Terry Ferrett is a postdoctoral researcher and a member of the Wireless Communications Research Laboratory (WCRL) in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (LCSEE) at West Virginia University. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from West Virginia University. His research interests are physical-layer network coding, receiver and channel code design, noncoherent communication, and communication system simulation.

As a research assistant, he designed, constructed and implemented the WCRL High-Performance Computing Cluster, containing 22 servers and over 400 processing cores. The cluster is used by lab members to rapidly execute communication system simulations and biometric algorithm experiments.

In his role as a technician and system administrator for the Lane department, he helped design and maintain the departmental Linux server infrastructure, containing over 60 virtual machine instances based on Ubuntu and CentOS Linux. The infrastructure provides shell servers, software development environments, printing, web hosting and unified authentication for departmental computers. Unified authentication is implemented using OpenLDAP and SSSD. Server and virtual instance provisioning is automated using a combination of Ansible, Git, Subversion and shell scripts.

Contact

E-mail: terry.r.ferrett@ieee.org
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tferrett