Rate My Professor Robert Adams

D. Robert Adams, Ph.D., serves as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Graduate Program Director for Data Science and Analytics in the College of Computing at Grand Valley State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 1998 and his B.S. in Computer Science from Northern Kentucky University in 1991. Throughout his career at Grand Valley State University, Adams has held leadership roles in graduate education and program direction, contributing to the development of advanced computing programs. He is a member of the ACM and has mentored numerous student research projects, including "Dynamic Game Level Generation with Target Difficulty" in 2024, "Book Club Kit Reservation System for Public Libraries" in 2021, and "A Web App to Teach Web Accessibility" in 2020.

Adams' research interests encompass procedural content generation for video games, digital humanities, and computer music, with specific focus areas including game level generation with target difficulty, player modeling and adaptation, and automatic guitar chord determination. His scholarly contributions include key publications such as "NextTune: A computational approach to ordering tunes based on difficulty" (Michigan Academician, 2021), "Collaboration Support in an International Computer Science Capstone Course" with Carsten Kleiner (Social Computing and Social Media, 2016), "Computational Nutrition: An Algorithm to Generate a Diet Plan to Meet Specific Nutritional Requirements" with Thomas Pikes (E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks, 2016), "Integration early: a new approach to teaching web application development" (Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 2007), "Doorstop: Text-Based Requirements Management Using Version Control" with Jace Browning (2014), and "Zion File System Simulator" with Frederic Paladin (2016). Adams has been recognized with the Glenn A. Niemeyer Award from Grand Valley State University in 2020 and as a Fulbright Scholar to FH Joanneum in Graz, Austria, in 2019, highlighting his impact on computing education and research.