Rate My Professor Arno Puder

Arno Puder is Professor and Department Chair in the Computer Science department at San Francisco State University, where he also serves as Undergraduate Advisor. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a dissertation titled Typsysteme für die Dienstvermittlung in offenen verteilten Systemen, and his master's degree in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern. Before joining San Francisco State University in 2008, Puder held positions at Deutsche Telekom AG and AT&T Labs Research. His research focuses on middleware, cross-platform technology, and mobile platforms, with contributions to projects such as the MyShake distributed seismic mobile network for global earthquake early warning and XMLVM for cross-compiling applications across mobile ecosystems like Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.

Puder has received grants including $15,000 from Deutsche Telekom for the Distributed Seismic Mobile Network - MyShake (2016), $22,000 from KDDI for Dynamic Watermarking of Javascript Applications (2016), $15,000 from Deutsche Telekom for NFC for Firefox OS (2015), and $45,000 from the Mozilla Foundation for Typescript (2015). Key publications encompass the book Distributed Systems Architecture: A Middleware Approach (2006, co-authored with Kay Römer and Frank Pilhofer), MICO: An Open Source CORBA Implementation, Exposing Native Device APIs to Web Apps (MOBILESoft 2014, with Nikolai Tillmann and Michal Moskal), Cross-Compiling Java to JavaScript via Tool-Chaining (PPPJ 2013, with Victor Woeltjen and Alon Zakai), Cross-Compiling Android Applications to iOS and Windows Phone 7 (Mobile Networks and Applications 2013), Foundation Models for Course Equivalency Evaluation (ICDM Workshops 2024), and Predicting Course Transferability Using Deep Embeddings and Traditional Classifiers (EDM 2025). As department chair and senate member, Puder influences Computer Science education and curriculum development at the institution.