Sanjay Banerjee is the Cockrell Family Regents Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director, Microelectronics Research Center, at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979, 1981 and 1983 respectively, all in electrical engineering. He worked as a Member of the Technical Staff, Corporate Research, Development and Engineering at Texas Instruments Incorporated from 1983-1987.
Prof. Banerjee's recent awards include the ECS Callinan Award, 2003, IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000 and SRC Inventor Recognition Award, 2000. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Electron Devices Society, and was the General Chair of the IEEE Device Research Conference, 2002. He is currently active in the areas of ultra high vacuum and remote plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition for silicon-germanium-carbon heterostructure MOSFETs and nanostructures. He is also interested in the areas of ultra-shallow junction technology and semiconductor device modeling.
Prof. Banerjee's integrated circuit devices course provides a solid foundation for NTU/Walden students who want to work in the areas of integrated circuit design or semiconductor physics.
Jonathan Bard is Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering (OR&IE) in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin and holds the Industrial Properties Corporation Endowed Faculty Fellowship. In addition, he serves as Associate Director for the Center for the Management of Operations Logistics and is the Coordinator of the OR&IE Program. He received a D.Sc. in Operations Research from the George Washington University, an M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Over the past twenty years, he has taught courses at the University of Texas in mathematical modeling, production planning and control, optimization theory, and project management. He is an active consultant to a number of governmental agencies and national corporations. He is currently the Editor of IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering and serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Operations Research, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. A fellow of IIE and a senior member of both INFORMS and IEEE, he has held several offices in each of these organizations. Dr. Bard’s research has been published in the leading operations research, industrial engineering, and management science journals and has received widespread recognition, including: (1) the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award given by IIE to recognize a lifetime of achievement; (2) IIE Transactions Award for Best Application Paper; (3) Operations Research Division of IIE Outstanding Contribution Award; (4) Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award; and (5) Distinguished Scholar Award given by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Before coming to the University of Texas, Dr. Bard taught at the University of California - Berkeley, Northeastern University, and The University of Massachusetts. He also worked as a program manager for the Aerospace Corporation and as a systems engineer for Booz, Allen & Hamilton. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.
Bharat Bhargava is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and (by courtesy) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Prof. Bhargava received his undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 1974. He taught at Cleveland State University and the University of Pittsburgh before joining Purdue University.
Prof. Bhargava investigates both theoretical and experimental aspects of distributed systems. He is interested in digital library and multimedia databases, secure mobile systems and multimedia security. Dr. Bhargava has been the editor of several technical journals. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE.
Dr. Bhargava has twice received the Outstanding Instructor award from the Purdue student chapter of the ACM and has been inducted into Purdue's Great Book of Teachers that honors instructors who have demonstrated sustained excellence in the classroom. Prof. Bhargava is very enthusiastic about teaching NTU/Walden students and provided helpful suggestions toward producing other related courses. He was among the first group of faculty to express interest in producing a course for NTU.
Manuel Enrique Bermudez is Associate Professor, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Florida. Dr Bermudez received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Costa Rica in 1979; A Licenciado in Computer Science from the University of Costa Rica in 1980; a Master of Science in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1982; and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1984. In addition to his university teaching activities, Dr Bermudez has been an Instructional Consultant for IBM, a Fulbright Scholar visiting the University of Costa Rica, and a Consultant for Load Media Networks, Inc.
Dr Bermudez research interests include: Programming Languages, Compilers, Automata Theory, Programming Linguistics, and Software Engineering. He has published many papers and is the author of “Study Guide for C Programming: A Modern Approach”, W.W. Norton, 1998, He is currently at work on a book on compiler construction.
Prof. Bermudez has received excellent teaching evaluations from students at the University of Florida and also been named CIS Department Teacher of the Year by the ACM student chapter at the University of Florida. Prof. Bermudez is highly enthusiastic about using distance education technology to reach NTU/Walden students and hopes that NTU/Walden programs will be made available to a global student body.
