SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN

Daniel Menascé
Senior Associate Dean

Engineering Building, Room 2500
Assistant: Laura Harrison
PHONE: (703) 993-1505

Director of Graduate Student Services: Lisa Nolder
Phone: (703) 993-1499

FAX: (703) 993-1633

As Senior Associate Dean, Dr. Menasce's areas of direct responsibility include research, graduate studies, graduate admissions, and the school's web information systems. Under the guidance of Dr. Daniel Menascé and their faculty advisors, students develop new technologies and scientific approaches as full participants in the school's many research areas. These areas include artificial intelligence, biometrics, computer vision, computer graphics, computer networks, data mining, digital speech, e-commerce, enterprise engineering, environmental systems, image analysis, information security, neural networks, optoelectronics, robotics, transportation systems, and virtual reality. More information on these areas and the school's research centers are available in the research section of the web site.

Dr. Menascé’s own research interests lie in autonomic computing, e-commerce, software performance engineering, computer system performance analysis and evaluation. In addition to his role as senior associate dean, Dr. Menascé is a Professor of Computer Science. He has published 200 papers and the books Performance by Design (Prentice Hall, 2004), Capacity Planning for Web Services (Prentice Hall, 2000), Scaling for E-Business (Prentice Hall, 2000), Capacity Planning for Web Performance (Prentice Hall, 1998), and Capacity Planning and Performance Modeling (Prentice Hall, 1994). He was an associate editor of the Electronic Commerce Research and Applications journal from Elsevier Science and a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Internet Computing for several years.

Dr. Menascé received his BSEE and MS in Computer Science from the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a Fellow of the ACM, the recipient of the 2001 A.A. Michelson Award from the Computer Measurement Group, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.