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CLASnotes - Winter 2005
The latest version of CLAS notes is available for download in the newsletters section.

Faculty & Staff

Nancy Tinkham Assistant Professor & Chair nlt@elvis.rowan.edu ext 3869
Debra Coughlin Administrative Assistant coughlin@rowan.edu ext 4805
Khaled Amer Assistant Professor amer@rowan.edu ext 3624
Ganesh Baliga Professor baliga@rowan.edu ext 3890
Seth Bergmann Associate Professor bergmann@rowan.edu ext 3197
Joel Crichlow Associate Professor crichlow@rowan.edu ext 3278
Stephen Hartley Associate Professor hartley@rowan.edu ext 3895
Gabriela Hristescu Associate Professor hristescu@rowan.edu ext 3893
Vasil Hnatyshin Assistant Professor hnatyshin@rowan.edu ext 4758
Jennifer Kay Associate Professor kay@rowan.edu ext 4593
Andrea Lobo Associate Professor lobo@rowan.edu ext 3815
Darren Provine Instructor kilroy@elvis.rowan.edu ext 3891
John Robinson Instructor robinsonj@rowan.edu ext 3687
Adrian Rusu Assistant Professor rusu@rowan.edu ext 3884
Jerome Spencer Instructor spencerj@rowan.edu ext 4732
Don Stone Associate Professor stone@rowan.edu N/A
Bernard Sypniewski Assistant Professor syp@eticomm.net 756-5400
Leigh Weiss Associate Professor weiss@rowan.edu ext 3892
Jianning Xu Professor xu@rowan.edu ext 3198

 

Khaled Amer, Assistant Professor; B.S., Cairo Univ.; M.S., Concordia Univ.; M.S., Ph.D., Univ. of Waterloo.

    Research Interests: Theoretical Computer Science.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x3624
    • Email: amer@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Intro. to Programming with Visual Basic, Discrete Math, Foundations of Computer Science, Linear Algebra, Algorithms, Priciples of Digital Computing.

Ganesh Baliga, Professor; B. Tech., M. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay); M.S., Ph.D., University of Delaware.

    Research Interests: Machine Learning, Object Oriented Design & Modeling, Web Computing.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x3890
    • Email: baliga@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: CS Senior Project, Operating Systems, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Object Oriented Design, Data Communications & Networking, Data Structures, Computer Science & Programming, Introduction to Programming.

Seth Bergmann, Associate Professor; B.S., Rensselear Polytechnic Institute; M.S.E., University of Pennsylvania.

    Research Interests:Programming Language Design and Implementation, Data Locality in Sorting Algorithms.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x3197
    • Email: bergmann@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Computer Science & Programming, Web Programming, Intro to Programming, Priciples of Software Engineering, Compiler Design, Principles of Digital Computers, Data Structures & Algorithms , Programming Languages, Computer Organization, Computer Architecture, Foundations of Computer Science, Senior Project, Computer Literacy, Programming in COBOL, Numerical Analysis.

Joel Crichlow, Associate Professor; B.A. (Mathematics), University of Guyana; M.Sc., Ph.D. (Mathematics), University of the West Indies.

    Research Interests: Distributed Systems: Management of replicas, transaction processing protocols.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x3278
    • Email: crichlow@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Computer Science & Programming, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Distributed Systems.

Stephen Hartley, Associate Professor; B.A.(Mathematics), Washington College; MCS, PhD (computer science), University of Virginia.

    Research Interests:Computer science education, concurrent programming, operating systems.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x3895
    • Email: hartley@elvis.rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Computer Science and Programming, Computers and Society, Operating Systems, Power Java, Senior Project, Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming.

Gabriela Hristescu, Gabriela Hristescu, Associate Professor; B.S., Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest; MS, Rutgers; PH.D, Rutgers.

    Research Interests:Computational Biology, Databases, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x3893
    • Email: hristescu@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Computer Science and Programming, Introduction to Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Structures for Engineers, Database Systems: Theory and Programming, Senior Project.

Vasil Hnatyshin, Assistant Professor; B.S., Widener University ; MS, University of Delaware; PH.D, University of Delaware.

