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Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment (SLSOE), University of California, Santa Barbara
A teaching-track position corresponding to that of a tenured associate professor
Joint Appointment:
- Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering (CoE) (50%)
a Ph.D. granting research-oriented department,
offering a traditional ABET-accredited B.S. in Computer Science
- Computing Program, College of Creative Studies (CCS) (50%)
a highly selective “graduate school for undergraduates”,
with accelerated undergraduate degree programs in eight majors,
including a B.S. in Computing emphasizing undergraduate research
in Computer Science
I serve as the primary liaison between the two programs, which involves:
- teaching and service responsibilities for both programs,
- facilitating communication between the faculty and staff of both programs, and
- facilitating undergraduate research connections between CCS undergrads and CoE faculty.
Education
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2001
- M.S. Computer Science, West Virginia University, Morgantown WV, 1998
- B.S. Computer Science, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon WV, 1985
Teaching Awards
- UCSB College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award for Computer Science
- Chosen by vote of CS department graduating seniors (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- UCSB Faculty Senate Distinguished Teaching Award.
- Once per career award; six recipients annually from a faculty pool of over 1100, 2011
- UCSB Housing & Residence Life Outstanding Faculty
- nominations/selections by students living in UCSB Housing (2009, 2010)
- West Virginia University, Dept. of Statistics & Computer Science
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant (1987)
Academic Positions Held
- University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
- Joint Appointment:
- 50% Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering (CoE)
- 50% College of Creative Studies (CCS), Computer Science/Computing
- Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment 2018-present
- Lecturer with Security of Employment (LSOE) 2012-2018
- Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment (LPSOE) 2007-2012
- University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, Department of Computer and Information Sciences
- Assistant Professor, Continuing Non-Tenure Track 2003-2007
- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
- Assistant Professor 2001-2003
- Instructor 1998-2001
Industry Positions Held
- AppFolio, Goleta, California
- AppFolio Faculty Fellow Summer 2014
- In order to learn about current industry practices, and thus better inform undergraduate curriculum,
took on role of an “entry level employee with a four year degree” for 12 weeks
- Learned Agile processes, SaaS web app development using Ruby on Rails/HTML/CSS/JavaScript/JQuery
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Delaware, Staff Analyst 1988-1992
- IBM Mainframe Applications Programming (Order Entry, Shipping, Distribution) IMS, PL/I, MVS
- PC LAN design, installation and tech support
Publications
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P. D. Amer, C. Chassot, T. J. Connolly, M. Diaz and P. Conrad, "Partial-order transport service for multimedia and other applications," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 440-456, Oct. 1994.
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R. Marasli, P. D. Amer and P. T. Conrad, "Retransmission-based partially reliable transport service: an analytic model," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM '96. Conference on Computer Communications, San Francisco, CA, 1996, pp. 621-629 vol.2.
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Phillip T. Conrad, Edward Golden, Paul D. Amer, Rahmi Marasli, "Multimedia document retrieval system using partially ordered/partially reliable transport service," Proc. SPIE 2667, Multimedia Computing and Networking 1996, (25 March 1996);
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R. Marasli, P. Amer, P. Conrad. Optimizing partially ordered transport services for multimedia applications. International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 1996, pp. 185–204.
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P. Conrad, P. Amer, E. Golden, S. Iren, R. Marasli, A. Caro. Transport QoS over unreliable networks: no guarantees, no free lunch! 5th IFIP Int'l Workshop on Quality of Service, Columbia Univ, 5/1997, pp. 315-318.
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Rahmi Marasli, Paul D. Amer, Phillip T. Conrad, An analytic study of partially ordered transport services, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Volume 29, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 675-699, ISSN 0169-7552,
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R. Marasli, P. D. Amer and P. T. Conrad, "Partially reliable transport service," Proceedings Second IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communications, Alexandria, Egypt, 1997, pp. 648-656.
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R. Marasli, P. Amer, P. Conrad. Metrics for quantifying partially ordered transport services 6th Int'l Conf. on Telecommunication Systems, Nashville, 3/98
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Network Conscious GIF Image Transmission over the Internet, P. Amer, S. Iren, G. Sezen, P. Conrad, M. Taube, A. Caro. Fourth International Workshop on High Performance Protocol Architectures (HIPPARCH '98), University College London (UCL), London, England, June 15/16, 1998
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Iren S., Amer P.D., Conrad P.T. (1998) Network-conscious compressed images over wireless networks. In: Plagemann T., Goebel V. (eds) Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services. IDMS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1483. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
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Iren S., Amer P.D., Conrad P.T. (1998) NETCICATS: Network-Conscious Image Compression and Transmission System. In: Advances in Multimedia Information Systems. MIS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1508. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
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S. Iren, P. D. Amer, A. Caro, G. Sezen, M. Taube and P. T. Conrad, "Network-conscious compressed image transmission over battlefield networks," IEEE Military Communications Conference. Proceedings. MILCOM 98 (Cat. No.98CH36201), Boston, MA, USA, 1998, pp. 908-912 vol.3.
