Name: Paul Wiegand
Title: Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Education: Ph.D., George Mason University (Computer Science), 2004
M.S., University of North Carolina-Charlotte (Computer Science), 1999
B.S., Winthrop University (Computer Science), 1996
Office: 310 Thurmond Building
Phone: 803/323-4824
E-mail: wiegandrp@winthrop.edu
Area(s): Machine Learning, Optimization, Natural Computation, Multiagent Systems, and Probabilistic Reasoning
Faculty Webpage: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/wiegandrp/
Paul Wiegand is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and Information
Sciences (Fall 2020). Before this, he served on the faculty at the School of Modeling,
Simulation, & Training at the University of Central Florida (UCF) for over a decade,
and held a postdoctoral position at the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial
Intelligence before that. While at UCF, he taught in, and ran, their Modeling & Simulation
graduate programs, as well as served as the director for the UCF Advanced Research
Computing Center.
Paul loves teaching, and is excited about shifting his focus from graduate student
research to undergraduate education. His main pedagogical focus is to try to help
students understand the context of the materials they are learning and to try to find
ways for all (students and teachers) to engage more in the material. His research
has mainly centered on methods of natural computation, theory of coadaptive and coevolutionary
computation, as well as application of coadaptive methods for multiagent learning
and probabilistic reasoning. Paul also has a strong interest in basic foundations
of computer science, as well as distributed and parallel high performance and high
throughput computing.