Valdis Andris Berzins

Background

Berzins, Valdis Andris was born on March 24, 1951 in New York City. Son of Karlis and Lucija (Putnins) Berzins.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Physics, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineer degree, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979.

Career

Assistant professor, University Texas, Dallas, 1979-1980; assistant professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1980-1986; associate professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1986-1989; associate professor, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 1986-1992; professor, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, since 1992. Laboratory assistant Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971-1972, National Science Foundation fellow, 1972-1975, Research.asst., 1975-1979. Consultant Honeywell Corporation, Minneapolis, 1984-1986, International Software Systems, Inc., Austin, Texas, since 1988.

Research advisor National Research Council, Washington, since 1990. Program evaluator Computer Science Accreditation Board, New York City,1987-. Reviewer National Science Foundation, since 1984, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Informatica, since 1986.

Achievements

• Valdis Andris Berzins has been listed as a noteworthy computer science educator, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Software Engineering with Abstractions

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  • Increasing the Practical Impact of Formal Methods for Computer-Aided Software Development: Software Slicing, Merging and Integration

Membership

Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior, referee New York since 1978, magazine operations committee since 1990), Computer Society of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association Computing Machinery (referee New York since 1978, travel grant Minneapolis 1983), Special Interest Groups on Software Engineering, Design Automation, Documentation, Programming Languages of Association Computing Machinery, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Luqi Lu; 1 child, Katrina.

Father:

Karlis Berzins

Mother:

Lucija (Putnins) Berzins

Spouse:

Luqi Lu

child:

Katrina Berzins