Education

  • Doctorate of Philosophy in Physical Chemistry,     December 2012
    • The University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA
    • Advisor: Director of IACS, Stony Brook University, Robert J. Harrison.
    • Concentration: Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.
    • Minor: Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science.
  • Masters of Science in Chemistry,     August 2007
    • East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee USA
    • Advisor: Dr. Scott J. Kirkby.
    • Concentration: Physical Chemistry.
  • Bachelor of Science in Chemistry,     July 2002
    • University of Buea (UB), Buea, Southwest region, Republic of Cameroon.
    • Professional Minor in Chemical Process Technology.

Interests

  • Research Computing Cyberinfrastructure(CI)
    • System Architecture Design
    • Cloud and on-prem CI evaluation for suitability, sustainability and adaptability
    • Cloud and on-prem CI cost analysis and comparison
    • Institutional evaluation of CI(services and systems) to minimize duplication of efforts
  • Collaborative and reproducibility software and applications environment
    • Datascience hub (e.g Jupyterhub)
    • Docker and Singularity containers

HPC Experience

  • Colby College’s Research and Teaching Cluster     2017 - Present
  • University of New England Research group HPC     2016 – 2017
  • Florida State Universty HPC     2014 - 2016
  • NERSC’s Hopper on Cray XE 6     2013 - 2014
  • Kraken XT5 Cray system and University of Tennessee’s HPC     2009 - 2014
  • Jaguar XT, Lens visualization cluster and TITAN at ORNL     2007 - 2012

Professional Experience

  • Research Computing Architech & Solutions Developer     February 2023 – Present
    • North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC USA
  • Research Computing Administrator     February 2020 – January 2023
    • University of North Carolina, Greensboro NC USA
  • Scientific Computing Coordinator     July 2017 – January 2020
    • Colby College, Waterville Maine USA
  • Research Associate     May 2016 - July 2017
    • University of New England, Portland, ME, USA
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher     April 2014 - May 2016
    • The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate       January 2013 - March 2014
    • The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
  • Graduate Research Assistant     August 2007 - December 2012
    • The University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, TN.
  • Graduate Research Assistant       September 2005 - August 2007
    • East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN

Teaching Experience

  • Adjunct Faculty, Central Maine Community College, Auburn Maine USA.
    • Intermediate Algebra.     Spring 2018 – Present
  • Assistant Instructor, University of New England, Portland Maine USA .
    • Introduction to Unix Computing and Molecular Visualization.     Winter 2017
  • Adjunct Faculty, Central Maine Community College, Auburn Maine USA.
    • Intermediate Algebra.     Spring 2017
    • Business Mathematics.     Spring 2017
  • Adjunct Faculty, Southern Maine Community College, South Portland Maine USA.
    • College Algebra.     Fall 2016
  • The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tennessee USA.
    • Head Teaching Assistant General Chemistry.     Spring 2009
    • Teaching Assistant for Chemical Programming.     Falls 2008 and 2009
    • Web Master for General Chemistry.     Fall 2007
    • Laboratory Instructor for General Chemistry.     Fall 2007
  • East Tennessee State University, Johnson City TN USA.
    • Upward Bound Program, physics and chemistry instructor.     Summer 2007
    • Laboratory Instructor for General and Organic Chemistry.     2005 - 2007
  • Martin-Luther King Bilingual High School, Republic of Cameroon.
    • Physical Sciences and Mathematics Instructor.     2002 – 2005
    • Discipline Master.     2002 – 2005

Student Researchers Mentored

  • Sai Manideep Chittiprolu     Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
  • Aishwarya Gouru     Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
  • Koundinya Challa     Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
  • Brandon Troisi.     Summer 2018
  • Jessica White, REU NSF Fellowship recipients     Summer 2017
  • Katie Chalmers, REU NSF Fellowship recipients     Summer 2017
  • Cody Black,
    • Independent study student     Fall and Spring 2017
    • 2017 American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Gateway to Research Award.
    • NSF REU Fellow     Fall 2016
  • Rachel McDevitt. REU NSF Fellow.     Summer 2016

