Home page for Ken Christensen

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
Email: christen@cse.usf.edu
Office hours: 1:00pm to 2:00pm Monday through Thursday (and by appointment) for spring 2010 semester

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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 spring 2010 I am teaching:

CIS 4910 - Senior Project

In previous semesters I have taught:

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

Research

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

I am affiliated with the Information Systems Laboratory. 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:

Ingo Mclean (Ph.D. student - expected graduation 2013)
Purushottam Panta (Ph.D. student - expected graduation 2013)
Jeremy Blackburn (M.S. student - expected graduation 2010)
Mehrgan Mostowfi (M.S. student - expected graduation 2010)

Previous graduate students are listed here.

Service (for 2010)

Service to the University:

Member of the Undergraduate Council (second year of three year term)
Representative for the College of Engineering on the university-wide National Awards Resource Faculty Group
Representative for the College of Engineering on the university-wide Assessment Committee

Service to the College:

Member of the College ABET Committee
Member of the College Curriculum Committee
Member of the College Computing Committee

Service to the Department:

Director of Undergraduate Program
Chair of the Undergraduate Committee
Chair of the ABET Quality Improvement Committee
Member of Infrastructure Committee
Member of Tenure and Promotion Committee

Service to the profession:

Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Network Management
Editorial board member for IEEE IT Professional and Telecommunication Systems
Organizing committee member for GreenComm3 (part of GLOBECOM 2010)
Standing committee member for IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN) conference
Program committee member for several conferences and workshops
Reviewer for many journals and conferences
Participant in IEEE Admission and Advancement Panel

Service to the community:

Judge for the 2010 Florida State Science and Engineering Fair (Orlando)

Last update on February 3, 2010