Robert Heckendorn, Ph.D.

• CS 112 Computational Thinking and Problem Solving
• CS 120 Computer Science I
• CS 210 Programming Languages
• CS 270 System Software
• CS 395 Analysis of Algorithms
• CS 415/515 Bioinformatics
• CS 445 Compiler Design
• CS 470 Artificial Intelligence
• CS 476/576 Machine Learning
• CS 472/572 Evolutionary Computation

• Evolution theory
• Epistasis theory
• Evolutionary computation
• Machine learning
• Game theory
• Robotics
• Transportation system simulation and design
• Combinatorial and function optimization

Robert Heckendorn is an associate professor in computer science and has been at the University of Idaho since 1999. He worked at Hewlett-Packard for 15 years and for a brief period, as a private consultant. He generally teaches courses in introduction to programming, UNIX, programming languages, algorithms, compilers, bioinformatics, evolutionary computation, machine learning and robotics.

• Outstanding Faculty Award, 2006 and 2007