Johnnie W. Baker

Service

 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Association of Computing Machinery – 1981 to present
IEEE Computer Society – 1981 to present
Sigma Xi – elected to this scientific research honorary in 1968
CVACM (Cuyahoga Valley ACM) Chapter – 1975- 1996
SIGSAM (Special Interest Group in Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation) 1980-84
American Mathematical Society 1967-1981
Mathematical Association of America 1967- 1981

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Editorships, Refereeing, Reviews, and Evaluations


Member of the program committee of the workshop on the IEEE Parallel Computing and
Optimization Workshop (PCO) that meets at International Parallel and Distributed Processing
Symposium ((IPDPS). Its first meeting will be at IPDPS in May 2011 and I will review at least 3
papers for PCO-11.

In January 2009, I served as an outside reviewer for Professor Frank Drews for his tenure review
and application for promotion to associate professor in the EECS Department of Ohio University.

On the International Program Committee member for IASTED International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN) since 2004.

On the International Program Committee for IASTED International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS) since 1998.

I have regularly been on the organizing or steering committee of a number of workshops or conferences. Among other duties, I have refereed a lot of papers on an annual basis for these workshops and conferences:
The Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
International Journal of Computers and Application, Parallel and Distributed System
The International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)
Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation
The International Conference on Parallel Processing, and
CONPAR.

Pre-revision survey for Addison Wesley for the graduate textbook, Introduction to Parallel
Computing by Grama/Kumar/Gupta/Karypis in June 2007. This is probably the most widely
adopted book currently for graduate courses for parallel computing.

In August 2007, Nance College of Business Administration at Cleveland State University
requested that I make an in-depth review of the vita and papers of Dr. Victor Matos, with regard
to his qualifications for promotion to full professor in their Department of Computer and
Information Science.

Editor for the journal, Parallel Processing Letters, published by World Scientific Publishers.
1991–2006. Handled a large number of papers annually

In September 2005, served as an outside evaluator for the promotion of Dr. Julie Barnes to full
professor in the Computer Science Department at Bowling Green University.

Served as an outside reviewer for Professor Yi Pan in August 2004 for his promotion to full
professor in the Computer Science Department at Georgia State University. Professor Yi Pan had
over 100 refereed publications in professional journals and conferences.

In February 2003, evaluated Stefan D. Bruda’s application for a Canadian Academic Research
grant. He is a professor at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

In 1995, I was one of two referees selected to evaluate and make recommendations concerning
some problems at the Computer Science Department at Central Michigan University (CMU).
We were requested by their Dean of Arts and Sciences due to some long-term and severe internal
department problems
Our report provided an in-depth analysis of the departmental problems. Additionally, the report contained specific and detailed recommendations for corrective actions for both the department and the college administration to follow in dealing with these department problems.

Further, we identified specific and severe penalties that we recommended be applied if the
remedial policies adopted continued to be ignored by the majority of the faculty.A year later, the chair of this department informed us that the department had made a major recovery, thanks to our extensive and very strict recommendations.

Have served as a referee for a number of advanced textbooks including the following well-known
texts:
Parallel Computing: Theory and Practice by Michael Quinn (McGraw Hill. 1994),
Artificial Intelligence by Patrick Winston (Addison Wesley, 1992),
Artificial Intelligence: A Knowledge-Based Approach by Morris Firebaugh (Boyd & Fraser,
1988),
Distributed Algorithms by Nancy Lynch (Morgan & Kaufmann, 1996).
 
Was one of the two principal referees for the advanced textbook, Parallel Computation: Models
and Methods by Selim Akl (Prentice Hall, published 1997).

One of three editors for a 1998 special issue of the journal, Parallel Processing Letters, about
computing on bus-based architectures.

Organizing Professional Conferences and Workshops
2010 Member of the Steering Committee for the Workshop on Large-Scale Parallel Processing,
(LSPP) at the IEEE/ACM sponsored International Parallel and Distributed Processing
Symposium (IPDPS), Atlanta, Georgia, April 23, 2009

2009 Member of the Steering Committee for the Workshop on Large-Scale Parallel Processing,
(LSPP) at the IEEE/ACM sponsored International Parallel and Distributed Processing
Symposium (IPDPS), Rome, Italy, May 29, 2009.

