Michael Nelson
Professor at Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Nelson is a professor of computer science and a research leader with 11+ years in academia and over two decades of technical experience bridging NASA engineering and university research. Based at Old Dominion University and VMASC in Norfolk, he specializes in digital libraries, digital preservation, and Web Science, directing research that preserves and makes web-born scholarship accessible long-term. His career combines hands-on engineering from his NASA Langley years with deep scholarly contributions—holding a Ph.D. in Computer Science from ODU—and a track record of building research groups that tackle practical preservation challenges. Known for translating complex archival and web-scale problems into implementable research, he brings both institutional leadership and technical rigor to interdisciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Virginia TechPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Old Dominion University
Github Skills (84)
perl10
digital-preservation10
information-retrieval10
memento10
science9
machine-learning9
ranking9
storage9
natural-language-processing9
zeplin9
html8
javascript8
eventsource8
websocket8
security8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
phonedude/cs895-s19
Jan 2019 - May 2019
ODU CS 795/895 Spring 2019 - Web Archiving Forensics
Contributions:82 commits, 42 PRs, 72 pushes in 3 months
securityweb-archivingforensicsoduspring
phonedude/cs895-f22
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
CS 795/895 Web Archiving Forensics
Contributions:56 commits, 35 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 months
securityweb-archivingmulticoreforensicszeplin
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