1. CS 1010– Introduction to Computer Science
Daniel Tauritz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Dr. T!

2. Who is Dr. T? Associate Professor of Computer Science
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Founding Director, Natural Computation Laboratory (NC-LAB)
Contract Scientist, Department 5838: Cyber Initiatives, Sandia National Laboratories
University Collaboration Scientist, Group A-4: Advanced Research in Cyber Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Academic Director, LANL/S&T Cyber Security Sciences Institute (CSSI)

3. Who is Dr. T? ACM SIG-Security Faculty Advisor
Investigator, Intelligent Systems Center
Co-Chair, ECADA 2015, 2016, 2017
Joint Appointment in Computer Engineering
Chair, ITCC Computer Security Task Force
Departmental Curricula Coordinator
Departmental Rep, Discipline Specific Curricula Committee – Engineering & Computing
Chair, Assistant Teaching Professor Search Committee

4. CS1200 Discrete Mathematics
Teaching
CS1200 Discrete Mathematics
CS5400 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
CS5401 Evolutionary Computing
CS6400 Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
CS6401 Advanced Evolutionary Computing

5. CS1200 – Discrete Mathematics
The mathematical foundations for creating discrete abstractions of the real-world and algorithms to operate on those abstract structures.

6. CS5400 – Introduction to AI
Problem solving through state space search (search algorithms which operate on abstract representations of the real-world)
AI Tournament

7. CS5401 – Evolutionary Computing
Problem solving through stochastic, population-based search inspired by natural evolution theory (algorithms which operate on abstract representations of the real-world)

8. CS6400/6401 – Advanced Topics in AI/Advanced EC
Individual research projects
The goal of scientific research is to add to the body of knowledge

9. Dr. T’s research projects
Computational Game Theory
Coevolving Attackers and Defenders in Large Infrastructure Networks
Heuristics, meta-heuristics, and hyper-heuristics
SAT & Cyber Security
Graph Algorithms
Evolving Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) Neural Networks