David M. Nicol


	David M. Nicol Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliate Professor, Department of Computer Science Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Contact	Background
457 Coordinated Science Laboratory 1308 West Main Street Urbana, IL 61801 217-244-1925 (voice) 217-244-5685 (fax) 217-333-3546 (assistant, Lori Melchi)	1975-1979 Carleton College , BA (math) 1979-1982 Control Data Corporation, programmer/analyst 1982-1985 Univ. of Virginia, MS, PhD (computer science) 1985-1987 ICASE, Staff Scientist 1987-1996 William and Mary, Assoc. Professor of CS 1996-2003 Dartmouth, Professor of CS and Chair 2002-2003 Assoc. Director ISTS 2003-2003 Director ISTS 2003-present UIUC, Professor of ECE

Research Interests	Service
High Performance Computing Modeling and Simulation of Large-Scale Systems Networks Cyber-security Project Moses investigates issues related to the modeling of large-scale systems, particularly their security aspects [this website is very much under construction, but describes the different projects we do.] I'm the theme leader in Critical Infrastructures and Homeland Defense at The Information Trust Institute Vitae (in pdf) Downloadable Publications <-->	Discrete-Event System Simulation, 4rd Edition PADS Conference 2005 General Chair Winter Simulation Conference 2006 General Chair

Teaching	PhD Progeny
Fall 2007 ECE 541 Computer Systems Analysis	Raja Das Dan Chrisman L. Felipe Perrone, Bucknell University Brian Premore, Renesys Corporation Jason Liu, Colorado School of Mines Guanhua Yan, Los Alamos National Laboratories Meiyuan Zhao (co-advised with Sean Smith @ Dartmouth), Intel