| Associate Professor of Instruction |
| Department of Computer Science |
| The University of Texas at Austin |
| Austin, Texas |
| Office: GDC 6.404 |
| Email: fares@cs.utexas.edu |
About me
I am an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin (UTCS). I received my PhD degree from the University of Texas at El Paso. My advisors were Steve Roach and J Strother Moore (from UTCS). Before joining UTCS, I worked as an Assistant/Associate Professor of Computer Science at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University in Jordan and a Visiting Associate Professor at Taif University in Saudi Arabia. In addition to teaching, I have served in leading administrative positions including the Dean of the College of Information Technology and the Director of the Information Technology Center.
Teaching
Summer 2025:
- CS 373 : Software Engineering
Fall 2025:
- CS 331 : Algorithms and Complexity
- CS 330e : Elements of Software Engineering I
Spring 2026:
- CS 331 : Algorithms and Complexity
Research
Mechanical Theorem Proving, Computer-Aided Instruction, and Visual-Assisted Pedagogy.
Miscellany