Zachary Oster
Assistant Professor

Office Hours: Spring 2019

Monday 10:00am to 11:40am
Tuesday 12:00 noon to 1:40pm
Wednesday 10:00am to 11:40am
or email me to set up a meeting outside of these times.

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, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Web Server and Unix Administration

Graduate

Advanced Software Engineering, Software Specification and Verification (coming Summer 2019)

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.