Join us on Wednesday, February 19th from 2:30–4:00 PM for theIDRIS Lecture Series featuring Dr. Stefan Robila! The event will take place in the Express Newark 2nd Floor Lecture Hall and is open to all Rutgers–Newark students, faculty, and community members. Please RSVP using the QR code above or the link provided.

About Dr. Stefan Robila

Dr. Stefan Robila is a Professor of Computer Science at Montclair State University (MSU). Between January 2018 and January 2021, Dr. Robila served as Program Director in the Office of Advanced Cyber infrastructure (OAC) at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) where he developed and managed a portfolio of awards that enable cyber infrastructure research, development, and acquisition as part of regular programs or in response to immediate needs such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Robila has worked extensively with the collection and analysis of hyperspectral data and the development and implementation of computationally efficient feature extraction algorithms that use high performance computing. This work has now expanded into more general research and applications for large data sets. He has started working ongreening the computing infrastructure as well as cybersecurity.

Dr. Robila served as Principal Investigator grants on research, training, and instrumentation, and received support from NSF, SPIE, HP, PSEG, Sun Microsystems, New Jersey Council for Humanities, and MSU totaling over $6.4 million. His teaching experience includes all introductory computer courses, discrete mathematics, operating systems, computer organization, computer security, robotics, pattern recognition, high performance computing, and theory of programming languages. Dr. Robila is a senior member of ACM and IEEE and IEEE Region 1 Award Recipient.