Richard D. Holowczak

E-mail: richard_holowczak@baruch.cuny.edu
URL: http://cisnet.baruch.cuny.edu/holowczak/

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Information Systems
  Rutgers University
  Graduate School-Newark, Newark, New Jersey,
  May, 1997
  Thesis: Extractors for Digital Library Objects
• M.S. Computer Science
  New Jersey Institute of Technology
  Newark, New Jersey, May, 1997
• M.B.A. Information Systems
  Rutgers University
  Graduate School of Management, Newark, New Jersey, 1992
  Dean's Scholarship Award Recipient
• B.S. Computer Science
  The College of New Jersey (formally Trenton State College), Trenton, New Jersey, 1990
  Minor in Mathematics

• Ascioglu, A., Holowczak, R., Louton, D. and Saraoglu, H. "A Comparative Review of Options Markets Platforms Before and After New Entrants" Proceedings of Southwestern Finance Association Conference. (Albuquerque, New Mexico). March, 2013. Winner of the Market Technicians Association Best Paper Award in Technical Analysis/Investments
• Hayunga, D. K., Holowczak, R.D., Lung, P., and Nishikawa, T. "Derivatives Traders’ Reaction to Mispricing in the Underlying Equity". Journal of Banking and Finance Volume 36, Issue 9, Pages 2417-2672 (September 2012).
• Mishra, S., Daigler, R. and Holowczak, R. "The Effect of Algorithmic Trading on Liquidity in the Options Market" Stern Microstructure Meeting (New York, NY). June, 2012.
• Ascioglu, A., Louton, D., Saraoglu, H. and Holowczak, R. "A Comparative Review of Options Markets Platforms Before and After the Introduction of NASDAQ Options Market" Proceedings of the Eastern Finance Association Annual Meetings. (Boston MA), April, 2012.
• Holowczak, R., Hu, J. and Wu, L. "Consolidating Information in Option Transactions" Proceedings of the Northeast Business & Economics Association. 37th Annual Meeting. Morristown, New Jersey. October 2, 2010.
• Louton, D., Saraoglu, H. and Holowczak, R. "Quote Behavior and Liquidity Implications of the Options Penny Pilot project: A Comparative Study”. Proceedings of the Eastern Finance Association Annual Meetings. Washington, D.C. April, 2009.
• Connolly, T., Begg, C., and Holowczak, R. Business Database Systems. 2008. Addison-Wesley. 560 pages.
• Kumar, N., Mohan, K. and Holowczak, R. "Locking the Door but Leaving the Computer Vulnerable: Factors Inhibiting Home Users’ Adoption of Software Firewalls." Decision Support Systems. 46:1. 2008.
• Schwartz, R. and Holowczak, R. "Automation in Equity Markets." Encyclopedia of Social Problems. SAGE Reference publications. 2007.
• Liu, Lewis G., Holowczak, R., and Onochie, J. "Using Professional Data Services in an Introductory Macroeconomics Course: A Critical Thinking Approach" The Journal of the Academy of Business Education. Volume 8, Fall 2007. pg. 57-75.
• Holowczak, R. "Real Time Foreign Exchange Data Modeling in International Economics and Finance." The Journal of Financial Education. Summer 2007. pg. 23-36.
• Holowczak, R., Taksa, I. and Levine, I. "Mining Web Logs to Improve WebGIS Application Response Times." Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2007). IEEE Computer Society. April 2-4, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 2007.
• Holowczak, R., Simaan, Y., and Wu. L., "Price Discovery in the U.S. Stock and Stock Options Market: A Portfolio Approach." Review of Derivatives Research. Volume 9, Issue 1, 2006. pg, 37-65.
• Holowczak, R. and Friedman, L. W. "Using Real-World Financial Data to Make the Introductory Business Statistics Course More Relevant". Proceedings of the 2006 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting. November 18-21. San Antonio, Texas. 2006. pp. 25411 – 25416.
• Holowczak, R., "Incorporating Real Time Financial Data Into Business Curricula" Journal of Education for Business. 81(1), September/October, 2005. Page 3 - 8.
• Holowczak, R., Peng, C., Yeates, S. "Identification and Visualization of Corporate Structure: A Preliminary Investigation." Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, New York, August 2004.
• Holowczak, R., Adam, N., Artigas, A. and Bora, I. "Data Warehousing for Environmental Digital Libraries." Communications of the ACM. 46(9). September, 2003. Page 172 - 178.
• Holowczak, R., Artigas, F., Chun, S., Cho, J.S. and Stone, H. "An Experimental Study on Content-based Image Classification for Satellite Image Databases." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Volume 40. Number 6. June, 2002.
• Holowczak, R., Chun, S., Artigas, F., and Atluri, V. "Customized Geospatial Workflows for E-Government Services." Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. November, 2001.
• Holowczak, R. "Financial Services in Electronic Commerce" in Managing Business with Electronic Commerce: Issues and Trends. Edited by Aryya Gangopadhyay. Idea Group Publishing. 2002.
• Adam, N. R., Atluri, V., Adiwijaya, I., Banerjee, S. and Holowczak, R. "A Dynamic Manifestation Approach for Providing Universal Access to Digital Library Objects." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 13(4), July/August 2001. Page 705-716.
• Adam, N. R. Artigas, F., Atluri, V., Chun, S., Colbert, S., Degeratu, M., Ebeid, A., Hatzivassiloglou, V., Holowczak, R., Marcopolus, O., Mazzoleni, P. and Rayner, W. "E-Government: Human-Centered Systems for Business Services." Proceedings of DGO 2001. Los Angeles, California. May, 2001.
• Artigas, F., Barrett, K. and Holowczak, R. "Digital Meadowlands: A web-based environmental decision support system for management and research of an urban, estuarine watershed." Integrated Decision-Making for Watershed Management Symposium. Washington, D.C. January, 2001.
• Liu, L. and Holowczak, R. "Using Reuters 3000 Xtra for Financial Information Education." Online Information Review: The International Journal of Digital Information Research and Use. 24(5), November, 2000. Page 371-380.
• Artigas, F., Bielory, L., Holowczak, R. and Patel, K. "Asthma distribution patterns and their relationship with the urban landscape and social conditions in Newark NJ." Second International Health Geographics Conference, Chevy Chase, Maryland. March 17-19, 2000.
• Barrett, K., Holowczak, R. and Artigas, F. "A database of environmental documents about an Urban Estuary, with a WWW-based, geographic interface." Symposium on Water Resources and the World Wide Web. Seattle, Washington, December 5, 1999.
• Adam, N. R. and Holowczak, R. D. "Concept Based Query of Digital Library Objects" Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB '98), May, 1998.
• Adam, N. R., Gangopadhyay, A. and Holowczak, R. D. "A Survey on Research on Database Protection." Proceedings of the International Conference on Statistical Data Protection, Portugal, March 27-28, 1998.
• Holowczak, R. D. and Adam, N. R. "Information Extraction based Multiple-Category Document Classification for the Global Legal Information Network." Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-97). July, 1997. Providence, Rhode Island.
• Adam, N., Awerbuch, B., Bennet, K., Blaustein, B., Brodsky, A., Chen, R., Dogramaci, O., Grossman, B., Holowczak, R., Johnson, J., Kalpakis, K., McCollum, C., Neches, A., Neches, B., Rosenthal, A., Slonim, J., Wactlar, H., Wolfson, O., Yesha, Y., and Yesha, Y. "Electronic Commerce and Digital Libraries: Towards a Digital Agora." ACM Computing Surveys 28(4), December 1996.
• Adam, N. R., Halem, M., Holowczak, R. D., Lal, N. and Yesha, Y. " Digital Library Task Force." IEEE Computer, August, 1996.
• Li, Wen-Syan and Holowczak, R. "Constructing Information Systems Based on Schema Reuse." Proceedings of CIKM'96, November, 1996
• Holowczak, R. and Li, Wen-Syan. A Survey on Heterogeneity Metadata Representation First IEEE Metadata Conference, April, 1996.
• Adam, N. R., Holowczak, R. D. and Li, Wen-Syan. Object Manifestations for Medical Imaging Applications, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics Special Issue, Volume 20, Number 4, 1996.
• Adam, N. R., Boucher, T. O., Holowczak, R. H., A Generic CIM Architecture for Raw Materials Control in FDA Regulated Industries. FAIM Conference, 1993 Dublin, Ireland.

