Dr. Providence earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Graduate School University Center, CUNY.  Dr. Providence was Co-PI on the Consortium to Promote Computational Science and HPC and a Collaborative Project: Bridge Gaps in Information Assurance Education through Collaboration.

Research Interests: HPC, Computational Mathematics, Error Correcting Codes, Reconfigurable Computing, Computer Science Education

• X. Yuan, P. Vega, J. Xu, H. Yu, S. Providence, Animated Simulator for Packet Sniffer, WECS7 Conference Proceedings, 2006
• S. Providence, An Introduction to Coding Theory and the Promise of the McEliece Cryptosystem. 3rd Annual Information Assurance Symposium, Hampton University, April 9th , 2007
• S. Providence, Dense Linear Solver Templates for Distributed Memory Architectures Using MPI, Virginia Academy of Science, 85th Annual Meeting, May 25, 2007
• S.V. Providence Book Review: Flexible Pattern Matching in Strings: Practical On-line Search Algorithms for Texts and Biological Sequences by G. Navarro, M. Raffinot, SIGACT News 2008, in preparation.