Anthony Varghese

Biography

Dr. Varghese is a professor of Computer Science and Information Systems at UW-River Falls. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1992 and joined River Falls in 2002. He started using C++ and Java as soon as they were available and developed object-oriented code for a startup named Physiome Sciences, followed by stints developing code at Medtronic Inc. and Endocardial Solutions Inc. (now part of St Jude Medical). He has taught classes that use C#, Python, Smalltalk, and Ada, among other languages. He enjoys writing code for his research on simulations of electrical activity in cells of the heart and is working on projects involving the Rose genome and solar powered lighting for a sculptor.