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Fred Harris, Jr.

Associate Dean of Faculty and Staff Affairs, Computer Science and Engineering

Open to new collaborations

Research interests

Fred Harris, Jr. received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics and Educational Administration from Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC, in 1986 and 1988 respectively. He then went on and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Clemson University, Clemson, SC, in 1991 and 1994 respectively. His research interests are in parallel computation, data science, software engineering, computer graphics, and virtual reality. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers along with several chapters and has edited or co-edited more than 10 Conference Proceedings. He has been PI, Co-PI, or Senior Personnel on more than $90 million from private companies and federal agencies such as NSF, NASA, ONR, DARPA, and the DoD. He is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a Senior Member of the International Society for Computers and their Applications (ISCA). He is also the recipient of the numerous teaching awards including the University of Nevada Reno’s Distinguished Teacher award. He has also been active in faculty governance and has served as chair of the Faculty Senate at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Harris oversees all of Nevada’s EPSCoR programs in his role as Nevada State EPSCoR Director and serves as the Project Director and PI for Nevada’s NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Program.

Recent publications

The ten most recent from their Google Scholar profile, newest first.

  1. Neuro-symbolic generative adapters for urban foundation models

    H Jamali, S Dascalu, F Harris, Jr. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology , 2026. 2026

    2 citations

  2. Bridging Unity VR Experiment Templates and Institutional Infrastructure

    L Scully, V Le, FC Harris, SM Dascalu. Electronic Imaging 38, 1-7 , 2026. 2026

    1 citation

  3. Actions Can Teach Better Than Words

    M Wilson, V Le, SM Dascalu, FC Harris. Electronic Imaging 38, 1-7 , 2026. 2026

    1 citation

  4. Probabilistic Co-Control and Structural Reasoning under Information Bottlenecks

    C Wilson, E Collins, F Harris. Data Systems and Intelligence Quarterly 1 (1) , 2026. 2026

  5. Governed Curriculum Learning for Oral-Health Risk Communication

    C Wilson, E Collins, F Harris. Advances in Science and Engineering 1 (1) , 2026. 2026

  6. WaveBrigade: A Cross-Disciplinary Software Tool for Journalism Students to Explore Media Effects through Physiological Data

    S Andrade, A Zaremehrjardi, J Lopez, L Crosswell, FC Harris. 2026 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , 2026. 2026

  7. A Hybrid Machine Learning Framework for Quantifying Contact Angle Measurement in Soil Water Repellency Analysis

    Z Farrokhi, EE Regentova, H Moosmüller, M Berli, FC Harris. 2026 IEEE/ACIS 24th International Conference on Software Engineering … , 2026. 2026

  8. SAGE: State-based Assessment and Grading Engine for Systems Administration Education

    Z Estreito, V Le, FC Harris, SM Dascalu. 2026 IEEE/ACIS 24th International Conference on Software Engineering … , 2026. 2026

  9. Self-Referential Meta-Learning for Continual Few-Shot Learning

    H Jamali, SM Dascalu, FC Harris. 2026 IEEE/ACIS 24th International Conference on Software Engineering … , 2026. 2026

  10. Recursive Modeling Epistemic Networks (RMEN): Differentiable Higher-Order Theory of Mind for Interactive Human-AI Collaboration

    H Jamali, SM Dascalu, FC Harris. 2026 IEEE 12th International Conference on High Performance and Smart … , 2026. 2026

All publications on Google Scholar