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Highlights

Name

Walter Vasilaky

Position

Principal Founder of Computer Science Department, Long Island University Brooklyn.

CS Department Chair 1985 - 2002

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science.

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics.

Terminal degree and interests

Ph.D., Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU.

Research:

 Mathematics:

     Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Differential Equations, Martingales

Computer Science:

    Object-Oriented Databases and Intelligent Databases, Distributed Computing, Internet Software

Mathematics-Computer Science

    Finite Dimensional Biomedical Imaging Algorithms.

Biography

Professor Vasilaky received his primary and secondary education in public schools of New York and New Jersey. As an undergraduate, on a scholarship at Rutgers University, he majored in Mathematics and minored in Computer Science. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers in 1962. At the University of Maryland, he held a teaching fellowship, where he received his Master's in 1964. After obtaining his Master's he became an instructor of Mathematics at Long Island University and at the same time continued to pursue a Ph.D. degree at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He received his Ph.D. in 1975.

In 1972 he received a research fellowship from the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences to do research at the Mittag Leffler Institute of Mathematics. There he did research on stochastic differential equations, partial differential equations and stochastic processes.

In 1977 he began to introduce Computer Science courses in the Mathematics Department and subsequently played a leading role in the establishment of the Computer Science Department at Long Island University, Brooklyn. He has been doing research in the area of digital image processing with biomedical applications and has developed, with NSF funding, a novel approach to image reconstruction from projections with applications to CAT scans and MRI. In 1990 he shared with another member of the Department, Dr. Edelson, a NSF grant titled "Post Relational Databases". The 1990 NSF grant enabled him to explore and study object-oriented computer languages and object-oriented databases. As a result of that grant he has developed new courses in object oriented programming, object-oriented databases and,  a course on Intelligent Databases.

As chairman of the Computer Science Department he has developed many practical computer literacy, one credit, and courses covering most of the commercial application software areas. Almost every undergraduate student now takes these courses. He was also instrumental in establishing Computer Competency testing for all degree candidates.
Dr. Vasilaky has taught in the graduate computer science departments at Polytechnic University for 15 years, Stevens Institute of Technology for 3 years, Pace University for 5 years as well as many other Universities in the New York metropolitan area.  He has been a consultant in computer software for the past 25 years, companies such as Con Edison, Morgan Stanly, Verizon Communications as well as many other companies.  Dr. Vasilaky is the chairman of Information Technology Committee at Shevchenko Scientific Society and is one of the founders and Chief Executive Officer at Internet Software Architects Inc.

His most recent research interests are Internet programming, object-oriented languages and object-oriented databases, and intelligent database systems.



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