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Welcome to my home page! I'm an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. My teaching interests include programming, computer organization, the theory of computation, parallel computing, data structures and algorithms.

My research interests include computer architecture, compilers and parallel computing. My main research project right now is a new programming language geared towards making parallel computing easier to accomplish. 
Current Classes

Fall 2018 Schedule

I am in my office lots of other times besides these, but if you want to make an appointment, please just email me.

Past Classes


My research is mainly in the areas of compilers, computer architecture, programming languages and parallel processing. I am also interested in computationally difficult problems and the theory of computation.


Recent Publications:

My curriculum vitae.

Programming Contests

I serve as the coach of the UMW programming teams which compete in the ACM regional programming contest each November.

I also host a local programming contest here at UMW each Spring. The following page provides information on the contests as well as an archive of all of the past problems, including descriptions, test cases and sample solutions.

Past programming contests


You can see some of my side projects and fun stuff on my blog.

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