Dr. Kent Einspahr

Kent Einspahr has served his alma mater Concordia University, Nebraska since his graduation in 1979 in the math, computer science and natural sciences departments. During that same time, he has also served in leadership roles in Computing Services including as co-Director and CIO and is currently the Director of IT Special Projects. Additionally, he has served in many other capacities at Concordia in past years including Assistant and Head Men’s Basketball Coach, Higher Learning Commission Self-Study Chair, Department Chair for Natural Sciences and Department Chair for Math and Computer Science.

Dr. Einspahr earned both his M.S. and his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) in 1985 and 1991, respectively. Dr. Einspahr continued to conduct postdoc research with research colleagues at UNL and other U.S-based and international universities and technology research firms until 2002. His research publications from his graduate and postdoc work continue to be downloaded and cited regularly.

He has served as a lay leader on the Finance Board at his church. He continues to be active in athletic and sports activities including running, walking, cycling, golfing, kayaking and gym workouts. He spends time working outdoors as well as other home activities and enjoys spending time with his immediate and extended families. He and his wife, Beth, have three children and two twin grandsons.

 

Publications

M. Weiss, S. Seth, S. Mehta, K. Einspahr. "Design Verification and Functional Testing of Finite State Machines." International Conf. on VLSI Design, Jan. 2001, pp 189-195.

M. Weiss, S. Seth, K. Einspahr, S. Mehta. "Exploiting Don't Cares to Enhance Functional Tests." International Test Conf., Oct. 2000, pp 538-546.

K. Einspahr, S. Mehta, S. Seth. "A Synthesis for Testability Scheme for Finite State Machines Using Clock Control." IEEE Trans. on Computer Aided Design, Vol 18, No. 12, Dec. 1999, pp. 1780-1792.

K. Einspahr, S. Mehta, S. Seth. "Synthesis of Sequential Circuits with Clock Control to Improve Testability." 7th Asian Test Symp., Singapore, Dec. 1998.

S. Mehta, S. Seth, K. Einspahr. "Synthesis for Testability by Two-Clock Control." The 10th International Conf. on VLSI Design, Jan. 1997, pp. 279-283.

S. Mehta, S. Seth, K. Einspahr. "A New Synthesis for Testability Scheme Using Two-Clock Control.", Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Report Series: UNL-CSE-96-006. Sept. 1996.

S. Mehta, S. Seth, K. Einspahr. "Synthesis for Testability by Two-Clock Control." The 3rd International Test Synthesis Workshop, May, 1996.

K. Einspahr, S. Seth, V. Agrawal. "Improving Circuit Testability by Clock Control." The 6th Great Lakes Symp. on VLSI, Mar. 1996.

K. Einspahr, S. Seth. "A Switch-Level Test Generation System for Synchronous and Asynchronous Systems." Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), Feb. 1995.

K. Einspahr, S. Seth. "A Switch-Level Test Generation System." 5th International Conf. on VLSI Design, Bangalore, India, Jan. 1992.

G. Nagy, S. Seth, K. Einspahr. "Decoding Substitution Ciphers by Means of Word Matching with Application to OCR." IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Sept. 1987.

G. Nagy, S. Seth, K. Einspahr, T, Meyer. "Efficient Algorithms to Decode Substitution Ciphers with Application to OCR." 8th International Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Paris, France, Oct. 1986.