RESEARCH INTERESTS
Patrick O. Bobbie earned
the Ph.D., Computer Science, in 1986 from the University of Southwestern
Louisiana. His research focus is on distributed software engineering,
algorithm design, parallel computing, and modeling and
graphics/visualization. Areas of applications of his research are in AI in
software requirements engineering, scientific database visualization,
embedded software modeling, and simulations in virtual/synthetic
environments.
He expanded his partitioning and algorithm design research to incorporate
high performance computations in bioscientific databases (DNA/Protein
Sequencing and macromolecular modeling). He established a computational lab
of several SGI workstations running PVM, MPI & Sybyl (modeling software from
Tripos, Inc.) applications to support the bioscientific research, while on
the faculty at the Florida A&M Univ.
His research on software requirements has based on a suite of algorithms and
tools for developing formal, logic-based specification with the goal of
automatically generating parallel/distributed software.
Dr. Bobbie spent a summer period at the Army Waterways Experiment Station
(WES), Vicksburg, MS, from May 15 to June 9, 1995, researching parallel
algorithm implementation techniques for geometric modeling and visualization
of molecular structures. This work was conducted at the DoD HPC Scientific
Visualization Center of the WES-ITL laboratory on SGI graphics workstations
and a 64-node nCUBE supercomputer.
He was the director of the Advanced Distributed Simulation Research Project
(supported by the US Army Research Office), where he researched
phenomenological problems associated with battlefield simulation and
visualization in the ADSRC Graphics and Visualization Lab. In particular,
the lab supported modeling and implementation of entities, e.g., fire,
smoke, and clouds in simulated environments like virtual battlefield. He was
also the network coordinator for the computer-based molecular modeling
laboratory in collaboration with the research faculty of the College of
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Florida A&M Univ., in a drug discovery
research effort sponsored by the National Institute of Health (NIH).
He worked with the Yamacraw Research group on Embedded Software modeling
at Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA. He researched
methods and techniques for extending UML-based languages as well
as methodologies for processing intermediate model representations in XML/XMI
to support embedded real-time software model verification.
He is currently the Director of the NSF-sponsored Community-based Partnership for Research and Education (COPIRE) project, researching methodologies, techniques, and tools for embedded software for parallel systems, with emphasis in telemedicine applications and robotic systems. The COPIRE project has impacted over sixty students from area high school magnet programs, and undergraduates and graduate students at SPSU since its inception in 2002.
Bobbie is also the campus coordinator of the recently NSF-funded Peach-State Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (PS-LSAMP) program, which supports about 100 undergraduate students majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The PS-LSAMP is a five-year project funded at nearly $5m for Y2005-2010.