2008 Member of the Steering Committee for the Workshop on Large-Scale Parallel Processing,
(OSPP) at the IEEE/ACM sponsored International Parallel and Distributed Processing
Symposium (IPDPS), Miami FL, April 18, 2008.

2007 Member of the original 2007 Organizing Committee for the Large Scale Parallel Processing
(LSPP) Workshop that meets annually at the IEEE/ACM sponsored International Parallel and
Distributed Symposium (IPDPS). This workshop was created to replace and broaden the
scope of the earlier Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing.

2007 Co-chair of a special session on Massively Parallel Processing at the Workshop on Advances
in Parallel and Distributed Computing Models, held at the IEEE International Parallel and
Distributed Processing Symposium, Long Beach CA, March 26, 2007.

2005 Member of Organizing Committee and Steering Committee, Workshop on Massively Parallel
Processing, held at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium,
Denver Colorado, April 8, 2005.

2004 General Co-chair (with Robert Walker), IEEE Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing,
held at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Santa Fe, NM, April
30, 2004

2003 General Co-chair (with Robert Walker), IEEE Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing,
held at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Nice France, April
26, 2003.

2002 Founder and General Chair, IEEE Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing, held at the
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

1999 Vice-Chair of the 1999 Midwest Workshop on Parallel Processing (MWPP’99).

1997-9 Steering Committee Member for the IASTED International Conferences on Parallel and
Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS).

1995 The American Mathematical Society Regional Meeting, Kent State University, Co-organizer
with Meera Sitharam of a special session titled “Foundations and Mathematical Aspects of
Computer Science”.

1985 International Conference on Banach Spaces and Classical Analysis at Kent State University.
Organized a special session titled “Using Computers in Mathematical Research”.

1979 International Conference in Banach Space Theory, Co-director of conference, Kent State
University.

1977 Conference on Recent Advances in Theory of Banach Spaces, Co-director of conference,
Kent State University.

1977 Regional Seminar in Functional Analysis, Co-director of seminar, Kent State University

1976 Conference on Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions, Co-director of conference, Kent State
University.

1974-7 Organized and coordinated a regional topology conference that met 4-6 times each year,
alternating meeting locations between Kent and Pittsburgh.

Work for the Cuyahoga Valley ACM Chapter (Local Chapter serving NE Ohio, unfortunately disbanded in 1996):
1984-96 Professional Development Seminar Organizing Committee
1978-96 Executive Committee Member
1980-81 President of Chapter
1979-80 Vice President of Chapter
1975-77 Chairman, Constitutional Committee
1975-96 Member
1975 Charter Member and Founding Committee

Work for Science Fairs and Junior Academy of Science:
2003 Grand Award Judge, International Science & Engineering Fair, Cleveland, OH
1988-96 Judge, State of Ohio Science Fairs
1984 Judge, All Portage County Science Fair


SERVICE AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL

2010 Member of the Internal Review Committee for Department of Mathematical Sciences as
part of their internal review process to prepare for an external review.

1997-99 Member of the committee that recommended the creation of a new joint graduate degree
involving technology, computer science, and physics.

1997-99 Member of a committee to promote collaboration between the School of Fashion Design
and the Computer Science program. One result of this collaboration was the use of virtual moving models in their annualfashion design show in Spring 1998 to model actual garments designed by the School of Fashion Design.

1998 Member of a commission appointed by the Faculty Senate Executive Committee to
investigate possible violations of faculty academic freedom due to the procedures used at
KSU to implement the OBR (Ohio Board of Regents) mandated changes in graduate
programs at KSU.

1998 Member of the Search Committee for the Director of Academic Computing and
Technology.

1996-98 Served as a member of the University Council on Technology Committee, representing
Dr. Jones, Dean of Research and Graduate Studies.

