Reyan Ahmed
Assistant Professor of Practice
Office: GS 831
(Ph.D., The University of Arizona)
Directory
Fahmida Alam
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Security
Advisor: Dr. Ellen Riloff and Dr. Mihai Surdeanu
Muaz Ali
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interests: Security and Systems
Advisors: Dr. Sazzadur Rahman and Dr. Saumya Debray
Greg Andrews
Professor Emeritus
Interests: all aspects of parallel and distributed computing including languages, applications, "systems" issues, and performance.
(Ph.D., University of Washington, 1974)
Eric Anson
Associate Professor of Practice
Office: GS 809
Interests: Theoretical computer science, computational biology, algorithms, history of computing, machine learning.
(Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 2000)
Debra Armand-Cade
Assistant Director, Academic and Support Services
Office: GS 917
(Advises last names M-Q)
Ehsan Azimi
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: ECE 230
Interests: Human-AI Interaction, Extended Reality (including Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality), Robotics, Digital Twins, Human-Computer Interaction, and Digital Health
(PhD, Johns Hopkins University)
Sandra Bae
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 724
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Data Visualization, Computational Geometry & Fabrication, Optimization, Tangible Interactions
(Ph.D. University of Colorado Boulder, 2025)
Kapilan Balagopalan
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Machine Learning and Artifical Intelligence
Advisor: Dr. Kwang-Sung Jun
Kobus Barnard
Professor
Office: GS 708
Interests: Computer vision, machine learning, scientific applications, multimedia data.
(Ph.D., Simon Fraser University, 1999)
Steven Bethard
Assistant Professor, School of Information
Office: Harvill, 445B
Interests: natural language processing, machine learning, information extraction
Eduardo Blanco
Associate Professor
Office: GS 739
Interests: Natural language processing
(Ph.D., The University of Texas at Dallas, 2011)
Coal Candelario
Information Technology Support Analyst
Office: GS 728
Please submit a ticket via our Help Desk if you are having CS IT issues. Coal will not reply to emails sent directly to him.
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Lei Cao
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 712
Interests: Cloud Data System; Systems for ML; ML for Data Systems
(Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Nicklas Carpenter
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Advisor: Dr. Roberto Giacobazzi
Michael Chertkov
Professor, Applied Mathematics
Office: Math 416
Christian Collberg
Professor
Office: GS 758
Interests: Security, software protection, reverse engineering, research ethics
(Ph.D., University of Lund, 1992)
Eric Collins
Information Technology Support Analyst, Principal
Office: GS 722
Please submit a ticket via our Help Desk if you are having CS IT issues. Eric will not reply to emails sent directly to him.
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Sattwik (Sunny) Das
PhD Student
Office: GS 721
Advisor: Dr. Roberto Giacobazzi
Interests: Programming Languages, Compilers, Theoretical Computer Science, Cryptography, Quantum Computing
Saumya Debray
Professor
Office: GS 735
Interests: Compilers, program analysis and optimization, programming language implementation.
(Ph.D., The State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1986)
Peter Downey
Professor Emeritus
Interests: probabilistic analysis of algorithms and systems, with particular emphasis on modeling the performance of parallel algorithms.
(Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974)
Eric Duong
PhD Student
Office: N/A
Interests: Artificial Intelligence (NLP, ML, Vision)
Advisor: Dr. Kobus Barnard
Thang Nhat Duong
PhD Student
Office: GS 718
Interests: Artificial Intelligence (NLP, ML, Vision)
Advisor: Dr. Chicheng Zhang
Alon Efrat
Associate Professor
Office: GS 715
Interests: Geometric pattern machining, realistic input models, geographics information science and spatial databases, algorithms for mobile robots.
(Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University, 1998)
Cesim Erten
Associate Professor of Practice
Office: GS 845
Interests: Algorithms
(Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2004)
Amir Mohammad Esmaieeli Sikaroudi
PhD Student
Office: GS 718
Interests: Algorithms (Bioinformatics, Geometric, Graph) and Artificial Intelligence (NLP, ML, Vision)
Advisors: Dr. Michael Chertkov and Dr. Alon Efrat
Tanner Finken
PhD Student
Office: GS 756
Interests: Data Visualization, Topology
Advisor: Dr. Josh Levine
Sandiway Fong
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Office: Douglass 311
Interests: All aspects of language and computation
Takanori Fujiwara
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 734
Interests: Visual Analytics, Data Visualization, Data Science, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction
Ph.D. University of California, Davis (2021)
Enfa George
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Natural Language Processing; Ethics and Bias ; Social Computing
Advisor: Dr. Mihai Surdeanu and Dr. Eduardo Blanco
Roberto Giacobazzi
Professor
Office: GS 711
Interests: Theory of computation, programming languages, abstract interpretation, program analysis and verification, logic in computer science, history of computing.
(Ph.D., University of Pisa in Italy, 1993)
Shahriar Golchin
PhD Student
Office: N/A
Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), Deep Learning, Machine Learning
Advisor: Dr. Mihai Surdeanu
Alonso Granados
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Probabilistic Graphical Models and Deep Learning
Advisor: Dr. Jason Pacheco
John H. Hartman
Associate Professor Emeritus
Interests: Scalable storage systems, network file systems, and distributed operating systems.
(Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1994)
Oghenevovwe Ikumariegbe
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Artificial Intelligence (NLP, ML, Vision)
Advisor: Dr. Eduardo Blanco
Md Asiful Islam
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Advisor: Dr. Mihai Surdeanu
Emiliano Islas
PhD Student
Office: GS 756
Interests: Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Graphics, Model Selection, Surrogate Modeling
Advisors: Dr. Josh Levine
Peter Jansen
Associate Professor, School of Information
Office: Harvill 437C
Research Interests: natural language processing, artificial intelligence, explanation-centered inference, knowledge representation, virtual environments.
Kwang-Sung Jun
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 746
Interests: Interactive machine learning, reinforcement learning and bandits, learning theory
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015)
Priya Kaushik
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interests: Systems, Security
Advisor: Dr. Sazzadur Rahman
John Kececioglu
Professor
Office: GS 727
Interests: Computational biology, algorithm design and implementation, combinatorial optimization.
(Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 1991)
Stephen Kobourov
Professor Emeritus
Interests: Graph drawing and information visualization, algorithm design and data organization, geometric algorithms.
(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2000)
Marwan Krunz
Professor, ECE
Office: ECE 356H
Interests: Computer networking, protocol design for wireless systems, media streaming, sensor networks, performance evaluation.
Ruoshan Lan
PhD Student
Office: GS 718
Interests: Data Management and Analytics
Advisor: TBD
Josh Levine
Associate Professor
Office: GS 754
Interests: Visualization, geometric modeling, topological analysis, mesh generation, and computer graphics.
(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2009)
Russell Lewis
Senior Lecturer
Office: GS 858
Interests: Operating systems, computer architecture. virtualization, and emulation.
Ming Li
Professor, ECE
Interests: Computer networking, network security, wireless security, privacy-enhancing technologies, cyber-physical system security.
Yichen Li
PhD Student
Office: GS 718
Interests: Reinforcement Learning and Imitation Learning
Advisor: Dr. Chicheng Zhang
Yinan Li
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Machine Learning
Advisor: Dr. Kwang-Sung Jun
Melanie Lotz
Senior Lecturer
Office: GS 847
Interests: Theoretical Computer Science, algorithms, security, and programming languages
David Lowenthal
Professor
Office: GS 705
Interests: Parallel and distributed computing, operating systems, and run-time systems.
(Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 1996)
Hudson Lynam
Assistant Professor of Practice
Office: GS 823
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, largely focused on AR and VR
(Ph.D. University of Nevada, Reno, 2025)
Martin Marquez
Director, Academic and Support Services
Office: GS 927A
Lester I. McCann
Professor of Practice
Office: GS 819
Interests: Computer Science education, database management systems.
