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Chris Stewart

Chris Stewart operating a small drone out in a field

Chris Stewart

Co-Director, Professor (Computer Science and Engineering)

stewart.962@osu.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Distributed systems
  • Performance modeling
  • Autonomic computing
  • Sustainable computing
  • Data science

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Rochester - 2008
  • M.S. in Computer Science, University of Rochester - 2005
  • B.S. in Computer Science, Morehouse College - 2003

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Dr. Stewart is a Full Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. 

He leads the ReROUT Lab where students build cutting-edge research systems, transfer them to industry and under served communities and celebrate diverse, intellectually enriching backgrounds. 

The lab conducts REsearch that Reaches OUT by bringing data-driven precision agriculture systems to local farmers, renewable powered data centers to companies like HPE and Microsoft and novel STEM learning platforms to over 1500 students in Columbus area schools. 

Dr. Stewart is an Eminent Engineer in the Tau Beta Pi Honor Society. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. He has been recognized as a leading African American in web technology by Revision Path. 

His research accomplishments span multiple fields with award winning papers in forums ranging from performance modeling to computer networking to sustainable systems engineering and invited seminars to internationally renowned groups working in distributed computing systems, computer architecture, precision agriculture, smart cities and translational data analytics. 

He was the founding Chief Editor of the Sustainable Computing Register, the regular publication of the IEEE STC on Sustainable Computing.  

Dr. Stewart earned a PhD from the University of Rochester under the supervision of Kai Shen. He also graduated from Morehouse College.