CIS Department to Host Fulbright Student

The CIS Department will host its first Fulbright Student - Tomaž Lukman, a PhD student from the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tomaž will spend the 2009-2010 academic year collaborating with faculty and students in the SoftCom lab. He will be investigating semantic formalisms for domain-specific modeling languages.

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” A mainstay of America’s public-diplomacy efforts, the Fulbright Foreign Student Program brings citizens of other countries to the United States for Master’s degree or Ph.D. study at U.S. universities. The Foreign Student Program brings more than 1,800 foreign students from 144 countries to U.S. universities each year. Tomaž is one of two representatives from Slovenia who were selected as a Fulbright Student next year.