Dr. Kriss Anthony Schueller

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
Voice: (330) 941-3379
FAX: (330) 941-2284
Home: (330) 758-8471
E-mail: kriss@csis.ysu.edu


Education

Ph.D.
August 1987
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Major in Computer Science. Research interests include logic design and performance evaluation of systems. Dissertation title: Logic Design of Multiple-Valued Circuits using a Cost-table. Advisor: Dr. Jon T. Butler.
M.S.
August 1982
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
Major in Mathematics with Computer Science option. Final project investigated and compared techniques for solving systems of non-linear equations.
B.A.
August 1982
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
Major in Physics. Senior project involved computer simulation of temperatures of inter-stellar particles.


Teaching Experience

2000 - present Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems, Youngstown State University
Responsibilities include:
  • Teaching various upper level computer science courses.
  • 1993 - 2000 Chairperson/Associate Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems, Youngstown State University
    Responsibilities include:
  • Teaching computer science courses at various levels from freshman through graduate.
  • Startup of new department formed by mergers of Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, and Business Information Systems programs, which were formerly in three different colleges within the University.
  • 1992 - 1993 Associate Professor, Youngstown State University
    Responsibilities include:
  • Teaching computer science courses at all levels from freshman to graduate level, with emphasis on computer architecture, logic design, and operating systems.
  • Updating texts and programming languages used in upper division classes.
  • Appointed Supervisor of Computer Science within the department.
  • Advisor for the ACM student chapter.
  • 1987 - 1992 Assistant Professor, Youngstown State University
    Responsibilities include:
  • Teaching computer science courses at all levels from freshman to graduate level, with emphasis on computer architecture, logic design, and operating systems.
  • Updated texts for Pascal, Computer Organization, and Systems programming classes.
  • Supervisor of Computer Science within the department.
  • Advisor for the ACM student chapter.
  • Fall 1986 Instructor, Northwestern University
    Responsible for teaching a course on VAX-11 assembly language programming, basic digital hardware, and introductory system software while completing Ph.D. program.


    Industrial Experience

    Summer 1986 "AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois" Responsible for testing a new trunk connecting capability for the International 5ESS electronic switching system.
    Summer 1985 "AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois" Responsible for computer simulation of the allocation of processor real-time in a 5ESS electronic switching subsystem.
    Summer 1984 "AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois" Simulated circuit holding times for proposed ISDN switching systems.
    Summer 1983 "IBM, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina" Responsible for computer simulation of various flow control algorithms in SNA networks.


    Publications

    "Complexity Analysis of the Cost-Table Approach to the Design of Multiple-Valued Logic Circuits," IEEE Transactions on Computer, vol. 46, February 1997, pp. 205-209. First author with J. T. Butler.
    "On the Design of Cost-tables for Realizing Multiple-Valued Circuits," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 41, February 1992, pp. 178-189. First author with J. T. Butler.
    "Worst Case Number of Terms in Symmetric Multiple-Valued Functions," in Twenty-First International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, May 1991, pp. 94-101. Second author with J. T. Butler.
    "The Cost-table Problem is NP-Complete," in Proc. 28th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton, IL, October 1990, pp. 948-957. First author with J. T. Butler.
    "On the Equivalence of Cost Functions in the Design of Circuits by Cost-table," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 39, June 1990, pp. 842-844. Second author with J. T. Butler.
    "An Analysis of the Costtable Approach to the Design of Multiple-Valued Cirsuits," in Sixteenth International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, Blacksburg, VA, May 1986, pp. 42-50. First author with P. T. Tirumalai and J. T. Butler.


    Courses Taught


    (last 5 years, excluding individual projects)

    Summer Quarter 1995
     CSCI 870Algorithms
    Fall Quarter 1995
     CSCI 780Microcomputer System Software.
    CSCI 814Computer Architecture
    CSCI 915Computer Organization and Architecture
    Winter Quarter 1996
     CSCI 805Systems Programming
    Spring Quarter 1996
     CSCI 820Simulation
    Summer Quarter 1996
     CSIS 610Programming and Problem-Solving
    Fall Quarter 1996
     CIS 714Assembly Language and Architecture
    CSCI 881Microcomputer System Architecture
    Winter Quarter 1997
     CSIS 617Data Structures
    Spring Quarter 1997
     CSCI 740Computer Logic and Organization
    Summer Quarter 1997
     CSIS 610Programming and Problem-Solving
    Fall Quarter 1997
     CSCI 814Computer Architecture
    CSCI 915Computer Organization and Architecture
    Winter Quarter 1998
     CSCI 710Introduction to Discrete Structures
    CSCI 905Information Structures
    Spring Quarter 1998
     CSCI 620Assembly Language and Instruction Set Architecture
    CSCI 740Computer Logic and Organization
    Summer Quarter 1998
     CSIS 610Programming and Problem-Solving
    Fall Quarter 1998
     CSCI 620Assembly Language and Instruction Set Architecture
    Winter Quarter 1999
     CSCI 895Special Topics: CGI-BIN Programming and the Internet
    Spring Quarter 1999
     CIS 626Visual and Object-Oriented Programming
     CSCI 870Data Structures and Algorigms
    Summer Quarter 1999
     CSIS 610Programming and Problem-Solving
    Fall Quarter 1999
     CSCI 620Assembly Language and Instruction Set Architecture
    CSCI 814Computer Architecture
    Winter Quarter 2000
     CSCI 806Operating Systems
     CSCI 895Special Topics: CGI-BIN Programming and the Internet
    Spring Quarter 2000
    CSCI 740Computer Logic and Organization
    Summer Quarter 2000
    CSIS 610Programming and Problem Solving
    CSIS 617Data Strucutres
    Fall Semester 2000
    CSCI 3750Advanced UNIX and C Programming
    CSCI 5820Simulation
    CSCI 5823Communication Networks
    Spring Semester 2001
    CSIS 2617Data Structures
    CSIS 3740Computer Organization
    CSCI 5814Computer Architecture
    Summer Semester 2001
    CSIS 3720System Configuration and Maintenance