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Meet the VTMIT Faculty Teaching this Year |
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Shawn Bohner
Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science
Teaches CS5704 - Software Engineering
Email: sbohner@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-1132
Faculty Homepage
Ph.D., 1995, IT and Eng., George Mason University, M.S., 1986, Comp. Sci., Johns Hopkins University, B.S., 1984, Comp. Sci., University of Maryland
He is a META Group Research Fellow and is a recognized authority on software impact analysis, maintenance, modernization, and reengineering. His current research interests include software maintenance and evolution, software impact analysis, information technology measurement (performance and value), and software architecture. |
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Luiz DaSilva
Associate Professor, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Teaches ECE4500 - Fundamentals of Computer Systems
Email: ldasilva@vt.edu
Phone: 703-387-6039
Faculty Homepage
Ph.D., 1998, M.S., 1988, B.S., 1986, Electrical Engineering, The University of Kansas
Luiz A. DaSilva joined Virginia Tech’s Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998, where he is now an Associate Professor. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Kansas and previously worked for IBM for six years. Dr. DaSilva's research interests focus on performance and resource management in wireless mobile networks and Quality of Service (QoS) issues. He is currently involved in funded research projects in the areas of QoS interoperability and policy-based network management, application of game theory to model mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs), heterogeneous MANETs employing smart antennas, and pervasive computing, among others. Dr. DaSilva has published over forty refereed papers in journals and major conferences in the communications and computer areas. Current and recent research sponsors include NSF, the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Customs Services, Intel, and Microsoft Research, among others. He is a member of the Center for Wireless Communications (CWT), associated faculty at the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG), and a member of the Governing Board of the NSF-funded Integrated Research and Education in Advanced Networking (IREAN) program at Virginia Tech. Dr. DaSilva is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ASEE, and a past recipient of the ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education New Faculty Fellow award. He frequently teaches distance and distributed courses on network architecture and protocols and on mobile and wireless networking.
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Nathaniel Davis
Professor, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Teaches ECE5504 - Computer Architecture
Email: ndavis@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-4821
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Dr. Davis received his Ph.D. in from Purdue University in 1985. He has received a MSEE and BSEE from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research interests include Advanced computer architectures, Parallel processing, Interconnection networks, Computer networks, Computer system simulation and performance modeling, Embedded microprocessor systems.
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Csaba Egyhazy
Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science
Teaches CS5044 - Object-Oriented Programming with Java
Email: cegyhazy@vt.edu
Phone: 703-538-8372
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Dr. Egyhazy's research interests include: Heterogeneous distributed DBMS; transparent access to multiple database systems; query optimization in distributed database systems; database security. |
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William Frakes
Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science
Teaches CS5704 - Software Engineering
Email: wfrakes@vt.edu
Phone: 703-538-8497
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Ph.D., 1982, Information Transfer, Syracuse University, M.S., 1982, Statistics, Syracuse, M.S., Library Science, Univerity of Illinois, University, B.L.S., 1978, Liberal Studies, University of Louisville.
Dr. Frakes has been manager of the Software Reuse Research Group at the
Software Productivity Consortium, and supervisor of the Intelligent Systems Research Group at Bell Laboratories. He has many technical papers and books including Software Engineering in the UNIX/C Environment, and Information Retrieval: Data Structure and Algorithms. |
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Parviz Ghandforoush
Professor, Dept of Business Information Technology
Teaches BIT5594 - Web-Based Applications & Electronic Commerce
Email: parviz@vt.edu
Phone: 703-538-8410
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Parviz Ghandforoush is Professor of Business Information Technology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He received the Ph.D. in Management Science at Texas Tech University, MBA at the University of Texas in Austin, and B.S. Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas in Austin. Dr. Ghandforoush has over 25 years of research, teaching, administrative, and professional experience in information technology and management science and is the co-author of the textbook Management Science for Decision Makers. He has published in refereed academic and professional publications in the areas of decision and optimization models, decision support systems in complex environments, sequencing and scheduling, staffing models, and simulation of organizational operations. His research has appeared in such journals as, Computers & Operational Research, Journal on Computing, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Systems Management, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Industrial Engineering Transactions, European Journal of Operations Research, The International Journal of Management Science, Naval Research Logistics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Computers & Information Sciences, Computers & Industrial Engineering, and others. He has extensive involvement in professional development, consulting and research activities in areas of executive decision models, efficiency models and optimization, strategic implications of information technology, decision support systems, and electronic commerce. Parviz Ghandforoush is the Managing Director of the Master of Information Technology Program and Director of MBA Program at Virginia Tech. |
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Philip Gibbs
Instructor, Dept of Management
Teaches MGT5804 - Strategic Leadership in Technology-Based Organizations
Email: gibbsp@wlu.edu
Phone: 540-817-0272
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is founder and president of Renaissance Management Consulting,
specializing in strategic planning and financial evaluation for new business
ventures and for business restructuring.
