Dr. John Keyser, professor and associate head for academics in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been honored with the 2014 Association of Former Students College Level Teaching Award. He was also presented with this award in 2007. Each fall, The Association of Former Students honors outstanding faculty members for their dedication to teaching. Since the program's inception in 1982, recipients have been recognized for their talent, expertise and devotion in conveying knowledge to students.
Keyser teaches courses in programming and computer graphics and has been at Texas A&M for 14 years. His research interests includes work on robust geometric and solid modeling, physically based simulation, and as part of brain networks laboratory. While he is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, Keyser has also collaborated with several faculty members in the Visualization Sciences program at Texas A&M. He holds bachelor's degrees in engineering physics, applied mathematics, and computer science from Abilene Christian University and received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research has been published in numerous journal articles, conference papers and technical reports.