Steven Homer received his Ph.D. in mathematics from M.I.T. in 1978.
He is a Professor of Computer Science and has been on the faculty
since 1982. He served as department chairman for four of those years.
He is currently co-director of BU's Center for Reliable Informations
Systems and Cyber Security.
Dr. Homer has been a Fulbright Scholar in Heidelberg (1988-89) and Visiting
Research Professor in Oxford (1996). In 1994 Dr. Homer was awarded a
Computational Science Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Department of
Energy. From 1994 to 1997 he served as chair of the the annual IEEE
Conference on Computational Complexity. He organized local arrangements for
that conference in 1991 and he served as program committee chair in 1993.
From 1991 to 1994 Dr. Homer was a member of the CIES area committee to
award Fulbright Fellowships in computer science. He chaired that committee
in 1994. He has published over 60 research papers, all in one
part or another of the theory of computation.
Theory of computation, complexity, algorithms, data structures,
introduction to computer science.