He has over 15 years of management and consulting experience,
including Hay Consultants, where he was a principal in the firm's strategy
practice and positions in R&D, operations, marketing, finance, and business
planning with FMC and Allied Signal. Dr. Gibbs also has over 10 years
experience in academia. He was formerly a professor at College of William &
Mary where he taught graduate and executive courses on corporate strategy
and mergers and acquisitions. He has also served on the faculty at
Georgetown University, Boston University, and M.I.T. Sloan School.
Dr. Gibbs earned a Ph.D. in management from the Sloan School of Management
at MIT, an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago, and a BSc in
chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. |
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Devi Gnyawali
Associate Professor, Dept of Management
Teaches MGT5804 - Strategic Leadership in Technology-Based Organizations
Email: devi@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-5021
Faculty Homepage
Devi R. Gnyawali got his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Department of Management, Virginia Tech.
Research: Dr. Gnyawali's research interests include effects of inter-firm networks on firm innovation, competitive actions and response, knowledge acquisition and development, and international strategy. His research also examines how organizations create and use knowledge, and how managers' cognition affects outcomes such as innovation and new product development. Dr. Gnyawali's research has been published in various prestigious journals: Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Management Learning, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Strategy & Leadership, among others. His research has won awards from the Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Society, and National Meetings of the Academy of Management. He has presented papers at various national and international conferences.
Teaching: Dr. Gnyawali’s primary areas of teaching are strategic management, technology management, and international management. Before joining Virginia Tech in 1997, Dr. Gnyawali taught at the University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia University. At Virginia Tech, he has taught classes to undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and Ph.D. students and has received award for Teaching Excellence. He has also taught in a distant learning environment (on-line and televised programs) in the Masters of Information Technology program and part-time MBA program. He also teaches in management and professional development programs. He takes students to Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea in summer. The study abroad program includes visits to several world-class companies such as Toyota, Sony, Canon, Omron, GE, Disney, Boeing, Coca-Cola, ALCOA, Samsung, Hyundai, and POSCO and many cultural and historical sites.
Business and Consulting Experience: Dr. Gnyawali has many years of international experience and has traveled extensively. He has managed business consulting service organizations, and served as a consultant for government and non-government organizations in several countries including Germany, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malawi, and Nepal. He has helped several organizations to plan and implement entrepreneurship development programs and trained trainers and entrepreneurs worldwide. He has also trained and consulted on various aspects of strategic management.
Professional Service: Dr. Gnyawali served on the Membership Committee of the Academy of Management for five years. He reviews papers for various journals including Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Management Studies. He also reviews papers for national meetings of the Academy of Management and has received Outstanding Reviewer Award. At Virginia Tech, Dr. Gnyawali serves on several committees such as the International Programs Committee, East Asia Group, and Commission on Outreach and International Affairs.
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Denis Gracanin
Assistant Professor, Dept of Computer Science
Teaches CS5044 - Object-Oriented Programming with Java
Email: gracanin@vt.edu
Phone: 703-538-8378
Faculty Homepage
Dr. Gracanin received his Ph.D. in from the University of Louisiana - Lafayette in 1994. He has received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana - Lafayette, and a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Dr. Gracanin's current research interests include distributed virtual environments, virtual reality and multimedia applications, modeling and simulation. He is the Director of the Distributed Virtual Environments Research Laboratory, an IEEE Senior Member, and a 2004 NASA Summer Faculty Fellow.
