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Paul Gries

Professor, Teaching Stream

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Computer Science

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  • Professor, Teaching Stream
    Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Computer Science
  • 416-978-6322 (Work)
  • 416-627-2264 (Mobile)
  • University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, 40 St. George Street, Room 4283, Toronto, ON, M5S 2E4, Canada

BIO

Prof. Paul Gries is a Professor, Teaching Stream in Computer Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto.
He earned a BA and an MEng, both in CS, from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It took him 3.5 years as a PhD student at the University of Toronto to figure out that he strongly prefers teaching to research, and became a Lecturer in 1999. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2004. He has also written several textbooks, a livetext, and two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera.

Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor, Teaching Stream
    University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, Toronto, Canada2019 - present
  • Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
    University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, Toronto, Canada2015 - 2019
  • Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2014 - 2015
  • Senior Lecturer
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2005 - 2015
  • Lecturer
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1999 - 2005

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Co-Founder and CTO
    OOt Social · On-Call, Toronto, Canada2021 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science
    Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
  • Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science
    Cornell University, Ithaca, United States

LANGUAGES

  • English

AVAILABILITY

  • Collaborative projects
  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Media enquiries
  • Teaching provision

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