ITTC Overview -- Victor Frost, ITTC Director
ITTC IT Overview -- Timouthy Johnson, Executive Director for Operations and Applied
Technology
List of Speakers:
Perry Alexander
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
"Rosetta: Reducing the Cost of System Level Information"
Perry Alexander joined KU in 1999 after seven years at the University of Cincinnati, where he earned multiple
teaching awards and was twice voted Professor of the Year. He received his doctorate, master's, and two bachelor's
degrees from the University of Kansas. Alexander teaches software engineering, digital systems design, and systems
development. His primary research interest is the integration of formal methods and modeling in software and hardware
systems development. Alexander also advises ITTC's Systems Level Design Group, which concentrates on application of
formal methods and automated reasoning to software and hardware system synthesis and analysis. The group's research
builds on work begun at the University of Cincinnati.
David Andrews
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
"Embedded and Real-Time Distributed Systems"
David Andrews comes to KU from the University of Arkansas, where he taught for eight years and chaired the combined
departments of computer science and computer engineering. He has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University and a master's from
the University of Missouri. Andrews worked for eight years as a senior systems engineer and research engineer for General
Electric. His research focuses on computer architecture, distributed and parallel systems, and embedded and real-time
systems. He has co-authored three books on topics related to computer-aided engineering and design, multiprocessor memory
resource allocation, and the C* programming language. At KU, Andrews teaches courses in digital design, computer
architecture, compilers, and operating systems.
Jerry James
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
"Construction & Integration of Distributed Systems"
Jerry James came to KU from the Distributed Systems Laboratory (DSL) at the University of California at Santa
Barbara, where he received his Ph.D. There he spent five years researching reliable distributed objects. His work
included derivation of fault tolerance limits on objects, investigation into the effects of model assumptions, and the
construction of a compositional proof methodology. Before joining DSL, James taught introductory programming courses in
languages like Java and Lisp. Prior to that, he received his master's from Brigham Young University. At KU, James teaches
advanced operating systems and implementation of concurrent systems. His research interests include concurrent objects,
fault tolerance, and consistency of shared data in distributed systems.
Stephen Lohmeier
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
"Wireless Communications and Radar for the New Millenium"
Stephen Lohmeier joined KU in 1999 after nine years experience working with radars and remote sensing. Before
joining KU, he was with Dynetics, Inc. in Alabama, for three years. There he worked on surveillance and tracking radar
problems related to air and missile defense. Lohmeier received his Ph.D. and master's degrees from the University of
Massachusetts. While completing his Ph.D., he worked with the Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL) at the
University of Massachusetts. At MIRSL he designed, built, and used millimeter-wave, polarimetric radars to solve various
problems in remote sensing. At KU, Lohmeier teaches control systems, electromagnetics, and adaptive arrays. His personal
research interests include remote sensing of clouds and rain, polarimetric radar, and bistatic radar.
Hossein Saiedian
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
"Improving the Quality of Software Engineering and Management for Kansas City Metro Industries"
Hossein Saiedian joins KU from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where he headed the University Committee on
Research. In 2000, he received the UNO Excellence in Teaching Award and the Excellence in Research Award. And in 1998,
the Journal of Systems and Software included him on its list of the top 10 software engineer scholars. He has a Ph.D. in
computer science from Kansas State University and a master's in mathematics from Emporia State University. His main
research interest is in software engineering, including process improvement and object-oriented development. As Associate
Chair, Saiedian aims to develop the software engineering program at KU and to expand the electrical engineering and
computer science programs at the Edwards campus in Overland Park.
Scott Hinton
Chair of KU's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
"Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments"
Scott Hinton became chairman of KU's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department in 1999. Prior to
joining KU, he was with the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he was Hudson Moore, Jr., Professor of Electrical
Engineering. He previously held the title of BNR/NSERC Professor of Photonic Systems at McGill University, in Montreal,
Canada. He holds an M.S.E.E. from Purdue University and a B.S.E.E. from Brigham Young University. He is a fellow of both
the Optical Society of America and of IEEE. His research interests include photonic switching systems, free-space optical
interconnects, optical backplanes, and technology-enhanced learning environments. Before entering academia, Hinton worked
for 12 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories; there he managed the development and advancement of free-space photonic switching
systems.
