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William E. Fitzgibbon, III
earned both his BA and PhD degrees from Vanderbilt
University in 1968 and 1972 respectively. He is currently
serving as Dean of the College of Technology of University
of Houston and holds professorial rank in both the
Department of Mathematics and the Department of Engineering
Technology of the University of Houston. Previously he
served as Chair of the Department of the Mathematics,
co-Head of the Department of Computer Science and President
of the University of Houston Faculty Senate. Currently he
is Dean of the College of Technology of the University of
Houston. Over the course of his career he has held faculty
positions at the University of California, San Diego and the
University of Bordeaux I and the University of Bordeaux II
as well as a research position at Argonne National
Laboratory in Illinois. His academic discipline is applied
mathematics with specialization in mathematical biology
(mathematical models in epidemiology and ecology), reactive
flow, nonlinear partial differential equations and integro-differential
equations. He has well over 130 research articles plus
numerous articles, reviews, and reports and has lectured
extensively in North America, Europe and Asia.
He serves on the Advisory
Board of Directors, Houston Technology Center, Board of
Advisors, Abramson Family Center for the Future of Health (a
cooperative venture of the University of Houston and the
Methodist Hospital, and the Technion), the Board of
Advisors, Dean and Provost, LPR Publications, Horsham,
Pennsylvania, and on the Honorary Editorial Board of
Infectious Disease: Research and Treatment: 2008. He is
Vice President of Innovative Computing for Advanced
Technology, Memberships include: the American
Mathematical Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics, the American Society for Engineering Education,
the Society of Mathematical Biology, the Irish Mathematical
Society, the Keck Center for Computational Biology (a
consortium of UH, Rice, Baylor College of Medicine), the
Houston World Affairs Council, Technology Executive Club
Houston, Houston Petroleum Club, Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma
Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Delta, Pi Mu Epsilon, and Tau
Alpha Pi.
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Dr. James Gantt became the
Director of the Center for Telecommunications Systems
Management (CTSM) in February, 2005. The CTSM is part of
the Murray State University Program of Distinction in
Telecommunications Systems Management, established in 1999.
The Center focuses on outreach to students, industry, and
government agencies.
www.murraystate.edu/tsm/ctsm
He is currently serving as
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International
Telecommunication Education and Research Association (ITERA).
ITERA is an organization made up of 17 Universities and
Colleges with academic programs in Telecommunications.
www.itera.org
Dr. Gantt attended Murray
State University and received a Bachelor of Science with
honors (Cum Laude) in 1971. In 1972, he received a Master
of Science degree in Computer Science majoring in Operations
Research from the University of Missouri at Rolla.
In 1978, he received an
Education Specialist degree in Management from Ball State
University. Moving to Atlanta, Georgia he was employed as
an Operations Research Analyst with the Army Institute for
Research in Management Information, Communications, and
Computer Sciences (AIRMICS). He was selected to spend the
1981-1982 school year at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology as a Fellow in the Center for Advanced
Engineering Studies. He completed his Ph.D in Industrial
and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of
Technology in 1989. In 1998, Dr. Gantt was honored with
Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) from Bowie State University.
In 2003 he was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of Murray
State University.
When the Army Research
Laboratory (ARL) was formed in 1992, he became the Chief of
the Software Technology Branch and then the Chief of the
Software and Intelligent Systems Division. In September,
1996, he became the acting Director of the Information
Science and Technology (IS&T) Directorate. He was selected
to become a member of the Senior Executive Service and
Director of IS&T in June, 1998. Between May, 2000 and
December, 2004 Dr. Gantt served as the Deputy Director and
then Director of ARL’s Computational and Information
Sciences Directorate. As Director he was responsible for
conducting research for the Army in Computational, Computer,
Communications, and Atmospheric Sciences research. He
directed a yearly budget of approximately $175M and managed
350 government employees and 450 on-site contractors. From
July, 2003 to December, 2004 Dr. Gantt also served as the
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