Bernd Bruegge is University Professor of Computer Science and holds the Chair for Applied Software Engineering at the Technische Universität München. He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include software architectures for dynamic systems, agile software development processes, and software engineering education. He received a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Bruegge is the senior author of the textbook: “Object-Oriented Software Engineering Using UML, Patterns, and Java” , B. Bruegge , A.H. Dutoit 2nd Edition , Prentice Hall, 2003.
Prof. Bruegge received the Herbert A. Simon award for teaching excellence at Carnegie Mellon University. His course on software engineering at the Technical University of Munich involves students in a large software development project that builds from one term to the next.
Franco Cerrina is the McFarland-Bascom Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Cerrina received a Ph. D. from the University of Rome in 1974. He is the director of the University of Wisconsin Center for NanoTechnology, where his research centers on the use of X-ray, electron and photon beam techniques to provide imaging of nanostructures in the 70-100nm domain. Dr. Cerrina's main research interest is in artificially engineered structures -- micro- and nano-devices: their fabrication, application, inspection and properties. He has also developed a modeling program to predict the performance and characteristics of complex x-ray systems.
Dr. Cerrina actively collaborates with semiconductor companies and involves many postdoctoral researchers in his group. He is keen to work with NTU/Walden students and uses his distance education experience to enrich his on-campus teaching as well.
Joseph E. Champoux is a Regents' Professor of Management at the Robert O. Anderson Schools of Management at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Champoux was selected not only for his years of experience in teaching the subject matter to adult learners, including engineers and scientists, but also because he approaches the content in a unique manner by incorporating film clips from popular movies that illustrate the concepts central to the course. He received his Ph.D. in Administration from the University of California, Irvine in 1974. He has taught in The Netherlands, Mexico, France, and Brazil.
James Collofello is Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs at Arizona State University. He received a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1978. Dr. Collofello joined ASU in 1979 and was instrumental in the start of the computer science degree program. Throughout his career he has maintained a close relationship with software development firms in the state working on joint research projects, developing industry training programs and serving as a software engineering consultant.
Professor Collofello's principal areas of interest in teaching and research are in software engineering. Within software engineering, his primary emphasis is software process modeling, software quality assurance and software project management. He is also very active in software engineering education projects and outreach projects to local high schools.
Dr. Collofello has been involved with several programs and university-industry partnerships to provide career-long learning for engineers and technical professionals. He brings a wealth of this experience for the benefit of NTU/Walden students.
Laurene Fausett received her bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of California, and the Master's degree in Physics, and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Wyoming. She was a Professor of Mathematics at Florida Institute of Technology and the University of South Carolina Aiken, before joining the faculty of Georgia Southern University, where her duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate mathematics courses, supervising MS students research, and serving as the Graduate Program Director for the Department of Mathematical Sciences. Dr. Fausett is the author of four text books dealing with artificial neural networks and numerical methods, and over 50 journal, encyclopedia, and conference proceedings articles. She has given seminars and invited talks around the United States, and in Egypt, Turkey, Bulgaria, Poland, and Mexico. She was the Co-chair of Sian Ka'an, the Second Joint Mexico-US International Workshop on Neural Networks and Neurocontrol.
Paul D. Franzon is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Dr. Franzon received a Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and a Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1984 and 1989 respectively.
The central theme to Dr Franzon's research is the design and construction of microsystems and nanosystems. Within this theme, his group designs and builds VLSI chips, FPGAs, advanced packaging structures, MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) and employs emerging nanotechnologies. Dr. Franzon's additional research areas include Architectures for Future Network Processors, Chip-Package Codesign, Low-Power Digital Circuits and other related topics.
Dr Franzon has received many educational and professional awards including being elected to the NCSU Academy of Oustanding Teachers in 2001, and the Teacher of the Year Award, presented by the IEEE Student Branch in 1997.
