Dr. Cotterell received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Georgia (UGA) in May 2011 and December 2017, respectively. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at UGA and Director of the Computer Science Undergraduate Assistant (CSUA) experiential learning program. He received the CS department’s Teaching Excellence in Computer Science Award in Springs 2018 and 2020. He was also selected as a 2018–2019 UGA Faculty Online Learning Fellow, 2018–2019 UGA Faculty Writing Fellow, and a 2019-2020 UGA Teaching Academy Fellow. His research interests include Functional Data Analysis, Big Data Analytics, and Computing Education with interdisciplinary applications related to Statistics and Open Science.