Biography

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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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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Manjeet Rege is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology. He received the PhD in Computer Science from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. His research interests lie in the areas of Data Mining, Multimedia Analysis, and Information Retrieval. Dr. Rege's research has been published in various international conferences and journals such as IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), World Wide Web Conference (WWW), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal, and the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal. He also serves regularly on the program committees of various international conferences and workshops.

Dr. Manjeet Rege

Assistant Professor

Research Areas

Database Management
Data Mining
Information Retrieval

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Hank Etlinger is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator of the Department of Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Professor Etlinger has taught primarily introductory programming courses, database courses, courses in software engineering, and courses that focus on professional communication for over thirty years. He helped launch software engineering as a separate discipline at RIT by participating on the task force that drafted the original software engineering degree proposal. In addition, he was a co-investigator for an NSF funded grant as well as an RIT Productivity Grant that that led to the creation of some of the initial software engineering courses and labs. Professor Etlinger is active in reviewing prospective textbooks for major publishers in many areas of computer science, software engineering, mathematics, and technical communications, having produced over 550 such reviews since 1983.

Henry A. Etlinger

Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Associate Professor

Research Areas

Database
Technical Communication

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Richard Zanibbi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, where he directs the Document and Pattern Recognition Laboratory. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Queen's University (Canada), and was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI) in Montreal before coming to RIT. His research interests are in the areas of pattern recognition and machine learning, document recognition, information retrieval, and human-computer interaction.

Prof. Zanibbi's publications include papers in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, as well as international conference proceedings related to document recognition and human-computer interaction. He is the Conference Co-Chair for the 2012 and 2013 SPIE Document Recognition and Retrieval (DRR) conferences. Dr. Zanibbi holds three US patents, and was one of the main contributors to the Freehand Formula Entry System, an influential pen-based equation editing prototype.

Dr. Richard Zanibbi

Associate Professor

Research Areas

Pattern recognition
Machine learning
Document recognition
Human-computer interaction
Programming languages

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Walter was born on Long Island in 1942 and has not yet recovered. His education includes degrees from Wesleyan University (BA, Chemistry), Brandeis University (MS, PhD, Chemistry) and RIT (MS, Computer Science.). After postdocing at MIT he took up full time teaching in 1970 and except for some excursions into academic administration (about 15 years worth) has been at it ever since. He has over 70 publications in the fields of reagent design, chemical education, biochemistry of insect sex pheromones, agricultural expert systems and CS education. He has authored/participated in several successful NSF grants in both science education and science itself.

Currently he is teaching in the networks, operating systems and data base areas and is participating in a grant exploring virtual theater - directing has been his hobby ever since inability to remember the script cut short his acting career (though it did give him many times to exercise his creativity.) He is looking forward to teaching this spring at the RIT campus in Croatia. He has been married to the same woman for 44 years and has two children and five grandchildren, one of who lives with them.

Dr. Walter A. Wolf

Professor

Research Areas

Networks
Operating Systems
Databases

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Phil is a Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Clarkson University (even though he enrolled in Clarkson College of Technology, and attended Clarkson College, the college had three names in four years) and MS in Computer Science from RIT.

Before starting his teaching career, Phil spent four years at IBM working on the packaging tool used to install software on MVS systems. He has been teaching at RIT for 11 years with a short hiatus working in industry developing custom applications. His current interests are in Computer Organization, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Graphics.

Phil White

Professor

Research Areas

CS Education

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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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Sean Strout is a Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a BS and MS from the RIT CS Department. Sean's interests are in Programming Languages, Computer Graphics and Game Programming. Prior to entering academia, Sean worked in industry for 10 years developing firmware for real time print devices.

Sean Strout

Lecturer

Research Areas

Programming Languages
Computer Graphics
Game Programming

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Ben Steele is a Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has a M.S. in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology and a B.A. in Classical Civilization from Wesleyan University.
Starting at Eastman Kodak, he developed microscopic image capture, measurement and analysis systems for manufacturing. As a consultant, he worked on diagnostics and embedded system products for Xerox, Verizon, Plug Power and Optical Gaging Products.
He joined the department in 2005 after a 20 year career. His current interests are in software architecture, program design, programming languages and computing education.

Dr. Ben K. Steele

Lecturer

Research Areas

CS Education

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