Dr. Fillia Makedon, a leading researcher in her field, has been named chair of the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington.
She assumed the position in October.
Dr. Makedon comes to UTA from Dartmouth College, where she was a professor in the Department of
Computer Science and director of the Dartmouth Experimental Visualization Laboratory. She also
recently served as program director for the National Science Foundation's Office of
Cyberinfrastructure. Dr. Makedon also has taught at the University of Texas at Dallas and the
Illinois Institute of Technology.
She is the author of numerous research articles, has received many NSF and other awards and is a
recipient of a senior Fulbright award. She is the editor of the ACM Multimedia Systems Journal,
the Journal of E-Commerce Tools and Applications and other scholarly publications and serves on
numerous conference committees.
Dr. Makedon received a doctorate in computer science from Northwestern University in 1982.
Her research interests include bioinformatics, pervasive computing, cybersecurity, human and
computer interaction, sensor networks and image processing.
She has supervised Ph.D. students in computational multimedia with applications in the areas of
bioinformatics, biomedical informatics and peer-to-peer systems, with her team developing data
analysis tools with broad impact in e-commerce, e-government, sensors and other areas.