He holds an undergraduate degree in Applied Math and Computer Science from Tver State University, Russia (1994) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland in College Park (2000). Prior to coming to Cal Poly, Dr. Dekhtyar was on the faculty at the Department of Computer Science at University of Kentucky. His academic interests include uncertain reasoning, management of uncertain information, literary and linguistic computing, traceability in software engineering, information search and data mining and bioinformatics. Stern Neill (Orfalea College of Business)