University of New Brunswick, Canada

Gerhard W. Dueck was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received the BSc, Master, and PhD degrees in computer science form the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1983, 1986, and 1988, respectively.

He is currently a professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick. After completing his PhD he joined St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. In 1991 he spent a year at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, as a research associate. In 1999 he joined the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick. He has been actively involved in the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multiple-Valued Logic, where he severed as chair in 1998 and 1999. He was program chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic in 1993, 2004 and 2008 and symposium chair in 1997. His research interests include reversible logic, Reed Muller expansions, multiple-valued logic, digital design, and optimization of the Java Virtual Machine. He has published more than 80 refereed technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

He has taught undergraduate courses at all levels as well as graduate courses. He was instrumental in designing and revising several courses (dealing with object oriented programming, Java programming, digital logic, assembly language, computer hardware, and logic synthesis). He has served on many University committees. He was Assistant Dean (Research and Outreach) in the Faculty of Computer Science from 2004 to 2007 and Director of UNBs International Relations Office form 2008 to 2011. From 2001 to 2006 he chaired the Computer Science Committee for the Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences. The committee is responsible for organizing a mainly undergraduate conference for computer science students. The ACM programming competition is held in conjunction with this conference.

Professor Dueck has significant international experience and is fluent in German and Spanish. In 2002, 2005, and 2008 he visited the Royal University of Bhutan to review their Computer Science program and to help them establish an independent Computer Science program (it was tied to the University of Delhi.) He was the UNB coordinator for a student mobility program with the European Community jointly funded by HRDC and the European Community. He was instrumental in establishing a Dual Master degree with Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences in St. Augustin, Germany.