Biographical Sketch
Eric Freudenthal, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso
(915) 747-6954
a. Professional Preparation
Undergraduate Institutions
Columbia UniversityElectrical Engineeringno degree
New York UniversityComputer ScienceBA, 1985
Graduate Institutions
New York UniversityComputer ScienceMS, 1995
New York UniversityComputer SciencePh.D. 2003
b. Appointments
2004-presentAssistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso
1986-2004Associate Research Scientist, New York University
1983-1985Engineer, Logic Systems of Saddle Brook, NJ
c. Publications
Education-Related
Eric Freudenthal, Mary "Kay" Roy, Alexandria Ogrey, Tanja Magoc, and Alan Siegel, Media Propelled Computational Thinking, Proc. SIGCSE (ACM).
Eric Freudenthal, Mary K. Roy, Alexandria Nicole Ogrey, Alan Siegel and Ann Q. Gates, CCS-0: A Computational Introduction to Programming, Mathematical Modeling, and Elementary Mechanics, Proc, Frontiers in Education, Fall 2009
Eric Freudenthal, Brian A. Carter and Rafael Escalante, Responding to Java-Centric CS Curricula: The Integration of C into a Course in Computer Organization, Proc, Frontiers in Education, Fall 2009.
Eric Freudenthal, Mary K. Roy, Alexandria N. Ogrey, and Ann Q. Gates, A Creatively Engaging Introductory Course in Computer Science that Gently Motivates Exploration of Advanced Mathematical Concepts, Proc. ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2009.
Eric Freudenthal, Pilar Gonzalez, Olga Kosheleva, Mary Kay Roy, and Ann Q.Gates,ACreatively Engaging Introductory Course in Computer Science thatMotivatesFuture Study andandAssists with Career Choices at a Minority Serving Institution,Proc. ASEE Annual Conference, June 2008
Unrelated
Steven Gutstein, Olac Fuentes and Eric Freudenthal,Knowledge Transfer in DeepConvolutionalNeural Nets, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools
Michael Freedman, Eric Freudenthal, and David Mazières, Democratizing Content Publication with CoralWeb. In Proc. NSDI 2004
Eric Freudenthal, Tracy Pesin, Lawrence Port, Edward Keenan, and Vijay Karamcheti, dRBAC: Distributed Role-based Access Control for Dynamic Environments. In Proc. 22nd ICDCS, pp411-420, July 2002.
Eric Freudenthal, Eugene Lavely, William Pierson, Mariam Argyle, Joshua Fishman, ATR Complexity and Template Set Size. In Proc. SPIE #4382, Fall 2001, pp. 286-297..
Eric Freudenthal and Allan Gottlieb, Process Coordination with Fetch & Increment. In Proc. ASPLOS IV, Santa Clara, California, April 1991, pp. 260-268.
d. Synergistic Activities
1. I enjoy designing systems that achieve robustness through adaptation to changing constraints. My recent focus has been in decentralized systems, including mechanisms for expressing and enforcing security relationships among mutually distrustful administrative domains, securely deploying mobile agents, and the efficient dissemination of on-line content. I have also lead or contributed to research efforts in electrical design, shared-memory architecture, inter-process coordination, and computer vision. I contributed to the Coral CDN, a peer-to-peer content distribution network that “democratizes” web publication. Coral handles a substantial amount of web traffic that otherwise would saturate under-provisioned web servers.
2. For more than a decade through Spring 2004, I held the position of Associate Research Scientist at NYU’s Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. There, I developed a commitment to integrating education with research. This was recognized in Spring 2003 when I was awarded the Institute’s “Henning Biermann” award for my record of engaging undergraduates and masters’ candidates in my research.
3. I joined the faculty at UTEP in Fall 2004 and quickly became engaged in the evaluation and refinement of curriculum. At present, I am PI of an NSF-funded research effort investigating the effectiveness of an engaging freshman-level media-centric programming course to motivate interest in continued study of computer science and mathematics that is influencing the design of a college wide “engineering-zero” course for entering students. I also am co-PI of a CPATH that is extending this course to include examples from biology and finance with a hope of encouraging interdisciplinary studies. I am chair of the Faculty Senate’s Student Organizations and Activities committee, and am a member of the Computer Science department’s graduate curriculum committee, and am responsible for the orientation of incoming CS undergraduates. I spearheaded reforms of our systems curriculum which were identified as successful by industrial recruiters who previously had expressed concern.
4. While at UTEP, I received three faculty gift awards($30,000, from IBM, and two $30,000 from TI). My research in computer systems is also funded by the Center for Defense Systems Research and White Sands Missile Range. At NYU, I led efforts (but was not eligible to officially serve as PI) that were awarded research contracts and a Phase II STTR from DARPA to investigate image recognition in synthetic aperture radar.
5. I am also active in socially constructive efforts outside of my employment. In New York, I was a mentor for “at risk” urban teens in a program administered by New York Cares. I also participate in a project that teaches relationship skills to juveniles incarcerated in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
6. I was nominated and selected to participate in NAE’s Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium, Spring 2009.
7. Board member, the Association of Computer Educators in Texas.
e. Collaborators & Other Affiliations
Collaborators and Co-Editors (within 48 months)
Brian Carter (UTEP), Martine Cerberio (UTEP), Olac Fuentes (UTEP), Michael Freedman (NYU and Stanford), Ann Q. Gates (UTEP), Allan Gottlieb (NYU), Steve Gutstein (UTEP), David Herrera (UTEP), Vijay Karamcheti (New York University), Frederick Kautz (UTEP), Zvi Kedem (NYU), Vladik Kreinovich (UTEP), Luc Longpre (UTEP), David Mazieres (NYU), Francois Modave (UTEP), Alexandria Ogrey (UTEP), Robert Preston (UTEP), Rodrigo Romero (UTEP), Christian Servin (UTEP), Alan Siegel (NYU), Brian Sneed (UTEP), Ryan Spring (UTEP), Patricia Teller (UTEP), Sherri Terrell (UTEP), Arthur Walton (UTEP)
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors
Allan Gottlieb, Benjamin Goldberg, Vijay Karamcheti, Alan Siegel (all NYU)
David Mazieres (NYU and Stanford)
Advisees
Current
Graduate: Steven Gutstein, Somdev Chatterje, Herbey Zepeda, Avranil Tah, Punya Prakash, Bivas Das, BS: Alexandra Ogrey, Arthur Walton, Frederick Kautz, Manuel Corona
Former:
Graduate: Samson Dev, David Mackower, Edward Keenan, Vitus Lorenz-Meyer, Tracy Pesin, Lawrence Port, Vitus Lorenz-Meyers, Christian Servin, Herbey Zepeda
BA/BS: Christian Almazan, Hesham Hassan,Nicholas West, Brian Carter, Robert Preston, Carlos Natividad, Michael Havens