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Joe Sventek

Professor Emeritus
Computer Science, Data Science
jsventek@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3473
Office: 333 Deschutes Hall
Office Hours: Monday, 4:00-5:00; Friday, 4:00-5:00
Research Interests: Complex Event Processing, Internet of Things
Website: http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~jsventek/

Biography

Joe Sventek is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon. Prior to joining the University of Oregon, Joe was a member of technical staff, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; deputy chief architect, Advanced Networked Systems Architecture project, Cambridge, England; distinguished engineer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA; director, Agilent Labs Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland; Professor of Communication Systems, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland; and Head of School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.

Education

  • BA Mathematics, 1973, Rochester
  • PhD Nuclear Chemistry, 1979, California, Berkeley

Research Interests

Prof Sventek’s research focuses on two main areas: complex event processing, especially to aggregate real-time data from environmental sensors; and the Internet of Things, in general, and wireless environmental sensors, in particular. There is special emphasis upon making these technologies usable by non-computer scientists.