Faculty & Staff

Edward B. Allen: Associate Professor, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University
Research Areas: Software Metrics, Empirical Software Engineering, No-Surprises Software Development, Assurance of Software for Critical Applications

Ioana Banicescu: Professor, Ph.D., Polytechnic University (New York)
Research Areas: Parallel Algorithms, Scientific Computing

Julian E. (Gene) Boggess: Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois
Research Areas: Cognitive Science, Neural Networks, Computational Linguistics, Genetic Algorithms

Susan M. Bridges: Professor, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Huntsville
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Fuzzy Logic, Applications in Computer Security and Bioinformatics

Joseph Crumpton: Instructor, M.S., University of Tennessee, Knoxville

David A. Dampier: Associate Professor, Ph.D., U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Research Areas: Digital Forensics, Software Engineering, Formal Methods

Yoginder Dandass: Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University
Research Areas: Real-time Systems, Operating Systems, Parallel and Distributed Processing

Eric Hansen: Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Heuristic Search, Decision-Theoretic Planning, Game-Theoretic Approaches to Multi-Agent Planning, and Machine Learning

Tomasz Haupt: Research Engineer, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow, Poland
Research Areas: Java, JavaEE, Metacomputing, Web Technologies, Seamless Access to Remote Resources, Security, Web Portals, JSP, Distributed Objects and Components, CORBA, EJB, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Fortran, Fortran90, HPF, MPI.

Lisa Henderson: Instructor, M.S., Mississippi State University

Julia E. Hodges: Professor, Ph.D., University of Southwestern Louisiana
Research Areas: Document Understanding, Information Extraction, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

T.J. Jankun-Kelly: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Research Areas: Information and Scientific Visualization, Structured Visualization Environments, Visualization Interfaces, and Web-based Interfaces

Edward Luke: Associate Professor, Ph.D., Mississippi State University
Research Areas: Parallel Algorithms, Scientific Computing

Nan Niu: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Toronto
Research Areas: Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Software Reuse, Conceptual Modeling, Language Engineering, Empirical Methods

Andy D. Perkins: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Research Areas: Computational Biology, Graph Theory, High Performance Computing

Thomas Philip: Professor, Ph.D., Mississippi State University
Research Areas: Software Engineering, Real-Time Systems, Software Design, Software Testing

Mahalingam Ramkumar: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Areas: Information Security, Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks, Media Security and Data Hiding, Steganalysis.

Donna S. Reese: Professor, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Research Areas: Parallel Processing, Microprocessors, Computer Architecture, Object Oriented Programming, Instructional Technology

J. Edward Swan II.: Associate Professor, Ph. D. Ohio State Univeristy
Research Areas: Augmented and Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics, Empirical Methods, Scientific Visualization and Volume Graphics, Human Computer Interaction

Ray Vaughn: William L. Giles Distinguished Professor, Billie J. Ball Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Department Head
Director, Center for Computer Security Research
Professor, Ph.D., Kansas State University
Research Areas: Software Engineering and Computer Security

Andrew Watkins: Director of Undergraduate Studies/Instructor, Ph.D., University of Kent (United Kingdom)

Changhe Yuan: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian Networks, Probabilistic Reasoning, Machine Learning, Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Diagnosis

Song Zhang: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Brown University
Research Areas: Scientific Visualization, Data Analysis, Medical Imaging, Computer Graphics

Courtney Blaylock : Office Associate

Kendall Blaylock : Computer Forensics Laboratory Administrator (Starkville)

Keri Chisolm : Systems Administrator

Jo Coleson : Office Associate

Shonda Cumberland : Business Coordinator

Cathy Gresham : Research Associate III

Nicole Ivancic : Office Associate

Chris Vance : Assistant Systems Administrator