Professional Experience:

Julio E. Ibarra, PhD, is the Assistant Vice President for Technology Augmented Research at Florida International University (FIU). Dr. Ibarra is responsible for furthering the mission of the Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) – to contribute to the pace and the quality of research at FIU through the application of advanced Cyberinfrastructure. He is responsible for strategic planning and development of advanced research networking services, including the development and management of the AMPATH International Exchange Point for Research and Education networks. He is the Principal Investigator of multiple National Science Foundation International Research Networks Connection awards, involving the design and implementation of high-throughput international network connections to enhance U.S. e- science initiatives in Latin America, and the Caribbean.

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Professional Preparation:

Florida International University
B.S. in Computer Science, 1983

Florida International University
M.S. in Computer Science, 1995

University of Twente, Netherlands
Ph.D. in Telematics and Information Technology, 2012

Appointments:

2014-Present Adjunct Professor, School of Computer and Information Sciences
2008-Present Assistant VP, Technology Augmented Research, CIARA
2005-2008 Executive Director, CIARA
2002-2005 Director, CIARA
1998-2002 Director, Network Engineering and Telecommunications
1994-1998 Associate Director, Department of Telecommunications

Selected Publications/Presentations:

Chung, J., Donovan, S., Bezerra, J., Morgan, H., Ibarra, J., Clark, R., and Owen, H. 2019. "Novel Network Services for Supporting Big Data Science Research," Future Generation Computer Systems (98), pp. 512-521 Paper pdf

Bezerra, J., Ibarra, J., Boertjes, D., Santillo, F., Williford, L., Morgan, H., Cox, C., and Lopez, L. 2019. "Mitigating Soft Failures Using Network Analytics and SDN to Support Distributed Bandwidth-Intensive Scientific Instruments over International Networks," in: SubOptic Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA. Paper pdf

Morgan, H., Ibarra, J., Bezerra, J., Lopez, L.F., Chergarova, V., Cox III, D.A., Alvarez, G.E., Stanton, M., Hazin, A., Lotz, L. and Mammen, S., "AARCLight–New opportunities for South Atlantic R&E Network collaboration between Africa, Brazil, and the US". Presented at UbuntuNet-Connect Conference 2018 Zanzibar, Tanzania, November 22-23, 2018. https://events.ubuntunet.net/event/16/contributions/149/ Paper pdf

Newman, H., Balcas, J., Putaswamy, S., Vlimant, J.-R., Pata, J., Iordache, C., Anderson, S., Chang, J., Boyd, D., Watanabe, L., Williams, D. S., Anderson, C., Mughal, A., Kantor, J., Kollross, M., Ibarra, J., Bezerra, J., Arcanjo, V., Zahir, A., Morgan, H., Yang, R., Xiang, Q., Zhang, J., Wang, X. T., Guo, D., Yu, D., Wang, M., Leet, C., Chen, S., Le, F., Lim, Y.-S., Pourbaix, Y. D., Mishra, V., Lehman, T., Yang, X., Defanti, T., Smarr, L., Graham, J., Hutton, T., Wuerthwein, F., Papadopoulos, P., Monga, I., Guok, C., Macauley, J., Sim, A., Hazen, D., Novaes, S., Iope, R., Leal, B., Gomes, M., Beruchi, A., Mambretti, J., Chen, J., Szalay, A., Malenstein, G. V., Demar, P., Winkler, L., Mckee, S., Yeh, E., Ranliu, Papadopoulos, C., Shannigrahi, S., Zhang, L., Jashal, B., Mazumdar, K., Reese, D., John Hess, L. F., Lopez, L., Stanton, M., Moura, A., Jaque, S., Astudillo, A., Lyonnais, M., Wilson, R., Wilby, N. & Williford, L. "NRE-16: Global Petascale to Exascale Science Workflows Accelerated by Next Generation SDN Architectures and Applications". Demonstration at Supercomputing Conference 2018 (SC18). Dallas, TX, November 12-15, 2018. https://sc18.supercomputing.org/experience/scinet/network-research-exhibition/ Paper pdf

