Daniel A. Menascé

Title: Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
EMail: menasce@gmu.edu
Department: Computer Science
Office: Science and Technology 2, Room 160
Phone: 703- 993-1499
Website: http:// www.cs.gmu.edu/faculty/menasce.html

Dr. Menascé is a Professor of Computer Science at George Mason University. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and held visiting faculty positions at the University of Maryland, College Park and at the University of Rome, Italy. He was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at PUC-RIO, Brazil, for 14 years, and served as its department chair. Menascé was elected an ACM Fellow in 1997 and a member of IFIP's Working Group 7.3 in 1998. The Computer Measurement Group (CMG) selected him as the recipient of the 2001 A.A. Michelson Award for "outstanding contributions to computer metrics." He published over 170 papers and was the chief author of five books published by Prentice Hall and translated into Russian, Korean, and Portuguese. Menascé was the author of Scaling the Web, a 3-5 page column that appeared in all issues of IEEE Internet Computing for over 3 years starting in May 2002.

His research has been funded by DARPA, National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), NSF, NASA, Center for Innovative Technology, and several private organizations. Menascé received two GMU teaching awards and various best paper awards. He served as President of the Brazilian Computer Society and as the first elected Vice-Chair of ACM's Special Interest Group in E-commerce. He is the General Chair of ACM's 2007 Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC) and was the Program Committee co-chair for IFIP’s Performance 2005 Conference, General Chair of ACM’s 2003 Conference on E-commerce, General Chair of ACM's 1999 Sigmetrics Conference, Program co-chair of ACM’s WOSP'2000 conference. Menascé is an associate editor of the Electronic Commerce Research and Applications journal from Elsevier Science and a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Internet Computing.

His areas of interest include autonomic computing, e-commerce, performance modeling and analysis, and software performance engineering.