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Donald E. Hatfield
Associate Professor, Dept of Management
Teaches MGT5804 - Strategic Leadership in Technology-Based Organizations
Email: hatfield@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-4687
Faculty Homepage
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Hatfield's research has been published in The Journal of Industrial Economics, Strategic Management Journal, The Journal of Business Ethics, The Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and others. Dr. Hatfield has presented papers internationally for the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Institute for Operations Research & the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Southern Economic Association, and to several universities' seminar series. He has served as the Regional Representative for South Region of the Academy of Management's Business Policy & Strategy Division. Dr. Hatfield has served as a reviewer for the Strategic Management Journal, Organizational Science, Academy of Management Executive and the Annual Academy of Management--where he has been recognized as one of the top reviewers.
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Chang-Tien Lu
Assistant Professor, Dept of Computer Science
Teaches CS5504 - Computer Architecture
Email: ctlu@cs.vt.edu
Phone: 703-538-8373
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Dr. Lu's research interests are in spatial databases; data mining; data warehousing;
geographic information systems; and transportation data visualization
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Lance Matheson
Associate Professor, Dept of Business Information Technology
Teaches BIT5495 - DSS Design and Implementation
Email: lance@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-5804
Faculty Homepage
Dr. Matheson received the Ph.D. in Management Science, MBA, and BS in Chemistry from the University of Washington. He has also been an engineer and production manager for several electronics and metal finishing companies. His primary research interests are in electronic data interchange, the application of new technologies to education and the use of artificial intelligence to solve manufacturing problems.
His most recent research focuses on the economics of Electronic Data Interchange and alternative methods of conducting business to business electronic commerce.
He is a Past-President for the Southeastern Chapter of the Decision Sciences Institute and has held many board positions for the organization. He was the Information Systems Specialist for the 1992 National Decision Sciences Institute meeting. He has been a consultant to the National Institute of Justice in the area of drug testing methodology. Dr. Matheson is the author of the book Statistical Quality Control in High Reliability Systems. He has published in IIE Transactions, Operations Research, Decision Sciences, Naval Research Logistics, International Journal of Production Research, and others. Dr. Matheson has received the R. B. Pamplin College of Business Certificate of Teaching Excellence and the Virginia Tech University Certificate of Teaching Excellence. He is a member of DSI.
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Scott F. Midkiff
Professor, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Teaches ECE5565 - Network Architecture and Protocols I
Email: midkiff@vt.edu
Phone: 703-387-6043
Faculty Homepage
Ph.D., 1985, Duke University, M.S.E.E., 1980, Stanford University, B.S.E.,
1979, Duke University.
Dr. Midkiff's research interests include protocols for mobile and wireless
networks, network security in mobile and wireless environments, performance
evaluation and stimulation, network services for pervasive computing,
rapidly-deployed and interoperable communications for public safety, and
network support for teaching and learning. Sponsors of his research have
included the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. Customs Service,
Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, Catalyst Communications
Technologies, IBM, Intel, Microsoft Research, and Newport News Shipbuilding,
among others. He is a past recipient of an IBM University Partnership
Program grant and a Digital Equipment Corporation Faculty Program/Incentives
for Excellence grant.
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Mark Oliva
Adjunct Professor, Dept of Computer Science
Teaches CS5244 - Internet Software
Email: moliva@vt.edu
Phone: 703-323-7724
Faculty Homepage
Dr. Oliva is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
He is also President and CTO of Sotron Solutions, LLC, a software
products and consulting company founded in 1999 focused on integrated
network solutions for the personal user, home office, and small office.
