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James Jehiel Ramsey
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Computer Modeling and SimulationASEC Room 535
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BACKGROUND
Initially, my major was in Mechanical Engineering. I obtained my Bachelor's Degree from California State University, Fullerton in 2002, graduating Magna Cum Laude. I had later moved to Ohio, and after a while decided I needed to go back to school, and got my Master's Degree,also in Mechanical Engineering, here at the University of Akron, in 2006. As one could gather from the abstract of my Master's Thesis, the work that I do under Dr. Pan is quite different from my work as an Mechanical Engineering major.
However, one of my hobbies has been ˇ°playingˇ± with computers, especially Unix-like systems such as Linux or Mac OS X, and this has been useful for working with the computers at the Ohio Supercomputing Center, as well as those at the Army Research Laboratory's MSRC. Learning computation tools, such as the well-known Matlab, and the lesser-known R, has also been something that I have largely done on my own. Curiously enough, it was thisinterest in computers that got me recruited as a member of Dr. Pan's team.
As part of the work that Dr. Pan has been doing with the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) on quantum dots, I have been interning at the branch of ARL in Aberdeen Proving Ground,
Maryland during the summers of 2006 and 2007. It is at ARL where I began to learn about atomistic simulations. Some of the results from this work will bepresented at the 9th U.S. National Conference on Computational Mechanics.