Curriculum Vitae

 

Francis T. Marchese

 

Pace University

Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems

Computer Science Department

163 William Street, 2nd Floor

NY, NY 10038

 

Email: fmarchese@pace.edu, ftmarchese@yahoo.com

Web page: http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese

 

Office Phone: 212 346-1803

Home Phone: 212 861-2717

 

 

POSITIONS

Academic Positions

Professor, Computer Science Department, Pace University, 1989 - present.

Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Pace University, 1986 - 1989.

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Pace University, 1983 - 1986.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Astronomy, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 1981 - 1983.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Physical Chemistry and Nursing Chemistry Laboratories, Hunter College of CUNY, 1979 to 1981.

Instructor, Introduction to Chemistry (Lecture), University of Cincinnati, summer 1977.

Instructor, Physical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Cincinnati, 1976 - 1977.

Instructor, Computational Methods, University of Cincinnati, 1976.

Graduate Lecturer, Chemistry Department, University of Cincinnati, 1976.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Chemistry Department, University of Cincinnati, 1973 - 1977

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Chemistry Department, Youngstown State University, 1971 - 1973

Administrative Positions

Center for Advanced Media (CAM), Founder and co-Director, 2000 to present. URL

The Center for Advanced Media (CAM) was founded in 2001 to foster basic and applied interdisciplinary research collaborations among Pace faculty, and make a visible connection between Pace University and the downtown New York City community. By the fifth year after its founding, CAM researchers had been awarded nearly $600,000 in grants and published widely in fields such as information visualization, virtual reality, collaborative computing, pervasive computing, medical image representation and understanding, handwriting analysis and forgery detection, voice transmission, voice recognition, language detection, wearable computers, multimedia information retrieval, collaborative group dynamics, and e-business. A National Science Foundation grant for research into the use of high-speed, high bandwidth networks focused on full-time cable TV quality and collaborative visualization. And a recent Hewlett Packard Company Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative awarded CAM members $61,000 in equipment and cash to support a mobile computing curriculum.

Pace Digital Art Gallery, Founder and co-Director, 2003 to present. URL

The Pace University Digital Gallery was founded as a collaboration between the School of Computer Science and Information Systems and the Department of Fine Arts. The gallery has a permanent, nontraditional exhibition space located in the lobby-atrium of 163 William Street in New York City and a Web presence (www.pace.edu/digitalgallery). During its short existence, the Pace Digital Gallery has produced curated installations and on-line shows, including: a real-time, networked Pan-American collaboration among artists from Canada, The United States, Mexico, and Brazil; joint digital video exhibitions that have been exhibited simultaneously at the Pace Digital Gallery and in Spain; and symposia on digital culture in collaboration with Turbulence.org; to name but a few. The Pace Digital Gallery artist lecture series presents world renowned digital artists such as Cory Arcangel, John Gerrard, Mark Napier, and Annette Weintraub. An artist-in-residence program has initiated to create cross-disciplinary collaborations between digital artists and computer scientists.

 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Postdoctoral Research, Theoretical Chemistry

Chemistry Department, Hunter College of CUNY, NY, 1978 - 1983

Advisor: David L. Beveridge

Research Area: Quantum and statistical mechanical studies of liquids and aqueous solutions.

 

Ph.D., Theoretical Chemistry

University of Cincinnati, OH, June 1979

Advisor: Hans H. Jaffé

Dissertation: CNDO/S Studies of Molecular Polarizabilities and Two-Photon Absorptivities

 

M.S., Chemistry

Youngstown State University, OH, June 1973

Advisor: Janet E. Del Bene

Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of the Hydrogen Bond in Dimers Containing Substituted Carbonyl Compounds

 

B.S., Natural Science

Niagara University, NY, June 1971

 

AWARDS and HONORS

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Fine Arts, New York University, Spring 2009.

Faculty Award for Distinguished Service, Pace University, 2008.

Excellence in Research Award, Pace University, School of Computer Science and Information System, Recipient 2002, 1996.

Kenan Award for Outstanding Teaching, Pace University, Recipient 1992

Carnegie Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award, Nominee, 1992, 1993

 

SERVICE

Professional Service

2009, Organizing Committee, Information Visualization (IV ‘09) Conference (Barcelona).

2009, Symposium Co-Chair, Visualization in Software Engineering, IV ‘09 Conference.

2008, Organizing Committee, Information Visualization (IV ‘08) Conference (London).

