Education
Dr. Larry Kerschberg received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio, his M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and B. Sc. with honors, in Engineering Science, from Case Institute of Technology.
Current Position
Dr. Larry Kerschberg is a Professor in the Computer Science Department, in the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University. He also has a courtesy appointment in the College of Science at Mason.
He is co-director of the Mason Center for Health Information Technology, whose mission is to address the pressing issues in modernizing our Nation's Healthcare System through new initiatives in policy, analysis and information technology.
Dr. Kerschberg chaired the Department of Information and Software Engineering from 1989 to 1997. On January 1, 2008 the ISE Department merged with Computer Science to form the new Computer Science Department.
Dr. Kerschberg serves as a founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, published by Springer. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Data Semantics published by Springer.
Honors, Awards, and Recognitions
Steering Committee and Invited Speaker, ICCBR 2007 - Seventh International Conference on Case Based Reasoning, Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 13-16, 2007.
Keynote Speaker, "Just-in-Time Knowledge Management," 3rd Conference on Professional Knowledge Management, April 10-13, 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
ISE Departmental Distinguished Service Award, May 2005.
Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kyoto University, 1998.
General Chair, SIGMOD/PODS Conference, 1993.
Outstanding paper award:
Menascé, D., H. Gomaa, and L. Kerschberg, "A Performance-Oriented Design Methodology for Large-Scale Distributed Data Intensive Information Systems," Proc. First IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, November 7-10, 1995, Fort Lauderdale, FL (Outstanding Paper Award in Systems Engineering Track).
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