Dr. Christopher P. Paolini

Education

• Ph.D Computational Science (2007), San Diego State University
  Dissertation title: A Service Oriented Architecture for Thermochemical Computation

• M.S. Computer Science (1998), San Diego State University
  Thesis title: Integration of Autonomous Robotic Apparatus using CORBA

• B.S. Computer Science (1991), San Diego State University
  Magna Cum Laude, Graduation with Distinction

Honors and Distinctions

• 1990 Unisys Scholarship for Academic Merit (undergraduate)
• 2002-2005 ARCS Scholarship (doctoral)
  

Funded Research (PI/Co-PI)

• NASA Grant NRA NNH09ZTT001N: Research Opportunities in Combustion Science, Residence Time Driven Flame Spread Over Solid Fuels, $398,614.00.
  
  
• US Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Web-based CO2 Subsurface Modeling, Geologic Sequestration Training and Research Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0000032, Simulation and Risk Assessment, $288,691.00.
  
  
• NSF Office of CyberInfrastructure MRI Grant 0922702 - $255,873.00.
  MRI: Acquisition of High Speed Network Infrastructure for High Performance Distributed Computation in the Colleges of Science and Engineering
  
  
• NSF Office of CyberInfrastructure CI-TEAM Grant 0753283 - $249,796.00.
  CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: CyberCHEQS: A Service-Oriented Cyberinfrastructure (SOCI) for Thermochemical Data and Computation Services

Publications

1. Paolini, C., Bhattacharjee, S., IGE Model: An Extension of the Ideal Gas Model to Include Chemical Composition as Part of the Equilibrium State, Journal of Thermodynamics, (accepted).

2. Paolini, C., Huber, G., Collier, Q., Lee, G. K., A Web-Based Mobile Robotic System for Control and Sensor Fusion Studies, 24^th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-2011), November 16-18, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii. [PowerPoint] [QuickTime Video] [Flash Video] [PDF]

3. Sarkar, M. and  Paolini, C., A QoS Guaranteeing MAC Layer Protocol for the "Underdog" Traffic, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011, 2011:131 doi:10.1186/1687-1499-2011-131.

4. Paolini, C., Tran, W., Parker, M., Miller, F., Bhattacharjee, S., A remote controlled automated experimental apparatus for real-time flame spread measurement (paper 11F-65), 2011 fall technical meeting of the Western States Sections of the Combustion Institute (WSS/CI), University of California, Riverside, October 17-19, 2011, Riverside, California.

5. Paolini, C., Park, A. J., Binter, C., and Castillo, J. E., An investigation of the variation in the sweep and diffusion front displacement as a function of reservoir temperature and seepage velocity with implications in CO2 sequestration, 47th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit and the 9th Annual International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 31 Jul - 3 Aug 2011, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California.

6. Bhattacharjee, S., Paolini, C. P., Miller, F., and Nagarkar, R., Radiation Signature in Microgravity Flame Spread, 7th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, July 18-22, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.

7. Binter, C., Paolini, C., Park, A. J., and Castillo, J. E., Utilization of Reaction-Transport Modeling Software to Study the Effects of Reservoir Temperature and Seepage Velocity on the Sweep Diffusion Front Displacement Formed after CO2-Rich Water Injection, Tenth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration, May 2-5, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

8. Gallardo, A., Taylor, J., Paolini, C., Lee, H.K. and Lee, G., An ANFIS-Based Multi-Sensor Structure for a Mobile Robotic System, Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, April 11-15, 2011, Paris, France.

9. Johnson, C., Paolini, C. and Bhattacharjee, S., Design of a Rich Internet Application for Gas Turbine Engine Simulations, ASME Turbo Expo, June 6-10, 2011, Vancouver, Canada.

10. Bhattacharjee, S., Agrawal, A., Paolini, C., Takahashi, S., and Wakai, K., Opposed-Flow Flame Spread and Extinction in a Microgravity Environment, Proceedings of the Eighth Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC-10), December 10-13, 2010, Hyderabad, India.

