Dr. Damian Dechev is a Professor at the CS Department at the University of Central Florida and the founder of AREA 67. Damian completed his Ph.D. in 2009 from Texas A&M University under the supervision of Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup. Prior to joining UCF, Dr. Dechev worked for Sandia National Laboratories and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. AREA 67’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Department of Energy. Dr. Dechev is currently serving the nation as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
Kenneth Lamar received his Bachelor of Science (2017), Master of Science (2023), and his Doctor of Philosophy (2024) from the University of Central Florida. He is currently working as a post doctoral scholar at UCF. His research interests include concurrent data structures and distributed computing, with a current focus on HPC scheduling, transactional data structures, and persistent memory.
Ryan Dozier attended the University of Central Florida for his undergraduate degree. He is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at UCF with a research focus on distributed data structures for high-performance computers. The current focus is on a family of data structures with relaxed semantics to fit the application.
