Lecturer, 

Information Science Department 
University of Otago, P O Box 56
Dunedin, New Zealand
Email : tehrany@infoscience.otago.ac.nz
Phone : + 64 3 479 8423, Fax : + + 64 3 479 8311

Qualifications

          Ph.D. in Information Science,  University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (August 1998)

          M.A. in Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin, TX (May  1992)

           B.S. in Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington,  Arlington, TX (December 1983)

Positions held

        Lecturer in the Information Science Department of University of Otago (Nov 98 until present)  

        Research Assistant in the Information Science Department of University of Otago (Feb 93 - Oct 93).

        System Analyst in Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas, Austin, Tx, U.S.A. (Apr 88 - Jan 92).

        Software Engineer in Data Systems Group, Texas Instruments, Austin, Tx, U.S.A. (Sept 84 - Apr 88)

  Research Interests

• Dynamic modelling of distributed processes
• Software engineering, especially requirements analysis and software testing
• Object-oriented software development
• Distributed information systems
• Software internationalization
• Agent technologies and agent based computing

 Research Grants (last five years only)

Received an Otago Research Grant entitled “Adaptive Workflow Modelling in a Distributed Environment” in 1999 for $22,678.  This project involves capturing the business processes associated with a particular organization and creating a dynamical model of the workflow associated with these processes and making it available in a distributed environment for inspection and modification.  

A named researcher in the Public Good Science and Technolgy grant called “Distributed Computing Technology and Application”.  My participation will involve developing a workflow module and contributing toward an agent-based conversation module for a groupware environment.