Update 2022-08-04: I’m told that UMass changed its Azure authentication policy in late June, and Thunderbird now once again works out-of-the-box with UMass’s Office 365 mail service.
I am a member of the teaching faculty in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the associate director of the Digital Forensics Lab in CICS, and co-president of the Massachusetts Society of Professors, the labor union that represents faculty and librarians on the UMass Amherst campus.
PhD, Computer Science, 2008
MS, Computer Science, 2003
BS, Computer Science, 2000
In Fall 2022 I am teaching COMPSCI 230: Computer Systems Principles.
In Spring 2022 I taught COMPSCI 186: Using Data Structures and COMPSCI 590K: Advanced Digital Forensics Systems.
In Fall 2021 I taught two first year seminars, CICS 191FY1-19: CS Major RAP, and FFYS 191CICS1: Computational Thinking for the Complete Novice.
In Spring 2021 I taught COMPSCI 186: Using Data Structures (face-to-face, in an otherwise mostly online semester at UMass).
In Fall 2020 I taught COMPSCI 186: Using Data Structures as a purely online course.
In Spring 2020 I taught COMPSCI 590K: Advanced Digital Forensics Systems. I was a finalist for a Distinguished Teaching award.
In Fall 2019 I taught COMPSCI 186: Using Data Structures and CICS 191CMPS2: CS Major RAP First Year Seminar.
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 2021–2022, I am a member of our Department Personnel Committee and serve on the Annual Faculty Report and Evaluation (AFR) subcommittee.
I help coordinate and administer UMass’s CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service.
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 am a member of the Faculty Senate’s Academic Matters Council and also serve on the Policy Subcommittee.
I am a co-president of the Massachusetts Society of Professors, the labor union that represents faculty and librarians at UMass Amherst, and a member of our bargaining team.
Update 2022-08-04: I’m told that UMass changed its Azure authentication policy in late June, and Thunderbird now once again works out-of-the-box with UMass’s Office 365 mail service.
Every fall I get emails from prospective undergraduates asking questions about UMass and our programs in CICS.
These questions and requests are usually one or more of the following:
How would you rate the X at UMass, where X is one or more of:
Tell me why I should I choose UMass over other schools.
Will I get to take a class with a particular professor?
Will I get a top internship/job placement?
Will I get to do undergraduate research?
This post is a collection of my thoughts on these topics.
(In particular, it is not a reflection of UMass’s or CICS’s official positions on these questions, which you can learn more about here and here, respectively.)
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.