E. Bruce Pitman, professor in the Department of Materials Design and Innovation, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been named interim vice president and chief information officer, effective March 1.

Pitman succeeds J. Brice Bible, who is leaving UB to take on the same role at the University of South Carolina.

A UB faculty member since 1989, Pitman is a former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and a former vice provost for educational technology. He has also served as associate dean for research and sponsored programs in CAS, and most recently as interim director of the Institute for Computational and Data Science.

An expert in mathematical modeling and high-performance computing, for the last two decades he has been studying uncertainty quantification — techniques for understanding uncertainty in models of physical or biological systems, and how computing can account for these uncertainties.

The author or co-author of more than 90 research articles, he has been a principal investigator or co-investigator on approximately $15 million in research and equipment awards.

He holds a BS in physics and mathematics from Northwestern University and an MS and PhD in mathematics from Duke University.