoza,
C., Mendez, Z., Núñez, L., e-Science
perspectives
in Venezuela,
In Proceedings of the Third EELA Conference, R. Gavela, B.
Marechal, R.
Barbera, L.N. Ciuffo, R. Mayo. (Editors), CIEMAT, Madrid,
Spain,
pp 131-139, 2007.Available in http://www.saber.ula.ve
- Hoeger, H., El Grid
Académico Venezolano, In Proceedings of VI
Jornadas Científico Técnicas de la Facultad de Ingeniería
(CD-Rom), O.
Camacho, M. Celis. (Editors), Universidad de Los Andes,
Mérida,
Venezuela, pp 1144-1150, 2007. In http://www.saber.ula.ve
- Díaz, G., Chaves, J. L., Mendoza, V., Hoeger, H., Núñez, L.
Adaptación
de Clusters de Linux para Servicios de Redes,
In
Proceedings of
VI Jornadas
Científico Técnicas de la Facultad de Ingeniería (CD-Rom), O.
Camacho,
M. Celis. (Editors), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida,
Venezuela, pp
1151-1160, 2007. In http://webdelprofesor.ula.ve/ingenieria/hhoeger/
- Chaves, J. L.,
Díaz, G., Hamar, V., Isea, R., Rojas, F., Ruíz,
N., Torrens, R., Uzcátegui, M., Flórez-López, J., Hoeger, H.,
Mendoza,
C., Núñez, L., e-Science
initiatives
in Venezuela,
In Proceedings of the Spanish Conference on e-Science Grid
Computing,
J.
Casado, R. Mayo y R. Muñoz (Editores) CIEMAT, Madrid España,
pp
45 - 52, 2007. Available in http://www.saber.ula.ve
- Ablan, M., Dávila, M., Hoeger, H., Ramos, A., Rivas, E.,
Zerpa,
F. Modeling Fire Risk: The Upper Caroni Watershed Case,
Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Applied
Modelling
and Simulation, Oranjestad, Aruba, August 29-31, 2005.
- Núñez, L., Díaz, G., Hoeger, H., Clusters de
PCs, Available
in http://www.saber.ula.ve,
2002.
- Walkzuch, N.,
Hoeger, H. Using Individual Prefixes in B+ Trees ,
Journal of Systems and Software, vol 47, no. 1, pp 45-51,
1999.
- Hidrobo, F., Hoeger, H. Tutorial Introductorio de Message
Passing Interface MPI.
http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/documentacion/manuales_tutoriales.html.
- Hidrobo, F., Hoeger, H. Introducción a MPI (Message
Passing
Interface). CD-ROM: I Taller Latinoamericano de Paralelismo y
Computacón de Alto Rendimiento (EL-P-CAR), Mérida, Venezuela,
November
1998.
- Hoeger, H. Introducción a la computación paralela. . In http://www.saber.ula.ve,
1997
- Hoeger, H.R., Jones, D., Tonella, G., Distributed
Discrete-Event Simulation on a Shared-Memory Environment,
Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Applied
Modelling
and Simulation, Banff, Canada, July 27- August 01, 1997, pp.
342-345.
- Hoeger, H. R., Jones, D. Integrating Concurrent and
Conservative Distributed Discrete-Event Simulators, SIMULATION
Vol
67, No. 5, pp. 303-312, 1996.
- Walkzuch, N., Hoeger, H. B+ Trees with Individual Prefixes
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information
Systems
Analysis and Synthesis: ISAS '96, Orlando-Florida, USA, July
22-26,
1996.
- Hoeger, H.R., Jones, D., A Conservative Distributed
Concurrent Discrete-Event Simulator on a Shared Memory, Paper
#
242-019 of the Proceedings of the IASTED International
Conference on
Modelling, Simulation and Optimization (in CD-ROM), Gold
Coast,
Australia, May 6-9, 1996.
- Hoeger, H.R.. Reducción en el Costo de Simulación
Distribuida Conservadora en Ambientes de Memoria Compartida,
A3 en
Paralelo, Vol 3, No. 2, Escuela de Computación, UCV, 1995.
- Tonella, G; M. Acevedo; M. Ablan; C. Domingo; H. Hoeger; M.
Sananes. Simulation of Ecosystems with GLIDER: A
Discrete-Continuous Simulation Language in H.H.Hamza (ed.)
Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference Applied
Modelling
and Simulation, Lugano, Switzerland, June 20-22, 1994. The
Internation
al Association of Science and Technoloy for Development -
IASTED-ACTA
Press, Cal gary, Canada. 1994 pp. 20-24.
- Domingo, C.; G. Tonella; H. Hoeger; M. Hernandez; M.
Sananes;
J. Silva. Use of Object-Oriented Programming Ideas in a New
Simulation Language, in J. Schoen (ed.) Proceedings of the
1993
(25th) Summer Computer Simulation Conference, July 19-21, 1993
Boston,
Mass. The Society for Computer Simulation. P.O.BOx 17900 San
Diego.
1993 pp. 137-142.
LANGUAGES
Fluent in English, Spanish, and good
communication
skills in German.