Joined department in 2008

Charles Killian joins Purdue as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Killian received his PhD in computer science from the University of California, San Diego, his MS in computer science from Duke University, and his BS in computer science and applied math from North Carolina State University. His research interests are distributed systems, model checking, programming languages, overlay networks, P2P networks, operating systems, network security, resource management, discrete math, Venn diagrams, and Gray codes. His recent work involves developing a compiler to eliminate tedious and repetitive programming, reduce bugs, and add structure to systems building enabling analyses. Killian has worked at Microsoft Research, AT&T Solutions, Infopike, North Carolina State University, Duke University, and MCNC.