Duncan A. Buell

Dr. Buell earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1976 from the University of Illinois Chicago. After a year at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and two years at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, he took a position in the Department of Computer Science At Louisiana State University. In 1986 he moved to the Supercomputing Research Center of the Institute for Defense Analyses, in Maryland, providing support and guidance to the National Security Agency. In 2000 he took over as the first permanent department chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He held that position, with a year as interim dean of the college, until 2009, and then retired in 2021. His work has almost always been on applications of computing, with the computer as the tool for other research and not the object of study. He continues work on analysis of text and on analysis of data that comes from elections in the United States.