Newman, H., Balcas, J., Putaswamy, S., Vlimant, J.-R., Pata, J., Lordache, C., Anderson, S., Anderson, C., Mughal, A., Kantor, J., Ibarra, J., Bezerra, J., Arcanjo, V., Zahir, A., Morgan, H., Defanti, T., Smarr, L., Graham, J., Hutton, T., Wuerthwein, F., Papadopoulos, P., Monga, I., Guok, C., Macauley, J., Novaes, S., Iope, R., Leal, B., Gomes, M., Beruchi, A., Mambretti, J., Reese, D., Hess, J., Fox, L., Lopez, L., Stanton, M., Moura, A., Jaque, S., Astudillo, A., Lyonnais, M., Wilson, R., Wilby, N. & Williford, L., "NRE-17: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Real Time Low Latency Transfers for Scientific Processing Demonstrations". Demonstration at Supercomputing Conference 2018 (SC18). Dallas, TX, November 12-15, 2018. https://sc18.supercomputing.org/experience/scinet/network-research-exhibition/ Paper pdf

Newman, H., Morgan, H., Ibarra, J., Cox, D., & Bezerra, J., "NRE-18: Americas Lightpaths Express and Protect Enhances Infrastructure for Research and Education". Demonstration at Supercomputing Conference 2018 (SC18). Dallas, TX, November 12-15, 2018. https://sc18.supercomputing.org/experience/scinet/network-research-exhibition/ Paper pdf

Chung, J., Donovan, S., Bezerra, J., Morgan, H., Ibarra, J., Clark, R., & Owen, H., "Novel Network Services for Supporting Big Data Science Research". Presented at Gateways 2017, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October 23-25, 2017. https:// gateways2017.figshare.com/ Paper pdf

Chung, J., Donovan, S., Bezerra, J., Morgan, H., Ibarra, J., Clark, R., & Owen, H., "Novel Network Services for Supporting Big Data Science Research". Presented at Gateways 2017, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October 23-25, 2017. https:// gateways2017.figshare.com/ Poster pdf

Bezerra, J., Arcanjo, V., Ibarra, J., Kantor, J., Lambert, R., Kollross, M., Astudillo, A., Sobhani,S., Jaque, S., Petravick, D., Morgan, H., Lopez, L., "International Networking in support of Extremely Large Astronomical Data-centric Operations". Presented at Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS XXVII) conference, Santiago, Chile, October 22-26, 2017. http://www.adass.org/ pdf

Bezerra, J., Ibarra, J., Schwarz, M., Freitas, H., Morgan, H., “Mitigating the Risks of Supporting Multiple Control Plans in a Production SDN Network: A Use Case”, In Anais do SBRC/WPEIF 2017, Belem, PA, Brazil, (p.34-37)

Galiza, H., Schwarz, M., Bezerra, J. and Ibarra, J., “Moving an IP network to SDN: a global use case deployment experience at AmLight”. Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC) Workshop on Future Internet Research and Experimentation (WPEIF), pages 15-18, Salvador Bahia Brazil, June 2016

Bezerra, J., Galiza, H., Ibarra, J. and Schwarz, M., “AmLight’s OpenFlow Sniffer dissected: Troubleshooting production networks”, Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC) Workshop on Future Internet Research and Experimentation (WPEIF), pages 33-36, Salvador Bahia Brazil, June 2016

J. Chung, J. Cox, J. Ibarra, J. Bezerra, H. Morgan, R. Clark, and H. Owen, "AtlanticWave-SDX: An International SDX to Support Science Data Applications," in Software Defined Networking (SDN) for Scientific Networking Workshop, Nov. 2015, pp. 1-7.

