John K. Antonio
Senior Associate Vice President for Research and Partnerships
Dr. John K. Antonio has vast experience in research and leadership, both in academia and industry. He currently serves as Senior Associate Vice President, responsible for forging partnerships with colleges, departments, and other entities both on and off campus to create opportunities that enable faculty to pursue their research endeavors. He is particularly focused on forming collaborations aimed at transdisciplinary and convergence research to tackle societies’ most challenging problems. He is providing leadership in furthering the development and implementation of the OU Norman Research Strategic Framework and Plan, in support of OU’s Lead On Strategic Plan.
Prior to his current position, John was Associate Dean (2014-2016), Senior Associate Dean (2017-2019), and Interim Dean (2019-2020) for the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Prior to his service in the Dean’s office, John served as Director for the School of Computer Science at OU where he oversaw rapid growth in the size of the school’s faculty and in the School’s research productivity. He currently holds the Howard and Suzanne Kauffmann Chair and is a professor of computer science.
John received his PhD in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1989. After graduation, he served as a faculty member at Purdue University and Texas Tech University before joining OU as professor and director of computer science in 1999. John is a senior member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and member of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) and ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education). He has been active in professional service including serving five years as Associate Editor and Member of the Editorial Board for the IEEE Transactions on Computers. Recently, he served as Program Chair (2019) and General Chair (2020) for 28th and 29th Heterogeneity in Computing Workshops, sponsored by the IEEE. He has been an investigator for a number of funded research projects, with contract awards totaling over $20M. He holds two US patents and has published over one hundred articles, book chapters, and reports, including 83 peer-reviewed articles. Several defense agencies have supported his research, including Rome Laboratory (Air Force Research Laboratory), NRaD (Navy Research and Development), DoD/STTR, DIA, and DARPA. Dr. Antonio has also received grants and contracts from the industry sector, including from Boeing and RiskMetrics Group, Inc. From 2011 to 2013, John was on leave from OU and worked for MSCI, Inc. where he led a global team chartered with optimizing the performance and stability of the company’s massively parallel production computing platform.
