Zachary Oster
Associate Professor, Adjunct Instructor (Ss), Department Chairperson,

Department(s): Computer Science, Administration
Office Location: Mcgraw 0104B
Phone: +12624725006
Email: osterz@uww.edu
Website: View my personal website

Student Hours (Office Hours)

in my office, McGraw 104 B; you can also email me to schedule an online meeting in my Webex personal room during these times

Mondays, 1:45pm to 3:00pm
Wednesdays, 9:30am to 10:45am
Thursdays, 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2013
M.S., Computer Science, Iowa State University, 2009
B.S., Computer Science, South Dakota State University, 2007
B.A., Music, South Dakota State University, 2007

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Assembly Programming, Concepts of Programming Languages, Compilers, Discrete Structures, Intro to Computational Thinking, Intro to Cybersecurity, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Theory of Computation, Web Server and Unix Administration

Graduate

Advanced Software Engineering, Software Specification and Verification, Software Testing, Systems Fundamentals for Cybersecurity

Research Interests

Improving the practice of requirements engineering---elicitation, specification, analysis, and verification of software system requirements and design preferences---using both human (listening) and computational (automated preference reasoning) methods.