Faculty Profile for Dr. Ted Lehr

Biography Section

Biography and Education

25 years of private sector experience as engineer, researcher, support staffer and executive in large and start up companies.

Over 7 years as Data Architect with the City of Austin, Texas where he has helped launch or create inter-department collaborations as well as several university-industry-city
research collaborations, including a city wide master research agreement with the University of Texas - Austin.

8 years as a part time lecturer Computer Science at Texas State University where he has been recognized as an Outstanding Part-Time Faculty and twice designated a "Favorite Professor" by the honor students.
​3 years as full time, Associate Professor of Practice in Computer Science

Ph.D., 1990, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Compensating for Perturbation of Asynchronous Computations by Software Performance Monitors.”

MS, 1985, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Implementation of a Production System Machine.”

BSBA, 1983, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, Electrical Engineering and Philosophy

Teaching Interests

Software Engineering, Object Oriented Programming, Computer Architecture.

Research Interests

Ethics of AI. As a former City of Austin staffer, I facilitated several conversations and research projects with UT-Austin on AI for social good. Assessing impact of AI on what to teach students in programming and software engineering.