Februrary 2014 - New Employee Profiles

February 1, 2014

You-Wei Cheah, Advanced Computing for Sciences

You-Wei Cheah

As the newest Computer Systems Engineer in the Computational Research Division’s (CRD’s) Advanced Computing for Sciences Department, You-Wei Cheah will be working on projects related to the Department of Energy’s Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI).

Before coming to Berkeley Lab, Cheah was a research assistant at the Data to Insight Center at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he created a framework to evaluate the quality of data provenance traces, implemented a query for the Karma provenance service (a popular open source provenance collection tool), and developed new search capabilities for Query Mediator (a search mediator for Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery), among other things.

Although Cheah is new to CRD, he is no stranger to Berkeley Lab. As a participant in Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences’ Summer Student Program in 2012, Cheah worked with Lavanya Ramakrishnan and Shane Cannon to build a provenance collection and query framework for use on NERSC systems. Before that he collaborated with Berkeley Water Center on extending the capabilities of MODISAzure, as a research intern in Microsoft Research’s eScience Group. Berkeley Lab researchers in the ACS department have been longtime members of the Berkeley Water Center collaboration.

A native of Malaysia, Cheah came to the United States to continue his education at Indiana University, Bloomington where he earned a Bachelors degree in mathematics and computer science, and a PhD in computer science. In his free time, Cheah likes to ice-skate and hike.

About Computing Sciences at Berkeley Lab

High performance computing plays a critical role in scientific discovery. Researchers increasingly rely on advances in computer science, mathematics, computational science, data science, and large-scale computing and networking to increase our understanding of ourselves, our planet, and our universe. Berkeley Lab’s Computing Sciences Area researches, develops, and deploys new foundations, tools, and technologies to meet these needs and to advance research across a broad range of scientific disciplines.