Paul GriesProfile page
Professor, Teaching Stream
Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Computer Science
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- Professor, Teaching StreamFaculty 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
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 StreamUniversity of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, Toronto, Canada2019 - present
- Associate Professor, Teaching StreamUniversity of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, Toronto, Canada2015 - 2019
- Associate Chair for Undergraduate StudiesUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2014 - 2015
- Senior LecturerUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2005 - 2015
- LecturerUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1999 - 2005
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Co-Founder and CTOOOt Social · On-Call, Toronto, Canada2021 - present
DEGREES
- PhDUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer ScienceCornell University, Ithaca, United States
- Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer ScienceCornell University, Ithaca, United States
LANGUAGES
- English
AVAILABILITY
- Collaborative projects
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Media enquiries
- Teaching provision