Gianfranco Ciardo

Professor and Graduate Advisor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Bourns College of Engineering
University of California at Riverside

Graduate Students: For Graduate Advisor issues, please see the Graduate Student Affairs Officer (Ms. Amy Ricks) first.
Then, if you still need to meet with me, please come during my office hours or contact me by email.

 
Gianfranco Ciardo
OFFICE HOURS FOR WINTER 2012:
Thursday 11:10am - 12:00pm
Mailing address
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California at Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Office
WCH 442 (Winston Chung Hall)
Phone: +1-951-827-2281
Fax: +1-951-827-4643
Main Office: +1-951-827-5639
Lab
WCH 465 (Winston Chung Hall)
email:
MY_LAST_NAME AT cs.ucr.edu
url:
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~ciardo/

Research Interests (see also my resume and my publications)
Logic, performance, and reliability modeling and tools
Model checking and verification of finite-state systems
Distributed solution of large stochastic processes
Structured and Kronecker based approaches for Markov analysis
Petri nets and stochastic Petri nets.
Logistics
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Classes taught at UCR (only current offerings are accessible)
CS150     CS177     CS179K     CS206     CS237     CS239     CS246     CS260
Classes taught at William and Mary
CSci243     CSci321     CSci423/523     CSci435/535     CSci616     CSci726     CSci746
Memberships and Offices
Senior Member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society
Member of ACM and SIGMETRICS
Jan. 2001 - Jan 2005: Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
My academic roots
1978-1982: Laurea, Dipartimento di informatica, Universita' di Torino
1984-1989: Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, Duke University
Past employment
1992-2003: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor at The College of William and Mary
1988-1992: Member of Technical Staff at Software Productivity Consortium, Herndon, VA (now Software and System Consortium )
1982-1984: Research Staff Member at CSELT, Torino, Italy (now Telecom Italia Lab )

The Logic and Stochastic Verification Lab at UCR

SMART: the Stochastic Model checking Analyzer for Reliability and Timing


Program Co-Chair of The 7th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) 2010 (College of William and Mary, September 15-18, 2010)

Program Co-Chair of The 12th IEEE International Symposium on Pacific Rim Dependable Computing (PRDC) (University of California at Riverside, December 18-20, 2006)

General Chair of The 3rd International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2006) (University of California at Riverside, September 11-14, 2006)


Talk at UCR on decision diagrams June 2008

Tutorial on structured Markov chain storage at QEST 2004, Enschede, The Netherlands

Keynote talk at ICATPN 2004, Bologna, Italy

Keynote talk at PNPM 2001, Aachen, Germany


Fun stuff       Weather


Last updated: March 27, 2011