Corey Montella
Director, Master's In Computer Science Program at Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolCorey Montella is a director and educator who leads Lehigh University’s Master’s in Computer Science program while teaching programming languages and systems software. With 11 years of experience bridging academia and industry, he blends Ph.D.-level research in computer engineering with hands-on software development. He built robots and programming languages—contributing full-stack improvements to the Eve project, including UI refinements, runtime logic, and example CRM apps that showcase practical tooling for thought. His research background includes assistive and vision-aided robotics, outdoor mobile platforms, and multi-agent systems, reflecting a strong systems and hardware-software integration mindset. Known for a playful contrarian streak—“officially labelled a disturber of the peace”—he brings curiosity and unconventional problem-solving to curriculum design and software projects. Based in Bethlehem, PA, he consistently turns advanced research into teachable, production-ready artifacts.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Computer Engineering at Lehigh UniversityB.S., Physics, Business Administration, B.S., Physics, Business Administration at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (13)
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
user-interface9
css9
javascript8
html8
back-end-development8
lua7
fileio5
file-operations5
websocket5
filesystem5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
witheve/Eve
May 2016 - Aug 2017
Better tools for thought
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 303 commits, 98 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Corey primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end of the Eve project. They made changes to the UI, including cursor modifications and the addition of a favicon, and also contributed to the core logic of the application, such as adding features to the system time. Furthermore, the user added example CRM applications which demonstrates the development of an interface with styling and data. The changes involved both front-end (HTML, CSS, and TypeScript) and back-end (csrc and runtime) components.
tools-for-thoughtthoughtcli
mech-lang/syntax
Jun 2018 - Oct 2022
Parser, compiler, formatter for Mech syntax
Contributions:2 releases, 1562 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 5 months
mechcompilerparserformatterformatting
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