Dean Oscar Garcia
ogarcia@unt.edu

Before coming to the University of North Texas as Founding Dean of its new College of Engineering, Dr. Oscar N. Garcia was Distinguished NCR Chair Professor and Computer Science and Engineering Department Chair at Wright State University in Dayton, OH. He had previously served as Director of the Interactive Systems Program in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation, his second tour of duty with NSF after having served years before as Director for Engineering in the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate. Prior to this, Dr. Garcia was full professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the George Washington University and has been Charter Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. Dr. Garcia's recent research has dealt with topics in complexity, bioinformatics, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, expert systems, and software engineering. He developed courses popular in the US and Japan in artificial intelligence and expert systems. His earlier areas of research are robust speech recognition, computer architecture and parallel processing, testing of digital circuits, and arithmetic coding theory. He holds Fellow membership in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has received the Merwin Award of the Computer Society and the Emberson Award of the IEEE. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Garcia received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the North Carolina State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He is a past president of the IEEE Computer Society and has served on the IEEE Board of Directors. He is currently Secretary of the Society, Chairman of its Awards Committee and a Member of its Board of Governors.

More detailed information can be found on Dr. Garcia's Vita