Dr. Cotterell received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UGA in May 2011 and December 2017, respectively. He is currently a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science and an Undergraduate Coordinator in the UGA School of Computing (SoC).

Dr. Cotterell has received the SoC’s Teaching Excellence in Computer Science Award multiple times (Spring 2018, Spring 2020, and Spring 2024). He was also selected as a 2018–2019 UGA Faculty Online Learning Fellow, a 2018–2019 UGA Faculty Writing Fellow, and a 2019-2020 UGA Teaching Academy Fellow. In Fall 2023, Dr. Cotterell was formally inducted as a member into the UGA Teaching Academy.

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