OSU Department of Biomedical Informatics

Justin D. Permar

Technical Manager

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Columbus, OH 43210


Justin Permar is a Technical Manager in the Software Research Institute (SRI) and Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI). He is the Operations Manager for the caGrid Knowledge Center (https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/CaGrid/KC), a resource funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The Knowledge Center’s mission is to provide comprehensive information resources and services to facilitate collaborative scientific research using caGrid.


Prior to his current effort, he supported the Cardiovascular Research Grid (CVRG), an effort funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (http://www.cvrgrid.org). The project aims to facilitate collaborative cardiovascular research by developing and deploying a research Grid. CVRG leverages the caGrid middleware widely used in the NCI’s Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG™) program. Justin was the lead for CVRG Grid development, which included the following tasks: requirements gathering and use case specification; core Grid service development; Grid testing and quality assurance; and creation and dissemination of documentation and presentations on the CVRG Grid infrastructure.


Shortly after joining BMI and SRI, Justin extended Globus GridFTP by adding an extensible plug-in architecture (http://www.cagrid.org/wiki/CaGrid:HowTos:BDT) to GridFTP that bridges GridFTP and the caGrid security infrastructure (GAARDS). The plug-in architecture extends GridFTP with additional authorization options (beyond the default GridFTP authorization mechanism, a gridmap file). Currently, the two functioning plug-ins include: 1) a database authorization plug-in (providing R/W access to files on a per-user basis), and 2) a Grid Grouper authorization plug-in (providing customizable Grid Grouper authorization checks).


Justin joined SRI and BMI after more than four years of research and development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory (MIT LL) in Lexington, MA. His research at MIT LL included distributed systems development and high-performance messaging-oriented middleware implementation applied to a radar control center modernization project.


Justin received a ScB degree in Computer Engineering with Honors from Brown University in 2002. His honors thesis research focused on engineering digital signal processing systems to capture and analyze neural signals in the motor cortex in support of neuroscience research.


Research

Project Involvement

Imaging Informatics

Multiscale Computing

Justin's research areas include the following: middleware; high-performance messaging; Grid infrastructure and applications support; and system-of-systems integration and interoperability.

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Presentations

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Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, Frank Siebenlist, Joshua Phillips, David W. Ervin, Justin D. Permar, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG™) Security Infrastructure", in Proceedings of 2007 AMIA Annual Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, 2007

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Tech Reports

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Tony C. Pan, Justin D. Permar, Stephen Langella, Ashish Sharma, Shannon L. Hastings, Scott Oster, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Benjamin Rutt, Metin N. Gurcan, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "Securing Data Access and Protecting Patient Privacy in Grid-Enabled Cancer Imaging Applications", Technical Report, No. OSUBMI_TR_2007_N05, Biomedical Informatics, 2007.


Publications

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Joel H. Saltz, Tahsin M. Kurc, Shannon L. Hastings, Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, David W. Ervin, Ashish Sharma, Tony C. Pan, Metin N. Gurcan, Justin D. Permar, Renato A. Ferreira, Philip R. Payne, Umit V. Catalyurek, Enrico Caserta, Gustavo Leone, M. Ostrowski, Ravi Madduri, Ian Foster, Subhashree Madhavan, Kenneth H Buetow, Krishnakant Shanbhag, Eliot Siegel, "e-Science, caGrid, and Translational Biomedical Research", IEEE Computer, 41 (11) : pp. 58-66, November, 2008.

Joel H. Saltz, Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, Stephen Langella, Renato A. Ferreira, Justin D. Permar, Ashish Sharma, David W. Ervin, Tony C. Pan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Tahsin M. Kurc, "Translational research design templates, Grid computing, and HPC", IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing., : pp. 1-15, June, 2008.

Stephen Langella, Shannon L. Hastings, Scott Oster, Tony C. Pan, Ashish Sharma, Justin D. Permar, David W. Ervin, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "Sharing Data and Analytical Resources Securely in a Biomedical Research Grid Environment", Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 15 (3) : pp. 363-373, March, 2008.

Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, Frank Siebenlist, Joshua Phillips, David W. Ervin, Justin D. Permar, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Security Infrastructure", Proceedings of the 2007 AMIA Annual Symposium, November, 2007.

Presentations

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Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, Frank Siebenlist, Joshua Phillips, David W. Ervin, Justin D. Permar, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG™) Security Infrastructure", in Proceedings of 2007 AMIA Annual Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, 2007

Tech Reports

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Joel H. Saltz, Shannon L. Hastings, Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, David W. Ervin, Ashish Sharma, Tony C. Pan, Metin N. Gurcan, Subhashree Madhavan, Ravi Madduri, Enrico Caserta, Justin D. Permar, Renato A. Ferreira, Philip R. Payne, Umit V. Catalyurek, Gustavo Leone, M. Ostrowski, Kenneth H Buetow, Krishnakant Shanbhag, Eliot Siegel, Ian Foster, Tahsin M. Kurc, "e-Science, caGrid, and Translational Biomedical Research", Technical Report, No. OSUBMI_TR_2008_n01, Biomedical Informatics, 2008.

Tony C. Pan, Justin D. Permar, Stephen Langella, Ashish Sharma, Shannon L. Hastings, Scott Oster, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Benjamin Rutt, Metin N. Gurcan, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "Securing Data Access and Protecting Patient Privacy in Grid-Enabled Cancer Imaging Applications", Technical Report, No. OSUBMI_TR_2007_N05, Biomedical Informatics, 2007.


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