Howard Cheng

Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Lethbridge

Teaching

Spring 2010:

• CPSC 2720: Practical Software Development
• CPSC 3620: Data Structures and Algorithms

Spring 2010 Office Hours

Research

My research deals mainly with controlling intermediate expression growth in linear algebra problems, especially those involving polynomial matrices and their generalization to Ore polynomial matrices. I am also interested in compression and encryption algorithms for images and videos.

List of publications

Prospective Students

Current Students

• Vivek Trivedi (September 2009 - present)

Past Students

• Marc Moreau (summer 2009)
• Anthony Schmieder (summer 2009)
• Anthony Schmieder (summer 2008, NSERC USRA)
• Tristan Kim (summer 2008)
• Anthony Schmieder (summer 2007, NSERC USRA)
• Barry Gergel (September 2005 - April 2006, MSc)
• Patrick Davies (summer 2006, NSERC USRA)
• Barry Gergel (summer 2005)
• Barry Gergel (summer 2004)
• Ethan Kim (summer 2004, NSERC USRA)
• Zachary Friggstad (August 2003)

ACM Programming Contest

I am currently the coach for the Lethbridge teams. If you are a student and wish to participate, please contact me. See here for more information.

Problem Solving Session: Friday 4:00pm-5:30pm (C630)
Practice Session: Saturday 10:30am-12:30pm (C513)

Personal Interests

Here are a few miscellaneous items you may find interesting.

• How I tie my shoes
• What do I eat?