Dr. Bernhard is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne, FL. His research areas including databases, performance tuning, software engineering, and message routing algorithms for multiprocessor interconnection networks. His teaching interests include databases, software engineering, user interface development, and theoretical computer science.From 1995-1998, Dr. Bernhard worked as a software engineer for Harris Information Systems Division (ISD) in Melbourne, FL. While there, he worked on a variety of research and development projects involving databases, performance tuning, and natural language processing. From 1993-1995, he was a software engineer on the CORE program for NASA, at Harris Space Systems Corporation in Rockledge, FL. From 1992-1993, he was a senior instructor and consultant for P.P. Texel of Eatontown, NJ. During that time his duties including consulting on Ada projects and providing instruction in object oriented analysis, object oriented design, and Ada coding. From 1988-1992, he was a faculty member in the Computer Science Department at Clemson University in South Carolina. During that time he performed research in the areas of interconnection networks for parallel processing, and protocol/software testing.
Dr. Bernhard received the B.A. degree in Computer Science from SUNY Oswego in 1984, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from SUNY Albany in 1987 and 1988, respectively.