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Mario Nakazawa

Mario Nakazawa is Associate Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Program at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. Berea College is an undergraduate only liberal arts college with 1600 students, who all have 4 year tuition scholarships and must demonstrate financial need to be admitted. As a work study college, all students have a primary labour position at the college, ranging from being teaching associates to grounds-keeping. The computer science program has 4 faculty members and more than 100 majors.

Dr. Nakazawa's primary teaching interests are varied, ranging from courses such as parallel and distributed computing, computational intelligence, database systems, theory of computation, and others. He teaches at the introductory and senior level courses.

As Computer Science Chair, he is responsible for administrative duties such as scheduling, assessment, and mentoring fellow faculty members. He also runs the local ACM programming contest qualifiers and arranges for teams of students to attend the ACM programming contest every year.

When not teaching computer science, Dr. Nakazawa enjoys teaching ballroom dance, hiking and spending time with his family.