Dr. Udo Pooch Granted Emeritus Status

Four Texas A&M retired faculty members – Harry Boothe, Jr., Barbara Finlay, Diane Kaplan and Udo Pooch – have been granted emeritus/emerita status by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. The title is added to each faculty member's current designation or rank. Pooch, who retired from the Dwight Look College of Engineering after 40 years of service, was named Professor Emeritus of Computer Science. The title recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the university and the system through their dedicated service.

After receiving his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1963; and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Notre Dame in 1969, Dr. Pooch became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. In 1974, he became Associate Professor and full Professor in 1980. He served as the Endowed Raytheon Professor of Computer Science from 1993 – 2008. He has won the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching at both the college and university level. He is ACM Member and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Dr. Pooch has served our department and university for 40 years and has had a very productive career in research and academia. He has supervised 57 PhD students and over 250 masters students; published 21 books and book chapters; produced 47 journal papers, 157 conference papers and 47 reports and has had over $6M in research funding.

His research interests include topics such as Operating Systems, Fault Tolerant Systems, Performance, Measurement and Evaluation, Computer Networks and Data Communications, Real-time Systems, Computer Architecture, Computer Law, Computer System Security, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, Operations Research, Theoretical Physics, Psychometrics, and Statistics.