Faculty and Staff

Meet our Computer & Data Sciences faculty and staff

Chair

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Vipin Chaudhary

Department Chair, Computer and Data Sciences Department
Kevin J. Kranzusch Professor
Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

High Performance Computing and Applications to Science, Engineering, Biology, and Medicine; Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Data Science; Computer Assisted Diagnosis and Interventions; Medical Image Processing; Computer Architecture; Quantum Computing.

Faculty

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Erman Ayday

Assistant Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Privacy enhancing technologies, data security and applied cryptographyy

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Harold Connamacher

Associate Department Chair, Computer and Data Sciences Department
Robert J. Herbold Professor of Transformative Teaching
Associate Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Applies theoretical computer science techniques to discover problem structures and improve algorithm performance

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Dianne Foreback

Assistant Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Secure and dependable distributed systems, networks and algorithms including solutions to the foundational problems of blockchains, churn, consensus, group membership and failure detectors.

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Mehmet Koyuturk

Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Develops algorithms for transforming "big" biological data into systems biology knowledge

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Sanmukh Kuppannagari

James C. Wyant Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

AI/ML Acceleration on Heterogeneous Platforms; Parallel Computing; Reconfigurable Computing; Combinatorial Optimization

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Michael Lewicki

Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Develops theoretical models of computation and representation in sensory coding and perception

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Jing Li

Leonard Case Jr. Professor of Engineering
Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Develops computational approaches and software tools for genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology, and creates computational solutions for big data analytics

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Shuo Li

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

As associate professor of biomedical engineering and computer data science, Li focuses on AI in medical imaging.

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Vincenzo Liberatore

Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Conducts research in real-time sensor-actuator networks, and develops electricity market simulators for educational workshops

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Orhan Ozguner

Assistant Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

My research involves applications of robotics and control engineering in the areas of intelligent robotic surgical assistants for autonomous surgical manipulation tasks. Specifically, I focus on developing software to enable visually-guided control of the surgical robotic systems to perform low-level manipulation tasks autonomously. I have a strong interest in Algorithm Development, Human Machine Interactions on Surgical Robotics as well as Data Sciences on Medical Applications.

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Andy Podgurski

Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Develops techniques to assess and improve the reliability and securty of software systems and applications

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Soumya Ray

Associate Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Develops and analyzes algorithms for intelligent adaptive systems

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An Wang

Assistant Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Security and Privacy

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Yinghui Wu

Associate Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Devise, Design, and Develop novel data management and analysis paradigms and tools to support data and knowledge exploration in the Big Data era.

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Kevin Xu

Assistant Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Build data-driven models of complex systems that allow us to understand how they behave and potentially predict how they may change in the future. I am particularly interested in interdisciplinary research with wide societal impact, and I have collaborated with researchers in sociology, psychology, and the health sciences.

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Shuai Xu

Assistant Professor, Computer and Data Sciences Department

My research interest lies in theoretical computer science, with a focus on designing efficient algorithms and Fourier analysis of Boolean functions. I am also interested in developing quantitative portfolios for hedge funds by adhering to mathematical and statistical methods.

Emeritus Faculty

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Tekin Ozsoyoglu

Professor Emeritus, Computer and Data Sciences Department
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Michael Rabinovich

Professor Emeritus, Computer and Data Sciences Department

Investigates solutions to improve Internet performance, scalability and security

Administrative Staff

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Cynthia Hatcher

Chair's Assistant, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Develops, implements, and manages procedures for the administration and operation of the Office of the Chair for the Department of Computer and Data Sciences and the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering

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Elliot Korth

Student Affairs Coordinator,

Handles student affairs for Departments of Computer and Data Sciences and Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, with focus on the graduate experience.

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Laura Kuhar

Department Coordinator,

Laura works directly with the chair, faculty and staff in preparing appointment forms and visa applications submitted to the dean's office of the engineering school, HR Immigration, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and Graduate Studies.

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Salvatore Russo

Assistant Manager of Funded Projects,

Manages pre- and post-award research grant management processes for CDS & ECSE, designs and implements new procedures, and trains new staff.

Adjunct Faculty

Mark A. Allman, Adjunct Instructor

Nicholas Barendt, Adjunct Sr. Instructor, Executive Director, Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems (ISSACS)

Michael Branicky, Adjunct Professor

Praphul Chandra, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Mahdi Cheraghchi Bashi Astaneh, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Sanjaya Gajurel, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Roberto Galan, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ashwin Ganesan, Adjunct Instructor

Manish Gupta, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Shuo Li, Visiting Associate Professor

Eamon Johnson, Adjunct Instructor

Amey Joshi, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ronald Loui, Adjunct Professor

Sreerama K Murthy, Adjunct Associate Professor

Anand Narasimhamurthy, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Gideon Samid, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Miguel Zubizarreta-Ada, Adjunct Professor

Gurkan Bebek, Assistant Professor, Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, School of Medicine

Marc Buchner, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering

Vira Chankong, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering

Roger French, Professor

Michael Fu, Assistant Professor, Department Computer and Data Sciences

Mark Griswold, Professor, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine

Evren Gurkan-Cavusoglu, Associate Professor

Fulai Jin, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine

Suryaprakash Kompalli, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Thomas LaFramboise, Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine

Xiao Li, Assistant Professor, Division of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine

Anant Madabhushi, Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Aziz Nazha, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine

Christos Papachristou, Professor

Satya Sahoo, Associate Professor

Peter Thomas, Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering

Sunil K Vuppala, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Xiong (Bill) Yu, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering