Biography
Dr. Larry Kerschberg is a Professor of Computer Science
and Director of the E-Center for E-business in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering (IT&E) at George Mason University.
He is Director of the MS in E-Commerce Program. He also has an appointment in the School of Computational Sciences and Informatics, now the College of Science at Mason. He created and taught the Scientific and Statistical Databases course for both IT&E and the College of Sciences.
Dr. Kerschberg chaired the Department of Information and Software Engineering from 1989 to 1997. The ISE Department merged with Computer Science on January 1, 2008.
He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, an
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
and a B.Sc. degree, with honors, in Engineering Science from Case Institute
of Technology.
He is a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science and in 1998 he spent ten weeks at Kyoto University, working with
the late Professor Yahiko Kambayashi.
Dr. Kerschberg's research focuses on agent-based systems, knowledge management
for e-business, and data mining and knowledge discovery in databases. Dr.
Kerschberg serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intelligent
Information Systems. He served as General Chair of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD Conference
held in Washington, D.C. Dr. Kerschberg organized and has served as Program
Chairman of both the First and Second International Conferences on Expert
Database Systems. He served as Program Chair for the Scientific and Statistical
Database Management Conference, held at George Mason University, July 18-20,
2001.
From 1970 to 1976, Dr. Kerschberg taught at the Departamento de Informatica
at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), where he co-created, with Joao Pacheco, the Functional Data
Model. He has also held positions at the University of Maryland, College
Park, Bell Laboratories, the University of South Carolina, and George Mason
University.
In 1994, Kerschberg led the Computer and Information Science team, consisting
of D. Menascé, H. Gomaa and J. Yoon, in the NASA Independent Architecture
Study for the Earth Observing and Data Information System (EOSDIS). The
GMU Study proposed a performance-oriented federated approach to this data-intensive
system; NASA has funded the development of such a federated approach. His
paper with Menascé and Gomaa received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International
Conference on the Engineering of Complex Systems in November 1995.
He has recently published an edited book, The Functional Approach to Data
Management, which is based on the Functional Data Model that Kerschberg
co-created with Joao Pacheco. You can read more about it in the Recommendations section.
Updated: September 10, 2008