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Name: Jainendra K Navlakha, Dean
Office Info: ECS 351, 305-348-2026
E-mail: navlakhacis.fiu.edu
Office Hours: T/R 3:45-5:00 PM & BY APPT.

Director, Corporate & Global Program of the College of Engineering, http://www.eng.fiu.edu/global/dgcp.html


Research Interests
  • Expert Systems and Neural networks.
  • Software engineering and software metrics.
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • Software cost estimations
Background Education
1977 - Ph.D., Computer Engineering and Information Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
1974 - M. Tech. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
1972 - B.E., Electronic Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India


Professional Experience
08/99 - 08/02
  Director, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
08/95 - 08/99
  Director, Center for Computational Research, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
08/89 - 07/92
  Director, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
8/88 - 07/89
  Acting Director, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
09/87 - present
  Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
09/82 - 08/87
  Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
01/78 - 08/82
  Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199


Professional Honors
  • Member of the delegation of "Computer software specialists and engineers" to visit People's Republic of China, April-May 1983
  • Selected to be an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for South America, Nov-Dec 1984.
  • Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society, 1985-1986.
  • Invited by IBM in Buenos Aires, Argentina to give a two-week course on "Software complexity metrics" at University of Buenos Aires, June 1985.

Professional Activities
  • Referee
    • National Computer Conference, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986,1987.
    • Euromicro Journal on Microprogramming and Microprocessing.
    • IEEE Transactions on software engineering, Since Jan. 1985.
    • IEEE Software, Since Jan. 1984.
    • IEEE Computer Science and Applications Conference, COMPSAC '85.
    • Journal of Systems & Software, Since 1987.
    • IEEE Computer, since Sept. 1990
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks - 1991, 1992.
    • ACM Computing Reviews, Since Feb. 1981.
    • Lots of International Conferences, since 1978.

  • Invited member -
    • IEEE Standards Committee Working Group on Software Productivity Metrics, 1983 - 1992.
    • IEEE Standards Committee Working Group on Software Quality Metrics, 1984 - 1992.

  • Member -
    • Balloting Group for 3 proposed standards by IEEE.
      • Standard for Guide to quality Assurance Plans.
      • Standard for Software Reliability measurement.
      • Recommended practice for use of ADA as a design language.
    • Board of STATUS (Science and Technology Alliance to Upgrade Services).
    • Board of SENSE (STATUS Electronic Network for Search and Exchange).

  • Local Arrangements Chairperson -
    • IEEE 1986 International Conference on Computer Languages, Miami Beach, Oct. 1986.
    • IEEE 1988 International Conference on Computer languages, Miami Beach, Oct. 1988.

  • Computer Science Judge -
    • International Science and Engineering Fair, Orlando, MAY 1991.

  • Evaluator - National Hispanic Scholarship Fund - Oct. 1991, Sept. 1992.


Selected Publications
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  1. "A new proof technique to establish equivalence of the original and the generated context free grammar with linear increase in size", BIT , Vol. 22, 1982, pp. 17-26.

  2. "Verification of programs with procedure-type parameters", (with G.W. Ernst and W.F. Ogden), Acta Informatica , Vol. 18, 1982, pp. 149-169.

  3. "An analytical technique for 3-dimensional interpolation", BIT , Vol. 24, 1984. pp. 119-122.

  4. "A survey of system complexity metrics", Computer Journal , Vol. 30, No. 3, 1987, pp. 233-238.
    Highlighted in Microprocessors and Microsystems, R&D Reports , Nov.1987, pp.506.

  5. "Measuring the effect of external and internal interfaces on software development", Proc. of the 20th annual Hawaii international conference on system sciences , Jan. 1987, pp. 127-137.

  6. "Transputer implementation of Hopfield neural network", Proceedings of the ISMM International Conference MINI and MICRO computers, Dec. 1988, (With Bill Feild), pp. 40-43.
    Also published in Design and Electronik (German Magazine), Special Issue on Neural Networks, March 1989.

  7. "Expert Assistant for a clinical hematology blood cell analyzer", SPIE Proceedings of Applications of AI VII, March 1989, pp. 894-903, (With Carole Young).

  8. "The Distribution of keys in a binary heap", Proceedings of Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes No. 382, 1989. pp .510 - 516, (With Mark Weiss).

  9. "On choosing a software cost estimation model for your organization: A case study", Information and Management , Vol. 18, 1990, pp. 255-261.

  10. "Choosing non-random input exemplars to form stable states in a transputerbased Hopfield neural network", International Journal of Mini and Microcomputers", Vol. 12, No. 2, 1990, (With Bill Feild).