G.
Information Regarding Faculty Members.
On separate pages, please furnish the following information for all faculty members that teach courses
allowed for the major, including those who have administrative positions in the department (chair, associate
chair, etc.). Use the form given below as guidance. This form need not be followed exactly, but all the
information asked for should be supplied. Please do use a common format for all vitas. Please limit
information to no more than three pages per person, if at all possible. Please place the form(s) for
administrator(s) first, followed by the others in alphabetical order.
In case more than one program is involved, especially with separate campuses, please indicate clearly the
program(s) an individual is assigned to, and the percentage of time to each, if more than one.
1.
J. C. Diaz, Professor of Computer and mathematical Sciences, tenured.
2.
Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:
Original Appointment: Associate Professor, (untenured) 8/87
Granted Tenure 1989, promoted to Full Professor 1994.
3.
Degrees with fields, institutions, and dates
Degree
Lic.
M.A.
Ph.D.
Field
Matematics
Mathematics
Mathematics
Institution
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
Rice University
Rice University
Date
Feb 1970
May 1974
May 1975
4.
Undergraduate work was as double major in CS and Math. Only missed a few courses to complete CS
major. As a graduate student took several CS oriented courses as allowed by the curriculum. Rice did
not have a full CS curriculum till some years later.
5.
Conferences, workshops, and professional development programs in which you have participated to
improve teaching and professional competence in computer science: Participant in DoE’s efforts in
Computational Sciences, 1989-1995.
6.
Other related computing experience including teaching, industrial, governmental, etc. (Where, when,
description and scope of duties): Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department,
University of Toronto, 8/78 to 7/79. Associate Professor of Computer Science, EECS Department,
University of Oklahoma, 9/84 to 7/87. Visiting Research Faculty, Math and CS Division, Argonne
National Lab., Summers 1985-1993. Visiting Professor, Department of Informatics and Scientific
Computing, National Politecnic Institute, Toulouse, France, May-June 1998.
7.Consulting—list agencies and dates, and briefly describe each project:
Dr. Diaz has worked with various aspects of reservoir simulation since he joined Mobil Research and
Development in 1981. His major interests have been on developing robust and parallel
preconditionings for Krylov space iterative methods for reservoir simulation, and on adaptive grid
refinement techniques for fluid flow in porous media.
Since coming to Oklahoma in 1984 and visiting Argonne National Laboratory several summers since
1985, he has been interested in various aspects of parallel processing issues including programming
environments and languages, computer architectures, and mapping of numerically intensive algorithms
onto parallel architectures.
He has worked as a consultant for Amoco Production Company for several years investigating parallel
processing issues in functional language semantics for the description of reservoir simulators,
application of massively parallel processing to iterative methods, the development of domain
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decomposition techniques for faulted basin evolution, and currently developing mathematical models
for primary hydrocarbon migration.
Most recently he has worked as a consultant to Phillips Petroleum (now Conoco-Phillips) investigating
parallel algorithms for iterative methods for reservoir simulation.
8.
Department, college, and/or university committees of which you are a member: (Current only) Faculty
Senate, Steering Committee of the Faculty Senate( Chair).
9.
Principal publications of the last five years. Give in standard bibliographic format.
Approximate Inverse Preconditioners,
A. J. Aguirre, J C Diaz, Proceeding of The National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2002
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Whitewater, Wisconsin April 25-27, 2002
Z. Carpenter, J. C. Diaz, G. R. Kane, Small Autonomous Mobile Robots for Teaching Introductory
Programming to Engineering Students, ASEE Midwest Section 2005 Conference, Pittsburgh, KS, Sep
2004
Z. Carpenter, B. Carden, J. C. Diaz, G. R. Kane, JD Haack, E. Hangs, TU STORM 2004: A High
School Autonomous Robotics Competition, ASEE Midwest Section 2005 Conference, Fayetteville,
AK, Sep 2005
J. C. Diaz , M. Komara ,The symmetric Cholesky multilevel $LU$ factorizations. SIAM J. Matrix Anal,
2002.
10. Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:
TU project Director for Oklahoma Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in Science Mat.
Engineering and Technology (OK-LSAMP), NSF, Phase II and Phase III. Coordinator for TU-STEMUP program at TU.
TU-Summer Bridge Program Coordinator for TU-STEM-UP, 2004.
Program Director, Discovery Week Programs for High School Juniors in SMET programs.
11.Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:
National Society for Black Engineering (Adjunct)
12. Honors and awards:
13. Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term. (This year is the year in which this report was
prepared; last year was the year prior to this.) If you were on sabbatical leave, please enter the
information for the previous year. Please list each section of the same course separately.
year/term
course number
course title
credits
Fall ‘04
Fall ‘04
Spr ‘05
Spr. ‘05
Spr. '05
Fall '05
CS2043
MATH4123
MATH4123
MATH7263
CS4861
CS2043
Internet Vis Prog Appl
Linear Algebra Mtrx Thy
Linear Algebra Mtrx Thy
Numerical Differential Equations
Robotics Programming Laboratory
Internet Vis Prog Appl
3
4
3
2
No. of
students
3
1
3
8
35
21
5
2
4
Fall '05
Spr '06
Spr '06
MATH4123
CS4863
CS5243/7243
Linear Algebra Mtrx Thy
Robotics
Computational Linear Algebra
3
3
3
25
8
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14 Other assigned duties performed during the academic year, with average hours per week. Indicate
which, if any, carry extra compensation. If you are course coordinator for courses taught by other than
full-time faculty, please indicate here which courses.
15 Number of students for which you serve as academic advisor: 10-15 undergraduate and 3-4 graduate.
16. Estimate the percentage of your time devoted to scholarly and/or research activities: 25% Please give a
brief description of your major research and scholarly activities: Robotics. Computational Linear
Algebra.
17.
If you are not a full-time faculty member, state what percentage of full-time you work:_____%
Percentage of this time allocated to the computer science program being evaluated:______%
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