Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

B.S., Washington University, 1959
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1966

Research Concentrations

Algorithm engineering
Computer arithmetic and network algorithms
Classification paradigms for emerging disciplines
Developing inventive research tools for solving new problems and independent metrics for judging solution quality

Accomplishments and Activities

Contributed widely cited fundamental results in computer arithmetic and graph algorithms
Author of more than 100 refereed papers on computer arithmetic, graph and network algorithms, random structures, and cluster analysis
Recipient of 12 patents in microprocessor arithmetic unit design and cellular network assignment algorithms
Awarded over 20 years of government, industry, and research funding from NSF, Texas ATP, Texas Instruments, and Cyrix
Consultant in microprocessor design for NSM/Cyrix
Visiting research and teaching positions at the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in the United States, Karlsruhe and Frankfurt, Germany; Aarhus and Odense, Denmark; and Lyon, France
Founding editorial board member of Random Structures and Algorithms, ORSA Journal on Computing, and Journal of Classification
2001 general chair, IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic

Research Philosophy

Our objective is to develop the leaders who will formulate and manage the disciplines and technologies of the future.