William Turkett

Dr. William Turkett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Wake Forest University. He received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina, where his research was in the area of probabilistic reasoning. Dr. Turkett completed his B.S. in Computer Science (1998) at the College of Charleston.

His current service roles include being chair (since 2020) of the Department of Computer Science and a member of Wake Forest’s Information Technology Advisory Board. He has previously been trained and acted as an ABET/CSAB Peer Evaluator.

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Teaching

Classes taught:

• CSC 201 – Data Structure and Algorithms
• CSC 231 – Programming Languages

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Publications

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Research

Dr. Turkett’s research is focused in the broad field of computational biosciences, with a current focus on prediction and classification based on DNA and amino acid sequence analysis. He has also been involved in collaborations on network security research. Almost all of his work deals with datasets that are sequential or temporal in nature and are systems-scale. He also has interests in computer science education and software development processes of bioinformaticians.