Thomas Loos
                      October 29, 1996

Work Address:                          Home Address:
215 Lindley Hall                       426 E. Cottage Grove Ave.
Indiana University                     Bloomington, IN 47408
Bloomington, IN 47405                  
(812) 855-3609                         (812) 331-7435
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Email: tl...@cs.indiana.edu
Web Page: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/tloos.html

Education:
Indiana University-Bloomington. Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science.
Defense Date: November 15, 1996.
Available: December, 1996.

Thesis Topic:
Applying an approximate execution time metric to the data distribution
problem for parallel iterative linear system solvers, in which I've used
C/C++, Matlab, MPI, and a little Perl and FORTRAN on an SGI Power Challenge,
an Intel Paragon, and an IBM SP-2.  A short description of the thesis,
including its abstract, can be found at:
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/tloos/thesis.details.html

Advisor: Dr. Randall Bramley, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept.,
         Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. (bram...@cs.indiana.edu)

North Carolina State University, MS, Computer Studies. GPA 3.90/4.0.
Graduated August, 1987.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, BS, Computer Science and Math.  GPA 3.88/4.0.
Graduated May, 1986.

Employment:
January, 1992 - present: Associate Instructor, System Assistant, and
Research Assistant. Computer Science Department, Indiana
University-Bloomington.

Instructed undergraduate classes in C language programming for both
computer science majors and non-majors.  Instructed combined graduate and
undergraduate classes in operating systems.  Worked on iterative system
solver uni-processor and parallel codes, and a visualization tool
using X11/Xt/Motif in C running on SGI, Sun, and IBM (RS/6000) workstations.

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June, 1986 - August, 1993 (On the Job: June 1987 - August, 1991)
Member of Technical Staff, International 5ESS Generic Retrofit Group,
AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, Naperville, IL.

Handled two projects (retrofits) from start to finish, acting as feature
owner (lead engineer) on the second project. This included requirements,
high and low-level design, coding, laboratory testing of both module and
system-wide features, customer documentation and demonstration, and field
support, both remotely and on customer premises.   Assisted other
group members on technical and customer-related issues.  On OYOC (One
Year on Campus) from August, 1986 to June, 1987 and on leave of absence
at Indiana University from August, 1991 to August, 1993.

Honors and Service:

 +  Qualified for the PhD program in Computer Science at Indiana University,
May, 1995
 + AT&T One Year On Campus Scholarship, Aug. 1986 to June, 1987
 + National Merit Scholarship Winner, 1982-1986
 + Chaired session at 10th ICMCM conference, July 1995.
 + University of Nebraska Regents Scholarship, 1982-1986
 + Outreach Coordinator, IU CSGSA, 1994-present.
 + Member of Phi Beta Kappa

Papers:
R. Bramley, T. Loos -- Indiana University Computer Science Department
Technical Report 412 A, which evolved into a paper entitled
"EMILY: A Visualization Tool for Large Sparse Matrices".

Some pictures generated with EMILY are in:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scicomp/pix_gallery.html

T. Loos, R. Bramley -- "The Approximate Execution Time Metric and its
    Application to the Graph Partitioning Problem", presented at the 10th
    International Conference on Mathematical and Computer Modeling and
    Scientific Computing, Boston, July, 1995.  To be published in the
    conference proceedings.  

T. Loos, R. Bramley -- "MPI Performance on the SGI Power Challenge",
    Proceedings of the Second MPI Developer's Conference, pp. 203-206.

T. Loos, R. Bramley -- "An Alternate Data Distribution Performance Measure",
   in preparation.

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tom loos
tl...@cs.indiana.edu  / http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/tloos.html