Faculty
Information Sciences and Technology (IST) Faculty from left to right: Dr. Hal Smith and Gary Heberling. For additional information regarding full and part-time faculty, please view the Information Sciences and Technology Faculty Directory or visit their personal web pages:
Gary Heberling
Contact Gary at: glh10@psu.edu | 724-334-6102 | Office: 039 ITC
Gary Heberling is Instructor of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State New Kensington. Gary is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he received a Masters of Science degree in Information Science.
Gary joined the faculty at Penn State after over 20 years’ experience in Information Technology. He was a project manager at R. Shriver Associates where he concentrated on the development of business software. His most recent employment prior to Penn State was with Oberg Industries, Inc. located in Freeport Pennsylvania. Gary served in many capacities while with Oberg including programmer, systems analyst, database developer, interim financial controller, corporate budget director, director of production planning and manager of information technology. At Penn State, Gary specializes in database systems, data warehousing, and enterprise resource planning software.
Hal Smith
Contact Hal at: hal.smith@psu.edu | 724-334-6759 | Office: 035 ITC
Hal Smith is an Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology. He received his B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from University of Albany, SUNY. Prior to joining Penn State, he worked for Raytheon as a Principal Software Engineer architecting and developing software for large, massively parallel Ground Based Radar systems as well as deeply embedded real-time systems with Raytheon’s Missile Systems division in Tucson, Arizona. The result of his time in industry led him to develop research interests in component-based software architectures, software product lines and model-driven development. While with Raytheon, he received the Excellence in Technology Award as well as Engineering Honors. Hal’s research interests have since grown to incorporate search technologies and network organizations. He maintains an ongoing undergraduate research program where projects often result in student participation at conferences.