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Ken Christensen
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Program
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Avenue, ENB 118
Tampa, Florida 33620

Office: ENB 319 (map)
Phone: (813) 974-4761 Fax: (813) 974-5456
Email: christen@cse.usf.edu
Office hours: Summer 2008 office hours are by appointment

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Ken Christensen received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1991 under the supervision of Professor Arne Nilsson. Before joining USF in 1995, Ken was an Advisory Engineer at IBM in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. In 1998 and 1999 he was a NASA Summer Faculty Fellow at Kennedy Space Center. Ken received an NSF CAREER award in 1999. In spring 2004 he was a visitor in the Department of Communication Systems at Lund University (Sweden). Ken is the Editor-in-Chief for the Wiley journal International Journal of Network Management.

Teaching

In Fall 2008 I am teaching:

EEL 4781 - Computer Networks
CIS 4900 - CSE Volunteers (one hour independent study)
CIS 4910 - Senior Project

In previous semesters I have taught:

I coordinate the department's ABET accreditation efforts for the Computer Engineering and Computer Science programs. The department's ABET accreditation website is here (password protected).

Research

My research is in performance evaluation of computer networks. I am affiliated with the Information Systems Laboratory. My research is focused on reducing the energy use of networks and the end devices that connect to networks. My research project web site is:

Energy Efficient Internet project

See my CV for a complete list of my grants, publications, and patents. Abbreviated lists are here:

Current graduate students and undergraduate research students are:

Miguel Jimeno (Ph.D. candidate - expected graduation 2010)
Francisco Blanquicet (Ph.D. student - expected graduation 2011)
Jeremy Blackburn (REU student for 2007-2008 and summer 2008)

Previous graduate students are listed here.

Service (for 2007-2008)

Service to the University:

Member of the Undergraduate Council
Representative for the College of Engineering on the university-wide Assessment Committee

Service to the Department:

Director of Undergraduate Program
Chair of the undergraduate committee, chair of the ABET quality improvement committee, chair of tenure and promotion committee, and member of the graduate committee.
Coordinator for ABET accreditation of the Department's Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs.

Service to the profession:

Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Network Management.
Editorial board member for Computer Communications and IEEE IT Professional.
Organizing committee member for GreenComm'09 (part of ICC 2009).
Standing committee member for IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN) conference.
Program committee member for many conferences and workshops.
Reviewer for many journals and conferences.

Service to the community:

Organize and advise (along with Dewey Rundus) a group of students - the CSE Volunteers - who volunteer their time and expertise to the School District of Hillsborough County as a form of service-based learning.
Judge for Florida State Science and Engineering Fair.

Last update on June 29, 2008