Bio

I am an associate professor in the School of Computing and Informatics, Ray P. Authement College of Sciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Biography

I have authored/co-authored dozens of conference and journal papers since 1996. I completed a B.S. degree in computer science (1982),  masters degrees in both telecommunications (1999) and business administration (1988), and a Ph.D. in computer science (2007), all from University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Additionally, I have earned 18-credit hours of graduate coursework in Theology (Dogmatic Theology Concentration) at Holy Apostles College & Seminary.

I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Informatics, as well as direct informatics, computer science, and computer engineering masters and doctoral students in their research, masters theses and doctoral dissertations.

I worked in industry as a programmer, database developer, and network administrator from 1982 until 1989. I then joined the staff at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette in August of 1989, after which I became a faculty member in August 1996. I have been with the School of Computing and Informatics since its formation in Fall 2011, and have served previously as program coordinator for both the undergraduate and master's programs in Informatics.

I direct Master's and Ph.D. graduate research in the Intelligent Systems, Modeling, and Simulation (iSMS) Lab, School of Computing and Informatics, and am very proud of my current and former graduate students for their amazing research and scholarly accomplishments. (An example of the many research accomplishments originating from my lab is our paper entitled, "Real-Time Object Processing and Routing for Intelligent Drones: A Novel Approach," which was published as the COVER FEATURE INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS in the December 2020 issue of IEEE Computer Magazine.)

Organizations

Professional Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Member of the Society for Catholic Scientists (SCS) (Dr. Stephen Barr, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, and President of SCS, discusses the Society of Catholic Scientists in a YouTube video entitled, "What is the Society of Catholic Scientists?".)

Perpetually Promised Dominican Tertiary (Third Order Dominican), and serve as Vice-President of Saint Albert the Great Chapter, Southern Dominican Laity, Province of St. Martin de Porres

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, 2007
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Dissertation: Multi-hop wireless mesh networks: Performance evaluation and empirical models

M.S. Telecommunications, 1999
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Thesis: A hop-by-hop credit-based flow-control algorithm for ATM networks

Master of Business Administration (MBA), 1988
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

B.S. Computer Science, 1982
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Student Research/Collaboration

My research interests are in:

• Intelligent systems

• AI/machine and deep learning applications

• Simulation and modeling

Opportunities for Student Research/Collaboration:

I direct doctoral and masters graduate research, as well as undergraduate research.