Simeon Ntafos

Simeon Ntafos

Professor - Computer Science
Professor - Computer Science
 
972-883-2809
ECS2504
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Professional Preparation

Ph.D. - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University - 1979
M.S. - Electrical Engineering
Northwestern University - 1977
B.S. - Electrical Engineering
Wilkes College - 1974

Research Areas

Research Interests
Computational Geometry, Program Testing, Software Reliability Estimation

Publications

Pankaj K. Agarwal, Sergey Bereg, Ovidiu Daescu, Haim Kaplan, Simeon C. Ntafos, Micha Sharir, Binhai Zhu: Guarding a Terrain by Two Watchtowers. Algorithmica 58(2): 352-390 (2010) 2010 - Publication
Lichen Bao, Sergey Bereg, Ovidiu Daescu, Simeon C. Ntafos, Junqiang Zhou: On Some City Guarding Problems. COCOON 2008: 600-610 2008 - Publication
Lichen Bao, Sergey Bereg, Ovidiu Daescu, Simeon C. Ntafos, Junqiang Zhou: On Some City Guarding Problems. COCOON 2008: 600-610 2008 - Publication
Ovidiu Daescu, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Simeon C. Ntafos, James D. Palmer, Chee-Keng Yap: Approximating minimum-cost polygonal paths of bounded number of links in weighted subdivisions. Symposium on Computational Geometry 2006: 483-484 2006 - Publication
Ovidiu Daescu, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Simeon C. Ntafos, James D. Palmer, Chee-Keng Yap: An Experimental Study of Weighted k-Link Shortest Path Algorithms. WAFR 2006: 187-202 2006 - Publication
Junqiang Zhou, Simeon C. Ntafos: Two-Guard Art Gallery Problem. CCCG 2006 2006 - Publication
"Guarding a Terrain with Two Watchtowers", 21st Symp. on Computational Geometry, June 2005 (with Agarwal, Bereg, Daescu, Kaplan, Zhu). 2005 - Publication
"On Comparisons of Random, Uniform, and Proportional Partition Testing", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 10, pp. 949-960, October 2001. 2001 - Publication

Appointments

Director
The University of Texas at Dallas [2006–Present]
Office of Student Services
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education
[2004–Present]
ABET Coordinator (BS-CS degree program)
[2004–2004]
ABET Coordinator (BS-SE degree program)
[2002–2006]
Associate Chair
The University of Texas at Dallas [1998–2006]
Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [1993–Present]
Program Head
The University of Texas at Dallas [1985–1987]
Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [1984–1993]
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [1979–1984]
Visiting Assistant Professor
Northwestern University [1978–1979]

News Articles

Program to Aid Underrepresented Student Groups
A new program for students in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science aims to help underrepresented students navigate and succeed in traditionally challenging engineering and computer science courses at the University.

Called STARRS (Supporting the Transition to Achieve Recruiting and Retention Success), the program seeks to increase the enrollment and retention of underrepresented engineering and computer science graduates in the Jonsson School.