Dr. Thomas Schwarz

Dr. Thomas SchwarzMarquette University

Cudahy Hall, 240D

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-6344thomas.schwarz@marquette.eduPersonal Website

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

Thomas Schwarz is Jesuit priest and member of the US-West province of the Society of Jesus. He is applied to the US-Upper Midwest province and since 2016 assigned to Marquette University, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. Previously, he was Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University before spending 5 years teaching in Latin America, at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay and at the Universidad Centro-Americana in El Salvador.

Thomas Schwarz holds two doctorates, one in Mathematics from the Fernuniversität Hagen (1984) and one in Computer Science from the University of California (1994). He has more than 100 publications in Mathematics and Computer Science.

His research interests are in distributed systems and in particular large storage systems. He is very interested in collaboration with Jesuit institutions around the work.

Courses Taught

• Advanced Algorithms
• Introduction to Computer PScience

Research Interests

• Scalable Distributed Data Structures
• Large Scale Storage Systems
• High Availability, Erasure Correcting Codes
• Security

Publications

• Camelia Constantin, Cédric du Mouza, Witold Litwin, Philippe Rigaux, and Thomas Schwarz. AS-Index: A Structure for String Search Using n-Grams and Algebraic Signatures. Journal of Computer Science and Technology January (2016): Volume 31, Issue 1, 147-166.
• Carlos Aiello, Luis Vidal, Thomas Schwarz SJ. Searchable Encryption through Dispersion. IEEE Latin America Transactions May (2016): Volume 14, Issue 5.
• Thomas Schwarz, SJ, Ahmed Amer, Thomas Kroeger, Ethan Miller, Darrell Long, Jehan-François Pâris RESAR: Reliable Storage at Exabyte Scale. Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems London (2016)
• Sushil Jajodia, Witold Litwin, and Thomas Schwarz. On the fly AES256 Decryption/Encryption for Trusted Cloud SQL DBS. First International Workshop on Big Data Management in Cloud Systems September (2016)