Member Profile: Jan E. Odegard
Username: odegard
Contact: odegard@rice.edu
Affiliation:
Rice University
Preferred Language: English
Alternative Languages: Norwegian
Location: Houston, Texas
Author of: 1 Module and 1 Course (view statistics)
Maintainer of: 42 Modules (view statistics)
Coauthors: Amy Kavalewitz
Maker of: 1 Lens
- Biography:
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Jan E. Odegard joined Rice University in 2002 as the Executive Director for the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology (formerly Computer and Information Technology Institute). In the role of Executive Director Dr. Odegard supports a community of over 130 faculty members affiliated with the Ken Kennedy Institute (K2I) helping to build cross disciplinary strategic research partnerships, develop industry collaborations and manage Rice’s computational Cyberinfrastructure in support of research. Since joining K2I he helped initiated and coordinates two internal seed funding programs supporting HPC in biomedicine and information technology collaboration supporting broader scholarship. Dr. Odegard co-edited Rice's roadmap for information technology entitled “Information Science and Technology as a Universal Enabler.” In addition to his role as Executive Director of K2I he is also managing the Gulf Coast Center for Computational Cancer Research (GC4R), collaboration between Rice University, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine.
Since 2002 Dr. Odegard has represented Rice with the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) and served on the executive committee for High Performance Computing Across Texas (HiPCAT). From 2002-2004 Dr. Odegard served on the board of the Texas GigaPOP participating in the creation and transition of the Lonestar Education And Research Network (LEARN). Dr. Odegard coordinated and hosted Rice’s exhibit at the annual SC Conference since 2002 and at the 2008 Conference initiated the Open Education Cup, an effort to stimulate the high performance computing community join forces and develop an Open Educational Repository for parallel computing content for teachers and learners. He is also a member of the EDUCAUSE Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CCI) steering committee, served as a member of the organizing committee for the CASC/CCI joint workshop on “Developing a Coherent Cyberinfrastructure from Local Campus to National Facilities: Challenges and Strategies.” He is also working with the Energy industry to host a series of annual Oil and Gas HPC Workshops.
Before joining Rice he held a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Stavanger, Norway, and served as the Department Chair 2000-2001. During 1996-1997 he was the Executive Director of the Computational Mathematics Laboratory and research associate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice and from 1997 to 1999 he served as the founding Executive Director of the Center for Multimedia Communication at Rice. Dr. Odegard received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice in 1996, M.Sc. (1990) and B.Sc. (1987) in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a degree in Electrical Engineering from Telemark College of Engineering, Porsgrunn, Norway in 1986.
Dr. Odegards primary research interests are in signal and image processing and include wavelet theory, filter banks and time-frequency analysis with applications to geophysics, multimedia and telecommunication. He is also interested in research and development of open education and information systems. Odegard has in excess of forty international publications in his area of research.
He is a member of IEEE, ACM, CRA, ASEE, NORSIG, and SEG and is an elected member of the academic honor societies Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Kappa Phi.
