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Cho Group
Wake Forest University
Department of Physics
Department of Computer Science
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
choss@wfu.edu

    • Group Picture, 2013: (left to right) Sam, Adam, Julian, Jessica, Cody, Andrew, Rongzhong.

    • Alex Mackerell Colloquium, 2013: (left to right) Jessica, Andrew, Alex, Cody, Rongzhong, Sam.

    • Inaugural GPU Programming Class, 2011.

    • Google CS4HS Computational Thinking @ Wake Workshop for Teachers, 2012.

    • Group Picture, 2012: (left to right) Andrew, Paul, Tyson, Sam, Rongzhong, Anqi.

    Recent News:

    2013

    • May, 2013: Andrew successfully defends his Computer Science Dept. Master's Defense (link).
    • May, 2013: Julian joins the group. Welcome!
    • April, 2013: Adam is awarded a Wake Forest Research Fellowship (link).
    • March, 2013: Cody is awarded a Wake Forest University Center for Molecular Communication and Signaling Research Fellowship (link).
    • March, 2013: Google's CS4HS program selects Sam's proposal for developing a second computational thinking workshop for teachers (link).
    • January, 2013: Alex Mackerell (University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy) visits the group and gives a joint Physics and Chemistry Department colloquium. His visit is highlighted in Wake Forest University's, Old Gold and Black student newspaper (link).
    • January, 2013: Jessica joins the group. Welcome!
    • January, 2013: Adam joins the group. Welcome!
    • January, 2013: Cody joins the group. Welcome!

    2012

    • December, 2012: Andrew's, Tyson's, and Anqi's paper entitled, "Performance Analyses of a Parallel Verlet Neighbor List Algorithm for GPU-Optimized MD Simulations", receives the Best Paper Award at the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Computing (link). Only the top 7.5% of submitted manuscripts were accepted, and there was only one "best".
    • December, 2012: Andrew's poster entitled, "Performance Analyses of a Parallel Verlet Neighbor List Algorithm for GPU-Optimized MD Simulations", is competitively selected for presentation at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, CA (March, 2013) (link).
    • October, 2012: Tyson's and Anqi's paper is highlighted in GPU Science (link).
    • October, 2012: Tyson's and Anqi's paper, "Parallel Verlet neighbor list algorithm for GPU-optimized MD simulations" is published (link).
    • October, 2012: Rongzhong gives a talk to the Wake Forest University Center for Molecular Communcation and Signaling (link) Fall Retreat (link).
    • September, 2012: Tyson's thesis is mentioned in NVIDIA's CUDA Week in Review Newsletter (link).
    • September, 2012: Fox 8 News profiles the Wake@Hanes Computational Thinking Workshop (link). Andrew is interviewed.
    • September, 2012: The Wake@Hanes Computational Thinking Workshop (link) is profiled by Wake Forest University (link). Andrew is interviewed for the article.
    • August, 2012: Sam's NSF (CBET) proposal in collaboration with the research group of Pu-Chun Ke (Clemson Univ.) (link) is funded.
    • August, 2012: Wake Forest University is selected as CUDA Research Center by NVIDIA, Corp. (press release).
    • August, 2012: Mashable (link) and the Huffington Post (link) selects Wake Forest University as one of the "Top 10 Colleges for Tech" and specifically highlights our recent Wake@Hanes Computational Thinking Workshop.
    • August, 2012: The Inaugural Google-sponsored Wake@Hanes Computational Thinking Workshop for Teachers (link). Student volunteers included our own Andrew, Anqi, and Heming.
    • June, 2012: News of our group's research is #4 on the ranking of top 10 Wake Forest sciences research stories of the 2011-2012 academic year (link).
    • May, 2012: Heming Ge visits the group for the summer, and he is supported through the Wake Forest University Center for Molecular Communication and Signaling (link). Welcome!
    • May, 2012: Our group's research is profiled in the Charlotte Observer (link) and News & Observer (link), North Carolina's largest and second largest newspapers, respectively.
    • April, 2012: Tyson successfully defends his Computer Science Dept. Master's Defense (link).
    • April, 2012: Anqi decides to attend Georgia Tech's Master's Program in Computational Science and Engineering.
    • April, 2012: Google's CS4HS program selects Sam's proposal for developing workshop for a computational thinking workshop for teachers from Hanes Middle School.
    • February, 2012: Anqi's and Tyson's poster entitled, "Single vs. Double Precision MD Simulations: Correlation is Length-Scale Dependent", is competitively selected for presentation at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, CA (May, 2012) (link).
    • February, 2012: Fox 8 News profiles our research group. Tyson is interviewed (link).
    • February, 2012: Anqi profiled by Old Gold and Black, Wake Forest University's Student Newspaper (link).
    • February, 2012: Anqi profiled by Wake Forest University (link).
    • February, 2012: Our group's research is profiled on Wired.co.uk (link).
    • February, 2012: Andrew Proctor joins the group. Welcome!

    2011

    • December, 2011: Sam's paper in collaboration with coworkers from University of Maryland and Zhejiang University (China) (link) is highlighted by the Journal of the American Chemical Society (link).
    • December, 2011: Anqi Zou joins the group. Welcome!
    • November, 2011: Sam writes a commentary in the journal Structure with WFU Physics Professor Martin Guthold (link) on the paper, "Mechanism of Fibrin(ogen) Forced Unfolding" by Barsegov and co-workers (link).
    • September, 2011: Rongzhong Li joins the group. Welcome!
    • July, 2011: Tyson's poster entitled, "GPU-Based Molecular Dynamic Simulations Optimized with CUDPP and CURAND Libraries", is competitively selected for presentation at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, CA (May, 2012) (link).
    • May, 2011: Sam is awarded by the Wake Forest University Science Research Fund.
    • March, 2011: Wake Forest University is selected as CUDA Teaching Center by NVIDIA, Corp. (press release).
    • Jan, 2011: Tyson Lipscomb joins the group. Welcome!

    2010

    • July, 2010: The group starts today. Great things are going to happen...