Johnnie W. Baker
RESEARCH AWARDS AND GRANT ACTIVITY
2011 In Preparation: Johnnie Baker (Co-PI) at Kent State, Frank Drews (Co-PI) at Ohio University,
Will Meilander (Consultant), Mike Yuan, A Solution to some Air Traffic Control (ATC) Problems using Associative
Computing and 4D Projection techniques, Will be submitted to FAA. Related proposals may be submitted to other
groups such as the Dept. of Defense.
2011 Participating in the KSU Proposal to FAA for a Center on Aviation Safety. The title of my research in this
project is under the title "NextGen 4-D Trajectory Management Projects.
2010 CI-TEAM Implementation Project: Creating a Shared Multi-disciplinary Program in Bioinformatics". National
Science Foundation. F. Drews (PI), Z-H. Dui, S.R. Gadagkar, S. Gordon, H. Piontkivska (co-PIs); J. Baker (colleague
in companion discipline). Amount requested $1,000,000 (KSU share $ 171,493 to support 2 Senior Personnel &
one BSCI GA for 3 years). Submitted April 27, 2010, Pending
2009 CPATH Project: Computational Thinking in Bioinformatics. National Science Foundation. L. Welch (PI, OU),
Z. Duan (Co-PI, UA), Steve Gordon (co-PI, OSC), H. Piontkivski (Co-PI, KSU); J. Baker (senior personnel). Amount
requested $792,080 (KSU share $172,083). Submitted April 26, 2009, Not funded
2008 Johnnie Baker and Shannon Steinfadt, Received two NVIDIA Tesla C870 parallel accelerator boards valued at
$3000 and two GeForce 8800 GT cards through NVIDIA's Professor Partnership program to support the research of my
Ph.D. student, Shannon Steinfadt.
2007 Johnnie Baker, Received research support award from ClearSpeed Technology in December 2007 of a ClearSpeed
Advance X620 parallel accelerator board valued at $6,500 and a $9,000 donation toward purchase of a software development
toolkit ($10,000 cost) to support ongoing research with my students involving real-time computing (air traffic
control) and genome sequence matching. Total value of gift was $15,500.
2007 Johnnie Baker, Received $4,627 from a departmental OBR Equipment grant to fund the purchase of a server to
house three boards listed in the next two research awards and also to purchase a ClearSpeed software development
kit at the reduced cost of $1,000.
2005 Johnnie Baker, Chun-che Tsai, Robert Walker, "Using Parallel Computing Systems to Develop a Molecular
Similarity Knowledgebase for Drug Design" OBR Research Challenge, October 2005, $60,000 for Jan'06 -Jan'07,
Not Funded
2004 Johnnie Baker, Chun-che Tsai, Robert Walker, "Accelerating Performance in Molecular Similarity Analysis
for Drug Design Using Parallel Computing Systems", OBR Research Challenge, OBR Research Challenge, October
2004, $60,000 for FY 05/06, Not Funded
2004 Johnnie Baker (PI), Jerry Potter, Chun-che Tsai, Robert Walker, Michael Kleeman (President of Assabet Ventures,
LLC), "Commercialization of Applications Using SIMD Data-Parallel Computers", Ohio Third Frontier Action
Fund, $1,910,021, funds requested for one year (2004), Joint request from Kent State University and Assabet Ventures
LLC, Proposed project is a joint collaboration between Kent State University and Assabet Ventures aimed at commercializing
the application of molecular data mining using SIMD data-parallel computers. Not funded.
2003-5 PI on OBR sponsored Ohio Line Item grant, "Computer Science Graduate Enhancement", joint with
CS/CSE Departments at OSU, UC, and WSU for $625,800 for each institution for both AY 2003-4 and AY2004-5. (KSU
PI on this grant.) Funded.
2003-4 Chun-che Tsai (Co-PI), Javed I. Khan (Co-PI), and Johnnie W. Baker (Co-PI), "A Computer-Assisted
Exploration and Visualization System for Molecular Design and Drug Discovery", 2003 Research Challenge Proposal
in category of Biotechnology/Bioinformatics/Biopreparedness, Requested $54,286. Not funded.
2003 Johnnie Baker (Co-PI), Chun-che Tsai (Co-PI), Robert Walker, Jerry Potter, "Using Clusters of Workstations
for Molecular Similarity Analysis with Applications in Drug Design", 2003 Research Challenge Proposal, $59,865
requested for 1 year. Not funded.
2003 Ray Hoare (PI) at University of Pittsburgh. Co-PIs were Professors Walker and Potter at KSU, Professors
Kourtev, and Curran of the University of Pittsburgh, Professors McHugh and Dietrich of the CERT Coordination Center
at CMU, and Professor Kobourov of the University of Arizona "Collaborative Research ITR: Efficient Searching
of Terabit Data Sets using Hardware: Applications to Network Security, VSLI Design Automation, and Air Traffic
Control" submitted to NSF as a "Medium ITR proposal" for $85,051. Not funded.
2002 Johnnie Baker and Jerry Potter, "Equipment for Associative Laboratory - Creating Cluster of 10 Zephyrs",
$10,000 proposal submitted to Department OBR Budget Committee for Competitive Equipment Grant, Approved December
20, 2002. Funded.