Julio Ibarra, Jeronimo Bezerra, Heidi Alvarez,Donald A. Cox, III, Michael Stanton, Iara Machado, and Eduardo Grizendi: "Benefits brought by the use of OpenFlow/SDN in the AmLight intercontinental research and education network" ,IM 2015 - 14th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management, Ottawa, Canada, 11-15 May, 2015

Alvarez, Heidi L., Cox Donald A., Ibarra, Julio E. “Openwave: Collaboration Between Industry and Government”, Managing Critical Infrastructure in a Changing Natural and Socio-Economic Environment, 2014 ICPC Plenary Meeting , Dubai, 18-20 March,2014

J. Ibarra, "Impact of e-Infrastructure Stimulus on the Biodiversity Science Discipline: An Empirical Investigation", PhD thesis, July 2012.

C. Zhang, B. Liu, X. Su, H. Alvarez and J. Ibarra, "Integrating Heterogeneous Network Monitoring Data", Telecommunication Systems (Springer), vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 71-84, March 2008.

C. Zhang, B. Liu, X. Su, H. Alvarez and J. Ibarra, "An Experimental Approach to Integrating NetFlow Flow-level Records and NLANR Packet-level Traces", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (IEEE Computer Society Press), Silicon Valley, July 2007.

C. Zhang, B. Liu, X. Su, H. Alvarez and J. Ibarra, "An Approach to Integrating NetFlow Flow-level Records and NLANR Packet-level Traces", US Provisional Patent (serial no. 60/937,687), Florida International University (invention disclosure IP-0704), filed June 29, 2007.

H. Alvarez, J. Ibarra, K. Kumar,C. Zhang, et. al., "CyberBridges: Integrating Advanced Grid Infrastructure with Science and Engineering", Proceedings of the TeraGrid Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2007.

H. Alvarez, D. Chatfield, D. Cox, E. Crumpler, C. DCunha, R. Gutierrez, J. Ibarra, E. Johnson, K. Kumar, T. Milledge, G. Narasimhan, M. Sadjadi, and C. Zhang, "Cyberbridges: A Model Collaboration Infrastructure for e-Science", Proceedings of the the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007 E.

Rubi, X. Su, I. Legrand, H. Alvarez, J. Ibarra, “Anatomy of an International Exchange Point: Distributed Network Monitoring Using MonALISA and NetFlow”, InterWorking 2006 Conference, Santiago, Chile.

H. Alvarez, J. Ibarra, “Experiences with the Digital Divide in Latin America”, 2003 Round Table on Developing Countries Access to Scientific Knowledge, The Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy, http://www.ejds.org/meeting2003/

Synergistic Activities:

Florida LambdaRail Board
Southeast Universities Research Association (SURA) IT Committee
Latin American University Research and Education Networks Foundation Board
South American Astronomy Coordination Committee (SAACC)

Collaborators And Other Affiliations:

Casasus, Carlos; CUDI, Cox, Donald C.; Vanderbilt University, de Laat, Cees, University of Amsterdam, Chung, Joaquin; GeorgiaTech, Clark, Russell; GeorgiaTech, Fox, Luis; CENIC, Grizendi, Eduardo; RNP Sao Paulo, Morgan, Heidi; FIU CIARA, Johnson, Eric; FIU SCIC, Kantor, Jeff; LSST, Lara, Alejandro; REUNA, Liu, Jason, FIU SCIC, Lopez, Luis; USP Sao Paulo, Machado, Iara; RNP and UFF Rio de Janeiro, Newman, Harvey; Caltech Physics, Rodriguez, Jorge; FIU Physics, Rodriguez, Raúl Rivera; CICESE, Smith, Chris; AURA, Smith, Colleen Wint; CKLN, Stanton, Michael; RNP and UFF Rio de Janeiro, Utreras, Florencio; RedCLARA, Vallalon, Salma Jalife; CUDI.

Graduate And Postgraduate Advisor:

David Barton and John Comfort, School of Computer Science, Florida International University.

Kuldeep Kumar, Professor of Business, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands and Ryder Eminent Scholar, FIU