Chief Information Officer, Associate Vice-President Information and Communications Technology, and Professor of Computer Science

As the university's Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Associate Vice-President for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) I work with senior administration, deans, department heads, faculty, staff and students to realize the institutional vision for ICT services, infrastructure and support. Since I became CIO I have had executive responsibility for several major projects, including (but not limited to) the development of our campus portal (PAWS), the implementation of mobile services, the development and implementation of our information strategy, a substantial renewal of our campus research and education network (the USR-net project), the design and implementation of our student information system (SiRIUS) and a variety of initiatives providing new services to students. I also represent the interests of the University of Saskatchewan in matters pertaining to ICT provincially and nationally.

My Contact Coordinates:

Office: Administration Building, Room E247

Phone: (306) 966-8408

E-mail: rick.bunt @ usask.ca

My administrative homepage.

Academic Activities
I've been a faculty member in the Computer Science Department since 1972. I was promoted to Full Professor in 1980 and was Department Head from 1986-91. My research addressed issues affecting the the performance of computer systems. I was a founding member of the DISCUS Research Group and supervised the successful completion of more than 30 graduate student theses. Some of the projects I led are described on my research page. Although my research was very much on the applied side, I have an Erdös number of 2! Sadly, my activity in the department is very limited now with my administrative responsibilities but I am still proud to be counted as a member of faculty.
Click here for some photos I assembled for the department's 35th reunion in 2003.

My CV

Recent publications

Recent presentations

Some bookmarks

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Activities Outside the University
I am a member of the Board of Directors for CANARIE and a member of Compute Canada's Community Planning and Advocacy Committee (CPAC). I've also been active with the Canadian University Council of CIOs (CUCCIO),
I was active for many years with NSERC (the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council), one of Canada's three primary granting councils. From 1989-92 I was a member of the (then one) Grants Selection Committee for Computing and Information Science (GSC 07) and I chaired the Committee in 1991/92. From 1992-94 I was a member of the first Reallocations Committee, and from 2000-03 I was Group Chair for the (then two) Grants Selection Committees in Computing and Information Science (GSC's 330 and 331) and a member of the Committee on Research Grants. In 2003 I was one of 38 U of S researchers NSERC honoured for 25 years of continuous funding.
I was also a long-time contributor to ACM's special interest group for performance evaluation, SIGMETRICS, and served as both General Chair (1987) and Program Chair (1994) of their prestigious annual conference on the Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems.

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Personal Interests

Some of my personal pursuits (complete with pictures) can be found here.

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The University of Saskatchewan is located near Canada's geographic centre -- in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where the air is clean and the sun always shines. Click here for my own unofficial photo montage of the University and the city, or here for "official" sources.

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This page was last modified on August 1, 2011.