Computer Science and Engineering Faculty

   J. Carter Bays - Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1975

Dr. Bays' research is focused on algorithms, simulation, operating systems, functional programming, and programming languages.

   Ronald D. Bonnell - Professor

M.S., University of Kentucky, 1961.
B.S., University of Kentucky, 1957.

Professor Bonnell's research is centered on expert systems, machine learning, intelligent tutoring systems, object oriented analysis and design and conceptual modeling.

   John B. Bowles - Associate Professor

Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1982.
M.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1970.
B.S., Engineering Science, University of Virginia, 1969.

Dr. Bowles' research is related to reliability, maintainability, supportability, producibility, failure prediction, variation control, human factors analysis, life cycle cost analysis, and expert systems.

   Duncan A. Buell - Professor and Chair

Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1976.
M.S., Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1972.
B.A., Mathematics, University of Arizona, 1971.

Dr. Buell's research is focused on non-numeric computations, computational number theory, parallel algorithms and architectures, and information retrieval.

   Kirk William Cameron - Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Computer Science, Louisiana State University, 2000.
B.S., Mathematics, University of Florida, 1994.

Dr. Cameron's research interests include performance evaluation and prediction, computer architecture, parallel and distributed systems, and scientific computing.

   Robert L. Cannon - Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1973.
M.S., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1963.
B.S., Mathematics, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1961.

Dr. Cannon's research is centered in digital image processing, simulation, and applications.

   Karel Culik II - Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Dr.h.c, Philosophy, University of Turku - Finland, 1995.
RNDr., Mathematical Logic, Charles University - Prague, 1967.
Ph.D., Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences - Prague, 1966.
M.Math, Mathematics, Charles University - Prague, 1957.

Dr. Culik's research is based in formal langauges and automata theory, theory of programming languages, systolic systems, and cellular automata.

   James P. Davis - Associate Professor

Ph.D., Computer Engineering, University of South Carolina, 1989.
M.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 1981.
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 1980.

Dr. Davis' research interests are in the areas of VLSI systems architecture & design, object-oriented analysis and design, database design, knowledge acquisition in expert systems, and agent-based workflow systems.

   Frederick C. Druseikis - Adjunct Professor

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 1975.
M.S., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 1973.
B.S., Mathematics, University of Arizona, 1971.

Dr. Druseikis' research interests are focused in health care applications of the public Internet, e-commerce in health care, privacy, security, and distributed object technology.

   Caroline M. Eastman - Professor, Undergraduate Director

Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1977.
B.A., Applied Mathematics, Radcliffe College, 1968.

Dr. Eastman's research is centered on information retrieval, database management systems, file organizations, user interfaces, and software engineering.

   Csilla Farkas - Assistant Professor

Ph.D., George Mason University, 2000.
M.S., George Mason University, 1993.
B.S., Institution of Computer Science (SZAMALK)- Budapest, 1989.
B.S., Geology, Eotvos Lorand University - Budapest, 1985.

Dr. Farkas' research is based in information systems security, database systems, distributed databases, scientific databases, data mining, and expert systems.

   Stephen A. Fenner - Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1991.
M.S., University of Chicago, 1988.
B.S., Physics, Harvard University, 1983.

Dr. Fenner's research is focused quantum computing and information, cryptography and security, and structural complexity theory.

   Clint Fuchs - Adjunct Professor
   Chin-Tser Huang - Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2003.
M.S., University of Texas at Austin, 1998.
B.S., National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1993.

Dr. Huangs's research focus is network security, network protocol design and verification, and distributed systems.

   Michael N. Huhns - Professor and NCR Chair of Computer Science and Engineering

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1975.
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1971.
B.S.E.E., University of Michigan, 1969.

Dr. Huhns' research is centered around information technology, distributed AI, multiagent systems, machine learning, enterprise modeling and integration, and distributed database systems.

   Tiecheng Liu - Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Computer Science, Columbia University, 2003.
M.E. , Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999.
B.S., Mathematics, Shandong University, 1996

Dr. Liu's research is focused on computer vision, image and video processing.

   Catherine Matthews - Adjunct Professor
  Manton Matthews - Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1980.

Dr. Matthew's research is primarily based in software testing and quality assurance, networks, intelligent user interfaces, and graph theory.

  Srihari Nelakuditi - Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2001
M.Tech., Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1991
B.E., Computer Science, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, 1989

Dr. Nelakuditi's research is based in quality of service routing, multimedia communication, wireless and mobile networks.

   Robert L. Oakman, III - Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., English, Indiana University - Bloomington, 1971.
M.A., English, Indiana University - Bloomington, 1966.
M.A., Numerical Analysis, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1964.
B.A., Mathematics, University of Mississippi, 1963.

Dr. Oakman's research is primarily based in natural language processing, multimedia, educational technology, computational linguistics, computer applications in the humanities, computer literacy, and Victorian literature.

   Gang Quan - Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Computer Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2001.
M.S., IRSA, Chinese Academy of Science.
B.S., Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University.

   John R. Rose - Associate Professor

Ph.D., State University of New York - Stony Brook, 1991.
M.S., State University of New York - Stony Brook, 1989.
BMus, Music, Immaculate Heart College, 1980.

Dr. Rose's research is focused on computational science, data fusion, pattern recognition, knowledge discovery in databases, and planning under uncertainty.

    Larry M. Stephens - Professor

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1977.
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1974.
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 1968.

Dr. Stephens' research is based on knowledge representation, distributed problem solving, expert system technology, and multiagent systems.

    Jijun Tang - Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of New Mexico , 2004
M.S. Computer Science, University of New Mexico, 2002
M.S. Offshore Engineering, Tianjin University, China, 1996
B.S. Naval Architecture, Tianjin University, China, 1994

Dr. Tang's research is focused on computational biology and bioinformatics, algorith design, analysis, implementation and performance study.

    Homayoun Valafar - Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Purdue University , 1995
M.S. Purdue University, 1990
B.S. Michigan Tech., 1988

Dr. Valafars's research is based in the areas of bioinformatics, medical informatics and computational biology. More specifically the problem of protein folding, protein/ligand and protein/protein interaction.

  Marco Valtorta - Associate Professor

Ph.D., Duke University, 1987.
MA, Duke University, 1983.
Laurea, Electrical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 1980.

Dr. Valtorta's research is centered on knowledge based systems, evidential reasoning, heuristics, and computational complexity.

    Juan E. Vargas - Associate Professor

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1988.

Dr. Vargas' research is focused on distributed data mining, bayesian networks, holer monitoring, and component software for e-commerce (COM, DCOM, XML, SOAP).

    José M. Vidal - Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1998.
M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1991.
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990.

Dr. Vidal's research is based in the areas of multiagent systems, learning in multiagent systems, agent based software engineering, distributed programming, distributed objects, component programming, complex systems, e-commerce, and machine learning.

   Song Wang - Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
M.E. Tsinghua University, 1998
B.E. Tsinghua University, 1994

Dr. Wang's research is based in computer vision, medical image processing, and machine learning.