Andrei N. Migunov

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.

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I am lucky to share my life with my beautiful family and with friends who I love more than I can say. 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. Lately I’m interested in molecular programming and continuous computation (a persistent interest), aesthetics of computing (a new interest over the last couple of years, which seems to bind a lot of my non-CS interests together), philosophy of science (an interest older than my professional life, but my approaches to it veer too much into politics for it to be suitable to my professional work), and, most recently, game design (I am working on a text based adventure game).

I recently wrote a somewhat polemical and overtly political zine (the first of n in a series). It is nominally about artisinal and craft production, though really it is more about the ethical content of such production. In the spirit of a zine, I wrote it in a day and it’s as well-organized as it could become before my self-imposed 24 hour deadline for its printing. So if you’re not into that maybe don’t read it. That said, if you prefer humankind over AI (and this is a choice you are asked to make in this society, deny it to your heart’s content), then you are its audience. As Georg Christoph Lichtenberg once put it, I am not writing to convince the unconvinced, I am writing to bestow strength and courage to those on my side. If you want a hard copy of my samizdat, let me know and I’ll mail you one! Then you should write your own and mail me one - maybe we can become friends who argue.

I find it easier to connect with people over music than any other thing: Bandcamp profile.