1995-99 Played a key role in obtaining Ohio Board of Regents (OBR) funding as the departmental
representative to the meetings involving the four departments with Ph.D. producing
computer science programs at Ohio public universities.

Purpose: Respond to the OBR Directives for the Ph.D. programs in CS to work
together to enhance the technological competitiveness of the entire State of Ohio.

Met regularly with representatives from the computer science programs at The Ohio
State University, University of Cincinnati, and Wright State University.

The proposals from this group to the OBR and State resulted in special funding from
the State of over $1 million yearly enhancement to each program.
The initial proposal was for a $4 million yearly enhancement to be shared equally
between the four departments. It was approved by the OBR and included in their
proposal to the State. Eventually, this proposal was funded at the 50% level, and was
divided equally between the four departments.

1991-94 Coordinated joint meetings between the information systems faculty in the Department of
Administrative Sciences and the Computer Science faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Purpose: Coordinate our computer-related courses and activities so as to enhance both  programs
and to possibly create a new joint computer science degree program.

1988-89 Evaluated for the Department and Graduate College a proposal by U. of Miami to
establish a master’s program in information science and operations research.

1984-85 Member of the Recommending Committee for a proposed graduate program in computing
applications in Library Sciences.

1975-76 Coordinated the development of a proposal to the Educational Policies Committee (EPC)
for a computer science program at Kent State University that would take advantage of any
computer-related strengths in the Departments of Mathematics, Physics and Administrative Science. I scheduled regular meetings between representatives of these three departments. The main goals of these meetings were to

Propose a computer science degree program with a minimal cost to the University by utilizing the mathematical and computation expertise in the Mathematics Department, the hardware expertise in the Physics Department, and the data processing and the business computing expertise in the Administrative Science Department.

 Avoid any conflicts and duplications of effort between new proposed program and the
existing Administrative Sciences program in data processing.

Develop a proposal that would be supported by these three departments and would
eliminate their current competition for different portions of this program.

Although a great deal of time was consumed, the end result was the creation of the two
separate but complimentary programs in computer science and information systems that
currently exist.

1975 Member Education Steering Committee.

1974-75 Member of EPC Computer Science Department Proposal Review Committee.

Charge: Recommend the future structure of a computer science program at Kent State
University.
SERVICE AT THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES LEVEL

Committees:

2007-09 Member of the College Advisory Committee (CAC).

1990-91 Appointed by the Dean to coordinate creation of the Departmental Chair Review
Committee.

1990-91 Member of the College Advisory Committee (CAC).

1989-90 Member of the Tenure and Promotion Committee in the Geography Department.

1975-76 Chairman, Computer  Science Curriculum Development Committee, College of Arts&
Sciences.

1974-77 Member of Computer Science Committee, College of Arts& Sciences.

1974-75 Member Search Committee for Dean, College of Arts & Sciences.

SERVICE AT THE DEPARTMENTAL LEVEL
Committees

COMMENT: The name of the department that I belonged to has changed three times since I arrived
in 1973. The initial name was “Department of Mathematics”. To show the increasing role of
computer science in the department, this name was first changed to “Mathematical Sciences” and
later to “Mathematics and Computer Science”. In July 2001, I chose to join the newly created
“Department of Computer Science”.
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2011 Chair of the Colloquium Committee and member of the Industrial Affiliates Committee

2010 Member of the Colloquium Committee and Industrial Affiliates Committee

2009 As CAC Representative, presided over the organization of the Chairperson Review
Committee and served as an elected member of the College Advisory Committee.

2008-9 Member of the OBR Budget Committee and the Colloquium Committee

2007-9 Department Representative to the College Advisory Committee (CAC) and continued to
serve while on sabbatical in Spring 2008.

2001-9 Member of the Computer Science FAC

2007-8 Member of the OBR Budget Committee and the Handbook Revision Committee and
continued to serve while on sabbatical in Spring 2008.

