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Dr. Sam Siewert - Computer Science
Dr. Sam Siewert - Computer Science
Professor of Computer Science (Adjunct: CU Boulder) - Schedule, Student Help, Classic Page, Campus Safety
Professor of Computer Science (Adjunct: CU Boulder) - Schedule, Student Help, Classic Page, Campus Safety
O'Connell Technology Center, 211, Computer Science Department
O'Connell Technology Center, 211, Computer Science Department
400 W. First St., Chico, CA 95929-0410 (Campus Map), Office: 530-898-4342
Info: My CSU GitHub, My Current Vita, Bio, Math Geneaology, Research Presentations, All Publications, Google Scholar, Research Gate, O'Reilly Learning, Grad Cafe.
Chico Resources: Portal, Academic Calendar, ITS Requests, ITS Server Tickets, ITPR, HR form for reference, CFA Page, Fac-Staff-Calendar, Online Program, Curriculum Flowcharts, Final Exam Matrix
General: ChatGPT, Co-Pilot, ASEE NETI, Web Chess, Chess.com, Shasta, Otter AI Meetings, TEIN tech equity, NASA MSI, NASA University programs, Order of the Engineer, Understanding Options, CSU FAQs & Resources.
Current Computer Science Program Teaching
(CSU Chico Catalog, BS CS, MS CS, MS CS online, Catalog Archive)
Resources: Syllabus, Documents, Code Examples, Lecture Notes, Policies, Canvas
Sect 01 Discuss: TuTh 08:30-09:45 AM in O'Connell 254 and ZOOM
Sect 02 Activity: TuTh 10:00-10:50 AM in-person Only in O'Connell 244
Sect 03 Activity: TuTh 11:00-11:50 AM on ZOOM Only (O'Connell 244 reserved)
NSF ACCESS, Expanse Portal, ECC-Linux NUC Cluster: 62 nodes - 136 SMT cores, ARM Clusters: Jetson Nano cluster (20 nodes, 80 ARM cores, 2,560 SP co-procs), R-Pi-4 cluster (40 nodes, 160 cores), GP-GPU: A100 with 16 Xeon cores , & DGX-1 V100 cluster (4 nodes).
Related Publications: ASEE - PSW 2024 paper & presentation; PSW 2021 paper & presentation.
Resources: Syllabus, Code Examples, Lecture Notes, Policies, Canvas
Sect 01 Discussion: MoWe 04:00-05:15 PM in Langdon 106
References: Handson-ML 3rd Ed Book, HML3 GitHub; HML 2nd Ed Book, HML2 GitHub; ML An Algorithmic Perspective; DS from Scratch book; R&N AI book; LLM From Scratch book; Hands-On LLM book; Generative AI; PyTorch Deep Learning & PyTorch NLP
LLM References: Hands-on LLM Book, Illustrated Transformer, BERT, Attention is All you Need
Resources: Syllabus, Documents, Code Examples, Lecture Notes, Media, Policies, Media & Data, Canvas
Sect 01 Discuss: MoWe 12:00-12:50 PM in Langdon 106
Sect 02 Activity: MoWe 01:00-01:50 PM in O'Connell 244
Sect 601 Discuss: Sunday 7:00-8:30 PM on ZOOM only, Online Canvas
Sect 602 Activity: Thurs 7:00-8:30 PM on ZOOM only
Related Publications: AIAA SciTech - 2023 paper & presentation - 2022 paper & presentation, 2020 paper & presentation, 2019 paper & presentation, 2017 paper & presentation; SPIE - 2024 presentation & paper, 2025 presentation & paper.
Resources: Syllabus, Documents, Policies, Code Examples, Lecture Notes, ROS, ROS2, Robotis, Canvas
Sect 01 Discussion: TuTh 11:00 AM-11:50 PM in O'Connell 244
Sect 02 Activity: TuTh 12:00-12:50 AM in O'Connell 244
Related Publications: IEEE Aerospace - 2021 paper & presentation.
On-Going Research at CSU Chico & Student Research Advising
Research Groups Summary
Sensor Systems and Information Fusion (2011-present) - Elephant Listening Project Student Research Group
Robotics and Machine Intelligence (2024-present) - Faculty Mentor: CURE-E and Summer Student Research on Human-Machine Teaming
Hybrid Parallel + Quantum Computing (2024-present) - with Dr. Jaime Raigoza and Parallel + Quantum student research club on demonstration of quantum advantage
Physics Informed Machine Learning
MS Thesis Advising - Spencer Pollard: A Comparison of Kalman Filtering and Deep Learning for State Estimation in Chaotics Systems (2024-25)
Pocket Radar - Baseball post hit analysis using computer vision and radar with convolutional neural network sensor fusion (2023-24)
MS Thesis Advising - Feras Alsheri: Experimental Design for Comparative Analysis of Sensor Fusion Based Dynamic State Estimation with Traditional and Deep Learning Methods (2023)
Parallel + Quantum Computing
MS Thesis Advising - Chirag Dhamange: Investigate and demonstrate algorithms expected to show quantum advantage (2024-25)
CS-CSU Conference - https://cscsu-conference.github.io/
Past Computer Science Program Teaching
Resources: Syllabus, Documents, Canvas
Sect 05 Discussion: MWF 10:00 - 10:50 AM in O'Connell 239
Career help: Locations, Cost-of-living, City compare, Grad schools, Carnegie classification, Digital Footprint, GitHub Pages, Hacker-rank
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