Dr. Amidu Oloso is a computational scientist at the GMAO, NASA GSFC. His role is to support GEOS in the areas of computational performance improvement, model integration, and related matters.
Amidu O Oloso
(COMPUTATIONAL SCIENTIST)
| Email: | amidu.o.oloso@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.7885 |
| Org Code: | 610.1 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 610.1 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC |
Brief Bio
Positions/Employment
Chief Scientific Programmer Analyst Supervisor
SSAI - NASA GSFC
June 2012 - Present
- Works in the SI Team to support GEOS development including computational performance improvement, model integration, and all related matters.
Lead HPC Application Support
TT-AMT - NASA GSFC
July 2000 - May 2012
- Provided hands-on leadership to the high-performance computing application support team.
- Performed computational performance improvements of several large scale science and engineering codes.
Scientific Computing Consultant
Supercomputing Inst., Univ. of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN
September 1997 - July 2000
- Provided technical support for scientific code development on HPC systems.
Education
1997: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Old Dominion University
1988: M.Sc. Agricultural Engineering, University of Ibadan
1986: B.Sc. First Class Honors, Agricultural Engineering, University of Ibadan
Awards
Performance Award for Outstanding Technical Support, 03/2017, SSAI at NASA
Cloud Computing Nebula Test Group Achievement Award, 08/2012, NASA
Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement Science Team Award, 2010, NASA
Achievement Award for Exceptional Science Computing Support, 2006, AMTI at NASA
Commitment to Excellence Award, 2001, AMTI at NASA
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholarship, 1991, British Council
Graduate of the year, Nigerian Society of Engineers, Ibadan Branch, 1988
Best Graduating Student, Agric. Engineering, Univ. of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1986
Other Professional Information
H-index: 7
Publications
Refereed
2016. "Addressing the big-earth-data variety challenge with the hierarchical triangular mesh." 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) [10.1109/bigdata.2016.7840700] [Proceedings]
2016. "Evaluating the impact of data placement to spark and SciDB with an Earth Science use case." 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) [10.1109/bigdata.2016.7840621] [Proceedings]
2016. "Implementing connected component labeling as a user defined operator for SciDB." 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) [10.1109/bigdata.2016.7840945] [Proceedings]
2016. "Implications of data placement strategy to Big Data technologies based on shared-nothing architecture for geosciences." 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) [10.1109/igarss.2016.7730983] [Proceedings]
2014. "Portable Distributed Scripts (PoDS)." NASA Tech Brief GSC-16531-1 [Full Text] [Report]
2014. "Configuration and assessment of the GISS ModelE2 contributions to the CMIP5 archive." J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. 6 (1): 141-184 [10.1002/2013MS000265] [Journal Article/Letter]
1998. "AERODYNAMIC DESIGN OPTIMIZATION USING ADVANCED CFD CODES, AUTOMATIC DIFFERENTIATION, AND PARALLEL COMPUTING." Computational Fluid Dynamics Review 1998 560-571 [10.1142/9789812812957_0031] [Article in Book]
1998. "Aerodynamic design sensitivities by automatic differentiation." 29th AIAA, Fluid Dynamics Conference [10.2514/6.1998-2536] [Proceedings]
1997. "CFL3D.ADII (Version 2.0) - An efficient, accurate, general-purpose code for flow shape-sensitivity analysis." 15th Applied Aerodynamics Conference [10.2514/6.1997-2204] [Proceedings]
1993. "Some Aspects of Strength Properties of Cashew Nuts." Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research 55 (1): 27-43 [10.1006/jaer.1993.1030] [Journal Article/Letter]
1988. "Solar dryer for yam flakes and cassava chips." International Journal of Ambient Energy 9 (2): 101-105 [10.1080/01430750.1988.9675918] [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2006. "Application Controlled Parallel Asynchronous Input/Output (Asynch I/O)." SC 2006 Poster Reception [Full Text] [Other]