Ian Cottingham

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

220 Schorr Center, 1101 T Street

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lincoln, NE 68588

Phone (402) 472-3835 Fax (402) 472-3153

icottingham2@unl.edu

 

Professional Preparation

Institution	Major(s)	Degree	Year
University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Computer Science/German	B.S.	2002
University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Computer Science	M.S.	2009
University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Computer Science	Ph.D.	2014 (Planned)

 

Appointments

Years	Position and Institution
2009 – Present	President, Red Brain inc.
2009 – Present	Director, Computing Innovation Group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska -Lincoln
2003 – 2012	Chief Software Architect, Laboratory for Advanced Research Computing, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska -Lincoln
2003 – 2007	President, OrangePeel inc.
2002 – 2005	Special Topics Lecturer, Jeffery S. Raikes School for Computer Science and Management (formerly JD Edwards Honors Program) Design Studio
1998 – 2002	Development Lead (1998 - 2000), IBM Global Services Business Enablement Solutions, Knowledge Management. Development Lead (2000 -2002) IBM Global Services Business Innovation Services

 

Publications

A Service Oriented Architecture for Data-Driven Decision Support Systems, I.J. Cottingham, Masters Thesis, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2009.

Using Web 2.0 and ESIR for Rich Climate Analysis. X. Wu, I.J. Cottingham. August 2008. ESRI Users Conference.

A Value Based Caching Framework for Data Driven Distributed Systems. B. Prabhakar, I. J. Cottingham, S. Goddard. March 2005. JBoss World 2005.

Digital government: reviving the newhall simulation model to understand the patterns and trends of soil climate regimes and drought events. W. J. Waltman, S. Goddard, S. E. Reichenbach, G. Gu, I. J. Cottingham, J. S. Peake, T. Tadesse, S. K. Harms, J. S. Deogun May 2004 dg.o '04: Proceedings of the 2004 annual national conference on Digital government research

Demonstration of the National Agricultural Decision Support System. I. J. Cottingham, S. Goddard, S. Zhang, X. Wu, K. Lu, A. Rutledge, W. J. Waltman May 2004 dg.o '04: Proceedings of the 2004 annual national conference on Digital government research

Digital Government: new tools to define terroirs and viticultural areas in the northern great plains. W. J. Waltman, S. Goddard, P. E. Read, S. E. Reichenbach, I. J. Cottingham, J. S. Peake May 2004 dg.o '04: Proceedings of the 2004 annual national conference on Digital government research

 

Synergistic Activities

1.     Cottingham is CO-PI on a NEH JISC award which provides funding for the development of software for spatio-temporal correlation and analysis of historical US railroad and news paper data from the 19th century. 

2.     Cottingham serves as President of Red Brain inc., a UNL faculty startup corporation formed to facilitate intellectual property transfer and commercialization activities for grant funded research projects.

3.     Cottingham leads the UNL CSCE Renaissance Computing Initiative focusing on the integration of computing best practices to form collaborative interdisciplinary research teams.

4.     Cottingham directs the UNL CSCE development team focused on the creation of a cyberinfrastructure for unified access and interaction with federated genomic and phylogenetic databases. (NSF 0743783)

5.     Cottingham leads the software development partnership, funded in part by the National Institute of Health, between the Computing Innovation Group and University of Nebraska State Museum to develop mobile device software to assist teens in learning about viruses. (NSF R25RR024267-01)

6.     Cottingham leads the UNL CSCE Team in a $7.5 million partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency, Drought Risk, Impact and Mitigation System. This project brings partners at both the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) and (USDA RMA) together to develop decision support systems (http://greenleaf.unl.edu). (USDA-RMA 02-IE-0831-0028, USDA-RMA 05-IE-0831-0254)

7.     Cottingham was P.I. for a project with Region V Services of Nebraska to develop interactive meeting simulation modules to help train adults with developmental disabilities to serve on community boards.

8.     Cottingham was P.I. for a partnership with Los Angeles County 211 to study and improve the data standard for the sharing of data between information referral systems. His recommendations were approved by the AIRS Board of Directors and became version 3.0 of the data standard.

 

Collaborators

Steve Goddard (Chair, UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering), Michael J. Hayes (Director, National Drought Mitigation Center), William Thomas (John and Catherine Angle Chair, UNL Department of History), Nancy Shank (Associate Director, University of Nebraska Center for Public Policy), David Swanson (Director, University of Nebraska Holland Computing Center), Sherri Harms (Associate Professor, UNK Department of Computer Science and Information Systems), Stephen Scott (Vice-Chair, UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering), Leenkiat Soh (Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering),  Mary Liz Jameson (Research Associate Professor, Wichita State University), Timothy Hemsath (Associate Professor, UNL Department of Architecture), Judy Diamond (Professor and Curator, Nebraska State Museum)

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors – Matt Dwyer (UNL), Steve Goddard (UNL), and Stephen Scott (UNL)