Lewis Baumstark, Ph.D.

Professor of Computing
School of Computing, Analytics, and Modeling Dr. Perry College of Mathematics, Computing, and Sciences

678-839-6663
lewisb@westga.eTa2Cn7OfPBHp2cjvD0T1ieAopBv9MOqAMzJdu

Technology Learning Center - Room 2215
Office Hours
SPRING 2025

OFFICE HOURS
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Monday (virtual only):
9:30am - 11:00am
noon - 4:30pm

Tuesday (in-office and virtual):
9:30am - 10:45am
3:30pm - 4:30pm

Wednesday (in-office and virtual):
9:30am - 11:00am
noon - 4:30pm

Thursday (in-office and virtual):
9:30am - 11:00am
noon - 1:30pm
3:30pm - 4:30pm

Friday (virtual only):
9:30am - 11:00am
noon - 4:30pm

I welcome drop-ins! But be aware that meetings, etc. often get scheduled during my office hours, so it is in your best interest to schedule meetings with me to make sure I am free.

OTHER
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Send me email anytime -- I'll do my best to get back by the next work day.

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Lewis Baumstark, Ph.D.
Biography

Dr. Baumstark's research interests are in Computer Science education, software reverse engineering, and computer architecture. In his spare time he plays video games and builds killer robots.

Education / Degrees
  • B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, 1998
  • M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001
  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004
Courses Taught
Course Sections and Syllabi

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Publication List

L. Baumstark, M. Guler and L. Wills, "Extracting an explicitly data-parallel representation of image-processing programs," 10th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2003. WCRE 2003. Proceedings., Victoria, BC, Canada, 2003, pp. 24-34, doi: 10.1109/WC [View Publication External Resource]

Lewis Baumstark. 2023. Automated Evaluation of the Structure of Student-Written Unit Tests. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 56–63. [View Publication External Resource]

Jonathan Corley, Ana Stanescu, Lewis Baumstark, and Michael C. Orsega. 2020. Paper Or IDE? The Impact of Exam Format on Student Performance in a CS1 Course. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '20). Asso [View Publication External Resource]

Lewis Baumstark, Jr. and Michael Orsega. 2016. Quantifying introductory CS students' iterative software process by mining version control system repositories. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. 31, 6 (June 2016), 97-104. [View Publication External Resource]

Lewis Baumstark and Edwin Rudolph. 2013. Automated online grading for virtual machine-based systems administration courses. In Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '13). Association for Computing Machinery, N [View Publication External Resource]

L. B. Baumstark and L. M. Wills, [View Publication External Resource]

L. B. Baumstark and L. M. Wills, "Retargeting sequential image-processing programs for data parallel execution," in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 116-136, Feb. 2005, doi: 10.1109/TSE.2005.26. [View Publication External Resource]

R. S. Janka, L. M. Wills and L. B. Baumstark, "Virtual benchmarking and model continuity in prototyping embedded multiprocessor signal processing systems," in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 28, no. 9, pp. 832-846, Sept. 2002 [View Publication External Resource]

L. Baumstark and L. Wills, "Exposing data-level parallelism in sequential image processing algorithms," Ninth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2002. Proceedings., Richmond, VA, USA, 2002, pp. 245-254, doi: 10.1109/WCRE.2002.1173082. [View Publication External Resource]

L. Wills, T. Taha, L. Baumstark and S. Wills, "Estimating potential parallelism for platform retargeting," Ninth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2002. Proceedings., Richmond, VA, USA, 2002, pp. 55-64, doi: 10.1109/WCRE.2002.1173064. [View Publication External Resource]