Reports

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Jacob Fosso Tande Large Scale Networking (LSN) Workshop on Huge Data: A Computing, Networking and Distributed Systems Perspective (April 2020) “Mitigating the Dilemma of Huge Data Flow at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro (White Paper)”
  • Jacob Fosso-Tande, Cody Black, Stephen G. Aller, Lanyuan Lu, and, Ronald D. Hills Jr. AIMS Molecular Science, 4 (3):352-369 (2017) “Simulation of lipid-protein interactions with the CgProt force field.”
  • J. Fosso-Tande, T.-S. Nguyen, G. Gidofalvi, and A. E. DePrince III, J. Chem. Theory Comput., (2016). “Large-scale v2RDM-driven CASSCF method.
  • Robert J. Harrison, Gregory Beylkin, Florian A. Bischoff, Justus A. Calvin, George I. Fann , Jacob Fosso-Tande, Diego Galindo , Jeff R. Hammond , Rebecca Hartman-Baker , Judith C. Hill , Jun Jia , Jakob S. Kottmann, M-J. Yvonne OU, Laura E. Ratcliff, Mathew G. Reuter, Adam C. Richie-Halford , Nichols A. Romero, Hideo Sekino, William A. Shelton, Bryan E. Sundal, W. Scott Thornton , Edward F. Valeev, Alvaro Vazquez-Mayagoitia, Nicholas Vence, and Yukina Yokoi. “MADNESS: A Multiresolution, ADaptive Numerical Environment for Scientific Simulation” , SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, (2015)
  • Jacob Fosso-Tande, Daniel R. Nascimento and A. Eugene DePrince III, Accuracy of two- particle N-representability condition for describing different spin states and the singlet-triplet gap in linear acene series, Molecular Physics, 114 (3-4), 423-430, (2015).
  • J. Fosso-Tande, R. J. Harrison. Confinement effects of solvation on a molecule physisorbed on a polarizable continuum particle Comput. Theo. Chem. 1017, 22-30 (2013)
  • O. Gunaydin-Sen, P. Chen, J. Fosso-Tande, J. L. White, T. L. Allen, J. Cherian, and T. Tokumoto, P.M. Lahti, S.McGill, R. J. Harrison, and J. L.Musfeldt. Magnetoelectric coupling in 4,4’-stilbenedinitrene J. Chem. Phys., 138,204716 (2013)
  • J. Fosso-Tande, R. J. Harrison. Implicit solvation models with multiresolution multiwavelet basis function. Chemical Physics Letters, 561–562, (2013) 179–184
  • O. Gunaydin-Sen, J. Fosso-Tande, P. Chen, J. L. White, T. L. Allen, J. Cherian, and T. Tokumoto, P. M. Lahti, S. McGill, R. J. Harrison, and J. L. Musfeldt. Manipulating the singlet-triplet equilibrium in organic biradical materials J. Chem. Phys., 135, 241101 (2011)

