Biography

Matthew Fluet is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. During his graduate studies, he had the opportunity to spend two and a half years visiting the Computer Science department at Harvard University. Prior to joining RIT, he spent three years as a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago.

Dr. Fluet's main research interests lie with the design and implementation of programming languages, particularly compiler technology, concurrency and parallelism, type systems, and program semantics. His thesis work focused on type systems for and applications of region-based memory management, a particular scheme for managing dynamically allocated data. With colleagues at the University of Chicago, he leads the Manticore project, an effort to design and implement a new functional programming language to exploit next generation multicore computer systems. He has also begun to explore high-level concurrency programming, leading to the development of a novel abstraction, dubbed transactional events, which combines first-class synchronous message-passing events with all-or-nothing transactions. Finally, he continues to lead the development of MLton, a whole-program optimizing compiler for Standard ML; he is particularly interested in understanding how MLton's compilation model can be extended to richer input languages without sacrificing performance.

Balancing formal theory and practical implementation is a principle that Dr. Fluet plans to continue to practice in his future research endeavors.

Dr. Matthew Fluet

Assistant Professor

Research Areas

Programming languages
Compilers
Parallelism
Type systems

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Biography

Xumin Liu is an Assistant Professor in the department of computer science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in computer science from Virginia Tech. Her research interests lie in the general field of data management with special focuses on service computing and change management in service oriented enterprises. Dr. Liu.s research has been published in various international journals and conferences, such as the International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB journal), IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing (CollaborateCom), etc. Dr. Liu also frequently serves as a program committee member for various international conferences and workshops.

Dr. Xumin Liu

Assistant Professor

Research Areas

Data Management
Web-based databases
Web services
Semantic Web

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The Computer Science Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) consists of leaders from the industrial and government sectors who help the department to ensure that "real-world" concerns are incorporated into our programs. One of the primary goals of the board is to help the department to create curricula that continues to meet the changing needs of industry.

CS Industrial Advisory Board Members

David Cok
Associate VP of Technology
Gramma Tech

Robert W. Duncan
Manager Flight Software
ITT Space Systems Division

Timothy Fossum
Chair & Professor
SUNY College at Potsdam

James Janicki
Vice President Engineering
Real Time Enterprises

Lou James
Chief Engineer
Veramark Technologies

Julianne Klie
Executive
Veritor Executive

Paul Monette
Thomson Reuters

David Oran
Cisco Fellow
Cisco Systems

Douglas Phair
Technology Evangelist
MITRE

John Quitter
Software Platforms Manager
Xerox

Janice Rivenburg
Next Generation Solutions, LLC

David Wagner
President and CEO
Vanteon Corporation

Biography

Paul Tymann is Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has taught both basic and advanced programming techniques for over 20 years. Professor Tymann has authored several books including .Modern Software Development Using Java.

His initial research focused on the development of algorithms for parallel computers, but more recently has focused on bioinformatics. Prior to entering academia, Professor Tymann worked in industry developing control software for point of sale terminals. Since entering academia, he has maintained an active external consulting schedule. His most recent consultancy was to assist in the design and development of an inventory management system, being written by a software development company in Edinburgh Scotland.

For the past five years he has worked in the area of bioinformatics and has completed joint software development projects at the University of Rochester and Rutgers University. Professor Tymann is a member of the AP Computer Science Development Committee and has served as a reader for the AP exam for several years. In addition to teaching in the United States, Professor Tymann has taught at the University of Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe and at the University of Osnabrück in Germany.

Paul Tymann

Professor and Chair

Research Areas

High Performance Computing
Bioinformatics

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