2008, Symposium Co-Chair, Visualization in Software Engineering, IV ‘08 Conference.

2008, Program Committee: Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV’08), (Barcelona).

2007, Program Committee, Information Visualization (IV’07) Conference (Zurich).

2007, Program Committee: Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV’07), (New Delhi).

2003 - 2006 Program Committees, Information Visualization (IV’03 to IV‘06) Conferences (London).

1993, Organizer and Chair, Conference on Understanding Images.

The purpose of this conference was to bring together a breadth of disciplines, including physical, biological, computational sciences, technology, art, psychology, philosophy, and education, to define and discuss the issues essential to image understanding within the computer graphics context.

University Service

Pace University

Co-founding faculty member of the Pace University Computer Science Department at Pace’s downtown Manhattan campus (1983).

·        Helped guide the growth of the department, including the mentoring of new faculty.

·        Helped orchestrate the ACM/CSAB (now ABET) accreditation of Pace University’s BS in Computer Science degree. This degree was one of the first 19 degrees accredited in the United States.

·        Chair and member (Current), Computer Science Department Tenure and Promotion Committee

·        Member, Curriculum Committee (Current), Seidenberg School Computer Science and Information Systems

·        Member (Current), Ad Hoc Software Engineering Curriculum Committee

·        Member (Current), Board of Trustees Committee on Information Technology

 

Niagara University (Undergraduate)

President, Inter-dormitory Council (1970-71). At the request of the University Board-of-Trustees, surveyed the entire student population as to their interest in coed visitation. Mobilized faculty and students to canvas over 92% of the student population to create a statistically meaningful survey. Three years later Niagara University opened its first coed dormitory.

Chairman, Academic Affairs Committee of Student Government (1970-71). Initiated, organized and executed not only the first systematic, objective faculty evaluation of faculty by students at Niagara University, but also was the first to employ computer technology for its analysis.

Editor, Yearbook, 1969-70, 1970-71. Delivered two complete yearbooks on time. Managed all aspects of product (including design, layout, and photography) and process (including scheduling, staff, and budgets).

Additional: Student newspaper (reporter and editorial cartoonist), freshman track team (member), varsity track team (manager), university band, cheerleader, radio station (DJ), publications board.

 

University of Cincinnati (Graduate)

Chair, Communications Board

Member, Executive Committee, University Senate

Member, University Research Council

Member, Executive Committee, Graduate Student Council

Member, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Search Committee

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Scientific and information visualization; novel user interfaces for visualization; distributed and collaborative visualization; integration of visualization into lifecycles for scientific research and software engineering; development of visualization systems at the intersection of art, science, and technology.

RESEARCH SUPPORT

F.T. Marchese, Grant to found Pace Center for Advanced Media, (January 2000 – December 2005), $250,000.

S.M. Merritt, F.T. Marchese, D. Anderson, J. Coppola, High Performance Network Connections for Science and Engineering Research - HPNC: Internet 2 at Pace University, NSF-ANI-0125043, (September 2001 – August 2003), $382,804.

F.T. Marchese, Office of the Future Project, Powerdsine, Inc. Equipment Grant (2005), $2,500.

 

M.S. THESES DIRECTED

1.      “Building an Ad-Hoc Windows Cluster for Scientific Computing,” Andreas Zimmer, 2006.

2.      “CommonWall: A Fulltime Video Conferencing System,” Sawipa Sakulchareon, 2003.

3.      “A Peer-to-Peer Collaborative 3D Virtual Environment for Visualization,” Yi Pan, 2003.

4.      “Crystal Dome: An Omni-directional Display,” Jonas Borjessen, 2001.

5.      "Using Authoring Software to Create a Multimedia Application," Bo Wang, 1997

6.      "MoVideo - An Interactive System for Creating Molecular Video Sequences," John Lochney, 1993.

7.      "Distributed Molecular Rendering," Jovan Rokvic, 1993.

8.      "Colorspace for Molecular Visualization," Jennifer Polack, 1993.

9.      "Corporate World: An Artificial Life Modeling Approach for Examining Corporate Behavior in Various Economic Environments Within a Specific Industry," Desmond B. Knower, 1993.

10.  "Cellular Automata Simulations of Animal Coat Patterns," Thorunn Sigfusdottir, 1993.

11.  "Soft Shadowing for Molecular Graphics," Bruce Williams, 1992.

12.  "Use of Fractal Algorithms to Generate Terrain Models," Con Sweeney, 1992.

