Rate My Professor David Levine

David Levine is an Associate Professor of Practice and Associate Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering within the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. He earned his M.S. degree from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1980 and has maintained a long-term affiliation with the institution, progressing through roles such as Visiting Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer. Levine's teaching responsibilities encompass foundational and advanced courses in computer science, including CSE 3320: Operating Systems, CSE 5350: Computer Architecture II, Cloud Computing, and DASC-5300: Data Analytics and Scalable Computing. His pedagogical contributions include co-authoring the textbook Operating Systems: A Spiral Approach, published by McGraw-Hill in 2009 with Ramez Elmasri and A. Gil Carrick, which introduces operating systems concepts through an innovative spiral methodology.

Levine's scholarly output features creative works such as High-fidelity control and optimization methods for power electronics systems (2018) and Comparison of Map Visualization Techniques Used for Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data: An Analytical Survey Applied to COVID-19 Data, published in Medicinal Research Reviews. He has supervised master's theses addressing key areas in computing, including Panda Monitoring - a System to Monitor High Performance Computing Clusters (2007), Application of Software Engineering Best Practices and Tools to Small Development Teams (2006), Software Defined Load Balancing over an OpenFlow-Enabled Network (2017), and Data Discovery Analysis on Complex Time Series Data (2022). As Co-Principal Investigator, he contributed to grants like the GAANN - IOT program from the Department of Education and the UTA-FNAL CSE Master's Student Exchange Program sponsored by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Levine also serves as faculty advisor for Google Developer Student Clubs at UTA, judges presentations at the Student Computing Research Festival, and supports departmental administration.