Russ Ross, PhD

Professor of Computer Science
Department Chair, CIT
Email:
Phone: 435-652-7971
Office: North Burns 226
Office hours: MTWRF 11:00 am–12:00 noon

About Russ

Russ was first introduced to computer programming at the age of 10, and he has been a student of computer science ever since. A native of southern Utah, Russ graduated from Pine View High School in 1995 as valedictorian and a National Merit Scholar. He moved to Massachusetts to attend Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in Computer Science in 2001. He worked as a software engineer in the Boston area before moving to England, where he received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in 2007.

Russ lives in Saint George with his wife and their two daughters.

Current Courses

Computer Science

• CS 2810: Computer Organization and Architecture—Low-level computing fundamentals.
• CS 3410: Distributed Systems—Networked and distributed systems.
• CS 3520: Programming Languages—Programming methodologies in different languages.
• CS 3530: Computational Theory—Theory of formal systems including automata, computability, and complexity.

Spring 2018 Schedule

Last Updated 04/06/2018