San Luis Obispo, California - Computer Science Department

Faculty & Staff

Computer Science Faculty & Staff

Faculty | Lecturers | Retired Faculty | Staff | Former Staff

Faculty

John Bellardo — bellardo(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. UC San Diego

Wireless Networks, Networks, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems

Chris Buckalew — buckalew(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Professor, Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin

Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, HCI, Multimedia Systems

Chris Clark — cmclark(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Stanford

Multi-Robot Systems, Atonomous Outdoor and Underwater Navigation, Modular Robots

John Clements — jclement(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Northeastern University

Programming Languages, Program Construction, Programming Environments

Alex Dekhtyar — dekhtyar(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Associate Professor, Ph.D University of Maryland At College Park

Uncertain Reasoning in AI and Logic Programming, Uncertain Reasoning in Databases, Management of XML data, Digital Libraries, Independent Verification and Validation of Software, Information Retrieval and Data Mining

Gene Fisher — gfisher(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Professor, Ph.D. UC Irvine

Software Engineering, Formal Methods, Programming Languages & Environments, Human-Computer Interaction

Hasmik Gharibyan — hghariby(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Professor, Ph.D., Yerevan State University (Republic of Armenia)

Computational Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Theory of Computing

Michael Haungs — mhaungs(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Assistant Professor,, Ph.D., UC Davis

Operating Systems, Networking, Distributed Systems, Computer Architecture

David Janzen — djanzen(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Kansas

Software Engineering, Agile Methods, Object-Oriented Systems, Computer Science Pedagogy

Aaron Keen — akeen(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., UC Davis

Programming Languages, Compilers, Operating Systems, Distributed Computing

Franz Kurfess — fkurfess(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Professor, Ph.D. Technical University of Munich

Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge-Based Systems, Usability

Mei-Ling Liu — mliu(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Professor, Ph.D. UCSB

Distributed Systems, Design Patterns/Protocols/Algorithms, Web Applications, Database

Chris Lupo — clupo(place an 'at' sign here)calpoly.edu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. UC Davis

Code Generation, Compilers, Computer Architecture, Embedded System Design

Phillip Nico — pnico(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Associate Professor, Ph.D. UC Davis

Computer Architecture, Programming Languages, Compilers, Computer Security

Cornel Pokorny — cpokorny(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Professor, Ph.D. Technical University Vienna

Computer Graphics, Graphical User Interfaces, C and UNIX, Numerical Analysis

John Seng — jseng(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., UC San Diego

Computer Architecture, Computer Engineering, Low Power Design

Hugh Smith — husmith(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Michigan State University

Computer Networks, Parallel Systems, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems

Clint Staley — cstaley(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Professor, Ph.D. UCSB

Computer Vision, Robotics, Software Engineering, Web Development, GUI Development

Clark Turner — csturner(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Software Engineering Coordinator, Ph.D. UC Irvine, J.D. University of Maine

Software Engineering, Software Safety, Software Ethics, Software Liability, Small Satelite Communications and Operations

Ignatios Vakalis — ivakalis(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Chair, Computer Science Department, Ph.D. Western Michigan University

Parallel Computing, Computational Science Education, Computational Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Graph Theory, Teaching of Mathematics

Zoë Wood — zwood(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Caltech

Computer Graphics, Geometric Modeling, Scientific Visualization

Lecturers

John Dalbey — jdalbey(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Ph.D. UC Berkeley

Software Engineering, CSC Education, and Technical Rock Climbing

Paul Hatalsky — phatalsk(place an 'at' sign here)calpoly.edu

MS Cal Poly Computer Science

Software Engineering

Mark Hutchenreuther — mhutchen(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

MSE (CPE), Cal State Northridge

Computer Engineering, Software Engineering

Kurt Mammen — kmammen(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

MS Cal Poly

Pattern Recognition, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, Software Engineering

Kevin O'Gorman — kogorman(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara

Operating Systems, Database Query Optimization, Strategy Games, Compilers, Computational Geometry

Nancy Parham — nparham(place an 'at' sign here)falcon.csc.calpoly.edu

MS CSU San Bernardino

Discrete Mathematics

Rob Ross — rross(place an 'at' sign here)calpoly.edu

Ph.D. UC Berkeley

Computational Chemistry

Kurt Voelker — kvoelker(place an 'at' sign here)calpoly.edu

Info forthcoming

Julie Workman — jworkman(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

MSCSC Cal Poly

Software Engineering, GPS

Retired Faculty

Jim Beug — jbeug(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. Ohio State

High level specification of music including algorithmic composition, Information retrieval

Ray Boche — rboche(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Cal Poly 1969-1999

Lois Brady — lbrady(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Cal Poly 1988-2004

Roger Camp — rogercamp(place an 'at' sign here)sbcglobal.net

Cal Poly 1985-1992

Laurian Chirica — lchirica(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Professor, Ph.D. UCLA

Database Systems, Programming Languages and Compilers, Web Applications, Formal Software Specification and Verification

John Connely — jconnely(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. USC

Languages, Systems

Chuck Dana — chdana(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. UCSB

Professional Responsibilities, Programming Languages, Graphical User Interfaces, Software Tools

Joe Grimes — jgrimes(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Professor, Ph.D. Iowa State

Computer Architecture, Communications, Networks, Microprocessors, Algorithms, Scientific Applications. Currently serving as the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Lew Hitchner — hitchner(place an 'at' sign here)acm.org

Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. University of Utah

Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Video Game Graphics, First Year Computer Science Learning

John Hsu — jyhsu(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Cal Poly 1970-2005

Elmo Keller — ekeller(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. Iowa State

Operating Systems

Zane Motteler — zmottel(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Cal Poly 1983-1992

Leonard Myers — lmyers(place an 'at' sign here)calpoly.edu

Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. University of Kansas

AI Specialist, Knowledge Based Systems, Distributed and Parallel Environments, Intelligent Design Systems and Intelligent Systems of Objects

Ron Oliver — sroliver(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Cal Poly 1988-1997

Erika Rogers — erogers(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Cal Poly 1998-2004

Dan Stearns — dstearns(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Associate Professor Emeritus, MSCS Cal Poly

Software Engineering, Computers and Society, Object-Oriented Programming

Dan Stubbs — dstubbs(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Cal Poly 1963-1997

Neil Webre — nwebre(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Cal Poly 1969-1992

Pat Wheatley — pwheatle(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Cal Poly 1970-1998

Staff

Cindy Bitto — cbitto(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Administrative Analyst Specialist

Budget, Assessment, Alumni

Diane Nott — dnott(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Administrative Coordinator

Graduate Program Assistant, Class Scheduling Assistant, Curriculum Support

Greg Porter — glporter(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

UNIX Systems Administrator

Operating Systems Analyst

Byron Smith — bjsmith(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Operating Systems Analyst

Windows XP and Server 2003 Systems Administrator

Former Staff

Alan Bell — abell(place an 'at' sign here)quixnet.net

Tom Cubanski — tcubansk(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Don Erickson — derickso(place an 'at' sign here)csc.calpoly.edu

Gilbert Keas — gkeas(place an 'at' sign here)slonet.org

Ellen Stier — estier(place an 'at' sign here)calpoly.edu

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