Department Chair and Professor
Harold B. and Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science
Education
B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1973
M.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1974
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1976
Biography
Professor Roman was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Washington University since 1976.
Professor Roman is also a software engineering consultant. His consulting work involves development of custom software engineering methodologies and training programs. Roman served as associate editor for ACM TOSEM, held leading positions in several international conferences and workshops, and was the general chair for ICSE 2005. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors for the Saint Louis Information Technology Coalition and an external advisor for the Saint Louis Science Center.
He is also a member of Tau Beta Pi, ACM, and IEEE Computer Society.
Research
Professor Roman has an established research career with numerous published papers in a multiplicity of computer science areas including mobile computing, formal design methods, visualization, requirements and design methodologies for distributed systems, interactive high speed computer vision algorithms, formal languages, biomedical simulation, computer graphics, and distributed database. His current research involves the study of formal models, algorithms, design methods, and middleware for mobile computing and sensor networks.