11. Paolini, C. and Bhattacharjee, S., The IGE Model: An Extension of the Ideal Gas Model to Include Chemical Composition as Part of the Equilibrium State, Proceedings of the 2010 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition IMECE 2010, November 12-18, 2010, Vancouver, Canada.

12. Paolini, C. and Natarajan, S., Adaptive AJAX-Based Streaming Video for the iRobot Create Platform for Use in Buildings with Infrastructure Mode 802.11 Networks, World Automation Congress (WAC 2010 / ISSCI 2010 Symposium), September 19 - September 23, 2010, Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan (ISSCI paper #377).

13. Sahasrabudhe, S. and Paolini, C. P., A Load Balancing Scheme for ebXML Registries, International Workshop on Compilers, Languages, and Architectures for Web Services (CLAWS 2010), 39^th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2010), San Diego, California, September 13-16, 2010.

14. Bhattacharjee, S., Wakai, K., and Takahashi, S., Paolini, C. P., Correlating Flame Geometry in Opposed Flow Flame Spread over Thin Fuels, 33rd International Symposium on Combustion, Beijing, China, August 1-6, 2010.

15. Patterson, M., Paolini, C., and Bhattacharjee, S., Design and Implementation of a Rich Internet Application (RIA) for the Simulation of a Combustion Chamber, in 2010 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky, June 20-23, 2010.

16. Paolini, C., Bhattacharjee, S., Solving Chemical Equilibrium Problems Online, J. Chem. Educ., 2010, 87(4), p 456-.

17. Thomas, M. P., Cheng, C., Edwards, R. A., Paolini, C. P., Improving the Performance of Thermochemical Computations Using Many-Task Computing Methods. CSRC Technical Report, 2010.

18. Paolini, C., Bhattacharjee, S., Takahashi, S. and Wakai, K., Correlating Flame Geometry in Opposed Flow Flame Spread over Thin Fuels Using Scale Analysis and Numerical Solution, Sixth International Symposium on Scale Modeling (ISSM-6), Kauai, Hawaii, September 13-16, 2009.

19. Paolini, C. P., Jain, H. B., and Bhattacharjee, S., Integration of Thermodynamic Properties from Different Databases with Data Derived from DFT and Ab-Initio Methods, and their Delivery through Web Services, Seventeenth Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, June 21–26, 2009, Boulder, CO, paper #513.

20. Bhattacharjee, S. and Paolini, C. P., The Chemical Thermodynamic Module of The Expert System for Thermodynamics (“TEST”) Web Application, 2009 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 14–17, 2009, Austin, TX.

21. Paolini, C. P. and Bhattacharjee, S., A Web Service Infrastructure for Distributed Chemical Equilibrium Computation, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer (ICCHMT), May 18–21, 2009, Guangzhou, China, p. 413-418.

22. Bhattacharjee, S. and Paolini, C. P., Property Evaluation in The Expert System for Thermodynamics ("TEST") Web Application, Journal of Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry - CALPHAD, 33(2), p 343-352, June 2009.

23. Paolini, C. P. and Bhattacharjee, S., An Object-Oriented Online Tool for Solving Generalized Chemical Equilibrium Problems, Proceedings of the 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition IMECE08, October 31 – November 6, 2008, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

24. Paolini, C. P. and Bhattacharjee, S., A Web Service Infrastructure for Thermochemical Data, J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2008; 48(7); 1511-1523.

25. Bhattacharjee, S., Paolini, C. P., Wakai, K., and Takahashi, S., Opposed-Flow Flame Spread Over Thin Films of PMMA in a Microgravity Environment - A Comparison of Experimental Results with Computational and Theoretical Predictions, ACSESS 2008, San Diego, March 3, 2008.

26. Paolini, C., Bobba, K., Surana, P., and Bhattacharjee, S., "A Java Based Web Application for Performing Chemical Equilibrium Analysis in Thermodynamics Courses", 36th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 28 – 31, 2006, San Diego, CA.

27. Paolini, C., Udgaonkar, A., Bhattacharjee, S., Takahashi, S., and Wakai, K., A Numerical Investigation of Flame Geometry in Opposed Flow, Thermal Regime Flame Spread over Thin Fuels. Technical Report CSRCR 2006-01, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, October 27, 2006 (Japan).

