Dr. Austin Luchsinger
Bio
I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and my M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Prior to starting my education, I was a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps where I served as an Avionics Technician (repairing F/A-18s) and Operations Manager.
I have a broad range of research interests that can all be categorized as unconventional computation. Generally, I am interested in taking ideas from traditional areas like information theory, computational complexity, thermodynamics, and theory of computation, and using those ideas to study abstract mathematical models which roughly represent some natural phenomenon. Some particular topics are molecular computing (via kinetics and thermodynamics), algorithmic self-assembly, robot motion planning, and reversible computing.