He has been a management/technology consultant for firms including GE
and Booz Allen Hamilton, and served as a technical director for Impact
Innovations Group and iQuest Solutions. He specializes in managing
high-quality large-scale software development efforts, and his research
interests are primarily in the realm of information security and secure
computing. He has been teaching accredited graduate-level courses and
workshops since 1992, including Image Processing, Statistical Analysis,
Software Design and Quality, and Internet Software. He holds an MS in
Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, a BSE
in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania's Moore
School, and a BS in Economics (with concentration in Marketing) from the
University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. |
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Cliff Ragsdale
Bank of America Professor, Dept of Business Information Technology
Teaches BIT5474 - Computer-Based Decision Support Systems
Email: crags@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-4697
Faculty Homepage
Ph.D., 1989, Management Science and Information Technology, University
of Georgia, M.B.A., 1983, B.A., Psychology, 1980, University of Central
Florida. Dr. Ragsdale's primary research interests involve applications of artificial intelligence and quantitative modeling techniques to managerial
decision making problems using computers. He is author of the textbook
Spreadsheet Modeling and Decision Analysis, and has published widely in various academic journals. He is a member of DSI, INFORMS and AMCIS. |
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Clay Richardson
Instructor, Dept of Computer Science
Teaches CS5044 - Object-Oriented Programming with Java
Email: clay@vt.edu
Phone: 703-453-7700
Faculty Homepage
Clay is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science of the College of Engineering and a software consultant currently serving as the lead architect/developer of an enterprise integration project. He has been developing distributed solutions with Java since 1997, including a distributed, heterogeneous epidemiological study system, a web services driven portal, a web-based functional database management tool suite, and several database visualization solutions. He has held various positions including Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Software Engineer, Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead and Sr. Architect. He has both led development teams and served as technical oversight ("honest broker") for development teams. He has previously taught Software Design and Quality and Internet Software in the MIT program. He is a graduate of the Masters of Information Technology program and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering (with a minor in Psychology) from the Virginia Military Institute. He is a co-author of Professional Java, JDK 5 Edition, Professional Portal Development with Open Source Tools and More Java Pitfalls. |
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Tarun Sen
Professor, Associate Dean - Pamplin College of Business, Dept of Accounting & Information Systems
Teaches ACIS5504 - Information Systems Design & Database Concepts
Email: tksen@vt.edu
Phone: 703-538-8413
Faculty Homepage
Ph.D., 1985, Management Information Systems , University of Iowa, M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, 1979, B.S., Mechanical Engineering,1977, Indian Institute of Technology , Kanpur.
Dr. Sen has over 20 years of professional and research experience in the field of management information systems. He has worked extensively in the areas of database management systems, business intelligence systems, design of graphical user interfaces, knowledge management systems using model bases, analysis and design of inventory control systems, design and development of decision support systems, and strategic management of IT applications. He is widely published in these areas and has been engaged in several consulting, research, and professional development programs. |
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Linda Tegarden
Associate Professor, Dept of Management
Teaches MGT5804 - Strategic Leadership in Technology-Based Organizations
Email: tegarden@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-5065
Faculty Homepage
Ph.D., 1992, University of Colorado at Boulder, M.B.A., Indiana State University, B.A., Michigan State University. Dr. Tegarden's research interests include the impact of technological change on firm behavior and performance, the role of networks in technology-driven environments, strategy process and strategic planning effectiveness in high velocity environments, the characteristics that enhance or increase survival and performance of new business start-ups in emerging and technology-driven environments, the effectiveness of cognitive mapping in strategic planning processes, and contingency theory as it applies to strategy/environment/technology fit. She has published in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Applied Business Research, Journal of High Technology Management Research, and Journal of Managerial Issues. She also regularly presents papers at the National Academy of Management Meetings and Strategic Management Society Meetings. |
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William Tranter
Professor, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Teaches ECE5984 - Introduction to Wireless Communication
Email: btranter@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-2961
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is the Bradley Professor of Communications in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr.Tranter received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama in 1963, 1964, and 1970, respectively. Immediately before joining the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group at Virginia Tech as Associate Director, Dr. Tranter was the Schlumberger Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri, Rolla. Professor Tranter is an active researcher in the area of digital communications systems and digital signal processing. His current area of interest is computer-aided design and performance evaluation of communication systems and simulation techniques with applications to wireless cellular systems. He is actively developing strategies for hardware/software co-simulation. In addition, he is performing research on efficient simulation and computer-aided design techniques for wideband CDMA systems based on hidden Markov channel models. He is studying a number of issues including model robustness and convergence rates. The National Science Foundation, the Schlumberger Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, McDonnell-Douglas, GE Aerospace, LG Electronics, Raytheon, and Batelle Memorial Laboratories have supported his research efforts. |
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