Directory
Faculty
Eric Anson
Senior Lecturer
Office: GS 823
Interests: Theoretical computer science, computational biology, algorithms, history of computing, machine learning.
Kobus Barnard
Professor
Office: GS 708
Interests: Computer vision, machine learning, scientific applications, multimedia data.
(Ph.D., Simon Fraser University, 1999)
David Claveau
Senior Lecturer
Office: GS 854
Interests: Robotics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, computer graphics, computer science education.
(Ph.D., Concordia University, 2007)
Christian Collberg
Professor
Office: GS 758
Interests: Programming languages, compilers, intellectual property protection of software, domain-specific search engines.
(Ph.D., University of Lund, 1992)
Tyler Conklin
Lecturer
Office: GS 842
Interests: Computer science education, computer hardware, mobile applications and history of 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)
Benjamin Dicken
Lecturer
Office: GS 850
Interests: Software engineering, web development, program analysis, computer science education.
Alon Efrat
Associate Professor
Office: GS 742
Interests: Geometric pattern machining, realistic input models, geographics information science and spatial databases, algorithms for mobile robots.
(Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University, 1998)
Chris Gniady
Associate Professor
Office: GS 730
Interests: Operating systems, multiprocessor architecture and instruction-level parallelism, design of high-performance systems.
(Ph.D., Purdue University, 2005)
John H. Hartman
Associate Professor
Office: GS 747
Interests: Scalable storage systems, network file systems, and distributed operating systems.
(Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1994)
Kate Isaacs
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 712
Interests: Information visualization, high performance computing.
(Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 2015)
Kwang-Sung Jun
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 746
Interests: Machine Learning
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015)
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
Office: GS 715
Interests: Graph drawing and information visualization, algorithm design and data organization, geometric algorithms.
(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2000)
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
Lecturer
Office: GS 829
Interests: Operating systems, computer architecture. virtualization, and emulation.
Melanie Lotz
Lecturer
Office: GS 845
Interests: Theoretical Computer Science, algorithms, security, and programming languages
David Lowenthal
Interim Department Head and Professor
Office: GS 705
Interests: Parallel and distributed computing, operating systems, and run-time systems.
(Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 1996)
Lester I. McCann
Principal Lecturer
Office: GS 819
Interests: Computer Science education, database management systems.
(Ph.D., North Dakota State University, 1994)
Rick Mercer
Senior Lecturer
Office: GS 811
Interests: Computer science education, object-oriented programming and design, agile software development, patterns.
Jon Misurda
Senior Lecturer
Office: GS 858
Interests: Systems, Software Testing, Computer Science Education
(Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2011)
Jason Pacheco
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 724
Interests: Statistical machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, approximate inference algorithms, and information-theoretic decision making
(ph.D., Brown University, 2016)
Todd Proebsting
Interim Associate Department Head & Professor
Office: GS 847
Interests: Programming languages, compilers, cloud computing, information aggregation.
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1992)
Sazzadur Rahaman
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 734
Interests: System and software security, program analysis, applied cryptography, internet measurement
Carlos Scheidegger
Associate Professor (Sabbatical AY20-21)
Office: GS 739
Interests: Data visualization, data analysis, computer graphics.
(Ph.D., University of Utah, 2009)
Ravi Sethi
Laureate Professor
Office: GS 809
Interests: Software technologies, communications systems, compilers, programming languages, algorithms.
Richard T. Snodgrass
Professor
Office: GS 711
Interests: Science of computing, temporal databases, data semantics, query languages, database management systems.
(Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1982)
Michelle Strout
Professor
Office: GS 707
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
Associate Professor
Office: GS 745
Interests: Natural language processing, applied machine learning, artificial intelligence.
(Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, 2001)
Beichuan Zhang
Professor (Sabbatical AY20-21)
Office: GS 723
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: Machine learning, learning theory
(Ph.D., University of California at San Diego, 2017)
Graduate Students
George C.G. Barbosa
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Paulo Da Silva Soares
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Computer vision, social network analysis, machine learning
Shahriar Golchin
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision
Alonso Granados
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Deep Learning
Spencer Krieger
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interests: Bioinformatics, algorithms, hypergraphs, cell signaling pathways, protein secondary structure prediction
Jixian Li
PhD Student
Office: GS 756
Interests: Data visualization, computer graphics, machine learning
Zhengzhong Liang
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Artificial intelligence, natural language processing, artificial neural networks, question answering system
Terrence Lim
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interest: Compilers, database management systems, and programming languages
Fan Luo
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Jacob Miller
PhD Student
Office: GS 721
Interests: Graph layout, graph visualization, dimensionality reduction
Harshita Narnoli
PhD Student
Office: GS 721
Interests: Computer vision, Computer Graphics and Machine Learning
Brandon Neth
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interests: Programming Languages, Compilers, and High Performance Computing
Mithun Paul
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Natural language processing, neural networks, machine learning, ethical hacking
Mahdi Rahimi
PhD Student
Office: GS 718
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, robotics
Md Ashiqur Rahman
PhD Student
Office: GS 718
Interests: Computer networks, Internet Architecture, Named Data Networking
Haris Riaz
PhD Student
Office: GS 718
Interests: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Neuro-Symbolic AI, Reinforcement Learning
Sayef Azad Sakin
PhD Student
Office: GS 756
Interests: Data visualization, high performance computing
Saiful Islam Salim
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interests: Security, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
Connor Scully-Allison
PhD Student
Office: GS 756
Interests: Data Visualization, Data Management, Interdisciplinary Software Engineering
Zheng Tang
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Natural language processing, applied machine learning, artificial intelligence
Claire Taylor
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interests: Security, obfuscation, cyberlaw, natural language processing
Pasindu Tennakoon
PhD Student
Office: GS 756
Interests: Topological Data Analysis, Data Visualization, AI and Machine Learning
MD Moyeen Uddin
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interests: Computer Security, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Algorithms
Robert Vacareanu
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Hoang Nguyen Hung Van
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Machine learning, natural language processing, data visualization and question-answering system
Manujinda Wathugala
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and distributed systems
Marium Yousuf
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Applied Machine Learning, Computational Neuroscience
Ariyan Zarei
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Yao Zhao
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Machine learning, bandit problem, mathematical optimization
DEI Advisory Board
Fontaine Coutino Villarreal
Undergraduate Student
Justin Galvez
Undergraduate Student
Aliyah Hernandez
Undergraduate Student
Sage Pezzulo
Undergraduate Student
Valeria Regalado
Undergraduate Student
Department DEI Committee
Josh Levine
Associate Professor
Office: GS 754
Interests: Visualization, geometric modeling, topological analysis, mesh generation, and computer graphics.
(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2009)
Melanie Lotz
Lecturer
Office: GS 845
Interests: Theoretical Computer Science, algorithms, security, and programming languages
Brandon Neth
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interests: Programming Languages, Compilers, and High Performance Computing
Jason Pacheco
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 724
Interests: Statistical machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, approximate inference algorithms, and information-theoretic decision making
(ph.D., Brown University, 2016)
Chicheng Zhang
Assistant Professor
Office: 720
Interests: Machine learning, learning theory
(Ph.D., University of California at San Diego, 2017)
Affiliated Faculty
Steven Bethard
Assistant Professor, School of Information
Office: Harvill, 445B
Interests: natural language processing, machine learning, information extraction
Sandiway Fong
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Office: Douglass 311
Interests: All aspects of language and computation
Marwan Krunz
Professor, ECE
Office: ECE 356H
Interests: Computer networking, protocol design for wireless systems, media streaming, sensor networks, performance evaluation.
Ming Li
Associate Professor, ECE
Interests: Computer networking, network security, wireless security, privacy-enhancing technologies, cyber-physical system security.
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
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.
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
Academic Services
Financial and Administrative Services
Laboratory Staff
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.
https://helpdesk.cs.arizona.edu/
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.
https://helpdesk.cs.arizona.edu/
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