Andrei N. Migunov

Drake University. Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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I’m Andrei - welcome to my site. I’m originally from Riga, Latvia and have been in the U.S. for most of my life. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Iowa State University in 2022, and then started teaching at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

I love my wife, my family, and my friends. I’m grateful to be able to spend my time doing mathematics and teaching the many brilliant and hard-working students I get to meet at Drake.

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news

Apr 18, 2025 Congratulations to Garrett Provence, Khalid Mohammed, and Nicholas Haisler, students at Drake University, for winning second place in the 2025 CCSC Central Plains Conference poster competition! Their work discussed an improved dual-railing strategy for Chemical Reaction Networks.
Apr 9, 2024 Congratulations to Nicholas Haisler, a student at Drake University, for winning second place in the CCSC Central Plains Conference poster competition! Nicholas discussed work in progress on implementing a compiler for nanotech applications. His poster was titled “Compiling to a Nanotech Language: Population Protocols”.
Sep 1, 2023 Together with Xiang Huang and Liang Kong at University of Illinois-Springfield, received grant DE-SC0024278 from the Department of Energy to study the relationships between analog models and submodels, and to develop a compiler to transform ODE systems into population protocols. This project involves many undergraduate research opportunities for Drake and UIS students!

latest posts

Apr 18, 2025 Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
Oct 31, 2024 AFI - Fall Children
Apr 10, 2024 CRN, ODE, and PP Examples

selected publications

  1. Algorithmic Dimensions via Learning Functions
    Jack H. Lutz, and Andrei N Migunov
    In Proceedings of the 49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024), Aug 2024
  2. A General Purpose Analog Computer to Population Protocol Compiler
    Xiang Huang, and Andrei N Migunov
    In Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers Workshops and Special Sessions (CF ’24 Companion), May 2024