Dr. Lawrence
Miller received a B.A. in Computer
Science from the University of Texas at
Austin, in December 1986, where he
double majored in Computer Science and
Mathematics. He received an M.S. in
Computer Science with a minor in
Mathematics from Southwest Texas State
University (located in San Marcos,
Texas), in August 1991. His thesis
involved research in Software
Engineering and Object-Oriented
Programming. He received his Ph.D. from
the University of Houston in May 2001.
His dissertation research involved
real-time communications in ATM
networks. He has also conducted
research in Fault-Tolerant Distributed
Systems, and Real-Time Systems.
Dr. Miller worked
as director of the University of Houston
Computer Science Department's Systems
Administration Office from June 1992
through August 1995 and from November
1996 through August 1997 where he was
responsible for the administration and
maintenance of 80+ Unix workstations, a
number (10+) of large Unix file servers,
and the department's entire network
system. During the spring of 1997, he
was involved with the Computer Science
Department's Equipment Committee, and
helped establish a new teaching
laboratory for use by several of the
Department's undergraduate courses.
Dr. Miller joined
Phi Kappa Phi in the spring of 1992, and
is currently a life time member. In the
spring of 1993, he helped revive the ACM
UH local chapter by serving as an
organizational officer for five months.
He was re-elected to serve as President
of the ACM UH local chapter from June
1994 till May 1995. In July 1995, he
became a member of the IEEE. In
February 1998, he became a member of the
IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM. In
June 2002, he became a member of ASEE.
Dr. Miller is
currently an Assistant Professor with
the Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science Department at the University of
Toledo. He is currently conducting
research in ATM, MPLS, and
High-performance Computer Networks,
Fault Tolerance, Reliability, and
Traffic Engineering, Analysis and
Simulation of Manufacturing Value Chain
Systems, Information Enhanced Radical
Innovation, and Accelerated Radical
Innovation.
Dr. Miller is the
director of SimNet Laboratory which is
conducting research in fault tolerance
and traffic engineering for real-time
communications over high performance
MPLS and ATM networks. He is Associate
Director of the Manufacturing Value
Chain Science (MVCS) center at the the
University of Toledo, which conducts
basic and applied research in value
chain dynamics leading to quantitative
models and tools for rapid, real-time,
analysis and simulation of manufacturing
and distribution operations. Dr. Miller
recently became a member of both the
founding board and the organizing
committee for establishment of a new
International Radical Innovation
Institute (IRII) to promote acceleration
of radical innovation through
fundamental and applied research,
technology advancements, policy, legal,
and societal changes, and provision of
new services to institute members.