Dr Franzon is the co-author of three books:
- Smith and P. Franzon : Verilog Styles for Synthesis of Digital Systems , 2000, by Prentice Hall.
- D. Doane and P. Franzon: Multichip Modules: Basics and Alternatives , 1993, by Van Nostrand Rheinhold.
- J-D Cho and P.D. Franzon, High Performance Design Automation for Multi-Chip Modules and Packages , 1996, World Scientific.
Prof. Franzon has considerable experience in teaching distance education courses. He has a very engaging presence in his video lectures that NTU/Walden students will appreciate.
Douglas Gemmill is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Iowa State University. He received a B.S. in mathematics and an M.S. in industrial engineering from Iowa State University. He received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His professional interests include simulation modeling, systems engineering, applied operations research and the modeling, design, and performance analysis of complex systems. He has taught graduate courses in systems engineering for the past six years as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in simulation modeling for the past sixteen years. He is a member of the International Council on Systems Engineering, American Society of Engineering Education, and a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He has also spent 25 years as an officer in the United States Air Force, both active duty and as a reservist. His USAF reserve duties presently are with Air Force Materiel Command as an engineer, but he also has over 3000 hours flying experience as a navigator.
Philip Gibbs, who has taught at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Georgetown University, George Mason University, University of Maryland and Boston University, has more than 15 years of management and consulting experience. He was a principal at Hays Consulting, where he worked in R&D, operations, marketing, finance, and business planning with FMC and Allied Signal. He has a breadth of experience in both industry and academe in many content areas incorporated in MBA programs. He developed Executive MBA programs in Mergers and Acquisitions, and Corporate Governance, as well as courses in Organizatoinal Research, Mangement and Financial Statement Analysis. His extensive background in both strategy and negotiation as well as his experience in engineering and technology that brought Dr. Gibbs to our attention. He was selected to teach this unique course based on his background and strong referrals from professors who collaborated and worked with him. He earned a Ph.D. at the MIT Sloan School of Management, an M.B.A. in finance at the University of Chicago, and a B.Sc. in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Gibbs has earned awards in Teaching Excellence and various fellowships throughout his career.
Ananth Grama is Associate Professor in Computer Science at Purdue University. Dr. Grama received his B. Eng. from the University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee), India, his M.S. from Wayne State University, and his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Minnesota in 1989, 1990 and 1996 respectively. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1998–2002), the Purdue University School of Science Outstanding Teacher Award (2002), and is a Purdue University Scholar (2002-07). Dr. Grama's research specialty is parallel and distributed systems. He is an active participant in Purdue's Parallel and Distributed Systems Lab
Dr. Grama is the lead author of a recent book on parallel computing: “Introduction to Parallel Computing”, Grama, Gupta, Kumar, and Karypis, Addison Wesley, 2003;
Dr. Grama is enthusiastic about his teaching and is excited about reaching distance education students through NTU.
Joseph Harder is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Business School of the University of Virginia. Previously, he was Associate Director of the Leadership Program and Assistant Professor at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Harder is an enthusiastic and highly rated instructor, having received nine awards for teaching excellence. He has consulted and taught executive education sessions around the globe on topics of leadership, culture, motivation, teamwork, and organizational change for groups from Lucent Technologies, United Technologies, Unilever, USAA, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, NASA, Whole Foods Markets, The Brookings Institution, Booz Allen Hamilton, 3-COM, Goodyear, Siam Cement Group, Siam Commercial Bank, Shinawatra Group, Maraven, Theseus, and the Department of Defense.
Dr. Harder holds a B.S. degree from Bethel College, an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University, and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where his dissertation focused on pay and performance in professional sports.
Mohammed Ismail is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ohio State University. He received his BS and MS degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Cairo University in 1974 and 1978, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba in 1983. He taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and joined Ohio State University in 1988. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Oslo, The Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the Helsinki University of Technology amongst others institutions.
