David Chiu

Professor of Computer Science
University of Puget Sound
Thompson Hall 303 | dchiu@pugetsound.edu


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David Chiu is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Puget Sound. He is the inaugural director of Puget Sound's Students of Color Living-and-Learning Community.

David received a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2010 as a member of the Systems Group. He was advised by Gagan Agrawal (now founding Director of University of Georgia's School of Computing), and worked on problems in the dynamic composition, modeling, and performance optimizations of scientific workflows in distributed cloud systems. Prior to Ohio State, he studied under Paul S. Wang on projects involving the web transmission of math education modules. Between 2010 to 2014, he was an Assistant Professor and the Graduate Studies Chair in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University, Vancouver. Since 2014, he has been with the University of Puget Sound as an Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor. He also served a rotation as Department Chair from 2019 to 2022.

David has over 20 years of college teaching experience and is heavily engaged in mentoring and research with undergraduates. He has supervised over 25 research students working on topics spanning data management and cloud computing. He has published numerous papers in these areas, and he regularly serves on the organizational and technical program committees of international conferences in these areas. David has received several teaching and research awards, including the Influential Faculty of Color Award (2024), the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2022), the Bartanen Research Award (2017) from the University of Puget Sound, as well as the Eleanor Quinlan Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching (2009) from The Ohio State University.

Here’s a link to my curriculum vitae.

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