David Juedes, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair
for Computer Science

Education:

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Iowa State University, 1994
Ph.D. Advisor: Jack Lutz
Dissertation Title: The Complexity and Distribution of Computationally Useful Problems

M.S. in Computer Science, Iowa State University, 1990
B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 1988

Teaching

I am commited to being an excellent teacher. I believe that the key to excellent teaching is having a
deep understanding of the underlying material.   Our duty as educators is to provide students with the tools
that they will need to succeed in the future. We cannot do this without teaching our students meaningful
content.    For this reason, I continue to learn new material to broaden my knowledge of computing so that
I can pass my insight on to my students.

While people learn in a variety of ways, I am convinced that students learn best by taking an active role in
in their classes.   For this reason, I strive to design interesting, non trivial assignments and projects so that
students expand their knowledge of computing by writing and doing.

I have taught the following courses at Ohio University: CS 240B (Introduction to Computer Science in C++ II),
CS 240C (Introduction to Computer Science in C++ III), CS 300 (Introduction to Discrete Structures),
CS 361 (Data Structures), CS 404/504 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms), CS 406/506 (Computation Theory),
CS 410/510 (Formal Languages and Syntactic Analysis), CS 456/556 (Software Design and Development),
CS 604 (Advanced Algorithms), CS 605 (Parallel Computation Theory), and CS 606 (Computational Complexity).

I am interested in the design of software for grading and evaluating student projects.
This is the main purpose of the Web Based Grading Project that I initiated recented.

Research

My primary research interest is in the theory of computing and the theory of algorithms. I have published research
results in the SIAM Journal on Computing, Theoretical Computer Science, Computational Complexity,
Information and Computation, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Theory of Computing Systems,
the Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences, and several other journals.   My work has been cited in various
publications.   See CiteSeer for details. (Search citations for "juedes".)

In addition to my research in the theory of computing, I have research interests in other areas of computing: real-time
systems, bioinformatics, and numerical software.   I am currently on the conference committee for the
Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics.

Recent Publications:

The Complexity of Polynomial Time Approximation (with L. Cai, M. Fellows, and F. Rosamond), Theory of Computing Systems, accepted for publication.
Approximation Algorithm for Periodic Real-Time Tasks with Workload Dependent Running-Time Functions (with F. Drews, D. Gu, L. Welch, K. Ecker, and S. Schomann), Real Time Systems, accepted for publication.
Tight lower bounds for certain parameterized NP-hard problems (with J. Chen, B. Chor, M. Fellows, X. Huang, I. Kanj, and G. Xia), Information and Computation 201 (2005), pages 216--231.
Baire category and nowhere differentiability for feasible real functions (with J. M. Breutzmann and J.H. Lutz), Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 50 (2004) No. 4/5, pages 460--472.

Students:

I am currently advising the research of three graduate students and one undergraduate student.

Dan Xiao's Picture

Dan Xiao is a currently working towards a Ph.D. degree. Dan is studying parameterized algorithms.

Selvameenal Chokkalingham (not pictured) is working towards an M.S. degree in Computer Science. She
is currently studying applications of algorithms that employ hypergraph decompositions.

Marco Wotschka's Picture

Marco Wotschka is currently working on an M.S. degree in Computer Science. Marco plans to study
parameterized algorithms for bioinformatics. Marco's TopCoder rating is 1244 (68th percentile).

Hiep Dinh's Picture