Burkman Receives Doctorate in Computer Science

5/16/2024

Brad Burkman, Senior Lecturer of Mathematics and Computer Science, was awarded a PhD in Computer Science by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on Friday, May 10.

Dr. Burkman began his doctoral work in 2018 thanks to a year-long sabbatical made possible by the LSMSA Foundation. Dr. Burkman is Chair of LSMSA’s Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

“(The sabbatical) let me do a year on campus in Lafayette, where I did all of my required coursework,” Burkman said. “That was followed by five years of independent research.”

Burkman’s dissertation was entitled Decision Thresholding in Classification-Based Recommendation Systems. By coincidence, he graduated alongside a former student, LSMSA alum Jonas Truax (’19), who received his BS in Infomatics during the same ceremony.

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