Dr. Amy Apon
Professor
Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Office: JBHT 515
Phone: (479) 575-6794
Fax: (479) 575-5339
E-mail: aapon@uark.edu
WWW: http://comp.uark.edu/~aapon
Education
Teaching and Research
Biographical Information
Amy Apon received an M.A. in mathematics from the University of Missouri and began working as a project assistant in computational mathematics in 1981. She received an M.S. in computer science from the University of Missouri in 1983, and worked at Texas Instruments on large-scale military applications from 1983 to 1986. She taught undergraduate computer science at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma for a few years before returning to graduate school.
Dr. Apon received a Ph.D. in 1994 from Vanderbilt University in the area of performance evaluation of parallel and distributed computing systems. She taught at Fisk University, an HBCU, in Nashville, Tennessee for a year, and worked on heterogeneous distributed medical systems at Vanderbilt University. She has been the Principal Investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation, and other government agencies and companies. Dr. Apon is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests include cluster computing, parallel and distributed real-time system, and distributed file systems. Previous projects include the evaluation of multicast and low-latency protocols on Real-Time Fiber Communications (RTFC), a gigabit networking project that was funded by Belobox Corporation, and the Phase I development of a Third Generation wireless base station, a project funded by ITI Communications, a Genesis company. Current projects include the SParROW Project, a cluster computing project that is funded in part by the National Science Foundation, and the Acxiom Cluster Testbed (ACT), funded by Acxiom Corporation and the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority.