2006-7 Member of the OBR Budget Committee, the Colloquium Committee, and the Handbook
Revision Committee

2005-6 Chair of the OBR Budget Committee and a member of the Colloqium Committee

2001-4 Founding Chair of the Department of Computer Science. Starting Computer Science as a new department required disentangling records from the Mathematics Department, hiring office staff, establishing protocals and procedures for the department, building a committee and governance structure, etc. - an amazing amount of work.

1997-00 Chair of the committee to establish a non-traditional computer science LER (Liberal
Education Requirement) course in the Science category at KSU.

1995 Preparation of the Self-Study Document of our computer science program that was
required by the Ohio Board of Regents for their manddated review of Ph.D. programs in
computer science.

Played a major role in coordinating, preparing and revising the report.
Based on this Self-Study, our program was passed without any additional questions or
conditions, something that was not true of the other CS Ph.D. programs in the State
and most other disciplines at KSU.

1993-94 Member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee.

1991-93 Member of the Graduate Studies Committee.

1991 Served on the Departmental Chair Review Committee.

1991 Attended Annual Computer Science Conference as a representative of our Chairman.

1990-00 Member of the Computer Science Curriculum Committee.

1990-00 Computer Science Coordinator and Chair of the Computer Science Advisory Committee.

This position corresponded to an “Assistant Chair for Computer Science” at most
universities and was essential since our department housed mathematics, applied
mathematics, statistics, and computer science.

 Position involved overseeing and coordinating most aspects of the computer science
program, except for financial affairs, and chairing the regular meetings of the
computer science faculty.

To a large extent, the computer science faculty functioned as a “committee of the
whole” for most affairs related to computer science.

Until Fall, 1997, I also handled many of the non-financial duties of the current
computer science graduate coordinator position.

1999-00 Member of the Faculty Search Committee.

1990-00 Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee

1990-91 Coordinated the faculty review of our Chairman and the creation of the Departmental
Chair Review Committee.

1989-90 Member of the Computer Science Faculty Search Committee.

1989 Attended Annual Computer Science Conference at Snowbird as a representative of our
Chairman.

1986-88 Member of Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC).

1986-88 Member of Undergraduate Studies Committee.

1986-87 Helped prepare and make the presentation for a Ph.D. program in Computer Science at
College of Arts & Sciences and the Graduate College.

1984-88 Chairman of Departmental Computer Science Advisory Committee.

1985-86 As chairman of the Computer Science Advisory Committee, directed the curriculum
development for a Ph.D. program in Computer Science.

1984-87 Library representative for Computer Science. Directed a successful effort to establish a
minimally respectable list of journal subscriptions in computer science.

1984-85 Member, CSAC Curriculum Subcommittee.

1982 Member of Algebra Textbook Selection Committee.

1981-83 Member Undergraduate Studies Committee.

1981-82 Chairman, Colloquium Committee.

1981 Member of Search Committee for the 1982 Distinguished Guest Lecturer.

1980-83 Advisor and coach (with Michael Rothstein) of the KSU ACM Programming Team.

1980-83 Member of Graduate Studies Committee.

1980 Member of the textbook Selection Committee for Introduction to Computing and
Intermediate Programming Courses.

1979-96 Advisor to Kent State Student ACM Chapter. I received some help in this duty from Dan
Bennett on our systems staff during the last three years I assumed this duty.

1979 Member of Calculus Textbook Selection Committee.

1977-00 Member of Departmental Computer Science Advisory Committee (CSAC).

1977-82 Regular coordination with Prof. Paul S. Wang and others on implementation of the
additions to the computer science program.

1977-78 Member of Committee on Use of CAI, Calculators, and Computers in Curriculum.

1977-78 Departmental Library Representative.

1978-80 Advisor and coach (with Ms. Grace Bush) of the KSU ACM Programming Team.

1978 Jointly hosted (with Profs. Paul S. Wang, Olaf P. Stackelberg, and Ms. Grace Bush) the

1978-Regional ACM Programming Contest at Kent State University.

1975-77 Mathematical Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee.

1975-76 Search Committee for Assistant Professor Candidates.

1975 Education Steering Committee.

1974-77 Numerous recruitment lectures for our graduate program to colleges in the area and
recruitment lectures for our undergraduate program to high schools in the area.

