Duff Jones
Lecturer
Office: Middlesex 360
Email: djone5@uwo.ca
Duff Jones has been lecturing at Western since 2021. During his PhD, Duff was a lecturer and/or a TA for a variety of computer science courses at Western, including 1026, 2120, 2121, 2212, 3305, 3350, 3357, and 4474.
In 2003, Duff received his B.A.H. in English Literature and Film & Media Studies from Queen’s University. He followed that up with an M.P.A. in Defence Management in 2004, also at Queen’s.
In 2006, he received his B.Ed. Intermediate/Senior (History and English) from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He went on to teach high school (mostly English) for seven years in the York Region District School Board.
In 2013, he decided to take a year off of teaching to study physics at Western. Instead, he discovered computer science. He never took a physics course, and he never returned to teaching high school. He graduated with a B.Sc., Honours Specialization in Computer Science and a Minor in Game Development in 2018.
He then enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Western, where he studied the Metaverse and Named Data Networking under the supervision of Dr. Hanan Lutfiyya and Dr. Mike Katchabaw.
Duff is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Ontario College of Teachers.
He is passionate about education, books, movies, games (board and video), baseball (especially the Blue Jays), history, science, technology and a whole bunch of other things.
Research Interests
Computing Machinery, Game Development, Metaverse and Named Data Networking.