28. Takahashi, S., Wakai, K., Paolini, C., Bhattacharjee, S., Transition between Concurrent and Opposed Flow Flame Spread over Thin Films of PMMA in a Microgravity Environment, Proceedings of Thermal Engineering Conference, 2005, p. 211-212.
    
    
29. S. Bhattacharjee, C. Paolini, C. Phi, K. Wakai, and S. Takahashi. Opposed-flow flame spread over thin films of PMMA in a microgravity environment - a comparison of computational, theoretical, and experimental results. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Cairo, Egypt, September 2005.
    
    
30. C. Paolini, A. Udgaonkar, S. Bhattacharjee, S. Takahashi, and K. Wakai. A numerical investigation of flame geometry in opposed flow flame spread over thin fuels. In Proceedings of 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, July 2005.
    
    
31. S. Bhattacharjee, C. Paolini, K. Wakai, and S. Takahashi. Flammability map for microgravity flame spread. In Strategic Research to Enable NASA’s Exploration Missions Conference, NASA/TM-2004-213114, June 2004.
    
    
32. Christopher Paolini, Kyoung H. Yeo, and Subrata Bhattacharjee. An object oriented formulation for unsteady 3d heat transfer. In Proceedings of CHT-04 ICHMT International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, April 2004.
    
    
33. Subrata Bhattacharjee, Matthew D. King, and Christopher Paolini. Structure of downward spreading flames: a comparison of numerical simulation, experimental results and a simplified parabolic theory. Combustion Theory and Modeling, 8:23–39, March 2004.
    
    
34. Christopher Paolini, Kyoung H. Yeo, and Subrata Bhattacharjee. An object oriented formulation for the finite volume simpler algorithm. In Proceedings of the Western States Section/The Combustion Institute, October 2003.
    
    
35. Subrata Bhattacharjee, Christopher Paolini, K. Wakai, and S. Takahashi. Extinction criteria for opposed-flow flame spread in a microgravity environment. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Microgravity Combustion Workshop. NASA, May 2003.
    
    
36. Christopher Paolini and Marko Vuskovic. Integration of a robotics laboratory using CORBA. In 1997 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Orlando, FL, October 1997.

Invited Talks and Workshops

• Paolini, C., Sanchez Peiro, E., Park, A. J., Castillo, J. E., A Distributed Mimetic Approach to Simulating Water-Rock Interaction following CO2 Injection in Sedimentary Basins, 2011 SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, San Diego, California, November 14-17, 2011.
• Gordon Summer Institute, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, August 8 - 12, 2011.
• 8th annual Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists (CSIG'11) , San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, August 8 - 12, 2011.
• CI-TEAM Demonstration Project CyberCHEQS: A Service-Oriented Cyberinfrastructure (SOCI) for Thermochemical Data and Computation Services, Subrata Bhattacharjee and Christopher Paolini, CI-TEAM Principal Investigators' Meeting, May 24-26, 2011 Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
• Project CyberCHEQS: A Service-Oriented Cyberinfrastructure (SOCI) for Thermochemical Data and Computation Services (CI-TEAM): Subrata Bhattacharjee, Christopher Paolini, Kris Stewart, Mary Thomas, Ofodike Ezekoye, NSF Showcase, SIGCSE 2011: The 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 9-12, 2011, Dallas, Texas.
• Cyberinfrastructure for Thermochemical Computation, Global CyberBridges - Calit2 Student Summer Workshop and Project GreenLight Education and Outreach Summer Workshop, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, July 1-2, 2009.
• Introduction to Insight II, San Diego State University, May 18, 2006.
• ARCS Scholarship Career Talk, Thursday Club of San Diego, March 3, 2005.

Poster Presentations

• Binter, C., Park, A. J., Castillo, J. E., and Paolini, C., Incorporation of New Web-based Technology to Expand the Accessibility
  and Flexibility of RTM Software for use in Modeling CO2 Sequestration, Tenth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration, May 2-5, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• Sanchez Peiro, E., Park, A. J., Castillo, J. E., and Paolini, C., Mimetic Finite Difference Methods: An Application in Modeling Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide, Tenth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration, May 2-5, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  
• A. Gallardo, C. Paolini, and G. Lee, Implementation of the Vector Field Histogram and Virtual Force Field Methods for Mobile Robots, Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), September 30 - October 03, 2010, Anaheim, California.
• Bhattacharjee, S., Paolini, C., and Patterson M., A Web Based Equilibrium Analysis Tool and its Application to Simulate a Combustion Chamber, Poster presentation, 33rd International Symposium on Combustion, Beijing, Aug 1-9, 2010.
• Cheng, C., Thomas, M. P, Edwards, R. A., Castillo, J. E., Paolini, C. P. Improving the Performance of Thermochemical Computations Using Many-Task Computing Methods. Presented at the 7th Annual Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support (ACSESS) Meeting. March, 2010.
• C. Paolini, R. J. Mellors, J. Castillo, and A. J. Park, Running a reaction-transport-mechanical simulator on a web-based platform: Putting together water-rock interaction, multi-phase and heat flow, a composite petrophysics model, and a fracture mechanics region, 2009 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 14–18, San Francisco, California.

Teaching

• CS 576 - Introduction to Networks and Distributed Systems
• CS 696 - Advanced Networks and Distributed Systems
• COMP 670 - Seminar: Problems in Computational Science
• COMP 696 - Carbon Capture and Sequestration
• ENGR 120 - Engineering Problem Analysis
• DEFCON Introduction to the Unix Operating System
• DEFCON Introduction to Internet Information Systems

SDSU Campus Research Events

• Binter, Christopher, Effects of Varying CO2 Injectant Concentration and Seepage Velocity on Reservoir Porosity and Permeability for Applications in Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Student Research Symposium, Session B-11, Chemistry I, March 4-5, 2011, Aztec Center.
• Sanchez, Eduardo, and Paolini, Christopher, Mimetic Finite Difference Methods: An Application in Modeling Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide, Applied Computational Sciences and Engineering & Computational Science Curriculum Development (ACSESS 2011), March 11, 2011, Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center.
• Binter, Christopher, Park, Tony, and Paolini, Christopher, Incorporation of New Web-Based Technology to Expand the Accessibility and Flexibility of RTM Software for Use in Modeling CO2 Sequestration, Applied Computational Sciences and Engineering & Computational Science Curriculum Development (ACSESS 2011), March 11, 2011, Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center.
• Binter, Christopher, Park, Tony, and Paolini, Christopher, Utilization of Reaction-Transport Modeling Software to Study the Effects of Reservoir Temperature and Seepage Velocity on the Sweep-Diffusion Front Displacement Formed after CO2 -Rich Water Injection, Applied Computational Sciences and Engineering & Computational Science Curriculum Development (ACSESS 2011), March 11, 2011, Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center.

Student Mentoring

• Aguirre, C., Bhutani, A., Graves, Q., Kalapatapu, A., Kode, S., Ramanna, V., 2011 Lavin VentureStart Competition, First Place Win, Mobile Network Innovations, LLC (graduate and undergraduate).
• Gallardo, A., Implementation of the Vector Field Histogram and Virtual Force Field Methods for Mobile Robots, 2010 McNair Scholars Summer Research Program (undergraduate).