Prof. Ismail's research interests are in the area of low voltage/low power VLSI circuits and mixed signal VLSI circuits for wireless communications. He is also interested in statistical modeling, simulation, and optimization of VLSI circuits. Dr, Ismail has received several patents in the areas of analog, RF, and mixed signal ICs, co-edited and co-authored several books including “Analog VLSI Signal and Information Processing” (McGraw Hill, 1994), edited several technical journals, and co-founded two companies later acquired by Mentor Graphics and Firstpass Semiconductors AB. He also started and is the director of the Analog VLSI Lab at Ohio State. Dr. Ismail is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Prof. Ismail received an Outstanding Teaching Award from the IEEE student chapter at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has graduated more than 30 Ph.D. students and more than 60 M.S. students. Prof. Ismail is looking forward to sharing his circuit design knowledge and CAD expertise with NTU/Walden students. He will also provide advice regarding CAD computing support for NTU/Walden. He is among the first faculty who agreed to join the roster of NTU/Walden Contributing Scholars.
Paul Joyce is Professor of Mathematics and Bioinformatics and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the University of Idaho where he heads a research group with a focus on interdisciplinary research related to mathematical modeling and statistical analysis. Dr. Joyce came to our attention while teaching courses for NTU in the traditional partner arrangement. He had excellent teaching evaluations and taught content appropriate to the technical community being served by this course. Dr. Joyce teaches several courses in Statistics and Mathematics at his home institution and is the author of numerous research papers in this area.
Avinash C. Kak is Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Kak received his Bachelor of Electronics and Communications Madras University, India and his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India in 1966 and 1970 respectively.
He has received numerous teaching awards including: The Potter Best of Engineering Teaching Award, 2002; The Wilfred Duke Hesselberth Award for Teaching Excellence in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2001; The Honeywell Award for Outstanding Teaching in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2000; the D. D. Ewing Award for Outstanding Teaching in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1998.
Dr. Kak's main focus of research during the last fifteen years has been the development of sensory perception and cognition for autonomous systems of the future. Dr Kak is the founder of the Purdue Robot Vision Lab, which performs state-of-the-art research in sensory intelligence for the machines of the future. He has received numerous research grants and contracts to pursue his research.
Dr. Kak is the co-author of three books on computing:
- A. C. Kak, "Programming with Objects: A Comparative Presentation of Object- Oriented Programming with C++ and Java", published by John Wiley, 2003.
- A. C. Kak and M. G. Slaney, "Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging,” IEEE Press, 1988; republished by SIAM in 2001.
- A. Rosenfeld and A. C. Kak, "Digital Picture Processing," Academic Press, New York: Second edition: 1982.
Prof. Kak is an engaging teacher whose innovative course on object-oriented program devlopment compares C++ and Java in their varying approaches to addressing object-oriented programming issues.
Dina Katabi is Assistant Professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. Dr Katabi received the MIT EECS - 2003 Sprowls Doctoral Dissertation Award for her doctoral dissertation. Her research interests are in computer networks and data communication. Her specific research interests encompass congestion control, network measurements, scalability and robustness of distributed systems, routing, content distribution, peer-to-peer systems, self-configurable and wireless networks, and network security. Dr. Katabi has a particular interest in adapting tools from various fields of applied mathematics such as control theory, coding theory, and AI to solve problems in computer networks. Dr. Katabi has published many papers in the area of computer networks.
Dr. Katabi has worked jointly with Prof. Muriel Medard to record a course on data communication networks especially for NTU/Walden students.
