I recently (Fall 2023) became a professor of Computer Science and Information Systems at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) after 24 years of being a professor of Physics and Astronomy at a variety of institutions include 17 years at MSUM.

My programming tends to be in the Python programming language (often using Jupyter notebooks) although I have quite a bit of experience with C++, C, Perl, and Bash shell.

• 👨‍🏫 I spent part of Summer 2025 revamping the headcounts package (originally by Matt Craig) to use a modern dataframe library to handle its data. I also worked with a student, Natoli Tesgera, to develop a front-end for this tool which is mostly designed to allow department chairs at my University to track enrollment.

• 🔭 I also spent part of Summer 2025 migrating Astronomy Interactives to work with Voici, allowing me to deploy these interactive applications used in introductory astronomy classes to illustrate astronomical ideas on a static website instead of requiring a Jupyter Server.

• I've also been spending a lot of time investigating machine learning, teaching an introductory course on the topic in Spring 2025 and trying to comprehend out the tools I used in astrophysics evolved into things like LLMs which the students are interested in.

• I’m occasionally contribute to the stellarphot package with Matt Craig. It is a Python package designed to streamline the process of wide-field stellar photometry. It is specifically aimed at variable star and exoplanet observations.

• 😄 Pronouns: He/Him

• 🗺 Location: Moorhead, MN (primarily)