ICHEC Seminar 2007

Biography: Neil Chue Hong

Director OMII-UK

Neil Chue Hong is Director of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK (OMII-UK), a collaborative e-Science project between the University of Southampton, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Manchester.

OMII-UK seeks to provide sustainable software and solutions to the UK research community and its international collaborators by providing support, integrating components, improving and hardening software and working with the community to promote best practice. He is an member of the Open Grid Forum (OGF), where he is Chair of NomCom and active in a number of data area working groups. He leads the ENGAGE initiative to help UK research groups take better advantage of e-Infrastructure. He is on the advisory board of the nanoCMOS projects, and a member of the Globus Incubator Management Project for nurturing new grid software.

Before taking up his current position in September 2007 he was data programme manager at EPCC, based at the University of Edinburgh where he was responsible for the coordination of a number of data-centric grid and e-Science projects, including the successful OGSA-DAI software for interacting with data resources. Before this he worked as a consultant at EPCC providing software for various Scottish small to medium size companies (SMEs) in the area of machine vision and image processing, ranging from microelectronics to mushroom sorting. His original training was as a Computational Physicist and he has worked for Unilever in their business systems department. He has taught courses on Software Development and Scientific Visualisation. He is also an active member of the Scottish film community and promotes better access to films in all communities.