Carl Kesselman, Ph.D.
Founder and Co-Director

Stephan Erberich, Ph.D.
Founder and Co-Director

CHI is co-directed by Carl Kesselman and Stephan Erberich of the Information Sciences Institute, a world leader in research and development of information processing, computer and communications technologies. Associated with the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering, ISI is one of the nation’s largest – and most successful – university-affiliated computer research institutes.

Carl Kesselman is an ISI Fellow, the Institute’s highest honor, and a professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is one of the fathers of Grid computing and the GLOBUS open-source toolbox, the de facto Grid standard for the world’s most resource-intensive computing tasks. Kesselman has received numerous honors for his pioneering research.

Kesselman also is chief scientist and a co-founder of Univa Corp., a high-performance computing systems management and data center automation software provider. He joined ISI in 1997 as a USC Viterbi research associate professor. Kesselman received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Stephan Erberich directs the Functional Imaging and Biomedical Informatics Laboratory at Children's Hospital in the USC Keck School of Medicine. Erberich and Kesselman developed Globus MEDICUS, a revolutionary Grid system that enables physicians to exchange high-resolution medical images online. Globus MEDICUS was honored with the prestigious 2007 Internet2 IDEA award.

Erberich’s research focuses on developmental neuroimaging, imaging informatics, advanced image processing and Grid technologies. He came to USC in 2002 from University Hospital in Aachen, Germany, where he led the neuroscience group, and joined ISI in 2008. Erberich received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Medical Informatics from the Technical University of Technology (RWTH), Aachen, Germany.