Faculty & Staff

Department Faculty
Jeff Offutt
Jeff Offutt
Professor and Chair
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 405
Research Interests: Software testing, computer science and software engineering education, and software evolution and maintenance
Shashank Arora
Shashank Arora
Visiting Assistant Professor - Instructional
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 420
Research Interests: cryptography, security and privacy, and multimedia computing.
Pradeep K. Atrey
Pradeep K. Atrey
Associate Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 421
Research Interests: Multimedia data analytics with a focus on security and privacy issues in application areas such as surveillance, social media, and cloud computing
Petko Bogdanov
Petko Bogdanov
Associate Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 416
Research Interests: Data mining, network science, materials informatics
Ming-Ching Chang
Ming-Ching Chang
Associate Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science; Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
UAB-424A
Research Interests: Computer vision, video analytics, artificial intelligence
Charalampos Chelmis
Charalampos Chelmis
Associate Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 424B
Research Interests: Characterization, detection, and prediction tasks on complex networks, and big data analytics for social good, with emphasis on scalable and accurate algorithms for massive, and high-dimensional datasets.
Mei-Hwa F. Chen
Mei-Hwa F. Chen
Associate Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 427
Research Interests: Software testing, big data for education
Chinwe Ekenna
Chinwe Ekenna
Associate Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 423
Research Interests: Robotics, algorithms, machine Learning, computational biology
Daniel Hono
Daniel Hono
Visiting Assistant Professor - Instructional
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 442
Research Interests: automated deduction, functional analysis and mathematical physics with applications to quantum computing.
Jeong-Hyon Hwang
Jeong-Hyon Hwang
Associate Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 409
Research Interests: Databases, distributed systems, real-time data processing, graph analytics
Vladimir Kuperman
Vladimir Kuperman
Professor of Practice
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 427
Research Interests: Information and computer technologies, computer networking, computer- based learning, mathematics for decision making and global economics
Chong Liu
Chong Liu
Assistant Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 426
Research Interests: Machine learning, Bayesian optimization, bandits, active learning, experimental design, AI for drug discovery.
Xin Li
Xin Li
Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 413
Research interests: Computer vision, machine learning, NeuroAI, multimodal AI, autism research, data mining
Abram Magner
Abram Magner
Assistant Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 431
Research Interests: Statistical and machine learning problems on graphs/complex networks; information theory; data compression; theoretical machine learning
Jackson Marques de Carvalho
Jackson Marques de Carvalho
Professor of Practice
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 441
Research Interests: Software engineering, autonomous UAV navigation, multimodal human-computer interaction and user modeling, and document processing
Amir Masoumzadeh
Amir Masoumzadeh
Associate Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 422
Research Interests: Information security and privacy: theoretical models and mechanisms for specification and verification of access control policies; their application in online social networks; browser security; privacy-preserving data sharing and mining of complex data such as graphs; privacy-enhancing technologies in domains such as web and location-based services
Paliath Narendran
Paliath Narendran
Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 411
Research Interests: Automated reasoning, term rewriting systems, pattern matching, symbolic protocol analysis
Michael Phipps
Michael Phipps
Lecturer
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
Research Interests: Programming Languages, Compiler Design, Computer Architecture and Organization, User Interface Design, Operating Systems
Upsorn Praphamontripong
Upsorn Praphamontripong
Visiting Associate Professor - Instructional
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 403
Research Interests: software engineering, computer science education, software testing and maintenance, software usability, software reliability and performance analysis, and database systems.
Shaghayegh Sahebi
Shaghayegh Sahebi
Associate Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 425
Research Interests: Human-centered data mining and machine learning, educational data mining, recommendation and personalization systems
Haoyu Wang
Haoyu Wang
Assistant Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 432
Research Interests: The intersection of data mining, natural language processing and machine learning with a strong focus on democratizing AI for broader accessibility.
Qi Wang
Qi Wang
Lecturer
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
UAB 429
Research Interests: Computer Science, software development
Mariya Zheleva
Mariya Zheleva
Associate Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science; Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
UAB 418
Research Interests: Next generation mobile wireless networks, focusing on autonomous spectrum measurement and dynamic access, architectures and resource allocation in IoT-and-Traditional (IoT and T) networks, measurement infrastructures and networked system design, integration and in-situ deployment
Affiliated Faculty
Kimberly Cornell
Kimberly Cornell
Assistant Professor, Information Sciences and Technology Department
College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity; Department of Information Sciences and Technology; Department of Computer Science
ETEC 261B
Randy Moulic
Randy Moulic
Associate Dean for Applied Learning & Cooperative Education
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science; Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
DR 113C / LI 081
Daphney-Stavroula Zois
Daphney-Stavroula Zois
Associate Professor
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Department of Computer Science
ETEC 0217
Adjunct Faculty
Andrew Hurd
Department of Computer Science
Ramchandra Kotecha
Adjunct Faculty
College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering; Department of Computer Science
Staff
Michelle Houser
Administrative Assistant
Department of Computer Science
Lauren M. Pelletier
Lauren M. Pelletier
Administrative Manager
Department of Computer Science; College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering
UAB 404

 

Emeritus Faculty

Dean N. Arden
Professor Emeritus

Peter A. Bloniarz
Associate Professor Emeritus

Seth Chaiken
Associate Professor Emeritus

Lenore Mullin
Associate Professor Emeritus

Neil V. Murray
Professor Emeritus

Sekharipuram S. Ravi
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus

Daniel J. Rosenkrantz
Professor Emeritus

Richard E. Stearns
Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Dan E. Willard
Professor Emeritus