Muriel Médard is a Harold E. and Esther Edgerton Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. She has also worked at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Professor Médard received B.S. degrees in EECS and in Mathematics in 1989, a B.S. degree in Humanities in 1990, a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1991, and a Sc D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1995, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Optical Communications and Networking Series of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and as an Associate Editor in Communications for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
Professor Médard's research interests are in the areas of reliable communications, particularly for optical and wireless networks. She was awarded the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award 2002 for her paper, "The Effect Upon Channel Capacity in Wireless Communications of Perfect and Imperfect Knowledge of the Channel,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Information in May 2000. She was a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the Fourth International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2003), October 2003, Banff, Alberta, Canada. She received an NSF Career Award in 2001 and was co-winner of the 2004 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award, established in 1982 to honor junior faculty members "for distinction in research, teaching and service to the MIT community."
Prof. Medard is team teaching the Data Communication Networks course with Dr. Katabi to provide NTU/Walden students with a rigorous and engaging learning experience.
Lucy C. Morse is an associate professor and Director of Engineering Technology at a Distance at the University of Central Florida. In 2002 she was named a Faculty Fellow, representing Engineering, to the UCF Academy for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership. She was selected to teach this course for NTU based on her extensive experience in teaching at a distance as well as her background in the subject area. Dr. Morse is coauthor of Managing Engineering and Technology (2002), 3rd Ed., from Prentice Hall. This past year, Dr. Morse was elected a Fellow in ASEE and was recipient of a Teaching Incentive Award from the College of Engineering and Computer Science. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and was the first woman to receive a doctorate in engineering from UCF. In the early 90's she served as a Program Manager at the National Science Foundation in the Engineering Directorate. Dr. Morse has served as an examiner for the Baldrige Award and the Florida Sterling Award. She has lectured on engineering management, quality management, and distance education nationally as well as in Spain, Romania, Ukraine, Germany, and Antarctica.
S. Hamid Nawab is Professor & Associate Chairman in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. Dr Nawab's education includes a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr Nawab's current research interests cover the areas of DSP Environments & Architectures, Wideband Restoration of Originals from Recordings, and Processing & Understanding of Electro-physiological signals (EMG, EKG etc.) and Acoustic Signals (Speech, Environmental Sounds, Music etc.)
Prof. Nawab was recognized as the College of Engineering Professor of the Year in 1987 and 1998 at Boston University. He also received the University-Wide Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1993.
Prof. Nawab is keenly interested in the progress of NTU/Walden students in his classes and regularly monitors his virtual classrooms.
Meilir Page-Jones is president and senior consulting methodologist at Wayland Systems Inc. in Bellevue, WA. He is one of a handful of individuals who are synonymous with the development and application of Object-Oriented Technologies. He is recognized as an outstanding expert by the experts in OO analysis and design. He has broad industry recognition and has been an invited speaker or panelist at many conferences including OOPSLA.
Meilir Page-Jones is the award-winning author of "Practical Project Management" (1985), "Practical Guide to Structured Systems Design" (1988), "What Every Programmer Should Know About about Object-Oriented Design" (1996) and "Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML" (2000), as well as numerous articles on software development and management.
Prof. Page-Jones brings a seminal expertise in object-oriented software development and years of practical industry experience to NTU/Walden students. They can find no better guide to the concepts and practices of object-oriented technology.
Douglas S. Reeves is Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University.
Dr. Reeves received a B.A. in Biology from Indiana University, a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Louisville, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University in 1975, 1982, and 1987 respectively.
Dr. Reeves has received several scholarly and professional honors, including an Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Department of Computer Science, NC State University. In 1988, and the Professional Engineer of the Year Award from the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Louisville, in 2003.
Dr. Reeves has consulted for several companies including Nortel Networks. Dr Reeves is currently involved with research projects related to network intrusion detection.
Prof. Reeves's courses at NC State provide extremely well-organized web-based support for his students and he brings the same high level of sensitivity to student needs to the students at NTU/Walden.
John H. Reif is the A. Hollis Edens Professor at Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University. Dr Reif has been Professor of Computer Science at Duke University, since 1986; prior to that he taught at Harvard.
