Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Edward Allen: Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University
Research Areas:Software Engineering, Human Centered Computing, Security

Rikk Anderson: Instructor, MS. Jackson State University, Jackson, MS.
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Ioana Banicescu: Professor, Ph.D., Polytechnic University, New York
Research Areas:Software Engineering, Scientific Comp./HPC/Autonomic Comp.

Cindy Bethel: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of South Florida, Tampa
Research Areas:Artificial Intelligence, Human Centered Computing, HCI and Robotics, CS Education & Broadening Participation in computing

Joe Crumpton: Instructor, MS. University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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David Dampier: Professor, Director, Center for Computer Security Research & National Forensics Training Center, Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School
Research Areas:Security, Forensics, CS Education & Broadening Participation in computing, Graphics, Software Engineering

Yoginder Dandass: Associate Professor, Ph.D., Mississippi State University
Research Areas:Bioinformatics, Scientific Comp./HPC/Autonomic Comp., Security, Forensics, Graphics

Eric A. 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

Lisa Henderson: Instructor, M.S., Mississippi State University
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Julia E. Hodges: Professor and Associate Vice President for Administrative Services, Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Research Areas:Computer Science Education, Broadening Participation in Computing, and Leadership Development for Women in Academia

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

Sarah Lee: Instructor and Director of Undergraduate Studies,
Ph.D., University of Memphis
Research Areas:Software Engineering, Computer Science Education

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

Nan Niu: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Research Areas:Software Engineering, CS Education & Broadening Participation in computing

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

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

Donna Reese: Professor and Department Head, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Research Areas:Student Retention, Broadening Participation in Engineering and Computing, Women in Engineering

Ed Swan: Professor, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Research Areas:Augmented and Virtual Reality, Perception, Human Computer Interaction, Empirical Methods, Computer Graphics, Scientific and Information Visualization

Ray Vaughn: Professor
William L. Giles Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., Kansas State University
Research Areas:Software Engineering and Computer Security

Byron Williams: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Mississippi State University
Research Areas:Empirical Software Engineering, Software Evolution, Software Metrics & Estimation, Software Security, Software Architectures, & Agile Development

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

Emeriti Faculty (last 5 years)

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

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

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

Adjunct Faculty

Alfred Chris Bogen: Computer Scientist, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Mississippi State University
Research Areas: Building Information Modeling (BIM), Sensor Data Analysis, Data Standards, Computer Forensics

Cary Butler: Technical Director, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
Adjunct Professor Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Research Areas: Technological Innovation, Machine Learning, Collective Intelligence, Knowledge Management

Jing-Ru Cheng: Computer Scientist, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Research Areas: Scientific Computing, Numerical Methods for Parallel Computing, Agent-based Computing, Large-scale applications

Stephen Ellis: Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, N/A
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Tomasz Haupt: Associate Research Professor, Ph.D.,
Research Areas:

Gerald Morris: Computer Scientist, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., University of Southern California
Research Areas: High Performance Computing; Alternative Computational Technologies including FPGA's, GPU's, and multi/many core processors; Computer Performance Measurement; and Algorithm & Data Structure Mapping

Suzanne Shontz: Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Areas: Computational Science and Engineering, Parallel Scientific Computing, Computational Mathematics

Chad Steed: Research Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Mississippi State University (2008)
Research Areas: Visual Analytics, Information and Scientific Visulization, Intelligent User Interfaces, Data Mining, Social Media Networks, Computer Graphics.