Invited Talks and Poster Presentation

  • Jacob Fosso Tande “The Cyberinfrastructure Landscape: Systems, Service Providers, Technologies” Virtual Residency Workshop, June 2022
  • Panel Discussion, Internet2: Democratizing Cloud Computing on Campus, Panelists: Chris Lalande, Jacob Fosso Tande, Paul Williams, Amanda Tan (moderator), December 2020
  • Jacob Fosso Tande,Explaining Complex Technical Topics to Researchers, Virtual Residency Workshop, June 2020
  • Ronald D. Hills Jr., Jacob Fosso Tande, Cody Black, Model Assessment and Simulation of Lipid-Protein Interactions, Biophysical Journal, Volume 112, Issue 3, Supplement 1, p528a, 3 February 2017
  • Cody Black , Jacob Fosso Tande, Rachel McDavitt, and Ronald D. Hills Jr., LPS and Substrate Binding by Multidrug Efflux Proteins ,College of Pharmacy, University of New England, Portland, ME, Annual student research symposium., December 2016
  • Jacob Fosso-Tande and A. Eugene Deprince III, “Large active-space-based calculations with variational 2-electron reduced density method”, SETCA 2015, University of Central Florida, Orlando Fl, May 14-16, poster number 10, poster presentation
  • Jacob Fosso-Tande “overcoming the challenge of accuracy in the analysis of the electronic structure of molecules”, Department of Chemistry and Forensic Science, Savannah State University, Savannah Ga, May 1st 2015. oral presentation
  • Jacob Fosso-Tande, Ozge Gunaydin-Sen, Peng Chen, Paul M Lahti, Janice L Musfeldt, Robert J Harrison. “Investigating the absorption features and biradical character in open-shell organic compounds.”, 247th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition of March 16-20, (2014), in Dallas, Texas, poster number 211. poster presentation
  • J. L. Musfeldt , O. Gunaydin-Sen , P. Chen , J. Fosso-Tande , T. Allen , J. Cherian , T. Tokumoto , S. McGill , P.M. Lahti ,and R.J. Harrison. “Magnetoelectric coupling in 4, 4’-stilbenedinitrene.”, APS March Meeting Abstract ID: BAPS.2013.MAR.C16.12 (2013) oral presentation
  • Jacob Fosso-Tande, Ariana Beste, Robert J. Harrison. “Investigating the tunability of singlet-triplet equilibrium in organic biradical compounds”, Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry, Mount Snow Resort, West Dover, Vertmont July 22-27 (2012) poster presentation
  • Jacob Fosso-Tande “Confinement effects of solvation on a molecule physisorbed on a polarizable continuum particle.”, invited guess speaker, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility in Argonne, Illinois. December 17th 2012. oral presentation
  • Jacob Fosso-Tande “Confinement effects of solvation on a molecule physisorbed on a metal particle.” SETCA, Athens, Georgia May 17-19 (2012) poster presentation
  • Jacob Fosso-Tande, Robert J. Harrison. “Implicit solvation model with multiresolution multiwavelet basis function.”, 243rd ACS March Meeting in San Diego, California, publication number 581 March 25-29 (2012) Oral Presentation
  • O. Gunaydin-Sen, J. Fosso-Tande, P. Chen, J. L. White, T. L. Allen, J. Cherian, and T. Tokumoto, P. M. Lahti, S. McGill, R. J. Harrison, and J. L. Musfeldt. “Manipulating the singlet-triplet equilibrium in organic biradical materials.”, APS March Meeting Volume 56, Number 1 (2011) oral presentation
  • J. Fosso-Tande, Compton, R., R. J. Harrison. “Modeling the charge transfer distribution in Buckminster Fullerene.”, May (2008) SETCA conference, University of Alabama,Tuscaloosa Alabama, USA, poster number 24, poster presentation
  • J. Fosso-Tand, Scott J. Kirkby, “A Computational Chemistry Study of Phenyl-N-Ter-Butyl Nitrone Spin Traps”, 59th Southeastern Regional Section of the American Chemical Society of October 24 -27, 2007, in Green Ville, South Carolina, publication number 432 oral presentation
  • J. Fosso-Tande, Scott J. Kirkby. “A Computational Chemistry Study of Spin-trap Molecules.”, publication number 28, Spring (2007) Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, Tennessee USA. J. Fosso-Tande, Scott J. Kirkby. A Computational Chemistry Study of Spin-trap. poster presentation
  • J. Fosso-Tande, Scott J. Kirkby. “A Computational Chemistry Study of Spin-trap Molecules.”, 58th Southeastern Regional Section of the American Chemical Society of November 1st -4th, 2006, in Augusta, Georgia . poster presentation