My name is Arvind Gopu. My S.O. Lavanya and I live in a nice little town called Bloomington in Indiana. I work as a technical lead analyst for the Open Science Grid Operations group at Indiana University. Previously, I worked as a High Performance Computing (HPC Software) Analyst at IU. Lavanya works as a nurse at Bloomington hospital. To get in touch with us, please check our contact details. Before I started working, I was a graduate (Masters) student at IU and got two masters degrees in Computer Science & Bioinformatics.

Stuff to do in the Bloomington Community

Tutoring (High school math, etc.)

I am used to be -- and would in the future like to go back to being -- part of a group which does tutoring for middle/high school kids -- mainly Math and occasionally Physics and Chemistry -- at the McDonalds on the West side of town (Wednesdays, 7-9 PM Eastern Time) or the Monroe County Public Library (Mondays, 7-9 PM Eastern time). Drop me a line if you live in Bloomington, are interested in joining this group, and would like more information.

Community Partners in Reading (CPR)

The Monroe County Public school system runs a program named Community Partners in Reading that helps struggling 2nd-graders in learning to read. L and I did this in spring 2008, and found it to be a lot of fun... we got quite attached to the two kids we were partnered with :). Go check out the MCCSC CPR website linked above!

Other Good Cause

I support these charities (in some form or the other) and recommend that you check their websites out:

• Child Relief and You (CRY)

• IU Bloomington United Way Campaign

• March of Dimes
  

• AID-Bloomington (Association for India's Development - IU Bloomington chapter) home page -- I used to maintain these webpages back in Fall 2002 and Spring 2003; I am not involved in their activities these days. AID's main website is www.aidindia.org

• The Hunger Site and its sister sites (see links below).

Child Relief & You	A.I.D. India
March Of Dimes	March of Dimes - Walk America