The Industrial Advisory Board is comprised of professionals who advise the Computer Science department on curriculum design and university-industry relationships. The Board meets bi-annually and as needed.

Bob Donald
Board Chair
Computer Science
Senior Manager, Development, SAS

Tom Burke
MBA '80 
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ.
VP, Global Business Services, Thermofisher Scientific  (Retired in '07)

Dr. Jill L. Drury, Sc.D. 
UMass Lowell CS '02
Researcher, Mitre Corp.

Suzanne Forsberg
UMass Lowell Math/CS '83
Senior Engineering Manager, Red Hat

Daniel Grecoe
UMass Lowell CS '00
Principal Software Engineer, Nokia

Sheila Hanrahan
UMass Lowell MS CS '88 
Engineering Director, Symantec 

Eric J. Helliwell
Board Chair '08-'12
UMass Lowell CS '88
Independent Software Consultant

Jamie Kenny
UMass Lowell Math 95', CS '00
Director of Software Engineering, Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. 

Michael Opre
Management '85
President, OSI Technical Staffing Firm

Dr. Himanshu Sinha, Ph.D. 
Boston Univ. CS
Consulting Engineer, Avid Technologies 

Prof. Jie (Jed) Wang, Ph.D.
Boston Univ. '91   

Prof. Emeritus Jesse M. Heines, Ed.D.
Boston Univ. '79 

Assoc. Prof. Byung Kim, Ph.D. 
UMass Amherst
Undergraduate Coordinator

Prof. Fred Martin, Ph.D. 
MIT '94
Associate Dean of Sciences

Assoc. Prof. William F. Moloney
UMass Lowell M.S. '73  
Coordinator, MSIT Program