Zachary Oster
Associate Professor, Add'l Pay Non-Instructional

On sabbatical during the Fall 2024 semester. No scheduled office hours. Questions about our Cybersecurity and Computer Science programs should be directed to Dr. Jiazhen Zhou, the Computer Science department chair, at zhouj@uww.edu.

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.