Faculty Directory

Dr. Seung-Jong Jay Park

Kummer Endowed Chair of Computer Science

Areas of Interest

Big data, Deep Learning, Cyberinfrastructure, High Performance Computing, High Speed Networks, Large-scale scientific applications, Cloud Computing, Interdisciplinary research including bioinformatics.

Dr. Avah Banerjee

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

Algorithms, Quantum Information Theory and Graph Theory 

 

Dr. Shubham Chatterjee

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

Neural Information Retrieval, Conversational AI, RAG, Knowledge Graphs, LLM's.

Dr. Sajal K. Das

Curators’ Distinguished Professor/Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair

Areas of Interest

Cyber-Physical Systems, Security and Privacy, Smart Environments (Smart City, Energy, Healthcare), IoTs, Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Big Data Analytics, Parallel and Cloud Computing, Social Networks, Systems Biology, Graph Theory and Game Theory

Michael Gosnell

Assistant Teaching Professor

Areas of Interest

Programming Fundamentals and Software Engineering, Operating Systems, Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science, Relational Database Systems, Parallel, Distributed, and Grid Computing

Dr. Mia Mohammad Imran

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

Software engineering & the use of empirical studies, Machine learning and natural language processing methods in software engineering.

Dr. Sanjay Madria

Curators' Distinguished Professor

Areas of Interest

Cloud ComputingSecurityWireless Computing and Mobile Data Management, and Cyber Security (Smart Systems)

Dr. Suman Maity

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

Social Computing, Science of Science, Social NLP, Responsible Machine Learning

Jack Manhardt

Assistant Teaching Professor

Dr. Ricardo Morales

Director of Professional Graduate Programs and Associate Teaching Professor

Areas of Interest

Introduction to Programming with C++, Data Structures, Discrete Mathematics For Computer Science, and Algorithms

Dr. Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla

Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of Academic Affairs

Areas of Interest

Cyber-Physical-Human Systems; Statistical Inference & Machine Learning; Nudge & Persuasion; Security, Fairness, Transparency and Trust

Dr. Satish Puri

Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research

Areas of Interest

Parallel and Distributed Computing, High Performance Computing, GPU Computing, Similarity Search

Dr. Chaman Sabharwal

Professor

Areas of Interest

Spatial ReasoningGraphicsRobotics, and Vision & Parallel Algorithms

Dr. Patrick Taylor

Associate Teaching Professor

Areas of Interest

Evolutionary computing, Bioinformatics, Security, Networking, Operating systems.

Dr. Huiyuan Yang

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

Human-Centric AI, Multimodal Machine Learning, Machine Learning in Healthcare

San Yeung

Assistant Teaching Professor

Areas of Interest

File Structures, Introduction to Database Systems, and Introduction to Operating Systems 

Dr. Md Arifuzzaman

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

High-Performance Networks, Distributed Systems, Systems Software

Faculty Coming Soon

Welcome our new Faculty members!

Ce Zhou

Assistant Professor

Research

Ms. Ce Zhou is joining us from Michigan State University. Her research focuses on cybersecurity and networking, with a particular emphasis on the security of autonomous vehicles, AI security, and network resource allocation.

Junjie Xiong

Assistant Professor

Research

Mr Junjie Xiong is joining the department from the University of South Florida.  His research is centered on the intersection of Network, Security, and AI.

Xiaowei Yu

Assistant Professor

Research

Mr. Xiaowei Yu is joining us from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research interests primarily focus on two crucial topics: 1) Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Biomedical and Health Sciences: I’m dedicated to developing cutting-edge AI technologies, such as the Transformer and Large Language Models, to analyze medical data, with the primary objective to explore the foundational organizational principles of human brain and investigate various brain disorders, such as Alzheimer’s Disease. 2) Brain Inspired AI: I focus on integrating insights from neuroscience to design advanced AI systems that have human-level or even higher intelligence 

Dr. Sejun Song

Cynthia Tang Endowed Professor

Research

Dr. Sejun Song is joining us from the School of Computer & Cyber Sciences (SCCS) at Augusta University (AU), Georgia. His research focuses on Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, IoT, and Mobile and Wireless Communications, with AI-inspired applications in transportation, smart agriculture, smart cities and eHealth. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2001. Dr. Song has received numerous honors, including the Montague-CTE Scholar Award (TAMU System Level Teaching Award), Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards, NASA Summer Fellowship, AFRL summer fellowship, USAFA SFFP Awards, and several best research paper/video awards at CCNC 2019, ISC2 2018, Mobisys 2014, ICCCN 2014, and CIEC 2013. His work has been supported by NSF, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, Cisco Systems, ETRI, NIST, AFRL, NASA, NIH, CDC, TAMU, KT Research and MoDOT.

Dr. Baek-Young Choi

Professor

Research

Dr. Baek-Young Choi is joining us from the School of Science and Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). She received her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research interests generally lie in the broad area of networking, cybersecurity, and smart city technologies. She published published five books and over 150 research papers in reputed journals and conferences. She has been a faculty fellow of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Visiting Faculty Research Program (AFRL-VFRP) and Korea Telecom's-Advance Institute of Technology (KT-AIT), and has an invited position at Seoul National University. She has served as an associate editor for a number of journals, including IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Elsevier Journal Computer Networks, Springer Journal of Telecommunication Systems, and IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. Her works received multiple Best Paper awards as well as Best Video and Best Poster awards. She is a senior member of ACM and IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). Currently she is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine, the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Sister & Related Societies Committee, and a member of IEEE ComSoc GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content and Financial Committees.

Joint Appointment Faculty

Dr. Jagannathan Sarangapani

Rutledge Emerson Endowed Chair Professor in Electrical Engineering

Areas of Interest

Systems and Control, Cyber Physical Systems and Security, Wireless/Sensor Networks, Robotics/Autonomous Systems, and Prognostics 

Dr. Sahra Sedigh

Associate Professor in Computer Engineering

Areas of Interest

Cyber-Physical Systems, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Pervasive Computing, Sensor Networks for Environmental and Structural Monitoring, Development and Assessment of Dependable Networks and Embedded Systems, and System and Information Assurance

Dr. Donald C. Wunsch II

Professor in Computer Engineering/Mary Finley Endowed Chair

Areas of Interest

Clustering, Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, Approximate Dynamic Programming, Adaptive Dynamic Programming, Adaptive Critic Designs, Adaptive Resonance Theory, Fuzzy Systems, Evolutionary Computation, Particle Swarm Optimization, Nonlinear Regression, Memristors, Game of Go (Baduk, Weichi), Traveling Salesman Problem, Prisoner's Dilemma Problem, Robotic Swarms, Bioinformatics, Self-Healing Critical Infrastructure, Smart Grid, Critical Infrastructure and Cybersecurity

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Ardhendu Tripathy

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

Statistical Learning Theory, Adaptivity in Machine Learning, and Explainable AI.

Lecturers

Kim Tracy

Lecturer

Courses

CS 4090 & CS 4091 - Software Engineering I & II

Emeritus Faculty

Dr. Bruce McMillin

Emeritus Professor

Areas of Interest

Cyber-Physical Systems, Computer Security, Cyber-Physical Security, Distributed Computing Theory

Dr. Clayton Price

Emeritus Teaching Associate Professor