David Scot Taylor
Associate Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
San Jose State University
212 MacQuarrie Hall
Phone: (408) 924-5124 (email works better)
Email: david.taylor "at" sjsu.edu

Fall 2025 office hours:

  • Monday, noon-1 (in person).
  • Tuesday, 11-noon (in person).
  • Other times available, especially on Tuesdays. Set up an appointment by email.

Office hours will generally be in-person. When they are virtual, use this zoom link for zoom office hours, and you will enter the waiting room (I will see one at a time in the order you enter, occasionally updating the waiting room through chat about the size of the queue.)

Classes

Students Trying to Add CS 146

Students trying to add the class by addcode this semester (for any section of CS146, regardless of instructor) should fill out this form. Note, most sections of the class are already full, but usually a few students do drop out of sections in the first weeks, especially when prerequisites are checked. I advise students to attend one section each day for any professor's class that you are trying to add, and making sure that you check in with them for attendance. Also: for sections which are being taught online, please contact the professor (maryam.khazaei@sjsu.edu) for a zoom link.

Education

Research Interests

Algorithm efficiency, external memory algorithms, database indexing schemes, online algorithms, and approximation algorithms.
My publications can be found here.

A Few Links of Interest