Curricula Vitae in BFT Computer Science

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Dr. Brian Canada Department Chair/Professor	Computers	His dissertation research focused on machine learning and content-based image retrieval in the context of zebrafish phenomics. Dr. Canada is a reviewer for the National Science Foundation, and he presently serves on the scientific working groups for the NIH/NCRR-sponsored program LAMHDI (Linking Animal Models to Human DIsease) as well as the EPSCoR/IDeA-sponsored South Carolina Project for Organ Biofabrication
Paul Comitz Assistant Professor
Ron Erdei Associate Professor	Instructional scaffolding in computing disciplines, cooperative learning in college students, pedagogical practices aimed at reducing barriers to the learning process	Dr. Ronald Erdei (pronounced air-day) is an Assistant Professor of Computational Science at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. He completed his PhD in Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University in the summer of 2016, where he had been working and teaching for some years. As of Fall 2017, Dr. Erdei has been the instructor of record (under varying titles) for 15 computer programming or information technology courses, as well as 7 courses in design theory and practice.
Dr. Xuwei Liang Associate Professor	Computational Medical Imaging, Computer Graphics and Visualization, Pattern Recognition and Classification, High Performance Computing	Xuwei Liang, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Math & Comp. Science, University of SC Beaufort.
Dr. William John Thrasher, III Assistant Professor		Dr. William (John) Thrasher III, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computational Science. Dr. Thrasher recently completed his PhD in Computer Science at Florida State University, where his dissertation research largely focused on random walk-based Monte Carlo methods including applications to solutions of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation, which is widely used in materials science and engineering.
Xiaomei Zhang Associate Professor	Computational Science	Xiaomei Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Computational Science at the University of South Carolina Beaufort.