    Research Interests:Service Differentiation and Quality of Service in IP and Wireless networks, Network Management, Simulation of Network Performance, Mobile ad hoc Networks, Wireless Technology, Computer and Network Security, Distributed Systems, Intelligent Software Agents, Object-Oriented languages.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x4758
    • Email: hnatyshin@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Computer Science and Programming, Introduction to Programming.

Jennifer Kay, Associate Professor; Ph.D(Computer Science), Carnegie Mellon University; M.S.(Computer Science) Carnegie Mellon; B.S.E.(Comp. Sci. & Engineering) University of Pennsylvania; B.A.(Math) University of Pennsylvania.

    Research Interests:Robotics, AI, HCI, Computers & Elderly, Cryptography, Computer Security.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x4593
    • Email: kay@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Computer Science & Programming, Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Robotics.

Andrea Lobo, Associate Professor; B.S., University of Costa Rica; M.S. and Ph.D. (CIS), University of Delaware.

    Research Interests:Wireless Networks, Protocols & Applications, Internet Protocols & Applications, Computer Network Performance, Systems Modeling & Simulation.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x3815
    • Email: lobo@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Computer Science & Programming, Design & Analysis of Algorithms, Data Communications & Networking, Wireless Networks, Operating Systems.

Darren Provine, Instructor; B.S., University of Maryland-College Park; M.A., Rowan University.

    Research Interests:Human-Computer Interaction.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x3891
    • Email: kilroy@elvis.rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Computer Literacy, Computer Lab Techniques, Computer Organization, Web Programming, Introduction to Programming with Visual Basic.

John Robinson , Instructor & Unix Systems Administrator; B.S., Rowan University; M.S., New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ed.D., Rowan University

    Research Interests: Computer Networking, Web/CGI Programming, Object-Oriented Design & Programming, Wireless Technology, Hardware Design/VHDL Programming, Computer Science Education.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x3687
    • Email: robinsonj@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Computer Science & Programming, Introduction to Programming, Introduction to Scientific Programming, Computing Environments, Java for Object Oriented Programmers, Enterprise Computing I & II.

Adrian Rusu , Assistant Professor; B.S., M.S. University of Craiova, Romania; M.S., Ph.D. University at Buffalo.

    Research Interests: Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Graph Theory, Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Computer Security, Digital Watermarking.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x3884
    • Email: rusu@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught:Algorithms and Data Structures, Introduction to Programming, Database Systems, Software Engineering.

Jerry Spencer, Professional Staff; Masters, Cornell University.

    Research Interests:N/A.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x4732
    • Email: spencerj@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Computer Literacy, Computing Environments, Computers & Society.

Don Stone, Associate Professor (Retired); Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania; M.S.E.E(C.S), University of Pennsylvania; Bachelor of Engineering Physics, Cornell University.

    Research Interests:Software Engineering, Algorithm Animation, C.S. Education, hypertext, hypermedia.

Bernard Paul Sypniewski, Assistant Professor; J.D., Seton Hall University.

    Research Interests:Computational Linguistics, AI, Bioacoustics.
    • Office: Broadway & Cooper Street, Camden 08102.
    • Phone: 756-5400
    • Email: syp@eticomm.net
    • Courses Taught: Computer Literacy, Computing Environments, Intro to Programmings.

Nancy Tinkham, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Duke University; B.S.(Mathematics) Wheaton College.

    Research Interests:Inductive Logic Programming, Computational Linguistics.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept #309.
    • Phone: x3869
    • Email: nlt@elvis.rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: AI, Theory of Computing, Programming Languages, Foundations of Computer Science, Programming in Ada, Data Structures, Computer Science & Programming, Introduction to Programming.

Leigh Weiss, Associate Professor; B.S., M.S., Buffalo State University.

    Research Interests: FPGA, Design
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept.
    • Phone: x3892
    • Email: weiss@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Computing Environments, Principles of Digital Computers.

Jianning Xu, Professor; Ph.D and M.S., Stevens Institute of Technology; B.S. Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

    Research Interests:Computer Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Mathematical Morphology.
    • Office: Robinson Computer Science Dept #306.
    • Phone: x3198
    • Email: xu@rowan.edu
    • Courses Taught: Computer Organization, Computer Lab Techniques, Principle of Digital Computers, Computer Architecture, Foundations of Computer Science, Operating Systems, Computer Science & Programming, Data Structures, Computer Graphics, Compiler Design, Intro to Programming.