I am a professor of Computer Science at Colorado State University. I also hold an appointment in the Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience (MCIN) program and work with the CSU Energy Institute. I earned my B.S. in CS from Yale back in 1984, and my M.S. and Ph.D. in CS from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1987 and 1993, where I also served as a senior post-doctoral research scientist from 1993-1996. In 1996 I joined the faculty at Colorado State University as an Assistant Professor, and I was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001 and Professor in 2010. From 2019-2023 I took a leave from CSU to serve as a program manager in the Information Innovation Office (I2O) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), before returning to CSU as Department Chair in 2023.
As department chair, I embrace the university’s land grant mission of access to all. Computer science is the driving economic force behind modern society and we strive to serve anyone with the interest and intellectual ability to study it. As part of this mission, we also seek to build stronger industrial and governmental ties to serve both our students and the state.
