CurtÌýPowleyÌýPH.D.
College of Natural and Computational Sciences - Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Education:
- Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles.
- M.S., Computer Science, Naval Postgraduate School.
- B.S., Naval Architecture, U.S. Naval Academy
Courses Taught:
- CSCI 1041 Digital Literacy in a Global Society
- CSCI 1534 Data Analysis and Visualization
- CSCI 1611 Gentle Introduction to Computer Programming
- CSCI 2913 Data Structures
- CSCI 3101 Algorithms
- CSCI 3106 Programming Challenges
- CSCI 3911 Software Engineering
- CSCI 4911 Software Project I
Professional Interests:
Programming in STEM education; algorithms; search; artificial intelligence; software engineering.
Personal Interests/Biography:
Ocean swimming, Cycling, Dancing, Hiking.
Teaching Interests/Research:
I’ve been a researcher, software developer and project manager, teacher, and a U.S. Naval officer. I worked in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley (San Francisco Bay area) at high-tech startup companies for about 10 years. I worked at a leading computer science research institute at USC for about three years. I’ve been teaching at ¸£Àû¼§ for over 15 years, and sometimes do consulting work for high-tech startup companies. I’ve hired over 10 of my students to work on cutting-edge industry projects. I also coach our ¸£Àû¼§ students to compete in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), the premier programming contest in the world, and am proud that we have achieved 11 first-place wins at the Hawaii site of our region since it was established in 2003. This is the most wins of any university in Hawaii.
