Dr. Megan Olsen

Dr, Megan Olsen, Computer Science Department Associate Professor & Department Chair
Computer Science Department
Donnelly Science, Room 127B
mmolsen@loyola.edu
410-617-2852

Research Site

Office Hours

Walk-in or by appointment. Students currently in a course with Dr. Olsen should consult Moodle for course office hours.

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2011
M.S., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009
B.S., Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2005

Courses Commonly Taught

CS151 - Introduction to programming with python
CS455 - Human Computer Interaction
CS466 - Operating Systems
CS703 - Programming for Data Science
CS737 - Machine Learning

Research Interests

Complex Systems
Self-organizing Systems
Computational Biology
Artificial Intelligence
Simulation Validation

Selected Publications

Megan Olsen, Mohammad Raunak. Chapter 8 - Quantitative Measurements of Model Credibility, Editor(s): Lin Zhang, Bernard P. Zeigler, Yuanjun laili. Model Engineering for Simulation, Academic Press, 2019, Pages 163-187, ISBN 9780128135433.
M. Olsen. Stigmergy for Biological Spatial Modeling. Complex Adaptive Systems: Views from the Physical, Natural, and Social Sciences. Carmichael, Ted, Collins, Andrew, Hadzikadic, Mirsad (Eds.). Springer, 2019, 169-197.
M. Olsen, M. Raunak. Increasing Validity of Simulation Models Through Metamorphic Testing. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 68(1):91-108. March 2019.
M. Olsen and R. Fraczkowski. Coevolution in Predator Prey through Reinforcement Learning. Journal of Computational Science, 9:118-124, 2015.

Department of Computer Science