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P. T. Conrad, P. D. Amer, M. Taube, G. Sezen, S. Iren and A. Caro, "Testing environment for innovative transport protocols," IEEE Military Communications Conference. Proceedings. MILCOM 98 (Cat. No.98CH36201), Boston, MA, USA, 1998, pp. 292-296 vol.1.
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Paul D Amer, Sami Iren, Gul E Sezen, Phillip T Conrad, Mason Taube, Armando Caro, Network-conscious GIF image transmission over the Internet, Computer Networks, Volume 31, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 693-708, ISSN 1389-1286.
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Phillip T. Conrad and Ben Greenstein. "Teaching Network Performance Measurements Using Java." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99), pp. 74-80. 1999.
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Sami Iren, Paul D. Amer, and Phillip T. Conrad. 1999. The transport layer: tutorial and survey. ACM Comput. Surv. 31, 4 (December 1999), 360-404.
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Phillip T. Conrad, Armando Caro, and Paul Amer. 2001. ReMDoR: remote multimedia document retrieval over partial order transport. In Proceedings of the ninth ACM international conference on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA '01). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 169-180.
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P. T. Conrad, G. J. Heinz, A. L. Caro, P. D. Amer and J. Fiore, "SCTP in battlefield networks," 2001 MILCOM Proceedings Communications for Network-Centric Operations: Creating the Information Force (Cat. No.01CH37277), McLean, VA, USA, 2001, pp. 289-295 vol.1.
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M. U. Uyar, Jianliang Zheng, M. A. Fecko, S. Samtani and P. T. Conrad, "Evaluation of architectures for reliable server pooling in wired and wireless environments," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 164-175, Jan. 2004.
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Sarah Jones, Alejandro Hernandez, Pablo Ortiz, Gerardo Aldana, Phillip Conrad, and Diana Franklin. 2010. eVoices: a website supporting outreach by attracting target groups to computer science through culturally relevant themes. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. 25, 4 (April 2010), 134-140.
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Diana Franklin, Phillip Conrad, Gerardo Aldana, and Sarah Hough. 2011. Animal tlatoque: attracting middle school students to computing through culturally-relevant themes. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 453-458.
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Ilknur Aydin, Janardhan Iyengar, Phillip Conrad, Chien-Chung Shen, Paul Amer, Evaluating TCP-friendliness in light of Concurrent Multipath Transfer, Computer Networks, Volume 56, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1876-1892, ISSN 1389-1286
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Diana Franklin, Phillip Conrad, Bryce Boe, Katy Nilsen, Charlotte Hill, Michelle Len, Greg Dreschler, Gerardo Aldana, Paulo Almeida-Tanaka, Brynn Kiefer, Chelsea Laird, Felicia Lopez, Christine Pham, Jessica Suarez, and Robert Waite. 2013. Assessment of computer science learning in a scratch-based outreach program. In Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 371-376.
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Bryce Boe, Charlotte Hill, Michelle Len, Greg Dreschler, Phillip Conrad, and Diana Franklin. 2013. Hairball: lint-inspired static analysis of scratch projects. In Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 215-220.
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Kyle Dewey, Phillip Conrad, Michelle Craig, and Elena Morozova. 2017. Evaluating Test Suite Effectiveness and Assessing Student Code via Constraint Logic Programming. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 317-322.
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Daniel Zingaro, Michelle Craig, Leo Porter, Brett A. Becker, Yingjun Cao, Phill Conrad, Diana Cukierman, Arto Hellas, Dastyni Loksa, and Neena Thota. 2018. Achievement Goals in CS1: Replication and Extension. In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 687-692.
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Michelle Craig, Phill Conrad, Dylan Lynch, Natasha Lee, and Laura Anthony. 2018. Listening to early career software developers. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. 33, 4 (April 2018), 138-149.
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Diba Mirza, Phillip T. Conrad, Christian Lloyd, Ziad Matni, and Arthur Gatin. 2019. Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in Computer Science: A Systematic Literature Review. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 31–40. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3291279.3339422
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Christopher Hundhausen, Adam Carter, Phillip Conrad, Ahsun Tariq, and Olusola Adesope. 2021. Evaluating Commit, Issue and Product Quality in Team Software Development Projects. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 108–114. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3432362
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Scott P. Chow, Tanay Komarlu, and Phillip T. Conrad. 2021. Teaching Testing with Modern Technology Stacks in Undergraduate Software Engineering Courses. In 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1 (ITiCSE 2021), June 26–July 1, 2021, Virtual Event, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3430665.3456352
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C.D. Hundhausen, P.T. Conrad, A.S. Carter & O. Adesope (2022) Assessing individual contributions to software engineering projects: a replication study, Computer Science Education, 32:3, 335-354, DOI: 10.1080/08993408.2022.2071543
Talks
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February 28, 2019
BOF at SIGCSE 2019, Minneapolis, MN
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February 28, 2019
BOF at SIGCSE 2019, Minneapolis, MN
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March 01, 2019
Panel at SIGCSE 2019, Minneapolis, MN
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March 02, 2019
Panel at SIGCSE 2019, Minneapolis, MN
Teaching
Service