Executive Director: Prof Felisa Vázquez-Abad (Hunter College).

I am currently Professor of Computer Science at Hunter College. My research lies at the intersection between mathematics, engineering and computer science. I am mainly interested in the optimization of complex systems under uncertainty, primarily to understand, control and / or build efficient self- regulated learning systems. I obtained a B.Sc. in Physics in 1983 and a M.Sc. in Statistics and Operations Research in 1984 from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In 1989 I obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University. After four years doing postdoctoral research at Brown University and later at the INRS-Telecommunications in Montreal, Canada, I became a professor of computer science at Université de Montréal, Canada in 1993. In 2004 I became a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, until 2009, when I moved to CUNY.

Deputy Director: Prof Ted Brown (Queens College).

Ted Brown is the Executive Director of the CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development, a faculty member in the Computer Science Department at Queens College and the Graduate Center. He was the Executive Officer of the PhD program at CUNY for over 13 years until  July 2013. His areas of research are analytic modeling, simulation methodology and design and analysis of algorithms. He has been collecting several large data bases and has become interested in their analysis.

Lead for Outreach: Prof Saad Mneimneh (Hunter College).

Lead for Research: Prof Amotz Bar-Noy (Brooklyn College).

Amotz Bar-Noy received the B.Sc. degree (1981) in Mathematics and Computer Science (summa cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree (1987) in Computer Science, both from the Hebrew University, Israel. He was a post-doc fellow in Stanford University, California (1987-1989); a Research Staff Member with IBM Research Center, New York (1989-1996); an associate Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department of Tel Aviv University, Israel (1996-2001); a Principal Technical Staff Member with AT&T research labs in New Jersey (1999-2001). Since 2002 he is a Professor with the Computer and Information Science Department of Brooklyn College - CUNY and with the Computer Science Department of the Graduate Center of CUNY. He has published more than eighty refereed journal articles and more than one hundred refereed conference and workshop articles. He served as a program committee member for many conferences. He was an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) journal for about 4 years and an editor for the Wireless Networks (WINET) journal for about 10 years and served as a guest editor for two special issues one of Wireless Network and one of Mobile Networking and Applications. He served as a co-chair of the ALGOSENSORS 2012 Symposium. In 2011, he was awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for being an author of an outstanding paper on the principles of

distributed computing, whose significance and impact on the theory and/or practice of distributed computing has been evident for at least a decade.

His field of expertise belongs to the Theoretical Computer Science community and to the Networking community. The scope of his research is to bridge the gap between these two communities.

Lead for Education: (position open)

Program Manager: (position open)