13.  "Simulation of Erosion Using Cellular Automata," Anoop Kumar, 1991.

14.  "Network Simulation with Cellular Automata," Michael Gora, 1991.

15.  "Graphics Script Interpreter," Lydia Hwang, 1991.

16.  "Hudson River Monitor: A Graphical Hypertext Database Approach," Cem Barut, John Hamilton, 1990.

17.  "A Generic UNIX Workstation in an Education/Research Environment: Analysis, Design and Implementation," Jean F. Coppola, 1990.

 

PRESENTATIONS

Notable

“Reasoning and Representation: the Sketching of Organic Chemical Reaction Mechanisms.” Referred position paper for ACM CHI 2006 Workshop entitled “Sketching” Nurturing Creativity: Commonalities in Art, Design, Engineering, and Research, April 2006 (Montreal, Canada).

"Abstraction, Design and the Synthesis of (Molecular) Objects." Refereed presentation at the Conference on the Philosophy of Models and Simulations, June 2006 (Paris, France). 

“Text and (con)Text in Molecular Visualization.” Oral presentation, ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, April, 2001.

Other

“An Augmented Wiki for Interactive Scientific Visualization and Evolutionary Collaboration.” Referred presentation at XTech 2007: “The Ubiquitous Web,” May 2007, (Paris, France).

“CrystalDome: A Projected Hemispherical Display with a Gestural Interface Referred presentation at The 11th International Conference information Visualization IV'07 (July 04 - 06, 2007).

“Fostering Asynchronous Collaborative Visualization.” Referred presentation at The 11th International Conference information Visualization IV'07 (July 04 - 06, 2007).

“The Making of Trigger and the Agile Engineering of Artist-Scientist Collaboration.” Referred presentation at The Tenth International Conference on Information Visualization: IV'06 (London, July 2006).

“Plato’s Cave: an Image Stream Installation within an Office Setting.” Referred presentation at The Eighth International Conference on Information Visualization: IV’04 (London, July 2004).

“Dynamically Binding Image to Text for Information Communication.” Referred presentation at The Eighth International Conference on Information Visualization: IV’04 (London, July 2004).

“Adapting Single-User Visualization Software for Collaborative Use.” Referred presentation at The Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization: IV’03 (London, July 2003).

“A Stereographic Table for Biomolecular Visualization.” Referred presentation at The Sixth International Conference on Information Visualization: IV’02 (London, July 2002).

“OpGlyph: A Tool for Exploring Op Art Representation of Height Field and Vector Field Data.” Referred presentation at The Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces: AVI 2002 (Trento, Italy, May 2002).

“Teaching Computer Graphics with Spreadsheets.” Referred presentation at the ACM SIGGRAPH 98 Conference.

ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT

Degrees Developed

MS in Software Design and Engineering, 2004 (with Sotiris Skevoulis)

BA in Digital Science and Art (with members of the Department of Fine Arts)

BS in Game Engineering, in progress (with Sotiris Skevoulis)

 

Courses Initiated and Developed

Graduate

  • Software Engineering I & II
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Simulation
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Artificial Life
  • Distributed Computing
  • Data and Document Representation & Processing
  • The User Interface from Front to Back

Undergraduate

  • Introduction to Software Engineering
  • Introduction to Computer Graphics
  • Advanced Computer Graphics
  • Computer Vision
  • Scientific Visualization
  • Artificial Life
  • Recent Developments in Internet Technology
  • Advances in Computing
  • Visual Thinking – Visual Computing

Additional Courses Taught

Undergraduate

  • Introduction to Computer Science I
  • Introduction to Computer Science II
  • Data Structures
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Introduction to Computing

 

Corporate Training

  • Introduction to the PC
  • Introduction to Microsoft Excel
  • Introduction to WordPerfect
  • Introduction to Microsoft Word
  • PC Upgrade and Maintenance
  • Introduction to Harvard Graphics
  • Introduction to PowerPoint
  • Introduction to Programming with Basic
  • Introduction to C/C++
  • Advanced C/C++.

 

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

  • AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
  • Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society)
  • ACS (American Chemical Society)
  • IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), IEEE Computer Society
  • ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), ACM SIGGRAPH
  • Upsilon Pi Epsilon (International Computer Science Honor Society)

 

INTERESTS and HOBBIES

Now

Art and architecture, travel, photography, food and wine

Then

Listening to (particularly jazz) and playing music (clarinet and saxophone ensembles, flute)