Santa Clara University

About Us - Part-Time Faculty

 
 

Suchitra Abel, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Courses taught: COEN 271

Areas of expertise: Cognitive science; artificial intelligence; human-computer interaction

 
 

undefined
Office Hours: TBD

Nirdosh Bhatnagar, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Courses taught: COEN 237, COEN 239, COEN 320, COEN 329

Areas of expertise: Computer networks; protocols; network design and analysis

Nirdosh Bhatnagar has worked in both the computer communication and computer systems industries in Silicon Valley. He earned his M.S. in operations research, and M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering form Stanford University, California. He has been on the adjunct faculty of Santa Clara University, Santa Clara in the departments of applied mathematics and computer engineering since 2002.

 
 

Dorr Clark

Lecturer

Courses taught: COEN 284, COEN 387, AMTH 247

Areas of expertise: Dorr H. Clark has worked in Silicon Valley as a software engineer, architect, and software manager for over 25 years, including four different startups.  His areas of expertise include UNIX kernels, Open Source UNIX, Networking, and Software Management. 

MS Applied Mathematics   Santa Clara Univ.  '87
BS Mathematics               Santa Clara Univ.  '83
AA Psychology                 Foothill College.   '81
Phi Beta Kappa

 
 

Alexander Clemm, Ph.D.

Courses taught: COEN 234

Areas of expertise: Network management

Dr. Alexander Clemm is a senior architect with Cisco, where he is currently responsible for the architectural direction of embedded management (management interfaces, embedded intelligence, instrumentation tooling) for Cisco IOS devices. He has been involved with integrated management of networked systems and services since 1990. He has provided technical leadership for many leading-edge network management development, architecture, and engineering efforts from original conception to delivery to the customer. On the academic side, Alex is on the committees of the most relevant management-related conferences; he served as as technical program co-chair of IM 2005 and as general co-chair of Manweek 2007 and DSOM 2007. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 papers, filed more than 20 patents, and is author of the CiscoPress book “Network Management Fundamentals”. Alex holds a Ph.D. from the University of Munich, Germany, and a M.S. from Stanford University.

 
 

Rance DeLong

Lecturer

Courses taught: COEN 226, COEN 253, COEN 256

Areas of expertise: Computer security; information assurance

 
 

Ahmed K. Ezzat, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Courses taught: COEN 235, COEN 236

Areas of expertise: Distributed computing and algorithms; network design and analysis; operating systems; databases

 
 

Radhika S. Grover, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Courses taught: COEN 44, COEN 127, COEN 210, COEN 338

Areas of expertise: Scalable video-on-demand systems; algorithms for video storage and retrieval; matrix multiplication and distributed arithmetic

 
 

Ray Kehoe

Lecturer

Courses taught: COEN 285, COEN 287, COEN 485

Areas of expertise: Software engineering; project management

 
 

Keyvan Moataghed, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Courses taught: COEN 329, COEN 331, COEN 332, COEN 335

Areas of expertise: Network communication protocols; quality of service, and mobile wireless broadband technologies.

Dr. Keyvan Moataghed has a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from Technical University of Graz in Austria. He holds patents in Voice and quality of service in packet switched networks. He has been the manager and technical lead at MCI World Com, British Telecom, and Cisco Systems. His research interests include high performance networks, Broadband communications, and wireless multimedia networks. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE organizations.

 
 

Mike Parsa, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Courses taught: COEN 237, COEN 315, COEN 337

Areas of expertise: Networking; wireless; multimedia; operating systems

 
 

Bob Riemenschneider

Lecturer

Courses taught: COEN 260, COEN 385, COEN 386

Areas of expertise: Formal methods; software architecture; dependable systems; Lisp; logic programming

 
 

undefined
Phone: 650 320-9100

Giovanni Seni, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Courses taught: COEN 281

Office: Off Campus: 480 San Antonio Road, Suite 235, Mountain View, CA 94040
Hours:  By appointment

Areas of expertise: Area: Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Mobile Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision, Data Compression, Data Visualization.

Giovanni Seni has over 13 years R&D experience in statistical pattern recognition, data mining, and human-computer interaction applications. He has been a member of the technical staff at large technology companies such as Daimler-Benz and Motorola, and contributor at smaller companies in Silicon Valley. He holds four US patents and has published over twenty conference and journal articles. Giovanni is currently a Pattern Recognition Scientist at Anchor Intelligence, a start-up offering analytics solutions to the online advertising industry.

Education
B.S., 1988, Los Andes University, Bogota, Colombia
M.S.., 1992, SUNY Buffalo
Ph.D., 1995, SUNY Buffalo

More information »

 
 

Amr Zaky, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Courses taught: COEN 210, COEN 218, COEN 313

Areas of expertise: Computer architecture