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Team Members

CASPER Team April 2008

CASPER Team Photo, April 2008

Back row: Oren Milgrome, Peter McMahon, Mark Wagner, Billy Mallard, Terry Filiba, Dr Mel Wright, Henry Chen
Front row: Dr Joeri van Leeuwen, Griffin Foster, Prof. Don Backer, Andrew Siemion, Dan Werthimer (Group Leader)
Absent: Matt Dexter, David MacMahon, Jason Manley, Aaron Parsons

PIs

Dan Werthimer

CASPER Principal Investigator
Research Scientist, UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab

Don Backer

CASPER Co-Principal Investigator
Professor, UC Berkeley Astronomy Department

Pulsar instrumentation, reionization experiments

John Wawrzynek

CASPER Co-Principal Investigator
Professor, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

Reconfigurable computing, RAMP

Melvyn Wright

CASPER Co-Principal Investigator
Research Astronomer, UC Berkeley Radio Astronomy Lab

Imaging/correlator algorithms, real-time imaging, Allen Telescope Array

Staff

Henry Chen

Systems and Applications Engineer, CASPER

VLBI Mark5 digital backend, spectrometers, toolflow, infrastructure, system libraries

Matt Dexter

Engineer, UC Berkeley Radio Astronomy Lab

ATA

Griffin Foster

Programmer, CASPER

Imaging, transient searches

David MacMahon

Engineer, UC Berkeley Radio Astronomy Lab

Correlators, DDC, FFT libraries

Billy Mallard

Applications Engineer, CASPER

Correlators, XAUI/10GbE, transient searches, donut procurement

Oren Milgrome

Engineer, UC Berkeley Radio Astronomy Lab

Beamformers

Mark Wagner

Applications Engineer, CASPER

XAUI/10GbE, SETI spectrometer, backend software, libraries, transient searches



Postdocs

Vacant.



Students

Terry Filiba

Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

DSP libraries, correlators

Aaron Parsons

Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Astronomy Department

Correlators, FFT, PFB, DDC and reorder libraries, reionization experiments

Andrew Siemion

Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Astronomy Department

Backend software, IBOB 100Mbit, correlators, spectrometers, transient searches

Suraj Gowda

Undergraduate Student, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

Backend software, 10GbE, spectrometers



Alumni

Ben Blackman

Student, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

Mars spectrometer testing, documentation

Now at: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Wireless Research Center

Daniel Chapman

Applications Engineer, CASPER and UC Berkeley Physics Department

Pocket spectrometer, Mars spectrometer, IBOB 100Mbit

Now at: Columbia University, Physics Graduate Student

Patrick Crescini

Student, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

Pocket spectrometer

Now at: SPAWAR, San Diego

Pierre-Yves Droz

Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

BEE2, IBOB design and firmware, toolflow

Now at: 510 Systems LLC, Berkeley

Christina de Jesus

Student, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

iADC

Now at: SPAWAR, San Diego

Mathias Humbert

Visiting Graduate Student, EPFL

Correlators

Now at: EPFL

Jason Manley

Visiting Graduate Student, University of Cape Town and Karoo Array Telescope

Correlators, libraries

Now at: Digital Engineer, MeerKAT and Ph.D. student, University of Cape Town

Peter McMahon

Visiting Graduate Student, University of Cape Town and Karoo Array Telescope

Pulsar instrumentation, correlators, libraries, transient searches

Now at: Digital Engineer, MeerKAT and M.Sc. student, University of Cape Town

Kirsten Meder

Student, UC Berkeley Physics Department

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Now at: -

Vinayak Nagpal

Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

Beamformers, next generation tools, coarse and fine delay libraries

Now at: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Wireless Research Center

Arash Parsa

Student, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

DRAM Vector Accumulator Guru, correlators, libraries

Now at: UC Berkeley, EECS Graduate Student

Joeri van Leeuwen

UC Berkeley Astronomy Department and Radio Astronomy Lab

Pulsar instrumentation, Allen Telescope Array

Now at: Faculty, Universiteit van Amsterdam and ASTRON



We are interested in hiring motivated undergraduate and graduate students for academic credit or pay to work on a variety of projects. If you are interested in signal processing and/or reconfigurable computing and would like to find out more about what we do, please contact Dan Werthimer or any of the other members of the CASPER team. We'd be happy to give you a tour of our lab, and show you what we do.