The MetaCombine Project: People

The following people are associated with the MetaCombine project and can be contacted from here:

Martin Halbert principal investigator: Martin provided the overall definition of the MetaCombine project and continues to oversee its progress. MetaCombine benefits from Martin's many years of experience in libraries and library systems, and his vision in the field of digital libaries.
Katherine Skinner scholarly communications analyst (SCA): Katherine is the lead and coordinator of MetaCombine's interaction with prominent scholars in the field of American South studies. These scholars serve the role of content experts in our semantic clustering experiments and as members of the editorial board of the Southern Spaces forum. This team carries over from the Scholarly Design Team (SDT) of MetaScholar.
Aaron Krowne r&d lead: Aaron leads research and development to achieve MetaCombine's objectives. He oversees the technical progress of the students and developers on MetaCombine, as well as personally conducts as much design, implementation, and results reporting as possible. He draws on his experience at Virginia Tech's Digital Library Research Lab and his work on the CITIDEL and PlanetMath digital libraries.
Stephen Ingram developer: Steve is a full-time developer on MetaCombine, focusing on the visualization aspects of the project. Much of Steve's work is novel and crosses into active digital library and visualization research. Steve is a recent Georgia Tech grad, with an interest in graphics.
Saurabh Pathak student research asst.: Saurabh is MetaCombine's focused crawling expert. He has worked with the iVia software and Nalanda crawler to produce useful autonomously generated web collections for MetaCombine. Saurabh has also worked extensively on classification with the WEKA classifier. Saurabh is a CS master's student at Emory.
Johnny Healey student research asst.: Johnny administers MetaCombine's research clustered server, MetaCluster, and is the current lead on the cluster infrastructure development. He also evaluates, customizes, and deploys various digital library components (such as search engines). In addition, Johnny in participating in the design, construction, and evaluation of MetaCombine experimental systems. Johnny is a master's CS student at Emory.
Urvashi Gadi master's thesis student: Urvashi is doing a thesis on semantic clustering software for federated frameworks, and will help with Part C of the MetaCombine project. Urvashi is a master's CS student at Emory.
Jia Liu (former) student research asst.: Jia worked on evaluation and deployment of the Greenstone digital library software. She also piloted implementation of an NMF clustering plugin for Greenstone. Jia is a math PhD student at Emory.