• Holowczak, R. Getting started with TradeStation in the Subotnick Financial Services Center. Working paper for the Subotnick Financial Services Center. April, 2003. 13 pg.
• Dologite, D. and Holowczak R. Introduction to Popkin System Architect 2001. Tutorial for Systems Analysis and Design courses. February, 2002. 30 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Reuters 3000 Xtra and Kobra Tutorial: Indexes, Stock Quotes and News. Working paper for the Subotnick Financial Services Center. August, 2000. 35 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Reuters 3000 Xtra and PowerPlus Tutorial - Market Data and News using MS Excel. Working paper for the Subotnick Financial Services Center. April 2000. 32 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Reuters 3000 Xtra and Kobra Tutorial: Equities. Working paper for the Subotnick Financial Services Center. April, 2000. 10 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Oracle Developer A Tutorial on Oracle Forms, Reports and Graphics Covering Developer version 6.0 and 6i for Windows 95/98/NT/2000. On-line tutorial. December, 2000. 81 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Oracle Developer/2000 A Tutorial on Oracle Forms, Reports and Graphics Covering Developer/2000 version 2.0 and 2.1 for Windows 95/NT. On-line tutorial. July, 2000. 80 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Oracle Developer/2000 1.5 A Tutorial on Oracle Forms and Reports. On-line tutorial. January, 1998. 50 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Oracle SQL*Plus: An Introduction and Tutorial (Revised and Updated). On-line tutorial. Updated October, 2000. 75 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Microsoft Access '97 Tutorial. On-line tutorial. September, 1998. 30 pg.
• Holowczak, R. Microsoft PowerPoint Tutorial. On-line tutorial. September, 1998. 17 pg.
• Bruins, R., Holowczak, R., Wang, H., Adam, N. and Albin, S., Design and Implementation of a Supplier Evaluation System Technical Working Paper 104, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University. June, 1995
• Adam, N. R., Holowczak, R. H., Materials Management for Raw Material and Finished Goods: Database Design and Implementation Technical Working Paper 101, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University. August, 1994
• Adam, N. R., Eghbali, G., Holowczak, R. H., Jafari, M., Electronic Data Interchange: EDI Translation Software Evaluation Technical Working Paper 98, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University. April, 1995
• Adam, N. R., Eghbali, G., Holowczak, R. H., Jafari, M., Electronic Data Interchange: Introduction, Concepts and Examples Technical Working Paper 95, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University. February, 1995
• Adam, N. R., Holowczak, R. H., Maeng, J-H., ORACLE SQL*Plus and SQL*Forms: An Introduction and Tutorial Technical Working Paper 89, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University. September, 1994
• Adam, N. R., Holowczak, R. H., Quality Assurance for Raw Material and Finished Goods: Database Design and Implementation Technical Working Paper 87, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University. August, 1994
• Holowczak, R. H., Installation and Maintenance of Novell Netware and Oracle Server Technical Working Paper, CRAMTD Project, Rutgers University.
• Holowczak, R. H., Consistency and Availability in Distributed Databases State of the Art Review Paper (Ph.D. Requirement), Department of MS/CIS, Rutgers University. December, 1994

