Professional Activities

Professional Memberships

  • Senior MemberInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
    • Member of IEEE Computer Society
    • Member of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
  • Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
    • Member, Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT)
    • Member, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI)
    • Member, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)

Professional Development

2020

  • Attendee, 37th Annual Academic Chairpersons Conference, Savannah, GA, February 4-6, 2020

2019

  • Attendee, Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges, 33rd Southeast Conference, Auburn, AL, October 25-26, 2019
  • Attendee, IEEE SoutheastCon 2019, Huntsville, AL, April 12-14, 2019.
  • Attendee, Data Science at Oak Ridge National Labs, Dr. Edmon Begoli, ETSU CaRDS Seminar, April 3, 2019.
  • Attendee, e-Day, East Tennessee State University, March 27, 2019.

2018

  • Attendee, Brian Drawart, Ph.D. (UNC-Asheville), Modeling ALS, ETSU CaRDS Seminar, 2018.
  • Attendee/Presider, Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges, 32nd Southeast Conference, Salem, VA, November 2-3, 2018
  • Attendee, IEEE SoutheastCon 2018, St. Petersburg, FL, April 20-21, 2018.

2017

  • Attendee, Workshop on TensorFlow by Dr. Jeff Knisley, December 1, 2017
  • Attendee/Presider, Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges, 31st Southeast Conference, Greenville, SC, November 3-4, 2017
  • Attendee, Seminar "Finding correlation within  deviating medical  treatments" by: Robyn Ward, Pharm.D. et al, September 29, 2017, Sponsored by ETSU CaRDS Research Institute.
  • ABET IDEAL Scholar, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Inc., Baltimore, MD. July 31-August 3, 2017
  • Attendee, Seminar “Methods for Clustering Mixed Data” by: Dr. JeanMarie Hendrickson, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, East Tennessee State University. April 7, 2017, Sponsored by ETSU CaRDS Research Institute.
  • Attendee/Track Chair, IEEE SoutheastCon 2017, Charlotte (Concord), NC, March 2017.

2016

  • Attendee, Seminar “Big Data: Think Differently About Data” by Dr. Jeff Pittges (of Radford University), September 20, 2016. Sponsored by ETSU Department of Computing and CaRDS Research Institute.
  • Attendee, Webinar: “Generators: Powering Iteration in Python” by Luciano Ramalho (Technical Principal, ThoughtWorks) via ACM Learning Webinars. September 27, 2016.
  • Attendee, “The Challenges and Promise of Applied Data Science” by Dr. Edmon Begoli, Chief Data Officer with Oak Ridge National Labs, April 18, 2016.
  • Attendee/Track Chair/Judge, IEEE SoutheastCon 2016, Norfolk, VA, March 2016.

2015

  • Attendee, IEEE Region 3 Student Branch Workshop – Georgia Tech Research Institute – Atlanta, GA – October 17, 2015

Volunteerism

Ongoing:

  • Vice Chair, IEEE Tri-Cities Section (2015-2020)
  • Advisor, IEEE @ ETSU Student Branch (2015-2019)

2018

  • Reviewer, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) Southeast Conference 2018
  • Reviewer, IEEE SoutheastCon 2018

2017

  • PresiderConsortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) Southeast Conference - Session IIIA
  • Proctor, IEEEXtreme 11.0 24-Hour Programming Competition (October 13-14, 2017)
  • Book Proposal Reviewer, Jones & Bartlett Learning
  • Proctor, IEEE @ ETSU Programming Competition
  • Reviewer, IEEE SoutheastCon 2017
  • Track Chair, IEEE SoutheastCon 2017 - IoT and Embedded Systems Track

2016

  • Proctor, IEEEXtreme 10.0 24-Hour Programming Competition (October 21-22, 2016)
  • Track Chair, IEEE SoutheastCon 2016 - Software Engineering Track
  • Reviewer, IEEE SoutheastCon 2016
  • Judge, IEEE SoutheastCon 2016 Student Paper Competition
  • Organizer, IEEE @ ETSU Programming Competition

2015

  • Proctor, IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition (October 24-25, 2015)
  • Attendee, IEEE Region 3 Student Branch Training Workshop, Atlanta, GA (October 18, 2015)
  • Reviewer, IEEE SoutheastCon 2015