Mentors
Professor Zach Dodds
Zach has been a professor
at Harvey Mudd since 1999. His general research interests are in
computer vision and robotics. He received his B.A. in mathematics
and M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University. In
addition to research and teaching, he likes to play in foam pits
with his children.
Professor Melissa O'Neill
Melissa has been a professor at Harvey
Mudd since 2001. She is particularly interested in topics in the systems
area of computer science, specifically parallel and distributed systems and
programming languages. Her research is centered on techniques to make
programming easier and more reliable. She received her B.Sc. in from the
University of East Anglia in England, and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Simon
Fraser University in Canada. Outside of Computer Science, she has
occasionally been found performing hypnosis, defending the scientific view
of the world, training cats to do tricks, subvertizing (twisting
advertising and media images to her own ends) and watching Japanese anime
(particularly Inuyasha).
Professor Robert M. (Bob) Keller
Professor Keller has been on the faculty of Harvey Mudd College since 1991, having previously held faculty positions with Princeton University, the University of Utah, and the University of California, Davis, as well as having worked in the software industry and with various government laboratories. He has broad interests in computer science, and teaches in areas such as computability and logic, software development, and neural networks. He is an active jazz musician and plays the piano and trumpet in bands in southern California. He also teaches a course in jazz improvisation at the Claremont Colleges.
