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Matt E. Thatcher currently serves as the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. He has over 26 years of experience as a tenured and tenure-track faculty member and leader at multiple Carnegie R1 research institutions.  Since 2012, he has been a Professor in the University of South Carolina (USC) Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), where he served as Department Chair from 2016 - 2022.  He also served as Associate Chair, as Faculty Lead and designer of the Computer Information Systems curriculum and degree program, and as Chair for multiple Faculty Search Committees, the Unit Tenure & Promotion Committee, the Post-Tenure Review Committee, the Undergraduate Programs Accreditation Committee, and the Scholarship Committee.

Prior to his arrival to USC, he was a faculty member in Management Information Systems departments in three business schools and earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.  His diverse background has afforded him an appreciation for different paths to faculty success, different approaches to student learning, and the tremendous impact of cross-disciplinary research and teaching.