Associate Vice-President Research
The Associate Vice-President Research works in parallel with the Vice-President Research to promote and facilitate research at the University of Victoria. The role includes:
- strategic planning
- policy development
- oversight and liaison
- communications
- other critical support to the Vice-President Research
An important responsibility is to liaise with faculty and academic administrators on matters of significance to the research mission of the university.
Message from the Vice-President Research
Effective May 1, 2011, Dr. Michael Miller began a five-year term as Associate Vice-President Research (AVPR) and Dr. Rachael Scarth assumed the non-academic position of Associate Vice-President Research Operations (AVPRO). Both had been serving in an acting capacity since September, 2010.
Below you will find more information about his role and responsibilities. Please pass this information on to relevant staff and faculty.
Associate Vice-President Research – Dr. D. Michael Miller
Dr. Miller has taken on responsibility for the important portfolio of research computing and will be involved in other committees and initiatives across campus. He will chair the Research Computing Task Force and will attend the Information Systems Steering Council and assist the Associate Vice-President Research Operations with the development of research administration information systems. Michael will also represent UVic on the boards of BCNet, Compute Canada and PIMS.
Michael is a professor in the Department of Computer Science where he specializes in the computer-aided design of digital circuits and systems. He chaired his department from 1987-97 and served as dean of engineering from 1997-2008. In his role as AVPR, Michael assists with strategic planning, policy formulation, special programs and initiatives, and building strong relationships with granting agencies and funders.
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Dr. Miller was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1950. He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Winnipeg in 1971 and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Manitoba in 1973 and 1976, respectively.
From 1975 to 1980, he was a faculty member in the School of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick. He moved to the University of Winnipeg in 1980 and then to the University of Manitoba in 1982.
Dr. Miller joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria in 1987 as Chair, a position he held for a decade except for the Fall of 1992 when he was Acting Dean of Engineering and July 1995 - June 1996 when he was on administrative leave at TIMA Laboratory/INPG, Grenoble, France.
He was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from July 1997 to June 2008 except for an administrative leave from August to December 2002 which he spent in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. From July 2008 to March 2009, he was a visitor in the Computer Architecture Group (Prof. Rolf Drechsler) at the University of Bremen, Germany. He visited the Kameyama Lab at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan from April to June 2009.
Dr. Miller served as Acting Associate Vice-President Research from September 2010 to April 2011 and began a five year term as AVPR on May 1, 2011.
Dr. Miller's primary research interests at the moment include the synthesis of reversible and quantum logic circuits, and decision diagrams applied to the design of binary and multiple-valued logic systems using both conventional and spectral techniques.
He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He currently serves as the Secretary for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multiple-Valued Logic.