Full-Time Faculty and Staff
Darren Atkinson
Associate Professor
Dr. Atkinson started teaching at Santa Clara in the fall of 2000. He is also the faculty advisor for Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the computing honor society. His general research interests are in the areas of software engineering and compilers, and usually teaches courses related to all of those areas: software engineering, compilers, data structures, and programming languages.
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Ron Danielson
Associate Professor, Vice Provost, and Chief Information Officer
Ron Danielson is Vice Provost and CIO at Santa Clara University, leading the Information Services Division in providing computing, communication, instructional technology, and library services. He also co-heads Santa Clara’s Information Technology Leadership Program, an educational program on leadership and soft skills offered through the Executive Development Center. Currently, much of his attention is focused on construction of a new Learning Commons, Technology Center and Library for the University, scheduled to open in spring 2008. Ron is also an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include the impact of information technology on organizations and human-computer interaction.
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Ruth E. Davis
Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
Dr. Davis joined the University in 1979, her dissertation "Generating Correct Programs From Logic Specifications" won the 1979 ACM Doctoral Forum Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Science. Her research has been focused in functional and logic programming, formal methods in software engineering, and more recently in efforts to increase the participation and impact of women in engineering. Her books include a whimsical though rigorous introductory computing book Thinking About TLC-Logo, with John Allen, and the textbook Truth, Deduction, and Computation. She serves on the steering committee of the Santa Clara University Center for Science, Technology, and Society, and as faculty advisor for the award-winning SCU student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers. Her activities to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in engineering include work with: the Summer Engineering Seminar at SCU, Women of Vision for the Tech Museum of Innovation, the Society of Women Engineers, GetSET, and the Institute for Women and Technology. She is also on advisory panels for AAUW’s STEMplates Publication Dissemination Project, and for "Real Science!" - a local PBS series.
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Silvia Figueira
Associate Professor
Silvia M. Figueira received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, and the Ph.D. degree also in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego. She was involved in R&D as a member of the technical staff of NCE/UFRJ (Computing Center of UFRJ) from 1985 to 1991. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University. Her research interests are in the areas of parallel and grid computing, particularly in performance modeling, performance prediction, and resource scheduling.
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JoAnne Holliday
Associate Professor
JoAnne Holliday received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and her M.S. degree from Northeastern University. She got the PhD degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has been on the faculty of the Santa Clara University Computer Engineering department since September 2000. Her research interests include distributed systems, mobile computing, wireless networks and replicated databases.
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Daniel W. Lewis
Associate Professor
Dr. Lewis’s efforts led to the creation of the Computer Engineering department in 1988, where he served as Chair until January of 2007. During his tenure, Dr. Lewis established unique co-op and study abroad options that fit within the normal undergraduate four-year plan, certificate programs for working professionals, and a cross-disciplinary minor in Information Technology and Society that has become one of the most popular minors on campus. Dr. Lewis is author of the book, “Fundamentals of Embedded Software”, which won national recognition in the 2003 Alpha Sigma Nu book competition. He also served on the advisory board for the National Youth Leadership Forum on Technology.
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Qiang Li
Associate Professor
Dr. Qiang Li received his B.S. degree from Jiaotong University in China. He received both his M.S. and Ph.D degrees from Florida International University. His research areas include networked storage systems, parallel and distributed processing, and operating systems. Dr. Li is currently on leave for the 2007–2008 academic year.
Nam Ling
Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development
Professor Nam ling received a B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Computer Engineering, from the University of Louisiana. Professor Ling is currently a full Professor with the Department of Computer Engineering and the Associate Dean (Research and Faculty Development) for the School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. He is also a Consulting Professor and Honorary Advisor to the National University of Singapore (NUS Overseas Colleges) and a Guest Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China). He has served as Visiting Professor/Consultant/Scientist/Scholar to institutions such as the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) (Singapore), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), National Dong Hwa University (Taiwan), and National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan). Professor Ling has more than 130 publications in the fields of video/image coding, video decoder design, video communications, and systolic arrays.
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Rani Mikkilineni
Lecturer
Dr. Rani Mikkilineni received her B.S. degree from Maris Stella College, India. She received her Ph.D. from Santa Clara University. Her areas of interests include object-oriented design methodologies, software engineering, and database systems.
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Apryl Roberts
Administrative Assistant
Apryl Roberts joined the university staff in 2004. Prior to working at SCU, Apryl worked for 6 years as a principal’s secretary, and later as the registrar at Independence High School in San Jose. She graduated summa cum laude from Mission College in 1990, with a degree in Liberal Arts.
Thomas Schwarz S.J.
Associate Professor
Dr. Thomas Schwarz, S.J. is a Jesuit priest and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in Computer Science as well as a doctorate (Dr. Rer. Nat.) in Mathematics from the FernUniversität Hagen in Germany. He is an ACM member, a senior member of IEEE, a member of the Computer Org. of IEEE, and a member of the High Tech Crime Investigators Association (HTCIA).
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Weijia Shang
Associate Professor and Chair
Dr. Weijia Shang received the BS degree in electrical and computer engineering from Changsha Institute of Technology (The National University of Defense Technology), China in 1982, and MS and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1984 and 1990, respectively. Her research interests include parallel processing, computer architecture, algorithm theory, special-purpose VLSI bit-level processor array design, parallelizing compiler techniques, and nonlinear programming. She received scholarship for studying abroad from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Research Initiation Award and CAREER award from National Science Foundation, respectively. She is a member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.
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