Associate Vice-President
(Information and Communications Technology),
and Professor of Computer Science
| University of Saskatchewan |
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Rick Bunt
B.Sc. (Queen's), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto) |
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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 programs. Two units report to me: Information Technology Services (ITS), and Information Strategy and Analytics (ISA). I have (or have had) executive responsibility for several major projects, including (but not limited to) the development of our campus portal (PAWS), 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 initatives in student computing. I also represent the interests of the University of Saskatchewan in matters pertaining to ICT provincially and nationally. |
My Contact Coordinates:
Where We Are
Office: Administration Building, Room E247
Phone: (306) 966-8408
E-mail: rick.bunt AT usask.ca
My administrative homepage.
Academic Activities
I have had to cut back on my academic activities significantly since I moved into
my administrative role, but I try to keep my hand in when I can.
In broad terms, my teaching and research interests have been in computer systems design and
performance evaluation, with a particular focus on
operating systems, distributed systems, and mobile computing.
I was a founding member of the
DISCUS Research Group and,
although my role has diminished considerably, I
participate in the group's activities when I can.
Some projects I've led are described on
my research page.
Although my research is very much on the applied side,
I'm proud to have an Erdös number of 2!
My CV
My graduate students
Recent publications
Recent presentations
Some bookmarks
Activities Outside the University
I've been active for many years with
NSERC
(the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council),
one of Canada's three primary granting councils.
I was a member of the (then one) Grants Selection Committee for Computing and
Information Science (GSC 07) from 1989-92 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've also been 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.
I'm currently President of
the Canadian University Council of CIOs (CUCCIO),
a member of the Board of Directors for CANARIE
and a member of Compute Canada's Community Planning and Advocacy Committee (CPAC).
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.
Personal Interests
Some of my
personal pursuits
(complete with pictures) can be found here.
This page was last modified on December 29, 2009.