Teaching

Taught over 34 undergraduate classes during the last 5 years.
New Courses:

• All models are wrong. Why are we still using them? (FYSM)
• How Things Work - The Physics of Everyday Life (FYSM)
• Biophysical Modeling of Excitable Cells (PHYS 296/BIOL 396)
• Connecting Physics and Mathematics (Freshmen Learning Community)
• Introduction to Computational Neuroscience (PHYS 298)

Curriculum Innovations:

• computer-assisted labs with PASCO
• online homework system

Research Mentor for Undergraduates

• Bachelor essays and senior research projects (6)
• Research experience for undergraduates (16)

Undergraduates Received Awards:

• Outstanding Undergraduate Research (2009), South Carolina Academy of Science

Research

Sponsored by NSF-Career, South Carolina Space Grant Consortium, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and College of Charleston.
Research Interest:

• computational neuroscience
• nonlinear dynamical systems, chaos, and fractals
• artificial intelligence
• statistical mechanics and thermodynamics

Publications

• over 40 peer-review papers
• three books (statistical mechanics and thermodynamics)
• five book chapters published by Springer
• Phase Response Curves in Neuroscience (2012)
• Unifying Themes in Complex Systems
• Algorithms and Computation
• Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
• eight conference proceedings
• over 70 abstracts/short papers
• over 30 invited/contributed talks

Awards

• William V. Moore Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Award (2013).
• Gordon E. Jones Distinguished Achievement Award (2011).

Professional Membership

• American Physical Society
• Southern Atlantic Coast Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers
• Society for Neuroscience
• Organization for Computational Neuroscience
• Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

Service

• Council on Undergraduate Research, Physics and Astronomy Division, Councilor (2011-)
• Oak Ridge Associate University, CofC representative (2008-2010)
• Departmental Faculty Senator (2007-2010)
• Neuroscience PhD committee at MUSC
• Research and Development (2010-2012)
• Academic Planning (2008-2009)

Outreach:

• Mitchell Elementary Science Outreach (2010-)
• Math Meet (2010-)

Editorial Board Member:

• Journal of Computer Engineering and Science (JCES)
• ISRN Computational Biology
• Journal of science policies and scientometrics
• Journal of Advanced Research in Physics
• Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences
• ARPN Journal of Systems and Software
• International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Research

Leadership

• President of Charleston Chapter of Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Society (2011-2012)
• Vice-President of Charleston Chapter of Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Society (2010-2011)
• Co-director of Biomedical Physics Minor