1974-77 Undergraduate Coordinator.

Directed an extensive revision of a Department of Mathematical Science
undergraduate program establishing both a Computer Science Program and an Applied
Mathematics Degree.

1974-77 Member of Departmental Executive Committee.

1974-76 Chairman Search Committee.

1974-75 Member of EPC Computer Science Department Proposal Review Committee.

Its charge was to recommend the future structure for a computer science program at
Kent State University.

1974 Prepared first graduate studies brochure.

1973-74 Member of Graduate Studies Committee.

1974 Member of committee which designed the Master’s Program for Teachers.

1974 Banquet Lecturer – Pi Mu Epsilon.

SERVICE ON DISSERTATION & THESIS COMMITTEES
(Department, College, and University Levels)


NOTE: The dissertation and thesis committees for my own students are not included here, since they are listed elsewhere..

Dissertation Committees 

(Does not include my own students; A few are missing)

1. Dan Bennett, Tools and Techniques for Locating and Steering Parallel Simulations through
Bifurcation Points, Dept of Computer Science, Advisor: Paul Farrell and Arden Ruttan, October
25, 2010.

2. Sherenez Al-Haj Baddar, Finding Better Sorting Networks, Dept of Computer Science, Advisor:
Kenneth Batcher, April 2, 2009.

3. Francisco Javier Garcia, Three NonLinearProblems on Normed Spaces, Dept. of Math., Advisor:
Richard Aron, Jan. 29, 2007.

4. Hong Wang, Design and Implementation of an FPGA-Based Pipelined Associative SIMD
Processor Array with Specialized Variations for Sequence Comparison and MSIMD Operation,
Advisor, Robert Walker, Nov 2006.

5. Boren Lin, A Novel Resveratrol Analog: it’s Cell Cycle Inhibitory, Pro-Apoptotic and Anti-
Inflammatory Articles on Human Tumor Cells, Dept of Chemistry, Advisor was Chun-che Tsai,
March 22, 2006.

6. Juan Seoane, Chaos and Lineability of Pathological Phenomena in Analysis, Dept. of
Mathematics, Advisor: Richard Aron, March 6, 2006.

7. Gerd Zeibig, Categorical Methods in Functional Analysis, Dept. of Mathematics, Advisor:
Andrew Tonge, June 4, 2004.

8. Berhane Tebuabo Ghaim, On the Geometry of Banach Space Operators, Department of
Mathematics, Advisor: Joseph Diestel in Mathematics, August 2003 (Moderator).

9. Mathew Lesniewski, Polyphenol Inhibition of Herpes Simplex Virus Replication, School of
Biomedical Sciences and Department of Chemistry, Advisor: Dr. Chun-che Tsai, March 20,
2003.

10. Abdallah Muhammed Shuibi, Numerical Methods for Large-Scale Ill-Posed Problems, Advisor:
Lothar Reichel, Dept. of Mathematics,

11. James Chalmers: A Geometric Approach to Bolzman's Law, Advisor: Joseph Diestel, Dept of
Mathematics, 2002, (Moderator).

12. Heather Snell, A New Matrix Method for the Alexander Invariant and the Hosokawa Polynomial,
Advisor: Victor Nicholson, Dept of Mathematics, October 16, 2001, (Moderator).

13. Bao-Qi Feng, Matrix Inequalities, Advisor: Andrew Tonge, Dept of Mathematics, July 3, 2001,
(Moderator).

14. Bryan Lewis: Krylov Subspace Methods for Signals, Systems and Control, Dept. of Mathematics,
Co-Advisors: Lothar Reichel and Danielle Calvetti, Nov. 2, 2000, (Moderator).

15. Ravi Parakulam; Title: Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship Studies of Antiviral Agents,
Advisor was Chun-Che Tsai in Chemistry, 1999.

16. Lianghu Tian, Classification and Feature Extraction of High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing
Images by Neural Networks and Image Processing, Advisor was Jay Lee of Geography, 1998.

