These are notes from an in-class exercise on recursion I did in a First Year Seminar. The basic idea is an old one: to draw a tree recursively.
I am a member of the teaching faculty in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the associate director of the Digital Forensics Lab at UMass.
PhD, Computer Science, 2008
MS, Computer Science, 2003
BS, Computer Science, 2000
In Spring 2020 I am teaching COMPSCI 590K: Advanced Digital Forensics Systems.
In Fall 2019 I taught COMPSCI 186: Using Data Structures and CICS 191CMPS2: CS Major RAP First Year Seminar. I was a finalist for a Distinguished Teaching award.
In Spring 2019 I taught COMPSCI 186: Using Data Structures, COMPSCI 365: Digital Forensics, and COMPSCI 590F: Advanced Digital Forensics. I was nominated for a Distinguished Teaching award, and I received the College Outstanding Teaching award.
In Fall 2018 I taught COMPSCI 186: Using Data Structures and COMPSCI 391L: Computer Crime Law. I was nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Award.
In Spring 2018 I taught COMPSCI 365/590F: Digital Forensics and INFOSEC 690F: Fraud Detection.
In Fall 2017 I taught COMPSCI 190D: Using Data Structures and COMPSCI 391L: Computer Crime Law, and was a finalist for a Distinguished Teaching Award.
In Spring 2017 I taught COMPSCI 190D: Using Data Structures and COMPSCI 365/590F: Digital Forensics.
In Fall 2016 I taught COMPSCI 190D: Using Data Structures and COMPSCI 391L/591L: Computer Crime Law, and was nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Award.
In Spring 2016 I taught COMPSCI 290NW: A Networked World.
In Spring 2015 I taught CMPSCI 187: Programming with Data Structures and was nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Award.
In Fall 2014 I taught both CMPSCI 290NW: A Networked World and CMPSCI 383: Artificial Intelligence.
I taught CMPSCI 453: Computer Networking in Spring 2014.
Along with Brian Levine, I taught a course on Computer Crime Law (CMPSCI 391LI) in Fall 2011.
I taught classes on Computer and Network Security at Trinity College, Connecticut College and Wesleyan University, where I was a visiting assistant professor. I was the instructor for Architecture and Assembly Language at UMass in the summer of 2001.
In AY 2019–2020, I am chairing a committee to review CICS’s undergraduate curriculum. If you have thoughts on the matter, please get in touch.
I help coordinate and administer UMass’s CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service. Eligible students are encouraged to apply!
I administer the UMass Trace Repository. Send us your data!
I have been a member of the UMass Academic Honesty Board since AY 2015.
I serve on the Executive Board of the Massachusetts Society of Professors, the labor union that represents faculty and librarians at UMass Amherst, and as a member of our negotiations committee. I also serve as a Faculty Advocate for members of the bargaining unit.
These are notes from an in-class exercise on recursion I did in a First Year Seminar. The basic idea is an old one: to draw a tree recursively.
I am honored to have been selected to receive the CICS Outstanding Teacher Award.
The members of the teaching faculty in CICS at UMass are going to the College of St. Rose this Saturday, April 8th, to give a panel presentation on Innovation with Scale at CCSCNE 2017.
I have been nominated for a 2016–2017 Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA).
Next semester (Spring 2017) I am teaching two courses: COMPSCI 190D: Using Data Structures and COMPSCI 365/590F: Digital Forensics.