Richard DeFrancisco
                                                                                Assistant Professor
                                        Academic Appointment(s)
School of Computer and Cyber Sciences
Department of Computer & Cyber Sciences
                                                                                 Bio
Assistant Professor of Computer Science who earned his PhD under Scott A. Smolka at Stony Brook University.  His dissertation topic was GPU-based Swarm Verification.
                                     
                                 
                                
                                
                                
                                
                             
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                                                                    Education
                                    
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Ph.D., Computer Science
SUNY at Stony Brook, 2019
 
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BS, Computer Science
College of New Jersey The, 2010
 
                                        
                                    
                                    
                             
                            
                            
                                
                                    
                                                                             Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year
                                        
                                        
                                                                                 Teaching Interests 
                                        Data Structures, Formal Methods, Concurrency
                                        
                                    
                                 
                             
                            
                            
                            
                                                                     Scholarship 
                                    Selected Recent Publications
                                                                    
                                    - Swarm Model Checking on the GPU, 2020
 Journal Article, Academic Journal
 
- Swarm Model Checking on the GPU, 2019
 Conference Proceeding
 
- Swarm Model Checking on the GPU, 2019
 Other
 
- Towards a GPGPU-Parallel SPIN Model Checker, 2014
 Conference Proceeding
 
                                
                                                                    Research Interests
                                    Formal Methods, GPGPU, Concurrency, Cyber-Physical Systems
                                                                 
                            
                            
                            
                                
                                                                                                                 College Service
                                        
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Academic Web Oversight Committee
2023 - Present
Role:  Committee Chair
 
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Undergraduate Courses and Curriculum Committee
2022 - Present
Role:  Committee Member
 
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ABET Accreditation Committee
2022 - Present
Role:  Committee Member
 
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ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
2023 - 2023
Role:  Faculty Mentor
 
                                            
                                        
                                                                                                                                                         Professional Service
                                        
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The 18th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods (iFM 2023)
2023 - 2023
Role:  Committee Member
 
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2022 SPIN International Symposium of Model Checking Software
2022 - 2022
Role:  Committee Member