Dr. Suzanne Matthews, Ph.D.

Dr. Suzanne J. Matthews is a computer scientist and educator at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She is a professor of computer science in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a research fellow in West Point’s Cyber Research Center.

She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from Texas A&M University and her Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests lie at the intersection of parallel computing, single-board computers, cybersecurity and computer science education.

In 2019, she was recognized with the ASEE ERC Curtis W. McGraw Research Award. Dr. Matthews also co-authors Dive Into Systems, a free online systems textbook written with Tia Newhall and Kevin Webb that received a 2019 ACM SIGCSE Special Projects Award.

Her other honors include a Texas A&M Dissertation Fellowship, a Rensselaer Master Teaching Fellowship and memberships in the Upsilon Pi Epsilon and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies.