Research Services Staff
The Research Services staff provides consultation, training, and tutorials to support computing and research at Boston College. For more information, contact one of the staff members, or Barry Schaudt (schaudt@bc.edu or 617-552-0242). The staff consists of the following people:
Constantin Andronache
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Research Associate Matlab, Mathematica, and GIS 617-552-6215 constantin.andronache.1@bc.edu |
Constantin joined Boston College in 2001 as a GIS specialist and research consultant for scientific software and scientific computing. He has extensive experience in GIS management and technical support. He has expertise in Applied Mathematics, numerical methods, data analysis and visualization. He is proficient in Mathematica, Matlab and ArcGIS and provides consultations for faculty and research staff on computing solutions, and GIS.
Research Interests:
- Scientific computing
- Geographic Information Systems
- Data analysis and visualization
Selected Publications
- Phillips, V.T.J., Sherwood, S., Andronache, C., Bansemer, A. Conant, W.C., DeMott, P.J., Flagan, R.C., Heymsfield, A., Jonsson, H., Poellot, M., Rissman, T.A., Seinfeld, J.H., Vanreken, T., Varutbangkul, V. and J.C. Wilson. Anvil glaciation in a deep cumulus updraft over Florida simulated with an Explicit Microphysics Model. I: The impact of various nucleation processes. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 131(609), 2019-2046, 2005.
- Andronache, C., Estimates of sulfate aerosol wet scavenging coefficient for locations in the Eastern United States, Atmospheric Environment, 38, 795-804, 2004.
- Andronache, C., Estimated variability of below-cloud aerosol removal by rainfall for observed aerosol size distributions, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ,3, 2003
- Andronache, C., L. J. Donner, C. J. Seman, and R. S. Hemler, A study of the impact of ITCZ on aerosols during INDOEX, J. Geophys. Res., 10.1029/2001JD900248 11, 2002.
Education:
Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
M.S. in Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania.
Keith Chan
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Graduate Student Assistant keith.chan.1@bc.edu |
Keith Chan is a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Social Work. He has worked as a research assistant in understanding the needs of Chinese Americans, older adults, and immigrants in areas of mental health, well-being, spirituality, breast cancer, and coping. Keith is also a Diversity Fellow at Boston College, a trained therapist, and looks forward to furthering his research for his dissertation in trauma, mental health, and wellness with marginalized populations. His computer expertise is in SPSS.
Education:
Masters in Social Work , Boston College
B. A. in English and American Literature, Brown University
Rani Dalgin
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Senior Statistical Consultant and Manager Graduate Student Assistants 617-552-1743 rani.dalgin.1@bc.edu |
Rani has over 25 years experience as a clinician and statistical research consultant in the public, private, and government sectors. Rani has been a consultant at Boston College since 1998 and has customized discipline specific and general statistics courses for faculty and graduate students on a variety of statistical topics including introductions to SPSS, Stata, and SAS, Regression, Survival Analysis, HLM, AMOS, and in conjunction with the O'Neill Library Staff: "Access to Dataset Repositories for Social Science Research."
Rani's current research interest include Gerontology, Measures of Psychological Resiliency in Adolescents and Adults, Quantifying Success Predictors in Hospital Based Social Work Practice, and Quantifying Success Predictors for Homeschooling and Distance Learning in K through 12 students.
Selected Publication:
"Case Management as Management" with Dr. Nancy Veeder, Journal of Social Service Research, St. Louis, MO, January 2005.
Education:
A.B., M.S.W., and M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis
Tatiana Farina
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Graduate Student Assistant tatiania.farina.1@bc.edu |
Tatiana is a Ph.D student in Economics. At Boston College, she taught EC 131 Principles of Microeconomics for two semesters. She was a teaching assistant for EC 131 and EC 132 Principles of Macroeconomics. During her time at Boston College she has also worked as an Economist at the Economic Research Services of the USDA. Her research interests are in Industrial Organization and Microeconometrics. Her research is focused mainly on consumer behavior. She has expertise with Stata and Matlab.
Education:
M.A. in Economics, Boston College.
B.A. in Economics. University of São Paulo
Selected Publication:
Farina, T. and Almeida, S. – Consumer Perception on Alternative Poultry. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, v.5, 2003.
