ScB, Brown University, 1971.

  PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1975.

  Faculty Member, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, 1975-present.
    (formerly, Department of Statistics and Computer Science)

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  Department Head, Computer Science, 1993-2002.

  Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, 1991, 2005, 2007.

  U. S. Patent 5,319,788: Modified Batcher Network for Sorting N Unsorted
    Input Signals in Log N Sequential Passes, 1993.
    (with S. G. Williamson)

  Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCSD, 1987 - 1988.

  Research Consultant, CCR-La Jolla and Princeton, various summers since 1982.

  Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UCSD, 1978-79.

  Research Grants: NSF, 1978-83; ONR, 1984-88; NSA, 1988-90; NSF, 1991-93; NSA, 1993-95; NSA, 2003-05; NSA, 2008-10.

  Doctoral Students Supervised:

Supoat Charenkavonich, 1986, A Study in P-recursive Sequences
James Haglund, 1993, Compositions, Rook Placements, and Permutations of Vectors
Guangming Xing, 2001, Generating NFA for Efficient Pattern Matching
Aaron Andrew Windsor, 2004, Parallel Algorithms for Matching and Independence Problems in Graphs and Hypergraphs
Jacob Gilmore Martin, 2005, Singular Value Decomposition for Information Retrieval, Graph Bisection, and Genetic Algorithms
Tarsem Singh Purewal, 2006, Nondeterministic Complexity in Quantum and Classical Models of Computation

Personal:

      Rod Canfield grew up in College Park, Georgia, where he graduated from Georgia Military (now Woodward) Academy. He attended Brown University,  earning an ScB in Mathematics, and later a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.  His disertation, Asymptotic Normality in Binomial Type Enumeration, was co-directed by Professors Ed Bender and Gill Williamson .  In 1975 Rod joined the faculty at UGA.  During 1993--2002, he was Head of the Computer Science Department.  Rod 's wife is Betsy Canfield , a UGA graduate,  and he is the father of two daughters, Elizabeth and Emily.   He enjoys teaching computer science courses, researching in combinatorial mathematics, and occasionally consulting outside the university.