Nicholas Karonis

Chair
Professor

Psychology/Computer Science Building, room 460
karonis@niu.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Syracuse University

Areas of Interest

• High performance grid computing

Awards and Patents

• Gordon Bell Prize, 2001
• US Patent 11,813,105, 2023
• European Patent EP 3731760, 2023
• Hong Kong Patent 40039248, 2022
• China Patent ZL 201880083547.9, 2022
• Japanese Patent JP 6958794, 2021
• US Patent 10,918,350, 2021
• European Patent EP 2553493, 2016
• US Patent 9,140,810, 2015
• US Patent 8,766,180, 2014

Representative Publications

Google Scholar Profile

• "Particle-Tracking Proton Computed Tomography - Data Acquistion, Preprocessing, and Preconditioning," B. Schultze, P. Karbasi, C. Sarosiek, G. Coutrakon, C.E. Ordoñez, N.T. Karonis, K.L. Duffin, V.A. Bashkirov, R.P. Johnson, K.E. Schubert, and R.W. Schulte, IEEE Access, 2021, Vol 9, pp. 25946-25958.
• "Analysis of Characteristics of Images Acquired With a Prototype Clinical Proton Radiography System," C. Sarosiek, E.A. DeJongh, G. Coutrakon, D.F. DeJongh, K.L. Duffin, N. Karonis, C. Ordoñez, M. Pankuch, J.R. Winans, and J.S. Welsh, Medical Physics, 2021, Vol 48, Issue 2.
• "Clinical Sensitivity of a Prototype Proton Radiography System," M. Pankuch, E. DeJongh, C. Sarosiek, D. DeJongh, G. Coutrakon, J. Welsh, V. Rykalin, N. Karonis, C. Ordoñez, J. Winans, R.Schulte, W. Hartsell, International Journal of Particle Therapy, 2019, Vol 6, Issue 3, pp. 50.
• "Fast In Situ Image Reconstruction for Proton Radiography," C.E. Ordoñez, N.T. Karonis, K.L. Duffin, J.R. Winans, E.A. DeJongh, D.F. DeJongh, G. Coutrakon, N.F. Myers, M. Pankuch, and J.S. Welsh, Journal of Radiation Oncology, 2019.
• "Results from a Prototype Proton-CT Head Scanner," R.P. Johnson, V.A. Bashkirov, G. Coutrakon, V. Giacometti, P. Karbasi, N.T. Karonis, C.E. Ordoñez, H.F.-W. Sadrozinski, K.E. Schubert, and R.W. Schulte, Physics Procedia, October 2017, Vol 90, 2017, pp. 209-214.
• "Scalable pCT Image Reconstruction Delivered as a Cloud Service," R. Chard, R. Madduri, N. Karonis, K. Chard, K.L. Duffin, C.E. Ordoñez, T.D. Uram, J. Fleischauer, I.T. Foster, M.E. Papka, and J. Winans, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Vol 6. No. 1, July 16, 2015, pp. 182-195.
• "Distributed and Hardware Accelerated Computing for Clinical Medical Imaging Using Proton Computed Tomography (pCT)," N.T. Karonis, K.L. Duffin, C.E. Ordoñez, B. Erdelyi, T.D. Uram, E.C. Olson, G. Coutrakon, and M.E. Papka, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, December 2013, Volume 73, Issue 12, pp 1605-1612.
• "Simulating and Visualizing the Human Arterial System on the TeraGrid," S. Dong, J. Insley, N.T. Karonis, M. Papka, J. Binns, and G.E. Karniadakis, Future Generation of Computer Systems, vol. 22, no. 8, pp 1011-1017, 2006.
• "A Knowledge-Based Voting Algorithm for Automated Protein Functional Annotation," G.X. Yu, E.M. Glass, N.T. Karonis, and N. Maltsev, PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, vol. 61, pp 907-917, 2005.
• "MPICH-G2: A Grid-Enabled Implementation of the Message Passing Interface," N. Karonis, B. Toonen, and I. Foster, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 63, no. 5, pp 551-563, May 2003.
• "Supporting Efficient Execution in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Environments with Cactus and Globus," G. Allen, T. Dramlitsch, I. Foster, N. T. Karonis, M. Ripeanu, E. Seidel, and B. Toonen, Proceedings of SC01, Denver, CO, November 10-16, 2001, Gordon Bell Prize Winner.
• "Accurately Measuring MPI Broadcasts in a Computational Grid," B. de Supinksi and N. Karonis, Proceedings 8th IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-8), pp 29-37, Redondo Beach, CA, August 1999.
• "Wide-Area Implementation of the Message Passing Interface," I. Foster, J. Geisler, W. Gropp, N. Karonis, E. Lusk, G. Thiruvathukal, and S. Tuecke, Parallel Computing, 24(12):1735-1749, 1998
• "A Resource Management Architecture for Metacomputing Systems," K. Czajkowski, I. Foster, N. Karonis, C. Kesselman, S. Martin, W. Smith, and S. Tuecke, Proceedings 4th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, Springer-Verlag, pp 62-82, 1998.
• "A Secure Communications Infrastructure for High-Performance Distributed Computing," I. Foster, N. Karonis, C. Kesselman, G. Koenig, and S. Tuecke, Proceedings 6th IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-6), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp 125-136, 1997.