Dr. Vermilyer received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nova Southeastern University.  He is an enthusiastic teacher who has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate level Computer Science courses, including Computer Graphics, Animation, 3D Modeling, Gaming, Human Computer Interaction, Networks, Operating Systems, Computer Science I and Computer Science II.  In addition, Dr. Vermilyer is a passionate and productive researcher.  His current research focuses on educational gaming, content-based image retrieval and the design of tools and user-interactions used for various types of image and video related tasks.