Massimo Giovannini
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Graduate Student Assistant
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Massimo is a Ph.D. student in economics. He has been teaching EC 132 (Macroeconomics Principles) and he served as TA in Macroeconomic Theory, Econometrics and Open macroeconomics classes. His specialization fields are Monetary economics, Macroeconomics and Time series econometrics. In particular his interests focus on macroeconomics models with heterogeneous agents. He has considerable knowledge of Matlab and Stata.
Education:
M.A. in Economics, Boston College
B.A. in Economics, Bocconi University, Italy
Ronald Ko
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Data Management Consultant 617-552-1796 ronald.ko.1@bc.edu |
Ron joined Boston College in 2007 as a Data Management Consultant. He assists research groups to develop, optimize, port databases; collect and disseminate data via dynamic Web pages; set up templates; give tutorials/workshops; and assist research groups with grant applications as related to collecting, managing, disseminating data. Ron is proficient in Perl, Java, C#/C++/C, Python, Oracle, MySQL, PhP, and other various languages.
Before joining Boston College , Ron worked for Verizon Information Systems, National Marine Fishers Service, Lucent Technologies, and Raytheon.
Areas of Interests:
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Web application design and development
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Data collection, analysis and reporting
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Content management
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Networking and communications
Education:
M.S. in Computer science, Boston University
B.S. in computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Jianfang Liu
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Research Statistician 617-552-9142 jianfang.liu.1@bc.edu |
Jianfang Liu joined Boston College in September 2008 as a research statistician. Jianfang’s proficiencies are experimental designs, regression analysis, applied multivariate statistics, categorical data analysis, parametric and non-parametric statistics, and (large-scale) data management. She has expertice with statistical software such as SPSS and SAS. She is a SAS certified advanced programmer.
Education:
Ph.D. in Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Measurement,
The Ohio State University
M.A.S in Applied Statistics, The Ohio State University
M.P.A in Educational Economics and Administration,
Tsinghua University, P.R. China
B.E. in Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, P.R. China
Wei Lucy Qiu
Senior Research Associate
617-552-2728
wei.qiu.2@bc.edu
Wei has experience as a Scientific Researcher and Scientific Software Engineer in both academic setting and industry. Prior to joining Boston College in 2009, she worked for Meteorological Services of Canada, Mass General Hospital, Hospira Inc and Weather Services International, where she invented scientific algorithms, developed software tools and created real-time embedded applications.
Wei has expertise in open source and commercial software engineering, cross platform computing, algorithm development, real-time embedded system, data acquisition and information visualization. She is skilled in programming with C/C++, MATLAB, PERL and other languages.
Education:
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Western Ontario in Canada.
B.S. in Applied Chemistry, Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University
Research Interests:
- Scientific computing
- Algorithm development
- Software engineering
- Data acquisition and analysis
- Information visualization
Selected Publications:
- Kuo, B., Itzhak, A., Qiu, W., Urma, D., Kwong, K., Mao, J., Rosen, B. Dynamic Imaging of the Brain Activity During Feeding and Epigastria Discomfort/Pain with a Physiological Gastric Stimulus. Gastroenterology, 2005; 128, 4 (Suppl. 2): A-372.
- W. Qiu, R.E. Mercer, J.L. Barron (2001), 3D Storm Tracking in 3D Doppler Precipitation Reflectivity Datasets. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing conference (IMVIP2001), pp79-86 (best paper award).
Barry Schaudt
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Director of Research Services |
Barry Schaudt has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. Before arriving at Boston College, he taught Computer Science at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and was at the forefront of building the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute. At the University of Minnesota, he led the transition from a small Institute that leased time on supercomputers and purchased research support to an Institute that purchased and managed its own computer systems, and provided user support to a broad range of researchers. In addition, Barry has a background in Scientific Visualization, and has expertise in C/C++, MySQL, web technologies such as Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Java and Perl, as well as a wide range of software tools.
Areas of Interest:
- Building a group at Boston College to support research
- High Performance Computing
- Desktop computing
- Scientific and data visualization
Education:
Ph.D. in Computer Science (Computational Geometry), Dartmouth College
M.S. in Mathematics, University of Michigan
B.S. in Mathematics, University of Michigan