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EVENTS

  • CIS Department Prospective Student Visits
    Learn about majors/minors in CIS. Enhance your technology skills and your job opportunities! Visit a CIS course with a student.
    Contact Wendy Urban to arrange your visit.

COLLOQUIA




Distinguished Lecture Series

  • The Distinguished Lecture Series will resume in Fall 2012

NEWS

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Jie Wu named Carnell Professor
    Jie Wu, chair and professor in the Department of Computer & Information Sciences, has been named Laura H. Carnell Professor of Computer Engineering by President Ann Weaver Hart and the Academic Affairs Committee of the Temple University Board of Trustees. Wu will be the fifth Carnell Professor in the College of Science and Technology. The appointment is effective July 1, 2012

    Prior to joining CST, Wu was a program director at the National Science Foundation. From 1989 to 2009, he held an appointment in the Department of Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University,where he rose to the rank of Distinguished Professor. His research interests include wireless networks, mobile computing, routing protocols, fault-tolerant computing and interconnection networks. Wu’s publications include more than 550 papers in scholarly journals and conference proceedings.

    Established in 1985 by the Temple University Board of Trustees, Carnell professorships honor Temple’s first dean, Laura H. Carnell, who worked alongside founder Russell H. Conwell from 1893 until his death in 1925, most of that time as Temple’s chief administrator.

    “I am honored to be included among such a distinguished and inspiring group of academics within the College of Science and Technology and across Temple University,” says Wu.

  • Computer and Information Sciences has 3 new full-time faculty that joined the department in the summer of 2010. Each of these faculty brings a strong teaching and research portfolio to enhance the departments programs.

    Dr. Shan Lin has joined CIS as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, as of July 2010. Professor Lin received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 2010. He received an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 2007. In 2004, he received the B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Graduating #1 out of 113).

    Professor Lin worked in the laboratory of his adviser, Jack Stankovic, contributing to system design in cyber physical systems, reliable wireless communication, and networked information systems. He received an SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) Scholar Research Award for his research project "Reliable Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks".

    Shan Lin's primary research interests are in the areas of cyber physical systems, networked embedded systems, and wireless sensor networks. He has been investigating feedback control based approaches to networked system designs, including wireless networking and system composition. He is also involved in building wireless sensing systems for pervasive medical care and fire fighting.

    His major papers have been published in ACM MobiSys, ACM SenSys, IEEE RTSS, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM TECS, and ACM IPSN. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

    Dr. Lin taught a graduate course in Computer Architecture in the Fall 2010 and will be contributing to the undergraduate and graduate courses in systems and advanced programming.

    Abdallah KhreishahDr. Abdallah Khreishah comes to the CIS department from Purdue University. He received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue in 2010 and 2006, respectively. Dr. Khreishah also received the B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Jordan University f Science and Technology in 2004. His appointment is as Assistant Professor (Teaching/Instructional) and brings a broad experience in teaching. His teaching interests and experiences are in networking, discrete mathematics, programming and databases.

    Professor Khreishah is also an active in research, with major publications in network coding. His broader research interests include cloud computing, network security, and large scale database systems. Dr. Khreishah has publications in ACM/IEEE ToN, IEEE JSAC, and IEEE INFOCOM as well as other journals.

    At Temple, Dr. Khreishah has taught courses in databases, digital mathematics and ad-hoc networking.

    Dr. C. Chiu Tan comes to the CIS department as a Research Assistant Professor from the College of William and Mary. He received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary in 2010. He also received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004, and a B.A. in Economics (Honors) from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004.

    Professor Tan's research interests are in wireless networks, security and privacy and ubiquitous computing. Dr. Tan has papers published in IEEE and ACM Transactions as well as many conferences,
    including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, and ACM MobiHoc.

    This year, Dr. Tan has been teaching networks and communications at the undergraduate level and a graduate course in systems and information security.