Ronald Sarner, Ph.D.
Distinguished Service Professor, Computer Science
(SUNY-Binghamton)
Ron Sarner has research and teaching interests in comparative programming languages, applications of computing in
the social sciences, and instructional computing. His degrees are in political science (B.A. SUNY-Stony Brook;
M.A., Ph.D. SUNY-Binghamton) and his doctoral dissertation was a quantitative model of the New York State
legislative process. He has taught a variety of introductory programming and applications courses as well as
courses in decision support and programming languages on the undergraduate level and data analysis on the graduate
level. Ron has held a number of administrative positions at SUNYIT including Director of Information Services,
Interim Dean of ISET, and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. He is currently the chair of the
Computer Science department.
