Marcelo O. Sztainberg

Computer Science Department

Northeastern Illinois University

5500 N.St.Louis Ave.

Chicago, IL 60625

 

e-mail: M-Sztainberg@neiu.edu

office: CLS 3060

phone: (773) 442-5946

fax: (773) 442-4900



Education


Teaching

Fall 2011

  • CS 321 Server Side Web Development

 

Previous Semesters:

  • CS 200 Programming I Summer 2005
  • CS 302 Systems Programming Fall 2003
  • CS 308 Operating Systems Summer 2005 (@SAC)
  • CS 319 Fundamentals of Software Engineering Fall 04-05-07-08, Spring 05-06-07-08-10, Summer 2007
  • CS 321 Server Side Web Development Fall 08(x2)
  • CS 325 Theory of Computation Fall 03-04-05, Spring 2004, Summer 2004
  • CS 334 Open Source Systems Spring 05-08-09-10
  • CS 335 Artificial Intelligence Fall 2004, Spring 2004
  • CS 401 Software Engineering Fall 05-06-07-09, Spring 07-08, Summer 04-05-06-07-08-11
  • CS 404 Analysis of Algorithms Fall 2003
  • CS 410R SPTC: Research on Artificial Intelligence Spring 04-05, Summer 2008
  • CS 412 Web Applications Development Fall 2007, Spring 2006
  • CS 419 Informatics Spring 2007, Summer 2006

Research

  • Robotics - Multiagent systems
    • The Freeze Tag Problem - How to wake-up a swarm of robots in the shortest amount of time
    • Disperse and Fill - Algorithms for filling and unknown environment
    • Hiding Robots - Minimizing visibility for a swarm in a given domain
    • Algorithms for Nanorobots (powerpoint presentation - send me an e-mail if you want the movies associated with it)
  • Computational Geometry
    • Terrain Simplification - Heuristics to simplify a 1.5 dimensional terrain preserving visibility of a given set of points
    • Shortest Path Map - Java implementation
    • Watchman Route - A visibility search on a set of polygonal obstacles

Industrial Experience


Publications

  1. A. Chogle , G. Dhroove, M. Sztainberg,C. Di Lorenzo, M Saps. "How Reliable are the Rome III Criteria for the Assessment of Functional Gastroentinal Disorders in Children?" The American Journal of Gastroenterology.Aug 2010.
  2. M.Saps, R. Seshadri, G. Schaffer, M. Sztainberg, B. Marshall, C. Di Lorenzo. "A prospective School-Based Study of Abdominal Pain and other Common Somatic Complaints in Children. "Journal of Pediatrics. Volume 154, Issue 3, Pages 322-326, Mar 2009.
  3. M.Saps, M. Sztainberg, C. Di Lorenzo. "A prospective community based study of gastroenterological symptoms in school-age children." Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. Volume 43, pages 477-482, Oct 2006.
  4. M. O. Sztainberg, E. M. Arkin, M. A. Bender, and J. S. B. Mitchell. "Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Heuristics for the “Freeze-Tag” Robot Awakening Problem." IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. Volume 20, number 4 pages 691-701, Aug 2004.
  5. M. Sztainberg, E. M. Arkin, M. A. Bender, and J. S. B. Mitchell. "Analysis of Heuristics for the Freeze-Tag Problem." Proceedings of the 8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), pages 270-279, 2002. ps   pdf