Bio
Dr. Troy B. Weingart is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Dr. Weingart was a PhD student at the University of Colorado conducting research in software-defined and cognitive radio. He was previously director of Ground Operations for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System at Robbins Air Force Base Ga. Troy is a member of the ACM. His research interests include artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, operating systems, wireless networking, and computing education.
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colo. (2006)
M.S., Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colo. (2000)
B.S., Computer Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, Mt. (1991)
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. (Jan. 2012-Present)
Strategic Planner NATO Air Command – Izmir, Turkey (Jan. 2011-Jan. 2012)
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. (Jan. 2007-Jan. 2011)
Air Force Institute of Technology Doctoral Student, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. (Aug. 2003-Dec. 2006)
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. (Jan. 2003-Aug. 2003)
Instructor of Computer Science, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. (Jan. 2001-Dec. 2002)
Air Force Institute of Technology Masters Student, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. (Aug. 1999-Dec. 2001)
Chief, JSTARS Network and Computer Operations Section, 93rd Computer Systems Squadron, Robins Air Force Base, Houston County, Ga. (Apr. 1998-Aug. 1999)
Chief, JSTARS Ground Operations Section, 93rd Computer Systems Squadron, Robins Air Force Base, Houston County, Ga. (March 1996-April 1998)
Team Chief, Satellite Command and Control Segment Operations Support, 50th Logistics Support Squadron, Falcon Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Oct. 1993-July 1995)
Satellite Command and Control Segment Database Administrator, 50th Space Systems Squadron, Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Oct. 1992-Oct. 1993)
Honors & Awards
Company Grade Officer of the Quarter, Department of Computer Science, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. (July-Sep. 2001)
Communications and Information Professional Award, 93rd Air Control Wing, Robins Air Force Base, Houston County, Ga. (1997)
Company Grade Officer of the Year, 93rd Computer Systems Squadron, Robins Air Force Base, Houston County, Ga. (1997)
Wing Company Grade Officer of the Quarter, 93rd Air Control Wing, Robins Air Force Base, Houston County, Ga. (Jan.-March 1997)
Distinguished Graduate, Basic Communications and Information Officer Training Course, Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss. (1992)
Distinguished Graduate, Reserve Officer Training Corps Field Training, McClellan Air Force Base, Sacramento County, Calif. (1989)
Publications
Steve Hadfield, Troy Weingart, Joel Coffman, David Caswell, Barry Fagin, Traci Sarmiento, and Paul Graham. 2019. Streamlining Computer Science Curriculum Development and Assessment using the New ABET Student Outcomes. In Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE ’19), May 3-4, 2019, Calgary, AB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3314994.3325079.
Troy Weingart, Paul Graham, Delbert Christman and Austin Weingart, “Using Virtual Reality to Control Swarms of Autonomous Agents”, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), October 2018.
Delbert Christman, Troy Weingart, and Traci Sarmiento, “Hive Mentality for Autonomous Swarm Behaviors”, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Xponential. April 2018.
Steven Hadfield, Troy Weingart and Wayne Brown, “An Introduction to Programming and Algorithmic Reasoning using RAPTOR, Create Space an Amazon Company, 2018. 1st Ed, ISBN-13: 978-1987497724.
Troy Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “A Statistical Method for Reconfiguration of Cognitive Radios”, IEEE Wireless Communications – Cognitive Radios for Dynamic Spectrum Access, August 2007.
Troy Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Identifying Opportunities for Exploiting Cross-Layer Interactions in Adaptive Wireless Systems”, Journal on Advances in Multimedia – Cross-layer Optimized Wireless Multimedia Communications, July 2007.
Troy Weingart and Douglas C. Sicker, “Cognitive and Software Defined Radios for Dynamic Spectrum Access”, The Handbook of Computer Networks, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., December 2007.
Paul Graham and Troy Weingart, “Processing Language in Introduction to Computer Science Honors (CS110H)”, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC), December 2009.
Steven Hadfield and Troy Weingart, “Interdisciplinary Research, Writing, and the Computer Science Programming Exercise”, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGSCE), March 2008.
Troy Weingart, Gary V. Yee, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Implementation of a Reconfiguration Algorithm for Cognitive Radio”, Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM), August 2007.
Troy Weingart, Gary Yee, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Implementation and Evaluation of a Method for Dynamic Reconfiguration of a Cognitive Radio”, Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), April 2007.
Troy Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “A Predictive Model for Cognitive Radio”, Military Communications (MILCOM), October 2006.
Troy Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “A Method for Dynamic Configuration of a Cognitive Radio”, Networking Technologies for Software Defined Radio Networks (SECON), September 2006.
Troy Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Evaluation of Cross-Layer Interactions for Reconfigurable Radio Platforms”, Technology and Policy for Accessing Spectrum (TAPAS), August 2006.
Troy Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker, Dirk Grunwald, and Michael Neufleld, “Adverbs and Adjectives: An Abstraction for Software Defined Radio”, International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies (ISART), March 2005.
Christian Doerr, Michael Neufeld, Jeff Fifield, Troy Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “MultiMAC – An Adaptive MAC Framework for Dynamic Radio Networking”
Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN)
November 2005