Contact Information

E-mail Address: [email protected]

Phone Number: (616) 331-8688

Research Interests

Developing software for use in the classroom

Professional Activities

Contributing to the PrairieLearn platform, peer reviewing SIGCSE and ITiCSE submissions

Personal Interests

Hiking, bicycling, traveling, board games, causing trouble on committees

Teaching Interests

Introductory programming, data structures, computer architecture, web development

Recent Publications

Industry Sabbaticals in Computing:
Motivation and Preparation, World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, July 2024

DLUnit: A Unit Testing Framework for Simulated Digital Logic Circuits Paper presented at FIE 2024. (https://kurmasgvsu.github.io/papers/dlunit_kurmas.pdf)

Mastery-Based Learning in Undergraduate
Computer Architecture, Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, June 2021
(https://kurmasgvsu.github.io/papers/wcae2021-spertus-kurmas.pdf)

ICOS: Support for "Bare Metal" Computer Architecture Assignments Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, June 2017.
(https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3116214.3116240?cid=81336490669)


MIPSUnit: A Unit Testing Framework for MIPS Assembly
Paper presented at SIGCSE 2017 (https://dl.acm.org/authorize?N23137)