Chris Okasaki

Dr. Chris Okasaki, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

chris.okasaki [at] westpoint.edu

Dr. Chris Okasaki is an associate professor and academic counselor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the United States Military Academy. He has been teaching at ˮAV˵ long enough that some of his former cadets are now colonels.

Known as Dr. O, he is well known outside of ˮAV˵ for his work on purely functional data structures. At the academy, he is best known for teaching algorithms and programming languages to generations of computer science majors – and for wearing Hawaiian shirts.

Ph.D., Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University