Ron Coleman completed his Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science in 1983 (summa cum lade, class valedictorian) at The City College of New York, School of Engineering (CCNY) and his Doctoral degree in Computer Science in 1990 (summa cum lade) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Polytechnic Institute (formerly Polytechnic University).
Dr. Colman worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a software developer from 1984 to 1989 and an Advisory Engineer for IBM in the Supercomputing Systems Lab from 1989 to 1993 where he was part of a team which built a version of the supercomputer that would become Deep Blue, the chess machine. He went to work for Citigroup in 1993 as a software developer, analyst, and vice president in risk management technology and co-founded Informeta, LLC, a high-tech startup, in 2001.
Dr. Coleman joined Marist College as Professor of Computer Science in 2002.
