Rate My Professor Leonard Brown

Leonard D. Brown serves as Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Community, Environment, and Policy at the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, with a focus in Environmental Health Sciences. He is also Lecturer in the School of Information, College of Information Science. Brown earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Arizona in 2015, specializing in computer graphics and computer vision, with a dissertation titled 'Design, Evaluation, and Extension of Serious Games for Training in Mine Safety.' He holds a B.S. in Computer Science, summa cum laude, from West Virginia University in 1999, and completed the New Venture Development Program at the University of Arizona's McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship in 2017. His career trajectory at the University of Arizona includes Research Scientist at the Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources (2016–2020), Research Associate in the Department of Mining & Geological Engineering (2010–2014), Teaching Assistant in Computer Science (2007–2009), and Research Assistant in the 3DVIS Laboratory, College of Optical Sciences (2004–2006). Earlier roles encompass software engineering in game development at Sony Online Entertainment (2009–2010) and Octopi Game Labs (2006), as well as co-founding Desert Saber, LLC (2017–2019), commercializing university intellectual property for serious games in high-risk industries.