V. Scott Gordon, condensed resume/vita

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Colorado State University, May 1994.
  Dissertation: Exploitable Parallelism in Genetic Algorithms
  Committee: Darrell Whitley, Wim Bohm, Charles Anderson, Gearold Johnson
  
  
• M.S., Computer Science, CSU Sacramento, Aug. 1990.
  Thesis: An Expert-System Approach to Computer Generated Jazz Improvisation
  Committee: Fred Blackwell, Anne-Louise Radimsky, Jack Foote
  
  
• B.S., Computer Science, CSU Sacramento, May 1983.
  Minor: Mathematics.

Professional Experience

• 8/08 - present -- Professor, California State University, Sacramento.
• 8/02 - 8/08 --- Associate Professor, California State University, Sacramento.
• 8/00 - 8/02 --- Associate Professor, Sonoma State University.
• 8/95 - 8/00 --- Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University.
• 8/94 - 8/95 --- Lecturer, Sonoma State University.
• 8/93 - 6/94 --- Lecturer, Colorado State University.
• 8/90 - 6/93 --- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Colorado State University.
• 6/88 - 8/90 --- Lecturer, CSU Sacramento.
• 6/85 - 5/90 --- Consultant, (Computing Services), CSU Sacramento.
• 5/83 - 5/85 --- Software Engineer, TRW Defense Systems.

Publications

• "Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with Java" (3rd Edition), by V. Scott Gordon and John Clevenger, published by Mercury Learning (2021).
  
• "Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with C++" (2nd Edition), by V. Scott Gordon and John Clevenger, published by Mercury Learning (2021).
  
• "Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with C++", by V. Scott Gordon and John Clevenger, published by Mercury Learning (2019).
  
• "Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with Java (2nd Edition)", by V. Scott Gordon and John Clevenger, published by Mercury Learning (2019).
  
• "Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with Java", by V. Scott Gordon and John Clevenger, published by Mercury Learning (2017).

• Author of over 30 peer-reviewed publications.
  (click for downloadable links).

Grants

• NSF CCF - Co-PI (funded - $293,000), 2019-2022.
  
• NSF ITEST - PI (funded - $740,000), 2010-2015.
  
• NSF CPATH - Co-PI (funded - $285,000), 2009-2013.
  

Graduate Students

• Supervisor of 71 completed Master's projects.
  (click for complete list).

Reviewer

• IEEE International Conference on Tools in Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2003, 2004, 2008, 2016)
  
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 1994-2013)
  
• Jones & Bartlett (2012)
  
• International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT 2012)
  
• McGraw-Hill (2005, 2009)
  
• Cengage Learning (2009)
  
• NSF S-STEM Grant proposals (2008)
  
• IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI'08)
  
• Morgan-Kaufman book publishers (2007)
  
• IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2006)
  
• IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2005).
  
• IEEE Journal of Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (2005).
  
• John Wiley & Sons (2005).
  
• Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (2003).
  
• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2000,2002).
  
• Software Quality Journal (2000).
  
• The Computer Journal [Scotland] (1995).
  
• International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (1995).
  
• IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE-1993).
  
• IEEE International Test Conference (ITC-1993).
  
• Journal of Computer and Software Engineering (1992).
  
• IEEE Software Reliability Symposium (1992).

Conference Organizing

• Publication Chair, IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI'06)
  
• Local Arrangements Chair, IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'03)

Misc.

• 2022 Invited lecture, University of Kentucky, "Build Your Own Game Engine"
  
• 2022 Invited lectures, Sonoma State University (2022, 2020, 2018, 2014, 2011, 2008, 2006, 2003)
  
• 2019 Sabbatical - Mercury Learning (book revision)
  
• 2014 Instructor, Summer Course: Univ. Science & Tech. (Beijing, China) "Recursive Tree Search and AI Algorithms"
  
• 2013 ECS Outstanding Teaching Award
  
• 2012 Invited lecture: Chengdu University (Sichuan, China)
  
• 2012 Invited lecture: (public) STEM Lecture Series (CSUS)
  
• 2011 Sabbatical - General Vision Corp./Cognimem Inc.
  
• 2011 ECS Outstanding Service Award
  
• 2010 ECS Outstanding Teaching Award nominee
  
• 2009 STEM Fellow
  
• 2007 Co-Director, Center for STEM Excellence
  
• 2007 ECS Outstanding Service Award nominee
  
• 2005 Invited lecture: Presidio World College, "Software Industry Lessons"
  
• 1989 ECS Distinguished Alumni Award

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