Dean's Bio
Dr. Jorge L. Díaz-Herrera is Professor and Dean of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Prior to this appointment, he was Professor of Computer Science and Department Head at Southern Polytechnic State University in Atlanta and Yamacraw project coordinator with Georgia Tech. He was a senior member of the technical staff of the Software Engineering Institute teaching in Carnegie Mellon’s Master of Software Engineering and conducting research in Product Line Engineering. He was department chair of the first Software Engineering Department in the US, at Monmouth University in NJ, and on the faculty of the departments of Computer Science at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia, and at SUNY Binghamton, NY.
Dr. Díaz-Herrera has conducted extensive consulting services over the past 24 years with a number of firms and government agencies including, NYSE, MITRE, the Institute for Defense Analysis, General Electric, TRW, EG&G, IBM, among others. He chaired several national and international conferences, and has been a technical reviewer for NSF, ASEE, and several conferences and journals. He has provided professional expertise to international organizations including, among others, the European Software Institute, Australian Defense Science and Technology Office, Kyoto Computing Gaikum, and Malaysia University of Technology. He was an ACM National Lecturer for four consecutive years, and an invited speaker in numerous occasions, and given many short courses and tutorials both in the US and abroad. He has more than 80 publications. He has been a member of the British Computer Society, ACM, IEEE-CS, SACNAS, and ASEE; and member of the New York Stock Exchange’s SIAC Requirements Advisory group and of Georgia Institute of Technology Yamacraw Executive Committee; he also co-chaired the City of Rochester Mayor’s office IT Steering Committee.
Dr. Diaz-Herrera is currently very active with the IEEE-CS as a member of the IEEE-CS Distinguished Visitor Program, a leading writer of the Software Engineering Professional Examination, and co-editor of the Software Engineering volume of the Computing Curricula project. He also serves on several boards including Carnegie Mellon’s SEI Technical Advisory Group; National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committees for CISE (Computer Information Sciences and Engineering) and for GPRA Performance Assessment; he is a trustee of the Strong National Museum of Play; and an active member of the IT Deans group of the Computer Research Association in Washington DC.
Dr. Díaz-Herrera completed his undergraduate education in Venezuela, and holds both a Master’s and Ph.D. in computing studies from Lancaster University, in the UK. He recently completed the Graduate Certificate in Management Leadership in Education from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education