2002 Chun-che Tsai (PI), Johnnie Baker (Co-PI), Javed Khan (Co-PI), "Accelerating Drug Discovery using Cheminformatics",
Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge, $100,372 funds requested for 2 year period. Not funded.
2001-3 Johnnie Baker, Kent State PI, "Computer Science Graduate Enhancement", OBR sponsored Ohio Line
Item grant, joint with CS/CSE Departments at OSU, UC, and WSU for $774,857 for each institution for both AY 2001-2
and AY 2002-3. Funded.
2001 Johnnie W. Baker (Co-PI), Javed Khan (Co-PI), and Chun-che Tsai (Co-PI), "Accelerating Drug Discovery
with Cheminformatics: Integrated Molecular Modeling, Virtual Molecule Design, Chemical Information/Knowledge Mining
and Discovery", $100,876 requested for 2002-2003. Not funded.
1999 Johnnie Baker, Robert Walker and Jerry Potter Co-PIs at Kent State University, with Professor Wilsey at
University of Cincinnati and Professor Abu-Ghazaleh at SUNY Binghamton as subcontractors. "Effective Control-Parallel,
Data-Parallel Computing", Joint proposal in December to the National Science Foundation. Requested $930,985
over 3 years starting in 7/1/00. Not funded.
1998 Professor Phillip Wilsey (PI) at the University of Cincinnati with Professors Baker, Potter, and Walker
of KSU and Professor Abu-Ghazaleh at SUNY Binghamton as subcontractors. "PPIM: A Flexible Parallel Processing
in Memory System for Data Intensive Applications", Joint proposal in December for three years for $1,935,360
to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Evaluated as "selectable", but not funded due
to "Insufficient funds".
1998 Robert Walker (PI), Johnnie Baker (Co-PI), and Jerry Potter (Co-PI) at Kent State University and with Professor
Wilsey at University of Cincinnati and Professor Abu-Ghazaleh at SUNY Binghamton as subcontractors. "Architectures
for Effective Parallel Processing in Memory", Joint proposal in November to the National Science Foundation.
Not funded, but received reviews of Very Good, Good, Good-Fair, and Good-Fair.
1998 Profs. Jerry Potter and Robert Walker from Kent State University and Prof. Phillip Wilsey from University
of Cincinnati, A joint proposal to the Ohio Board of Regents CS Enhancement Initiative, "A Control Parallel,
Data Parallel Computer", Funded for $80,000 for a period of two years.
1997 Johnnie Baker, representative from Kent State University for a joint proposal for the enhancement of computer
science Ph.D. programs within Ohio. Submitted to the Ohio Board of Regents (OBR). The joint proposal was to the
OBR for $4,000,000 per year, with $1,000,000 annually for Kent State. The proposal was accepted by the OBR and
submitted to the State Legislature as a line item on the biennial higher education budget. Funded at the 50% level.
1997 Chun-che Tsai and Johnnie Baker, Proposal to Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc. for $6000 to support my student,
Paul Durand, for his continued work on the software for molecular modeling following the completion of his thesis
work. Funded.
1997 Chun-che Tsai (Co-PI) and Johnnie Baker (Co-PI), "Algorithms, Techniques, and Software Development
for Molecular Modeling", Joint proposal with Chun-che Tsai from Dept. of Chemistry, OBR Research Challenge
Grant. Not funded.
1997 "Design of Parallel and Distributed Computational Tools for Physical/Life Sciences", joint proposal
with Case Western Reserve, Cleveland State, and University of Akron. Not funded.
1997 "PADNet - Statewide Parallel and Distributed Network", $1,873,285 joint proposal with University
of Cincinnati, Cleveland State University, Miami University, Ohio State University, Wright State University, to
OBR Investment Fund Competition. Not funded.
1996 Jerry Potter (PI) and Johnnie Baker (Co-PI), "Heterogeneous Distributed Associative Computer",
proposal submitted to NSF Petaflop Computing Design, New Technologies Program, Division of Advanced Scientific
Computing, NSF 96-38. Not funded.
1992 Jerry Potter was PI and all CS faculty participated. I contributed featured research projects and helped
develop proposal for "Problem-Solving Environment with Heterogeneous Computing". Proposal submitted to
NSF CISE Small Scale Institutional Infrastructure Program for $1,822,467. Received site visit. My students and
I contributed three posters on research to poster presentation. Received report in July 1992 stating we were in
top five and would probably be funded. Not funded due to unexpected cutbacks in NSF funds.
1990 I wrote a proposal for purchasing a parallel SIMD Computer for use in both undergraduate education and research.
This was funded with competitive funds the university set aside to purchase equipment that supported undergraduate
education and was used to purchase a WaveTracer parallel SIMD computer, which provided many years of support for
both undergraduate education and departmental research. Funded
1981-82 PIs: Richard S. Varga and Paul S. Wang wrote grant for summer support to support research on applications
of numerical analysis and computer symbolic computation. I was funded to work on proposed research. Funding Information:
DOE Grant DE-AS02-76ER02075.
1978 Summer Research Appointment, Kent State University
1976 Joe Diestel (PI), Johnnie Baker and Charles Cleaver Co-PIs, Grant to cover cost of conference cost including
summer support for Diestel, Baker, and Cleaver as Co-Directors for the conference, Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions,
Kent State University.
1974 Summer Research Appointment, Kent State University
1970 Summer Research Grant, Florida State University