Mattox Alan Beckman
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Education
- PhD in Computer Science / University of Illinois at Urbana / 2003
- BS in Math and Computer Science / University of Illinois at Urbana / 1993
Research Interests
- Programming Languages
- Computer Science Education
Research Areas
Service on Department Committees
- International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC) Coach (Fall 2018 to Present)
Teaching Honors
- Teaching Fellow / Illinois Institute of Technology (August 2012 -- July 2015)
- Teacher of the Year / Illinois Institute of Technology (December, 2006)
Recent Courses Taught
- CS 101 - Intro Computing: Engrg & Sci
- CS 199 225 (CS 199 CTS) - Computational Tech & Society
- CS 225 - Data Structures
- CS 296 25 - Honors Course
- CS 421 - Progrmg Languages & Compilers
- CS 491 CAP (CS 491 FPL, CS 491 WF) - Adv Competitive Algorithm Prog
- CS 591 TA (CS 591 TAO) - Computational Topology
- ECE 590 TL - Teaching and Leadership
- ENG 580 - Teaching and Leadership
- ENG 598 TL (ENG 598 TL2) - Teaching and Leadership 2
News Notes
- 3/1/2024
CS student Team Ippatsu (Aditya Jain, Yuuki Sawanoi, Zhikun Wang) won first place at the regional International Collegiate Programming Contest hosted by UIUC. They advance to the ICPC North American Championship. Thanks to coaching and assistance from Mattox Beckman (CS professor), David Zheng (ECE grad student), and James Tang (MEng grad student).