Houman Younessi
| Houman Younessi, Ph.D. | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 May 1963 Tehran, Iran |
| Residence | U.S.A. |
| Nationality | Iran, Australia, U.S.A. |
| Fields | Information Systems, Financial Analysis, Enterprise Strategy |
| Institutions | Rensselaer at Hartford |
| Alma mater | Swinburne University of Technology[1] |
Houman Younessi (born 28 May 1963) is an Australian-American educator, practitioner, consultant and investigator in information systems, systems and software development processes, computer science, financial economics, decision science and business strategy. He currently is in charge of Academic Affairs[2] at the Hartford Graduate Campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A.. He has previously been associated with Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
Born in Tehran, Iran, Younessi is recognized for his expansive work in the fields of defect management, software and system development processes and is an authority in object-oriented computing. Examples of his work include the OPEN [3] and the SBM methodologies and more recently Recombinant Programming.[4]
A multi-disciplinarian, apart from computer science, and systems and software development, Younessi has formal education and training in finance and has interests in applying concepts of decision science and econometrics to the worlds of financial investment and business economics. Younessi also works in the domain of strategies, models, measures and information systems for sustainable development and management of enterprises. He also did some work in molecular biology, medical genetics and bioinformatics, areas which he no longer pursues. He is known for his activist politics, his support of environmentalist causes, anti-racism initiatives, and civil rights. He has written several books, chapters in books, and dozens of research articles in his various areas of professional interest. He is also a Persian language poet and essayist.
[edit] References
- ^ "EWP: Catalog & Student Handbook 2006-2007". ewp.rpi.edu. http://www.ewp.rpi.edu/hartford/publications/catalog/current/cis.html.
- ^ Rensselaer Institute website
- ^ ACM.org
- ^ Recombinant programming
