Richard McKenna

Rank/Position Title:

Lecturer

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~richard

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

Fall 2002 - original appointment

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

• GDC (Spring 2005) – Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, CA
• C.NET training seminar (Fall 2002) - offered by Stony Brook CS Dept.

Other related computing experience:

Minicircuits (Nov 1996 - August 1999) - as a Process Engineer, I worked on projects with the Software Engineering department to automate certain processes. Also performed Information Systems analysis to assist in selecting an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software system.

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

• UG Recruiting Committee
• UG Curriculum Review Committee
• JETT ACM Workshop Committee

Principal publications of the last five years.

Fast Digital Image In painting (M.M. Oliveira, B. Bowen, R. McKenna, and Y.-S. Chang), presented at Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP 2001) September 3-5, 2001 Marbella, Spain.

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

None

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

International Game Developer’s Association (IDGA)

Honors and awards:

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term

Academic advising: 0

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

• each semester I have 2-3 students working on research projects under my guidance
• Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004/2005 academic year.