Distributed/Grid computing, Web services, parallel programming, security, and networks.
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Ph.D. in Computer Science, September 2007
Extreme Computing! Lab. directed by Prof. Dennis Gannon
GPA: 4.0
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Master of Science in Mathematical and Computing Sciences, March 2002
Thesis: Construction and Evaluation of High Interoperable XML-based
GridRPC Systems
Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka's Lab
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Visiting graduate student at the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, September 1999 to January 2000
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Bachelor of Science in Information Science, March 1999
Thesis: Design and Construction of IPv6 Networks Suitable for Small
Organizations
Distributed systems: Web services, BPEL4WS, Globus Toolkit,
CoG kit, Condor, GridRPC systems, MPI, POSIX Thread, OpenMP
Languages: Java, C, C++, C#, Python, Jython, Perl, Java Script,
Shell Script, Servlet, JSP, XML, HTML
Operating Systems: Unixen (FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris), Windows
Research Assistant, August 2003 to September 2007
For Prof. Dennis Gannon at Indiana University
Projects: Performance of secure Grid services; A workflow system for
scientific Web services
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, May 2006 to August 2006
Summer internship
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, July 2005 to August 2005
Summer internship
Exploratory Software Project, July 2002 to February 2003
Eight-month research software development founded by
Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (approx. $67,000)
Project: Development of a toolkit for Grid portal systems
Research Assistant, April 2002 to July 2002
For Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Projects: GridRPC on Web service technologies; Fault tolerance on
GridRPC systems
Matsushita Graphic System, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, October 2000 to
March 2001
Tutoring new employees IPv6
Assisting setting up IPv6 networks
Joint research with YAMAHA Corporation, April 2000 to
August 2001
Developing IPv6 INS router
Experimenting the IPv6 router at WIDE Project workshop
IMS FaxConnect 2 -- An Interoperability Event for Fax over
Internet -- San Jose, CA, May 1999
Assistant creator of WIDE Internet FAX
Participating in the interoperability test
Building Grid Portals for e-Science: A Service Oriented Architecture. Dennis Gannon, Beth Plale, Marcus Christie, Yi Huang, Scott Jensen, Ning Liu, Suresh Marru, Sangmi Lee Pallickara, Srinath Perera, Satoshi Shirasuna, Yogesh Simmhan, Aleksander Slominski, Yiming Sun, Nithya Vijayakumar, In High Performance Computing and Grids in Action, IOS Press, 2007, To appear.
Dynamic, Adaptive Workflows for Mesoscale Meteorology. Dennis Gannon, Beth Plale, Suresh Marru, Gopi Kandaswamy, Yogesh Simmhan, and Satoshi Shirasuna, In Workflows for e-Science: Scientific Workflows for Grids, Chapter 10, pp 97-114, Springer Verlag, December 2006.
Building Web Services for Scientific Applications. Gopi Kandaswamy, Liang Fang, Yi Huang, Satoshi Shirasuna, Suresh Marru, Dennis Gannon. In the IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 50, Number 2/3, pp 249-260, 2006
Building Grid Portal Applications from a Web-Service Component Architecture. D. Gannon, J. Alameda, O. Chipara, M. Christie, V. Dukle, L. Fang, M. Farellee, G. Fox, S. Hampton, G. Kandaswamy, D. Kodeboyina, C. Moad, M. Pierce, B. Plale, A. Rossi, Y. Simmhan, A. Sarangi, A. Slominski, S. Shirasauna, T. Thomas. In Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 93, Number 3, pp551-563, March, 2005.
A Hybrid Decomposition Scheme for Building Scientific Workflows. Wei Lu, Kenneth Chiu, Satoshi Shirasuna, and Dennis Gannon, In Proceedings of High Performance Computing Symposium, SCS Spring Simulation Multiconference (HPC'07), 2007. (Best Paper Award)
Service Oriented Architectures for Science Gateways on Grid Systems. D. Gannon, B. Plale, M. Christie, L. Fang, Y. Huang, S. Jensen, G. Kandaswamy, S. Marru, S. Lee Pallickara, S. Shirasuna, Y. Simmhan, A. Slominski, and Y. Sun. In Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2005), pp21-32, December 2005.
Evaluating Web Services Based Implementations of GridRPC. Satoshi Shirasuna, Hidemoto Nakada, Satoshi Matsuoka, Satoshi Sekiguchi. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-11 2002), pp237-245, July 2002.
Construction of IPv6 small network using INS router. Masahiko Kimoto, Satoshi Shirasuna, Hiroki Suenaga, Toshihiro Kimura, Hiroyuki Ohno. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Internet Society Conference (INET2000), July 2000.
Performance Comparison of Security Mechanisms for Grid
Services. Satoshi Shirasuna, Aleksander
Slominski, Liang Fang, Dennis Gannon. In Proceeding of the Fifth
IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2004),
pp360-364. IEEE Computer Society Press, Nov 2004.
A Portal Construction Toolkit for the Grid (PCT4G). Satoshi Shirasuna, Satoshi Matsuoka. In Proceeding of the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2003), May 2003.
Development of a Wireless Location System in Lindley Hall. Rahul Doshi, Tom N. Jagatic, Ashraf Khalil, Satoshi Shirasuna, Poornima Venkatakrishnan. Technical report TR589, Indiana University, January 2004.
For the full list of publications, please refer to http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~sshirasu/research/publication.html.
Student Showcase Award granted by Indiana University Information Technology Services (UITS) for developing "Locate Me: A Mobile Networking Location System". 2004