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Mr. Bijay Karki received his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. He was one of the five students who got the university's premier studentship. Before joining the Department of Computer Science at Louisiana State University in 2003, he worked as a research scholar there for about five years. He received National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2004, which is awarded to only outstanding young faculty members. He has been developing/applying a meta-computing/visualization framework to address fundamental materials problems, primarily, for important geophysical implications. He is also involved in the establishment of VLab (funded by NSF ITR). He has published more than 30 papers in top journals including Science, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Geophysical Research Letters etc.

Following are the positions he has worked on so far:

Assistant Professor, since January 2003
Department of Computer Science
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Adjunct Assistant Professor, since November 2004
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2001-2002
Biological Computation and Visualization Center
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1997-2001
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Lecturer, 1992-1993
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal


Honors and Fellowships:

NSF Career Award, 2004, National Science Foundation
Supercomputing Research Scholarship, 1998-1999, 2000-2001, University of Minnesota
Graduate Student Award Finalist, 1997, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting                                             Premier Scholarship in Ph.D., 1994-1997, University of Edinburgh
Overseas Research Student Award in Ph.D., 1994-1997, Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals of UK
Diploma Fellowship, 1993-1994, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Mahendra Bidhyabhusan Medal in M.Sc., 1992, His Majesty the King of Nepal

Current Research Projects:

Rheology:
Rheology of materials of Earth’s mantle: High-end computational/visualization research and education; NSF Career grant ($465,144 for five years from June 1, 2004)
Silicate Liquids:
First principles investigations of silicate liquids under mantle conditions; NSF Collaborative research grant ($150,684 for three years from July 1, 2004)
Virtual Laboratory:
Virtual laboratory for Earth and planetary materials studies, NSF ITR ($100,000 for four years from October 1, 2004)
Simulation Algorithms:
Scalable algorithms for high-end parallel and distributed computing, NASA Cooperative ($80,000 for one year from February 1, 2005)

Following are some papers (out of more than 30 so far) he wrote recently:

# Yerraguntla V, Karki BB, Kikuchi H. and Saini S, A parallel molecular dynamics algorithm for polycrystalline minerals, Proc. International Conf. on Modeling Simulation and Visualization Methods (MS V’05), 2005, pp. 201-207.
# Khanduja G and Karki BB, Visualization of 3D scientific datasets based on interactive clipping, WSCG SHORT Paper, 2005; ISBN 80-903100-9-5 2004
# Karki BB and Chennamsetty R, A visualization system for mineral elasticity, Visual Geosciences, Springer – Verlag, 2004
# Wentzcovitch RM, Stixrude L, Karki BB and Kiefer B, Akimotoite to perovskite transition in MgSiO3, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2004; 31: L10611
# Vemparala S, Karki BB, Kalia RK, Nakano A and Vashishta P, Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers, J. Chem. Phys., 2004; 121: 4323 – 4330

He has also been invited for talks in different prestigious workshops and conferences. Following are some of them:

# Visualization approach to understanding of minerals properties, Vlab workshop, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Minneapolis (July 2005)
# Structure and elasticity of post-stishovite polymorphs from first principles, Study of Materials at Extreme Conditions, SEMC 2003, Florida International University, Miami (March 2003)
# Multiscale simulations of nanobiosystems using parallel and grid computing, Review Meeting of Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (June 2002)
# Calculated thermo-elastic properties of mantle minerals and geophysical implications, Mardi Gras Conference on Multiscale Simulation, Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Deformation, Friction, Fatigue and Fracture,
Baton Rouge (February 2001)
# First principles elasticity of major silicate and oxide phases of the lower mantle and geophysical implications, 19th European Crystallographic Meeting, Nancy, France (August 2000)

We should be all proud of this Nepalese son. We take this opportunity to include him as a member of 'Nepalese Hall of Brain'.