Ryan Bockmon

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
• BS in Computer Science, Montana State University

Biography

Ryan Bockmon is an assistant teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based at the Roux Institute in Portland, Maine. 

Throughout his career, Bockmon has researched data science, as well as computing education, cognitive science, and augmented reality. During his graduate studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, he worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he predicted site-wide power anomalies and worked on real-time image classification of microencapsulation. Bockmon also built and distributed course material as part of the Click2CS 4-H initiative, taught courses in data science and statistics, and published at multiple ACM conferences. 

After struggling in his own undergraduate computing studies, Bockmon remains motivated to improve the areas of the student experience he found lacking in support, and to shave down student failure rates by doing so. In Portland, he teaches the “Algorithms,” “Data Mining,” “Introduction to programming for Data Science,” and “Computer Vision” master’s courses, and aims to build hands-on learning experiences — and thus a more student-centric approach — using an augmented reality sandbox. 

Outside of work, Bockmon can be found hiking, fishing, woodworking, and making arts and crafts. 

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