Dr. Hura

With COVID19, online education has expanded to become an essential tool for teaching students from kindergarten to college. There are many benefits to online education for students and teachers, but at the same time, there are many unique challenges that provide opportunities for making online education more attractive and effective. In this talk, we will discuss all aspects online education, including techniques for making online learning effective and fun.

Biography:

Dr. Gurdeep S. Hura received his B. E. from Jabalpur University (India) in 1972, M. E. from University of Roorkee (India) in 1975 and Ph.D. from University of Roorkee (India) in 1984, respectively.

He was on the faculty of REC, Kurukshetra (India) from 1975-1984, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada during 1984-1985, faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio (USA) from 1984-1993, faculty and visiting research fellow in the School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 1993-1998, Director and coordinator of Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, Idaho Falls from 1998-2005, Professor and Chair Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology, Montgomery, West Virginia from Jan 2005-July, 2006, Professor and Chair of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Maryland Eastern Shore from July 2006-Sept 2011 and a Professor in the same department since Oct 2011. He was awarded excellence teaching award in 1991 and 2001 and excellence in advising in 2003. He is an author/co-author of over hundred technical papers, which were published in International IEEE journals and refereed conferences. He guest edited three special issues on "Petri nets and related graph models: Past, Present and Future", 1991, “The Practice of Performance modeling and reliability analysis”, 1996, and “Internet: The state of the art”, Computer Communication (Elsevier, UK), 1998. 

He is a senior member of IEEE and was elevated to Fellow of Society for Design and Process Science in 2002.

He received a Post-Tenure Review award of Excellence in recognition of outstanding achievement of exemplary Research/Scholarship and Service, May 2018 and Distinguished Scholar Award, School of Graduate Studies, UMES, 2015

He has organized tutorials on Computer Networks, Modeling and analysis, Software engineering, Cyber infrastructure, Cyber security and Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation and has presented invited talks on these in various International Conferences. 

He was a General Chairman of IEEE EMS Singapore in 1995 and has chaired the technical committees of a number of international conferences. He is a member of editorial board, advisory board and international committees of a number of referred journals and conferences.

He supervised 5 Ph.D. dissertations, over 25 MS theses and has been member of Ph.D. external review committees. Currently he is an external committee member of a number of Ph.D. committees in different countries.  

He is co-author of two books on “Data and Computer Communications: Networking and internetworking”, CRC Press, 2001, Advances in Communication and computational Technology, Vol I and Vol II, Springer Press, 2020 and written six chapters in computer networks, terrestrial networks, dynamicity in social networks, and related areas. He received an external funding of over $5 M for his research projects in US. 

He has been CAC ABET National and International Program evaluator since 2000. He was a consultant to NEC, Inc, Japan on load balancing aspect of its operating system for parallel machine (2000-2004).

He has been listed in Marquis' Who's Who in Midwest, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Leading Technology, Who's Who in Emerging Leaders of America, and Who's Who in World.