Dr Reif's research interests include: Biomolecular Computing and Self-Assembly of DNA Nanostructures; Parallel Algorithms for Graphs, Algebra, Geometry and Sorting; Randomized, Algebraic, Numerical and Data Compression Algorithms; and Alternative Models of Computation: Quantum Computing, Optical Computing; Molecular Electronics.
Prof. Reif has chaired many conferences and is Program Chairman for the forthcoming Second Conference on FOUNDATIONS OF NANOSCIENCE: SELF-ASSEMBLED ARCHITECTURES AND DEVICES(FNANO05), Snowbird, Utah, April 24 April 28, 2005. He has also published widely and is the editor of several books.
Prof. Reif is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is also an avid skier and windsurfer. NTU/Walden students will benefit from his wide range of technical expertise and his well-organized courses.
Sartaj K. Sahni is Distinguished Professor and Chair , CISE, University of Florida. He receive a B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1970. a M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1972, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science also from Cornell University in 1973.
Dr Sahnis areas of specialization include sequential and parallel data structures and algorithms, scheduling, optimization, VLSI CAD, computational geometry, and some other areas.
Dr Sahni is the author or co-author of several books including:
- Software Development in Java, Sartaj Sahni and Raj Kumar, Silicon Press, New Jersey, 2003.
- Data Structures, Algorithms, and Applications in Java, Sartaj Sahni, McGraw Hill, NY, 2000.
- Computer Algorithms, Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni, and Sanguthevar Rajasekeran, W. H. Freeman,1998.
- Fundamentals of Data Structures in C++, Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni, and Dinesh Mehta, W.H. Freeman 1995.
Prof. Sahni is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and AAAS. Other recent honors include the IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace-McDowell Award, 2003. Citation: For contributions to the theory of NP-hard and NP-complete problems; and the ACM Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, 2003. Citation: For outstanding contributions to computing education through inspired teaching, development of courses and curricula for distance education, contributions to professional societies, and authoring significant textbooks in several areas including discrete mathematics, data structures, algorithms, and parallel and distributed computing.
Prof. Sahni has been associated with NTU/Walden since NTU's beginnings in the nineteen eighties. He has served as faculty chair for NTU's Computer Science program for many years. He brings a close familiarity with NTU students and a wealth of teaching and research experience to new NTU/Walden students.
Shashi Shekhar received the B. Tech degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1985, the M.S. degree in Business Administration and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 1989. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. His research interests include spatial databases, spatial data mining, geographic and information systems (GIS), and intelligent transportation systems.
Prof. Shekhar is a co-author of a textbook on Spatial Databases (Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN 0-13-017480-7) and has published over 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, books, and conferences, and workshops. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of Geo-Informatica and has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering as well as the IEEE-CS Computer Science & Engineering Practice Board.
Dr. Shekhar is a Fellow of the IEEE Computer Society and has also served as a technical advisor to the United Nations Development Program, Microsoft and Terradata. He was awarded a Bush Foundation Excellence in Teaching award at the University of Minnesota.
NTU/Walden students will benefit from Prof. Shekhar's clear and careful explanations of database concepts and his gentle presence in the electronic classroom.
Carl Sturtivant is in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Sturtivant received his BA and MA in Theoretical Physics in 1979 and 1982, and his MS in Computer Science in 1980 at Churchill College, Cambridge University, England. He received his Ph. D. in Computer Science from Edinburgh University, Scotland, in 1983. The engineering students at the University of Minnesota have voted him as “Professor of the Year” in Computer Science four years in a row. Dr Sturtivant 's teaches courses on Internet Programming, Algorithms, and Computational Complexity.
Dr. Sturtivant is a highly effective lecturer with a reputation for presenting even the most complex topics with complete clarity. Students at Minnesota will often wait one or more terms just so they can take a particular course from him. Dr. Sturtivant is looking forward to teaching NTU students.
Stephen M. Thebaut is Associate Chair in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering and Site Director of the Software Engineering Research Center at the University of Florida. He received a BA in Mathematics from Duke University in 1977 and a MS and PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1979 and 1983 respectively.
