2002 Online Newsletter

Dr. Matt DeJongh to Join Faculty

Dr. Matt DeJongh has accepted an appointment to the Hope College faculty as Assistant Professor of Computer Science beginning Fall 2002. Dr. DeJongh received his Ph.D. in computer science at Ohio State University where his major was Artificial Intelligence and his minors were Computational Theory and Cognitive Science. His most recent position was as a Senior Software Engineer at LION Bioiscience, formerly NetGenics, Inc. In that position he developed server and client components of an enterprise-wide distributed bioinformatics system for collaborative analysis of genomic data and conducted research on the representation and exchange of ontologies in the life sciences.

In addition to his degrees in Computer Science, Dr. DeJongh has an M.A. in Theological Studies from Winebrenner Theological Seminary and spent eight years in campus ministry at Ohio State.

We welcome Matt, his wife Kim, and their four children to the Hope College Computer Science family.