Sarvesh Kulkarni received a B.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Bombay in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Prior to 2002, he has worked in various industry positions in India and the US.
He joined the ECE department at Villanova University in 2002, and is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering. His teaching and research interests are: adaptive load-balanced techniques for routing packets in wireless and wired networks, performance analysis and optimization of network parameters, rapid prototyping of autonomous robots, and networked health-monitoring device in healthcare applications. In 2011, he won an award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers for teaching innovations in a team-taught multi-disciplinary course.
VIJAY GEHLOT is an Associate Professor and Graduate Programs Director in the Computing Sciences Department at Villanova University. He received a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India; a Master of Engineering in Automation from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India; and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His research interests are in the area of systems modeling and analysis, formal methods, and applications of Colored Petri Nets (CPNs). He has used CPNs to model and analyze network protocols, service systems, biological pathways, healthcare systems, enterprise architectures, re-entrant systems, and broadband services. He is a member of the ACM and Sigma Xi. His email address is vijay.gehlot@villanova.edu
E.J. Dougherty III is an Adjunct Professor in the College of Engineering at Villanova University, teaching courses in Engineering Entrepreneurship and Mobile Application Development. He received both his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Villanova University. E.J. is also Vice President of a project-based technology company, Ablaze Development Corp, specializing in the design and development of working proof-of-concept software and hardware systems.
Sue McFarland Metzger received a B.S. in Mathematics from Bucknell University in 1987 and a M.S. in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. Prior to 1995, she was a programming and database management consultant and specialized in client/server deployments. From 1995 until 2003, she worked for SAP supporting global software implementations. She joined Villanova University in 2003 and is currently an Instructor of Information Systems in the Villanova School of Business. Her teaching and research interests are: enterprise systems, programming, mobile application development and entrepreneurship, database management and business analytics.
Dr. Wagner is a professor of Information Systems at Villanova University where he has been teaching since 1991. He received his Ph.D. in MIS from the University of Kentucky in 1992. While at Villanova he has developed over 30 innovative new MIS courses. He has co-authored three books and many journal articles in the fields of CRM, Enterprise Systems, Expert Systems and E-Commerce. Recently, he was the winner of the 2011 Meyer award for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship and a co-winner of the 2011 Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers’ award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation.
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