17. Cecilia De Souza, Graduate Faculty Representative on the dissertation committee. Advisor:
Richard Aron, Dept. of Mathematics, 1998, (Moderator).

18. Pierre David, Advisor: Randall Brown, Dept of Administrative Sciences, 1998, (Moderator).

19. Stephen L. Scott, A Distributed Heterogeneous Computing Environment, Advisor Jerry Potter,
1996.

20. Koung Goo Lee, Routing Algorithms on Shuffle Exchange Networks, Advisor: Kenneth Batcher,
1995.

21. Jae-Dong Lee, Minimizing Communication in the Bitonic Sort, Advisor: Kenneth Batcher, 1994.

22. Sue Lee, Administrative Science Department, 1991, (Moderator).

23. Chandra Balachandran, The Design of an Expert System Which Could be Used in the Field to
Provide Agricultural Advice on the Problem of Desertification of Land in India, Dept. of
Geography, Advisor: Surinder Bhardwaj. (Served as artificial intelligence technical expert as well
as dissertation committee member, 1989-93).

24. Chandra Asthagiri., An Associative Parallel Compiler for an Associative Computing Language,
Advisor: Jerry Potter, 1991.

25. Barbara Faires, Grothendieck Spaces and Vector Measures, Mathematics Department dissertation
in area of Banach Spaces, Advisor was Joe Diestel, 1973-80.

26. Terry Morrison, Denjoy Integration in Frechet Spaces, Mathematics Department dissertation in
area of Banach Spaces, Advisor: Joe Diestel, 1973-80.

27. Charles Seifert, Averaging in Banach Spaces, Mathematics Department dissertation in area of
Banach Spaces, Advisor: Joe Diestel, 1973-80.

28. Erwin Bobo, unknown title, Probability and Statistics Department at Florida State University,
1970-73.

29. James Lynch, unknown title, Probability and Statistics Department at Florida State University,
1970-73.

Thesis Committees
(list incomplete; does not include my own students):

1. Aruna Vanukuru, Survey of Intrusion Detection Systems, Advisor: Michael Rothstein, June 18,
2010

2. Binamra Dutta, Enterprise Software Metrics: How to Add Business Value, Advisor: Austin
Melton, April 3, 2009

3. N V Praveen Babu Gedela, Measurement and its Historic Content, Department of Computer Science,
Advisor: Austin Melton, October 17, 2008.

4. Amruta Hingane, A POT of Software Metrics: A Physiological Overturn of Software Metrics,
Department of Computer Science, Advisor: Austin Melton, August 19, 2008.
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5. Vamsi Narra, Bayesian Networks and Partial Evaluation, Department. of Computer Science, Advisor:
Austin Melton, March 31, 2008.

6. Swetha Vasudevan, Immune Based Event-Incident Model for Intrusion Detection Systems, Department.
of Computer Science, Advisor: Michael Rothstein, May 22, 2007.

7. Amitabh Pankaj, Survey on Compact Routing on Power Law Graphs, Advisor: Feodor Dragan,
April 19, 2007.

8. Sudipta Bhaduri, Finding a Maximum Clique of a Choral Graph by Removing Minimal Degree
Vertices, Advisor: Feodor Dragan, Computer Science Department., March 2008.

9. Swetha Vasudevan, Immune Based Event-Model for Intrusion Detection System: A Nature
Inspired Approach to Secure Computing, Advisor: Michael Rothstein, Department. of Computer
Science, May 2007.

10. Srikanth Saladi, Modeling Nondeterminism in Program Semantics using Lifted Binary
Multirelations, Advisor: Austin Melton, Department. of Computer Science, March 2007.

11. Rajesh Jadhav, Geometric Routing without Geometry, Advisor: Feodor Dragan, Computer
Science Department., March 2007.

12. Jidesh Soudamini, Galois Connection and Lifted Binary Multirelations for Program Semantics,
Department. of Computer Science, Advisor: Austin Melton, Sept. 2006.

13. Ping Xu, Implementing Three VLDC String Matching Algorithms on an FPGA-Based Associative
SIMD Processor, Computer Science Department, Advisor was Robert Walker, May 2006.

