David Ferry joins the department in Fall 2016 as an Instructor of Computer Science. Mr. Ferry is completing his doctoral program in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests involve real-time systems, parallel runtime systems, and cyber-physical system design. His doctoral work involves real-time hybrid simultation in an earthquake engineering laboratory environment. Prior to his doctoral work, he had completed a bachelors in Mathematics and Computer Science at Truman State University.