Quincy Wofford
After a career in information technology doing software deployments for Kansas college campuses, Quincy Wofford became a non-traditional student starting as an under-grad over the age of 25. He decided to get his degree in computer science and physics. In the Fall 2018 semester he begins his first semester in the master’s degree program at The University of New Mexico in CS. He will work with Professor Patrick Bridges in the Scalable Systems Laboratory studying HPC systems as he works toward his thesis.
“I first visited UNM to present undergraduate physics research related to the Long Wavelength Array, and I had a great time getting to know (Physics Astronomy Department professor) Greg Taylor, (Physics Astronomy Department research assistant professor) Jayce Dowell, and the City of Albuquerque. I'm excited to be back to explore a totally new area of research,” Wofford said.
Wofford did undergraduate research in radio wavelength astroparticle detection and participated in the IceCube collaboration as part of an NSF grant (IceCube is a photon-based neutrino detector at the South Pole).
“I was awarded a travel grant to attend SuperComputing 2016 as a student volunteer, where I found a year-long post-baccalaureate internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Data Science at Scale School. In March 2018, I was directly nominated by my group leader to become a National Physical Science Consortium Fellow, which is how I ended up in the MS.CS program at UNM,” he explained.
