Compliments Received about My Research and Service at SUNY

1) Email from the President of the university about the department’s newsletter “Computer Science News” I was its editor, writer, and founder: “I just finished reading the latest “Computer Science News,” and was very impressed by the quality and diversity of the articles.  Highlighting several alums also was a very nice touch.  Great job!”

Dennis Hefner

2) Email from the former Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Chair of the University Academic Academic Affairs Committee about the department’s newsletter I was its editor, writer, and founder:

“Congratulations on the inaugural issue of "Computer Science News." I found the newsletter to be well written and very informative. I particularly enjoyed the articles by the students. It's wonderful that they are so positive about their experiences at SUNY Fredonia. Great job!”

Joe Straight

3) Emails from the Dean to me about High School Competitions I used to organize: “I thanked you verbally a couple of times, but I also wanted to put it in writing. Thank you for your superb job in organizing and leading the 2006 SUNY Fredonia Computer Science High School Competitions. The event was a great success! This event not only benefits the education of the young people in attendance, a great community service, but it is also an excellent recruiting tool, a great service to the University.”

“Thank you for your excellent leadership of this impressive program.”

Dave Ewing

4) Email from the Director of Publications to the former Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science about the department’s website I designed and I was in charge of: “Your department web site is really nice. I just saw it for the first time. It looks data-driven.”

Christine Davis Mantai

5) Email from the Associate Director of Development about the department’s alumni homepage I designed and I was in charge of: “Also, I must comment on how nice your alumni page is. I will share with my office your good work as it is a considerable part of our jobs trying to keep up on the success of Fredonia Alumni.”

Richard J. Ryan

6) Email from the former Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science about the department’s website I designed and I was in charge of: “I've had many compliments about our site. As far as the administration is concerned, our department is leading the way. You're doing a great job!”

Joe Straight

7) Email from the former Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science about the department’s website I designed and I was in charge of: “I really appreciate your work on the website! Our page is getting noticed by the administration and is getting lots of compliments!”

Joe Straight

8)  Referee’s report about one of my papers: “The author presents a well-written article on generalized centro- and skew-centrosymmetric matrices.”

9) Here is what a reviewer said about one of my papers: “The proofs are elementary but the results are powerful.”

10) There are referees who described my papers as “interesting”.

11) One of my papers was listed to be the second reference out of 4 references listed on Wikipedia about one of the math fields.

12) The theorems and results in some of my papers are included in some books.

13) In one of my papers a well-known math open problems was solved partially and then a group of mathematicians used our idea in the paper to solve the rest of the problem. This open problem was unsolved for a long time and well-known mathematicians worked on it and did not solve it. Some of them worked on it for years.

14) The results in one of my papers were included in a chess comprehensive reference.