Professor
B. S., Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Oklahoma
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Oklahoma
Room: 4132E Learned Hall
Phone: (785) 864-2918
Fax: (785) 864-4967
E-mail:
kbishop@ku.edu
The National Computational Science Alliance is a consortium the includes more than fifty research universities and five national laboratories in the United States. The mission of the Alliance is to prototype the high-performance computational and communications environments of the early 21st century. The Alliance is organized into four principal organizations: the Enabling Technologies (ET) teams, the Applications Technologies (AT) teams, the Partners for Advanced Computational Services (PACS), and the Education, Outreach, and Training (EOT) function. Professor Bishop is a member of the Alliance, a member of the Chemical Engineering Applications Technology team, and the EPSCoR research community representative to the Partners for Advance Computational Services.
The mission of the Chemical Engineering AT team is to drive the development (by the ET teams) of the computational infrastructure that will be required to put the entire national computational grid at the disposal of individual researchers whose work require those resources. In particular, Bishop focuses his research on applications that require distributed collaborative practice of chemical engineering. Specifically he works in the areas of chemical reactor simulation, process control system analysis and design, and modeling fluid flow in porous media. He has extensive computation experience involving computers ranging from single-board microcomputers to multiprocessor and cluster-based supercomputers.
As a member of the Alliance-EPSCoR liaison team Professor Bishop is heavily involved with the development and deployment of the Access Grid technology throughout the twenty EPSCoR cohorts (states). He is a principal investigator in a multi-state EPSCoR grant that will place an Access Grid node each of six EPSCoR states; the first step toward placing Access Grid nodes in each of the EPSCoR states. Bishop’s specific interest lies in use of the Access Grid in support of engineering and scientific research.
