Dr. Coleman completed his doctorate in computer science at Polytechnic University in 1989 while working for Bell Labs from 1984-1989. After graduation Dr. Coleman came to IBM to participate in the development of the SP1, the company's first scalable parallel supercomputer, forerunner to the SP2 and Deep Blue. In 1993, Dr. Coleman went to work for Citigroup where he was part of a team that developed quantitative software to measure and diagnose the global credit risk of foreign exchange and interest rate derivative contracts.
In 2000 Dr. Coleman co-founded Informeta, a technology company in Poughkeepsie that develops artificially intelligent software to "explain" and correct information faults in databases for major corporations. The company hires and trains interns and graduates from local colleges for technology careers using computer science.
Dr. Coleman is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Statistical Association, the Society for Scientific Exploration, and is an assistant professor of computer science at Marist.