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.

Disclaimer: My views expressed on this site are not affiliated, for good or bad, with my employer.

Lately I’ve been interested in

• molecular programming and continuous computation (a persistent interest)
• aesthetics of computing (a new interest I discovered 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, “artisinally” crafted by only my own brain with all its flaws and less-than-perfect foresight and design strategies).

I recently wrote a zine (the first in a series). It turned out to be about the ethical content of artisinal and craft 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. I would be happy to mail you a hard copy if you’d like one, as is tradition - just ask.

I find it easier to connect with people over music than any other thing, so let’s chat about that anytime: Bandcamp profile.