Short Resume

 

Irena Pevac, PhD

 

Computer Science Department

Central Connecticut State University, New Britain CT, USA

 

POSITIONS              

·        Mathematical Institute, Academy of Science, Belgrade, Serbia

o       Research Assistant                                        1973-1983

o       Research Fellow                                           1983-1991

 

·        Univ. of Texas at Austin

o       Visiting Professor                                          1988

o       Research Fellow                                           1992

 

·        Univ. of Belgrade,

o       Assistant Professor                                       1988-1991

 

·        CCSU, New Britain,

o       Assistant Professor                                       1992-1998

o       Associate Professor                                      1998-present

 

EDUCATION           

·        BA, Math, Univ. of Belgrade, 1973.

  • MS, CS, Automata and Grammars, Univ. of Belgrade, 1976.
  • PhD, CS, Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Belgrade, 1987.

 

TEACHING

Automated Theorem Proving, Artificial Intelligence, Algebra, Precalculus, Calculus I, Calculus II,  Trigonometry,  Introduction to Computers - VB,  Workshop in CS,  CS1 – Pascal,  Java, Topics in CS - Delphi, Database Concepts, Advanced Database Topics, Algorithms, Theory of Computation, Foundations of CS, Graduate Capstone

 

PUBLICATIONS

Over 40 publications including monograph on automated theorem proving, two books on recursion (in Pascal and in Java), and number of papers published in refereed journals and conf. proceedings.  Topics range from automata theory, undecidability, artificial intelligence, databases, algorithms, to CS education.

 

 RECENT PUBLICATIONS

 

1.      Pevac I. Techniques for Assessing Student Learning in an on-line Database Course.  International Conference on Teaching On-Line in Higher Education (TOHE) November 2002, Proc. web published http://www.ipfw.edu/as/tohe/2002

2.      Rajaravivarma. R., Pevac, I. When to Introduce Objects in Teaching Java. Proc. of 35 IEEE SSST.  March 2003, Morgantown, Virginia, 437-440.

3.      Pevac I. Performance Analysis of Recursive Graphical Curves. Proc of International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, ICCSA July 2003, San Diego, CA, 46-49.

4.      Pevac I. Visualizing the Time Complexity of Recursive Graphical Algorithms. Proc of 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, ICCSA July 2004, San Diego, CA, 88-92.

5.      Pevac I. Recursive Examples in Java.  XanEdu-OriginalWorks, 2005. http://xanedu.proquest.com/originalworks/Prevac

6.      Pevac I. Analysis and Visualization of Time Complexity in Fractal Algorithms. Computer Science and Information Systems (PART VI: Computer Science Research in Relation to Theoretical and Natural Sciences and Engineering) (Ed. Dr Petratos and Dr Michalopoulos).  Athens Institute of Research, Greece, 2005. 337-350.

7.      Pevac I. Using Visualization to Teach Recursion throughout a Computer Science Curriculum. WORLDCOMP’07 - FECS, Proc. of the 2007 Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, NV, SCREA Press, 2007. (Ed. Arabnia, Clincy) 212-218.

8.      Pevac I. Comparison of E-R, UML, IDEF1X, and SOM Database Modeling Paradigms. Submitted for publication.

 

 RECENT BOOK REVIEWS

 

·        Jones W. Java au Naturel. Web publ. 2003.  www.cs.ccsu.edu/~jones/book.htm   

·        Dean & Dean.  Introduction to Programming with Java – A Problem Solving Approach. McGraw-Hill, 2007.

 

HONORS AND MEMBERSHIPS

 

·        Biography included in the Dictionary of International Biography and in the Who is Who among Women.

·        Honorary member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon , 1992.

·        Excellence in Teaching Honor Roll, CCSU, 1998.

·        Nominated for the Top 100 International Educators by the International Biographical Center in 2004, 2005, and 2006.

·        Member of the ACM, IEEE and Computer Society.