Jessen Havill

Professor of Computer Science

Jessen Havill '92 (Computer Science and Religion) joined the Bucknell faculty in 2022.

Educational Background

  • B.A. (Computer Science and Religion), Bucknell University
  • M.S. and Ph.D., The College of William and Mary

Teaching interests

  • Introduction to Computer Science
  • Data Structures
  • Algorithm Design and Analysis
  • Computer Systems
  • Computational Biology

Research Interests

  • Computational genomics and bioinformatics
  • Design and analysis of online algorithms
  • Introductory and interdisciplinary computer science education

Selected Publications

J. Havill, O. Strasburg, T. Udoh, J. E. Crawford, and A. Gloria-Soria. EVE-X: Software to Identify Novel Viral Insertions in Wild-Caught Arthropod Hosts from Next-Generation Short Read Data. Molecular Ecology Resources 25(e14026), 2025.

J. Havill. Discovering Computer Science: Interdisciplinary Problems, Principles, and Python Programming, Second Edition. Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

J. Havill. Embracing the Liberal Arts in an Interdisciplinary Data Analytics Program. ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019.

N. Kell and J. Havill. Improved Upper Bounds for Online Malleable Job Scheduling. Journal of Scheduling 18(4), pp. 393-410, 2015.

Personal website

https://havillj.github.io

Location

Dana Engineering 311B

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