(Ph.D., North Dakota State University, 1994)
Jonathan Misurda
Associate Professor of Practice
Office: GS 835
Interests: Systems, Software Testing, Computer Science Education
(Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2011)
Clayton Morrison
Associate Professor, School of Information
Office: Harvill 437A
Interests: Machine Learning, Probabilistic Modeling, Casual Inference, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, and Automated Planning
Samantha Morrow
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
(Advises last names A-E)
Office: GS 917
Harshita Narnoli
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Computer vision, Computer Graphics and Machine Learning
Advisor: TBD
Tuan Ngo Nguyen
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Deep Unsupervised, Semi-supervised, Domain Adaptation, Interpretability
Advisor: Dr. Kwang-Sung Jun
Jason Pacheco
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 707
Interests: Statistical machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, approximate inference algorithms, and information-theoretic decision making
(Ph.D., Brown University, 2016)
Todd Proebsting
Professor Emeritus
Interests: Programming languages, compilers, cloud computing, information aggregation.
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1992)
Sazzadur Rahaman
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 723
Interests: System and software security, program analysis, applied cryptography, internet measurement
Mahdi Rahimi
PhD Student
Office: GS 718
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotics
Advisor: Dr. Mihai Surdeanu
Sudha Ram
Professor, Management Information Systems
Office: McClelland Hall 430J
Interests: Enterprise Data Management. Semantic Interoperability among Heterogeneous Data Sources. Biological Data Integration. Semantic Modeling Data Provenance and Quality.
Haris Riaz
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Neuro-Symbolic AI and Reinforcement Learning
Advisor: Dr. Mihai Surdeanu
Ellen Riloff
Department Head and Professor
Office: GS 805
Interests: natural language processing and artificial intelligence
(Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994)
Saiful Islam Salim
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Security, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
Advisor: Dr. Mihai Surdeanu
Martin Schulz
Affiliate Faculty
Interests: parallel and distributed architectures and applications; performance monitoring, modeling and analysis; memory system optimization; parallel programming paradigms; tool support for parallel programming; power efficiency for parallel systems; op
Mike Scionti
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
(Advises last names R-Z)
Office: GS 917
Ravi Sethi
Laureate Professor
Office: GS 842
Interests: Software technologies, communications systems, compilers, programming languages, algorithms.
Shreya Nupur Shakya
PhD Student
Office: GS TBD
Interests: Data visualization and Graphics
Advisor: TBD
Jianwei (James) Shen
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Machine learning
Advisor: Dr. Jason Pacheco
Mayank Singh
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Machine Learning, Commonsense reasoning, Question Answering, Computational Semantics
Advisor: Dr. Eduardo Blanco
Richard T. Snodgrass
Professor Emeritus
Interests: Science of computing, temporal databases, data semantics, query languages, database management systems.
(Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1982)
Phyllis Spence
PhD Student
Office: GS 721
Interests: Machine Learning, Machine Vision/Image Processing Algorithms, Cybersecurity
Advisor: Dr. Alon Efrat
Michelle Strout
Professor
Interests: High performance computing, compilers including use of the polyhedral model, parallel programming models, scientific computing, and software engineering.
(Ph.D., University of California at San Diego, 2003)
Mihai Surdeanu
Professor
Office: GS 745
Interests: Natural language processing, applied machine learning, artificial intelligence.
(Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, 2001)
MD Moyeen Uddin
PhD Student
Office: GS 721
Interests: Computer Security, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Algorithms
Advisor: Dr. John Kececioglu
Robert Vacareanu
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Dr. Mihai Surdeanu
Zijie Wang
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Natural language processing,
Advisor: Dr. Eduardo Blanco
Travis Wheeler
Associate Professor, R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy
(Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2009)
Zhuolin Yang
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 730
Interests: Usable Security
(Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2025)
Xinchen Yu
Assistant Professor of Practice
Office: GS 829
Interests: natural language processing and computational social science
(Ph.D., University of North Texas, )
Beichuan Zhang
Associate Department Head and Professor
Office: GS 747
Interests: Computer networks, Internet routing architecture and protocols, Internet topology, multicast.
(Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles, 2003)
Chicheng Zhang
Assistant Professor
Office: 720
Interests: Interactive machine learning, Reinforcement learning and bandits, Learning theory
(Ph.D., University of California at San Diego, 2017)
Junyong Zhao
PhD Student
Office: GS 718
Interests: Cloud Database, Distributed System
Advisor: Dr. Lei Cao
Yao Zhao
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Machine Learning, Bandit Problem and Mathematical Optimization
Advisor: Dr. Kwang-Sung Jun