Louis Petingi
College of Staten Island - City University of New York, USA
Biography
Louis Petingi obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology (New Jersey, USA) in the fields of Extremal Graph Theory and Network Reliability. He is currently a full Professor of Computer Science at the College of Staten Island (City University of New York). His research comprises: application of network reliability models to measure if performance objectives of communication networks are met and; to introduce new techniques to characterize graphs with maximum number of spanning trees among competing topologies with equal number of vertices and edges. The latter problem has been tackled by many graph theorists since the 1960’s because of its applicability to the design of reliable networks.