Dr. Urban Wiggins is the Vice Provost for Decision Science and Visualization in the Office of Academic Affairs at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Dr. Wiggins also serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Technology. In 2020, he was awarded the Innovative New Spaces for Practice and Rehearsal Teacher Education Computer Science–Artificial Intelligence or INSPIRE CS-AI Fellowship from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University. He serves as the UMES Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) campus champion and the advisor for Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) student organizations.
Dr. Wiggins has served as the Director of Institutional Research and Data Analytics and Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems at Jarvis Christian College. He was an associate with the Louisiana Technology Council and EMP Task Force for National and Homeland Security. He previously served as the Director of the Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research office at Southern University.
Dr. Wiggins’ was previously employed in industry at Telcordia Technologies in the Broadband Networking Division as a Lead Consultant, xDSL and Cable Modem Subject Matter Expert. He has also served as a Network, Server, and Customer Integration Engineer at the Intel Corporation.
Dr. Wiggins has been an active member InfraGard, a public/private partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigations. In 2014, he was awarded the Louisiana Governor’s Technology Award for Outstanding Leadership in Technology for his work in the area of Cyber Security and Education.
Dr. Wiggins received his doctoral degree in Computer Science from Louisiana State University and both his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Southern University in Computer Science and Mathematics respectively.