14. Sabegh Singh Virdi, Solving the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) Problem Using the
Associative ASC Processor with Reconfigurable 2D Mesh, Computer Science Department., Advisor:
Robert Walker, March 2006.

15. George Powell, Improvement Algorithms for an Industrial Routing Problem, Computer Science
Department., Advisor: Feodor Dragan, Dec. 2005

16. Amit Borwankar, Nearest Neighbor Embracing Graph (NNEG) as a New Topology for Wireless
Ad-hoc Networks, Computer Science Dept., Advisor: Feodor Dragan, Oct. 2005.

17. Shashikant Shinde, A Lattice on the Set of Program Specifications, Computer Science Department.,
Advisor: Austin Melton, Aug. 2005.

18. Manyu Tang, qMESH, A High Level Tool for Mesh Decimation, Department. of Computer Science,
Advisor: Arden Ruttan, June 2005.

19. Jalpesh Chitalia, Efficient Representation of Data Structures on Associative Processors,
Computer Science Department., Advisor: Robert Walker, Sept. 2004.

20. Kevin Schaffer, Developing a Practical Instruction Set for a RISC-based Associative Processor,
Advisor: Robert Walker, April 2003.

21. Lei Xie, Implementing a Scalable PE Interconnection Network for an FPGA-based Associative
Processor, Advisor: Robert Walker, Department. of Computer Science, March 30, 2004.

22. Boren Lin, Anti-Cancer Activity of Resveratrol Analogs, Advisor: Chun-che Tsai, Department of
Chemistry, 2003.

23. Wen Zhu, Neural Net Classification Efficiency and Accuracy on Image with Different Color
Models, Advisor: Jerry Potter, Department. of Computer Science, March 21, 2002.

24. Meiduo Wu, Implementing the Associative Array for an Associative Processor on FPGA’s,
Advisor: Robert Walker, April 25, 2002.

25. Yanping Wang, Inplementing the Single Instruction Stream Associative Computing Model on
FPGAs: the Architecture, Back, and Compiler, Advisor: Robert Walker, 2001.

26. Chengwei Liu, Performance Modeling and Analysis of Asynchronous Transfer Mode Switches with
Gated Shared Buffer, Advisor: Hassan Peyravi, 2001.

27. Valerian Anderson, Distributed Computational Tools for Comparing Genomes, Computer Science Department., Advisor: Arvind Bansal, 1999

28. Abel Salem, Semantic Operating Systems, Advisor: Jerry Potter, 1998.

29. Gongxiao Hu, Performance of ATM Network in Satellite Communications, Advisor: Hassan
Peyravi, 1997.

30. Robert Smith, Jr., A Methodology and Visual Basic Shell for Process Problem Advising Expert
Systems, Advisor: Jerry Potter, 1997.

31. Dan Stuckey, Advisor: Jerry Potter. 1997.

32. Yujing Bai, Main Memory Database and Transaction Scheduling, Advisor: Will Meilander,
1997.

33. Nickolas Kotran, Printer Driver for a Dye Sublimation Printer, Advisor: Jerry Potter, 1996.

34. Jeffrey Childs, Homonymic Interpretation in the Adaptive Acquisition of Spoken Language,
Advisor: Jerry Potter, 1996.

35. Kathy Taylor, Thesis involved applications of molecular modeling software implemented by my
thesis student, Paul Durand, Department of Chemistry, Advisor was Chun-che Tsai, 1996.

36. Sonia Karkare, Secure E-Mail Architecture using PGP (“Pretty Good Privacy”) for the Timkin
Company, Advisor was Jerry Potter, 1996.

37. Padmanabhan Krishnan, Main Memory DBMS in SIMD Parallel Machines with RAID based I/O,
Advisor: Will Meilander, 1996.

38. Andre Scharkowski, A Design and Implementation of a Program Environment for X Window
System of UNIX, Advisor Jerry Potter, 1995.

39. Susan Bradley, Text Recognition on Engineering Drawings, Advisor: Jerry Potter, 1994.