Past Courses at Northwest Missouri State University

CS345 Computer Organization

CS550 Operating Systems

CS561 Software Engineering 1

CS562 Software Engineering 2

CS599 Parallel Programming and Algorithms

CS696 Graduate Directed Projects

Education 

Ph. D., Computer Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, College of Arts and Sciences, July, 2010

M.S., Electrical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology, Stillwater, OK, August, 2008

B.S., Computer Science, Tulane University, School of Engineering, New Orleans, LA, December 2001

Work Experience

Independent Researcher, Oklahoma City, OK, August 2015 to Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Information Systems, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO, August 2012 – July 2015
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 2002 – 2008
Research Assistant, Visual Communications and Image Processing Lab (VCIPL), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 2004
Teaching Assistant, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 2001

Publications

D. R. Monismith Jr., “Addressing Parallelism in Undergraduate Computer Science Courses”, Poster presentation, presented at XSEDE 2014, Atlanta, GA, July 13-18, 2014.

D. R. Monismith Jr., “High Performance Computing in Undergraduate Operating Systems”, Poster Presentation, presented at XSEDE 2013, San Diego, CA, July 21-25, 2013.

D. R. Monismith Jr., The Uses of the Slime Mold Lifecycle as a Model for Numerical Optimization, Ph. D. Dissertation, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, July 2010.

D. R. Monismith Jr. and B. E. Mayfield, “Slime Mold as a Model for Numerical Optimization”, IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, St. Louis, MO, September 21 – 23, 2008.

Professional Societies

Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member ACM-SIGEVO
Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Professional Activities

Northwest Missouri State University XSEDE Campus Champion, December 12, 2012 – July 31, 2015.
Special Events Vice Chair, XSEDE 2014, July 13 – 18, 2014, Atlanta, GA.
Education, Outreach and Training Session Chair, XSEDE 2014, July 13 – 18, 2014, Atlanta, GA.
Education, Outreach and Training Program Committee, XSEDE 2014, July 13 – 18, 2014, Atlanta, GA.
Programming Contest Co-Chair, CCSC-CP 2014, April 4 – 5, 2014, Westminster College, Fulton, MO.
Program Committee, Eleventh International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2011), December 5 – 8, 2011, Malacca, Malaysia.
Program Committee, Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2010), November 29 – December 1, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.
Program Committee, International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2009), December 4 – 7, 2009, Mallaca, Malaysia.
Reviewer, IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS 2008), September 21 – 23, 2008, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Program Committee, Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2008), November 26 – 28, 2008, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Program Committee, Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2007), October 22 – 24, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Program Committee, Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2006), October 16 – 18, 2006, Jinan, China.

Service Activities

• NWMSU University Lecture Series Committee Member, 2013 - 2015
• NWMSU MCSIS Hiring Committee Member, Summer 2014
• NWMSU MCSIS Hiring Committee Chair, Spring 2014
• NWMSU MCSIS MS-ACS Committee Member, 2012 - 2015
• NWMSU MCSIS Computer Science Curriculum Committee Member, 2012 - 2015
• OSU Graduate and Professional Student Government Association (GPSGA)
  
  • Vice President, 2006 – 2007
    
  • Secretary, 2005 – 2006
    
  • GPSGA-SGA Intergovernmental Liaison, 2004 – 2005
    
  • Computer Science Department Representative, 2003 – 2007
    
• Chair, GPSGA Phoenix Awards Committee, 2007
  
• Chair, GPSGA Welcome Reception Committee, 2006
  
• Liaison, OSU Faculty Council, 2006 – 2007
  
• Member, OSU Committee on Student Organizations, 2005 – 2007
  
• Member, OSU Academic Standards and Procedures Committee, 2004 – 2005
  
• Member, GPSGA Welcome Reception Committee, 2005
  
• Member, GPSGA Phoenix Awards Committee, 2005
  
• Member, GPSGA Research Symposium Committee, 2003 – 2004
  

Awards, Grants, and Honors

PI, US Army, CERDEC C4ISR CP&I/EOIR Subcontract: “Development, Integration and Technical Support of Mission Command Capabilities (formerly iDecide)”, maximum value - $299,844.02 PI, "Using HPC in Undergraduate Operating Systems," XSEDE High Performance Computing Education Allocation (Renewal), 11000 Service Units - TACC Stampede Supercomputer, 2014-2015
PI, "Using HPC in Undergraduate Operating Systems," XSEDE High Performance Computing Education Allocation (Renewal), 34000 Service Units - TACC Stampede Supercomputer, 2013-2014
PI, "Using HPC in Undergraduate Operating Systems," XSEDE High Performance Computing Education Allocation, 50000 Service Units - Purdue Steele Supercomputer, 50000 Service Units - TACC Ranger Supercomputer, 2012-2013
Co-PI, "Using Socially Relevant Computing to Attract and Retain Computer Science Majors," NSF S-STEM Grant, 2012 - 2015
IEEE CIS Student Travel Grant ($400), 2008
NASA Oklahoma Space Grant ($5000), 2005