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James Vanderhyde
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office: | Warde Academic Center |
| Phone: | 773-298-3454 |
| Email: | vanderhyde@sxu.edu |
| Department: | Computer Science |
Biography
James Vanderhyde is originally from west Michigan and attended Hope College in Holland, MI. He double-majored in Math and Computer Science. He went on to pursue a master's degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. He finished his Ph.D. at Georgia Tech in July of 2007.
For two years Dr. Vanderhyde worked as a software developer for IronCAD in Atlanta, GA. He then moved to Kansas City to teach Computer Science and Math at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. After six years at Benedictine, he left in 2015 to teach in the Computer Science Division at Saint Xavier University in Chicago.
Dr. Vanderhyde's hobbies focus on games of all types, particularly video games and board games. He doesn't like to exercise but does it regularly for health.
Education
Master of Computer Science
Michigan State University
Ph.D in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Areas of Specialization
Dr. Vanderhyde is interested in all fields of computer science, but he is particularly interested in computer graphics and computer science education. He is interested in how humans can use computers to relate to information, from data representation through data visualization to knowledge transfer.