His research interests are in software testing and requirements engineering. He has published many papers and taught short courses for industry including a testing workshop for IBM.
Prof. Thebaut has been associated with NTU for many years and currently teaches a course on software specification. He will be a recording a course on software testing in the summer of 2005. Dr. Thebaut is very familiar with NTU students' needs having served as an NTU faculty advisor for several years. NTU/Walden students can look forward to learning from his courses.
Kal Toth is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Portland State University. Dr. Kalman (Kal) Toth joined Portland State University's Department of Computer Science in the fall of 2003.
Dr. Toth holds a Ph.D. in System Engineering and Computer Science from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and is a member of the British Columbia Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists (APEGBC) with a Software Engineering designation. He is Associate Director of the Oregon Master of Software Engineering (OMSE). He is conducting research in the field of network security and privacy exploring technical strategies and mechanisms for secure information sharing, identity theft prevention and critical infrastructure protection.
Dr. Toth has over 25 years of industry and academic experience in the fields of software engineering, information security, software project management and distributed systems and networks. His has taught at Oregon State University, the Technical University of British Columbia and other Canadian universities. His industry experience includes some 20 years of consulting and systems engineering for Intellitech Canada Ltd, the CGI Group Inc., several Canadian government departments, Simba Technologies (now Pivital Corporation), Honeywell, and the BC Software Productivity Centre. He was Director of Quality for Hughes Aircraft of Canada's Advanced Air Traffic Control System and VP Engineering for Datalink Systems Corp. (now Semotus Solutions Inc.) an m-commerce (mobile/wireless) services company.
Dr. Toth teaches an innovative software product development course that is structured around a case study that evolves as the course progresses. NTU/Walden students will find his course to be highly instructive and enjoyable.
C.R. Viswanathan received his undergraduate education in India and his Ph.D. degree from U.C.L.A. in 1964. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering at U.C.L.A. and has been a faculty member since 1962. His area of research is semiconductor electronics and in particular the physics and modeling of devices. His research is in low temperature device behavior, thin oxide characterization, and device modeling. His areas of interest also include semiconductor device physics, and VLSI technology and devices.
In the 1960's, Dr. Viswanathan created the undergraduate and graduate courses in Solid State Electronics and developed Solid State Electronics as a major field of study at U.C.L.A. both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr. Viswanathan has been honored for excellence in teaching through several awards. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the U.C.L.A. Academic Senate. He was given the Western Electric Fund Award sponsored by A.S.E.E. for excellence in engineering education. He was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award sponsored by the Engineering Alumni Association. One year he was chosen by the U.C.L.A. Alumni Association to be written up as one of the seven faculty members who are outstanding teachers in the campus in a publication that was sent to all undergraduate students. He recently received the Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in December 1997 for his inspirational teaching and for setting up the solid-state electronics curriculum.
Prof. Viswanathan has worked extensively with industry, notably as a founding member and chairman of the Executive Committee of the California MICRO program. He also taught short courses with the UCLA Extension program. He understands the situation of working engineers and is happy to be able to reach them through NTU classes.
Jon Weissman is Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota. Dr. Weissman received his BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1985, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 1989 and 1995, respectively.
Dr. Weissman's research is in the area of distributed systems. His broad interest lies in the area of middleware and systems to support newly emerging applications on distributed networks. Currently, he is working in the areas of Grid Computing, and Intelligent Storage. Dr. Weissman is also interested in pervasive computing and expects to define projects in the near future. He is also affiliated with the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) and the Digital Technology Center (DTC).
Dr. Weissman is Subject Area Editor, Grid and Distributed Computing for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He has also been a member of the program committee for numerous conferences.
Prof. Weissman's courses are very well organized and he has been regularly recognized as an outstanding instructor by Computer Science students at the University of Minnesota. He brings the same dedication to serving students at NTU/Walden.
