Rate My Professor Anthony Leclerc

Anthony Leclerc is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the College of Charleston. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, along with a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Cameron College. His doctoral work centered on efficient and reliable global optimization, as detailed in his 1992 Ph.D. thesis.

Leclerc has made significant contributions to the department through teaching, program leadership, and student development. He served as Graduate Program Director from 2014 to 2016 and has been instrumental in organizing regional events for the International Collegiate Programming Contest, where College of Charleston teams achieved notable successes, including first place finishes. He co-hosts initiatives like the Chucktown Floods Hackathon, leveraging his software for flood modeling, and launched the Computer Graphics and Visualization Seminar Series beginning in 2015. Leclerc has secured grants to purchase equipment, enhancing departmental capabilities in computer graphics. His research interests span global optimization, interval arithmetic, automated decision making, adversarial machine learning, computer graphics, embedded systems, parallel algorithms, and computation. Key publications include 'A Parallel Memory-efficient Epistemic Logic Program Solver: Harder, Better, Faster' (Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2019; with Patrick Thor Kahl and Tran Cao Son) and 'Epistemic Logic Programs with World View Constraints' (Technical Communications of the 34th International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2018, OASIcs; with Patrick Thor Kahl). Earlier work features 'Reliable Collision Detection for Time-Dependent Parametric Surfaces' (1998). Through these efforts, Leclerc supports advancements in computational sciences and student achievement in competitive arenas.