{"id":11911,"date":"2018-09-17T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T14:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=11911"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T18:25:51","slug":"john-byers-named-interim-associate-dean-of-the-faculty-for-the-mathematical-computational-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2018\/09\/17\/john-byers-named-interim-associate-dean-of-the-faculty-for-the-mathematical-computational-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"John Byers named Interim Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Mathematical &#038; Computational Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11912\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cs\/files\/2018\/09\/11-4185-GROUPON-009-423x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"188\" class=\"wp-image-11912 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2018\/09\/11-4185-GROUPON-009-423x636.jpg 423w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2018\/09\/11-4185-GROUPON-009-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2018\/09\/11-4185-GROUPON-009-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2018\/09\/11-4185-GROUPON-009.jpg 2044w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor John Byers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Monday Sept. 17, BU CS Professor Stan Sclaroff, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, informed the College community that he has selected BU CS Professor John Byers to serve as\u00a0Interim Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Mathematical &amp; Computational Sciences. Congratulations John!<\/p>\n<p>The full official notification is below:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>I am delighted to let you know that John Byers, professor of Computer Science, has agreed to serve as the Interim Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Mathematical and Computational Sciences. \u00a0He will begin serving in this role immediately.<\/p>\n<p>John joined the CAS faculty in 1999 as an assistant professor of computer science and was promoted to full professor in 2014; he was named a BU Data Science Faculty Fellow in 2017.\u00a0 He has served his department, the College, and the University with distinction in various capacities. He has been associate chair, director of graduate studies, and chair of faculty search committees, in addition to serving on the CAS Academic Promotion and Tenure (APT) committee, the Provost\u2019s search advisory committee for the dean of the Questrom School of Business, and the BU Entrepreneurship Advisory Council. John has broad inter-disciplinary interests, is widely published across numerous computer science sub-fields, and has received multiple awards for his research.\u00a0 Finally, it is interesting to note that John got a triple BA in CS, Economics, and Math \u2013 the three main departments in the division.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to having John join the dean\u2019s office team during this interim year.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Stan<\/p>\n<p>Stan Sclaroff, Interim Dean<\/p>\n<p>College of Arts &amp; Sciences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday Sept. 17, BU CS Professor Stan Sclaroff, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, informed the College community that he has selected BU CS Professor John Byers to serve as\u00a0Interim Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Mathematical &amp; Computational Sciences. Congratulations John! The full official notification is below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,15,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11911"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11917,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions\/11917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}