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Zachary Oster
Zachary Oster
Associate Professor
- Department(s): COMPUTER SCIENCE
- Office Location: Mcgraw Hall 108
- Phone: (262) 472-5006
- Email: osterz@uww.edu
- Website: View my personal website
Student Hours (Office Hours)
- Tuesdays, 11:00am to 12:30pm (in McGraw 108)
- Wednesdays, 10:00am to 11:00am (in McGraw 108)
- Thursdays, 11:00am to 12:30pm (in McGraw 108) and 5:00pm to 6:00pm (in McGraw 108 and in Dr. Oster's Webex personal room)
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.