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Prior to stepping into the role of school director, Dean served as the chair of its computer science division. His research interests are broad, encompassing most of algorithmic computer science and its applications. Recent work has focused on the biomedical domain, using artificial intelligence to better understand neurological disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease.

Dean is a faculty scholar in the Clemson University School of Health Research as part of a joint program with Prisma Health and has served as the coordinator for graduate programs in biomedical data science and informatics as part of a joint program with the Medical University of South Carolina. He is also passionate about computer science education at the high school level, serving as director of the USA Computing Olympiad, a program that trains thousands of top students in the United States and globally in advanced computational problem-solving.

Dean received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 and joined the Clemson faculty later that year.

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