Staff Reporter
AS its third academic year begins, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar has announced the addition of new faculty and staff.
Joining this semester are John Barr, associate teaching professor; Dr Lynn Carter, principal fellow; Iliano Cervesato, researcher; Erik Helin, visiting lecturer; Dr Sham Kekre, associate teaching professor; Dr Ian Lacey, associate teaching professor; Andrew Leung, course assistant; Dr Alan Montgomery, associate professor; Douglas Perkins, instructor; Silvia Pessoa, visiting lecturer; Kiran Vemuru, director of the Arabic digital library and Paul Zagieboylo, instructor.
The institute also announced the appointment of John Robertson as assistant dean for academic affairs. Robertson has served as the director for undergraduate education since the university opened in 2004.
Barr will teach data structured algorithms at Carnegie Mellon Qatar. He has been a computer science professor at Ithaca College in New York since 1991.
Dr Carter has been a senior researcher and educator at Carnegie Mellon University for 17 years. He will teach software engineering foundations at Carnegie Mellon Qatar.
Cervesato has held appointments at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Princeton, Tulane and George Mason. He has worked for ITT Industries at the Naval Research Laboratory and for Deductive Solutions. His current research interests encompass computer security, computational logic, programming languages, temporal reasoning and user productivity applications. At Carnegie Mellon Qatar he will teach principles of programming.
Helin will take Spanish classes.
Dr Kekre will be teaching introduction to business, accounting and production and operations management at Carnegie Mellon Qatar. Kekre has been a professor at the University of Rochester for 15 years.
Dr Lacey joins Carnegie Mellon Qatar as an associate teaching professor, after spending 22 years commissioned in the British Royal Navy during which he held a variety of appointments in education, training and information systems. He will be teaching management information systems.
Leung is a Carnegie Mellon graduate with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He will be working as a teaching assistant for macroeconomics, marketing and introduction to business.
Dr Montgomery has been an associate professor of marketing at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business since 1999. In Qatar he will teach statistics and marketing.
Perkins will teach the logic and proofs course while pursuing a master’s degree in logic and computation from Carnegie Mellon’s Philosophy Department.
Pessoa is a doctoral student in the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. She will teach Spanish at Carnegie Mellon Qatar.
Vemuru comes to Carnegie Mellon Qatar from Bangalore, India where he worked as the director of planning at the Universal Digital Library for Carnegie Mellon’s Million Book Project. He has signed on to direct the Arabic digital library project.
Zagieboylo graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. He will teach principles of programming at Carnegie Mellon Qatar.
The institute in Qatar is the first international branch campus operated by Carnegie Mellon University, a private American research university that is regularly ranked among the best in the world. In August 2004 Carnegie Mellon Qatar began offering its highly regarded undergraduate programmes in business administration and computer science at the invitation of the Qatar Foundation.
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