Masters Thesis Supervision and Committee Service

1. AlGhamdi, A., Measurement of Gas Temperature field in a Flame Spreading Over Solid FuelMaster's Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University, fall 2011.
2. Tulip, K., An AJAX-Based Event Calendar for a Course Management System, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, fall 2011.
3. Rao, S., Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, fall 2011.
4. King, W., Interactive Graphical Interface for Printed Glycan Array Data Analysis, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, fall 2011.
5. Kannappan, S., 3/4 Technique for PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, fall 2011.
6. Garhwal, A., Ultra Wideband Pulse Generation using Discrete Prolate Spheroidal Sequences: Design and Analyses, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, fall 2011.
7. Mahalle, A., Interpolated Tree Orthogonal Multiplexing Scheme for Cognitive Radio Designs, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, fall 2011.
8. Sampathu, D., Implementation of Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizers (DDFS) using Legendre Polynomial Approximation, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, fall 2011.
9. Paravastu, N., Mobile Cell Search and Synchronization in LTE, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, fall 2011.
10. Peri, S., An Ajax-Based Communication Among Users of a Course Management System, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, summer 2011.
11. Limbachia, Sneh, Huffman Coding Based JavaScript Compression for AJAX Applications, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, summer 2011.
12. Dalal, N., Experimental Approach in Measuring Flame Spread Rate, Master's Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2011.
13. Neergund, V., Iterative Successive Interference Cancellation Scheme to Remove Multiuser Interference Due to Carrier Frequency Offsets in OFDMA Uplink, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2011.
14. Sahasrabudhe, S., A Load Balancing Scheme for ebXMLRegistries, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, spring 2011.
15. Shetty, P., Circle Detection in Images, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2011.
16. Vishwanath, H., Morphological Transformation Based Feature Extraction and its Application to License Plate Localization, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2011.
17. Malhotra, V., FPGA Based Geometric Measurement of Facial Features, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2011.
18. Kannepalli, S., Smart Slice Prioritization in H.264 AVC, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2011.
19. George, A., Supersonic Tandem Wedge Flow in Extreme Ground Effect, Aerospace Engineering, spring 2011.
20. Ngo, A., A Novel AJAX User Interface for Telerobotic Control, Computer Science, San Diego State University, fall 2010.
21. Khadse, S., An AJAX Based Editor for an Online Repository of Engineering Problems and Solutions, Computer Science, San Diego State University, fall 2010.
22. Barrios, L., Real-Time Control of a Multi-Fingered Robot Hand Using EMG Signals, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, summer 2010.
23. Zheng, W., Minimax optimization algorithm to design a Square-root Nyquist Filter, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2010.
24. Fuhrer, N., The S-Transform: Applications in Music Recognition, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2010.
25. Johnson, C. H., A Rich Internet Application for Gas Turbine Engine Simulations, Master's Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2010.
26. Desmond, R. R., An Adaptable Active Load Test Fixture for Space Vehicle Transponder Power Supplies, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2010.
27. Haddad, D., Implementation Techniques of Frequency Domain Equalizer for Single Carrier OFDMA System, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2010.
28. Patterson, M., Web Service Based Tool for Combustion Equilibrium Calculation, Master's Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University, fall 2009.
29. Seligman, E. P., Solutions for Network Security in a Virtualized Environment, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, fall 2009.
30. Gregorich, N. A., Audio frequency shifting on FPGA, Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2009.
31. Chowdhury, F., A Wiki-Enriched Dynamic Help System for an AJAX-based Web Application, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, spring 2009.
32. Natatajan, S., An Adaptive Streaming Video Infrastructure for a Wireless iRobot Create Platform, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, spring 2009.
33. Alonso, J. C., An XML-based Testing Framework for Thermodynamic Applications, Master's Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University, spring 2009.
34. Chen, Q., An AJAX-Based Mail User Agent (MUA) for Course Management Systems, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, fall 2008.
35. Bhatt, P., A Dynamic Database Driven Approach for Loading JavaScript using the XMLHttpRequest API, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, fall 2008.
36. Soni, R. P., An AJAX Enabled Web Spreadsheet, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, fall 2008.
37. Jain, H. B., A Web Service Based Testing Framework for Thermodynamic Data, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, spring 2008.
38. Chan, W. W., A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Model for Performing Chemical Equilibrium Analysis in a Distributed Framework by Consuming Java-based Equilibrium Web Services, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, fall 2007.
39. Bobba, B. K. Sri Rama, Web Service Enabled Unit Converter - A Framework for Distributed Community Computing, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, summer 2007.
40. Surana, P., Java Application for Finding the Optimum Solution for Thermodynamic Equilibrium, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, spring 2007.
41. Devalia, B. V., Preliminary Implementation of Thermochemical Data Web Services, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, San Diego State University, fall 2006.