Teaching Experience

• Financial Information Technologies (Baruch College undergraduate) 2006 - Present
• Networked Information Systems Security (Baruch College undergraduate) 2005 - Present
• Special Topics: Networked Information Systems Security (Baruch College graduate) Fall 2003
• Electronic Commerce (Baruch College graduate) 1999 - 2001
• Database Management Systems (I and II) (Baruch College undergraduate and graduate) 1997 - Present
• Computer Network Applications (Rutgers University Undergraduate) Spring 1996
• Database Programming and Design (Rutgers M.B.A., Teaching Assistant) 1993, 1994 and 1995
• Volunteer instructor for Making Healthy MUSIC computer camp and CIMIC Summer Computer Camp for Newark area high school and middle school students. 1996, 1997
• Teacher/Tutor - Computing seminars for students and faculty

Work Experience

• Director - Subotnick Financial Services Center. Baruch College, City University of New York 2003 - Present
• Associate Professor - Baruch College, City University of New York 2002 - Present
• Assistant Professor - Baruch College, City University of New York 1997 - 2002
• Member of the CUNY Graduate Center - Doctoral Faculty in Computer Science. 2000 - Present
• Member of the CUNY Graduate Center - Doctoral Faculty in Business. 2001 - Present.
• Research Associate - The Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 1995 - 1997
• Graduate Assistant - Database Programmer/Consultant and Network Manager, CORANET Project (Formerly CRAMTD), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 1992 - 1995
• Systems Consultant Intern, Amerada Hess Corporation, Woodbridge, NJ May 1991 - Sept 1991
• Database Programmer/Consultant Intern, MCI International, Piscataway, NJ May 1990 - Sept 1990

Software Knowledge

• All major database, spreadsheet, word processing and specialty programs in PC-DOS, Windows/95/98/NT/2000/XP/7, MacOS, and UNIX/Linux environments. UNIX and Windows system administration. Network and Systems security specialist.
• Languages: Basic, C, C++, Clipper, Cobol, Fortran, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, Prolog, SQL, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual C# and others.
• Databases: Extensive knowledge of, and experience with Oracle including database design, application development, database administration, tuning and management.
  Intermediate knowledge of Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2.

• Member - Association for Computing Machinery
• Member - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Member - American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• Member - Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Computer Science Honor Society
(Academic Excellence)
• Member - Beta Gamma Sigma National Business Honor Society (Academic Excellence)
• Phase II Winner - Harris Semiconductor Real Time XPress Programming Contest
• Represented Rutgers University at the ``University Contributions to Preparedness'' forum in Washington, DC
• Prepared grant proposals submitted to NSF, TIIAP, Law Library of Congress, NASA and NLM
• Review of technical papers for major publications and conference proceedings
• Coach/Mentor for FIRST Lego League Robotics team THE WYVERNS from S. Orange, NJ.

Interests

• Music composition, playing guitar and piano, creative writing, robotics