Siegfried Treu
Professor of Computer Science
6309 SENSQ
412-624-8418
Dr. Treu received both a BS degree (Applied Mathematics and Physics, 1962) and an MS degree (Mathematics, 1963) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD degree (Interdisciplinary: Computer Science and Psychology, 1970) from the University of Pittsburgh.
He was Assistant Director of the Computer Center, University of Pittsburgh, from 1967 to 1970, and was awarded an NRC-NBS Postdoctoral Research Associateship at the National Bureau of Standards, for 1970 to 1971.
Dr. Treu joined the faculty of Pitt's Department of Computer Science in 1971 and served as Chair of the Department from 1984 to 1986. Prior to re-assuming that role in 1994, he served for half a year as Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. For several years he was also Co-Director of the Center for Parallel, Distributed and Intelligent Systems.
During the 1970s, he was a consultant for the National Bureau of Standards. He also consulted for Pittsburgh area industrial organizations and educational institutions and Pennsylvania colleges and universities. He served as Chair of the ACM SIGOIS from 1983 to 1987, and was a member of ACM SIGBoard from 1986 to 1992, as an area director for a group of SIGs. His service as a three-year member and one-year Chair of the ACM Distinguished Service Awards Committee ended in 2000. He was on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies until 1999. He completed his third and last term as CS Department Chair in 2000.
His primary research interests lie in methodologies for user interface design, measurement, and evaluation, including the features that render the interface well-structured, associative, adaptive, graphical, and network-oriented.