Dr. Gobbert has extensive experience in initiatives. He co-founded the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting, the UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, the REU Site: Interdisciplinary Program in High Performance Computing, the NSF initiative CyberTraining: Big Data + HPC + Atmospheric Physics at UMBC, and is now PI and co-director of the REU Site: Online Interdisciplinary Big Data Analytics in Science and Engineering. Dr. Gobbert also initiated both the departmental and the university partnerships with the University of Kassel in Kassel, Germany.
Dr. Gobbert has been involved with over 200 publications, including over 40 in peer-reviewed journals, 40 in refereed proceedings, and 40 student publications and theses. For the work with a large number of students who were not his own thesis students, Dr. Gobbert received the University System of Maryland Board of Regents' Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring in 2010. Dr. Gobbert has to date graduated seven Ph.D. students, seven M.S. students, and has supervised twelve undergraduate theses for graduating with departmental honors.
Dr. Gobbert has accumulated extensive experience in teaching with state-of-the-art technology. Dr. Gobbert uses a team-based active-learning teaching model, in which students work on problems in learning groups during class. Since starting online teaching full-time in 2020, the synchronous class meetings are used additionally for student presentations to maximize active student engagement.
For complete details, see his Curriculum Vitae (CV).