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Faculty

Continuing Faculty

Kemal Akkaya Research Activities
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Research Interests:
    Wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor and actor networks, wireless mesh networks, smart grid communications and security, wireless multimedia sensor networks, wireless ad hoc network security.

    Advanced Wireless & Sensor Networking Lab
Office: Faner 2138
Phone: (618) 453-6054
Email: kemal@cs.siu.edu
Norman F.Carver III Research Activities
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts
Research Interests:
    Multi-agent systems, distributed problem solving, sensor interpretation, knowledge-intensive control of AI systems.
Office: Faner 3121
Phone: (618) 453-6048
Email: carver@cs.siu.edu
Dunren Che Research Activities
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Computer Science, Beijing University of Aeronautics And Astronautics
Research Interests:
    Database, structured document management, bioinformatics.
Office: Faner 2128
Phone: (618) 453-6046
Email: dche@cs.siu.edu
Qiang Cheng Research Activities
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests:
    Signal and image processing, statistical learning theory, biomedical and healthcare informatics, and their applications.
Office: Faner 2140
Phone: (618) 453-6056
Email: qcheng@cs.siu.edu
Kenneth J. Danhof
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Purdue University
Bidyut Gupta Research Activities
Professor
Senior Member, IEEE
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Calcutta
Research Interests:
    Distributed systems, cluster computing, mobile computing, computer networks.
Office: Faner 3044
Phone: (618) 453-7194
Email: bidyut@cs.siu.edu
Henry Hexmoor Research Activities
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Computer Science, University at Buffalo
Research Interests:
    Artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, cognitive science, mobile robotics, knowledge representation and reasoning.
Office: Faner 2130
Phone: (618) 453-6047
Email: hexmoor@cs.siu.edu
Wen-Chi Hou Research Activities
Professor
Ph.D. Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests:
    Statistical databases, query optimization, data stream processing, spatial data structures.
Office: Faner 2134
Phone: (618) 453-6040
Email: hou@cs.siu.edu
Robert J. McGlinn
Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
Namdar Mogharreban Research Activities
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Computer Based Education, Southern Illinois University
Research Interests:
    Development, deployment and evaluation of a Learning Objects and its ramifications for e-learning.
Office: Faner 3122
Phone: (618) 453-6059
Email: namdar@cs.siu.edu
Mehrdad Nojoumian Research Activities
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
Research Interests:
    Security & Cryptography, Game Theory & Economics, and Software Engineering.
Office: Faner 2132
Phone: (618) 453-6032
Email: nojoumian@cs.siu.edu
Nicholas C.K. Phillips
Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D.,University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg South Africa
Shahram Rahimi Research Activities
Professor
Undergraduate Program Director
Ph.D. Computational Science, University of Southern Mississippi
Research Interests:
    Computational intelligence and soft computing, multi-agent systems, distributed computing.
Office: Faner 2136
Phone: (618) 453-6033
Email: rahimi@cs.siu.edu
Michael S. Wainer Research Activities
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Research Interests:
    Software development, HCI, Computer graphics.
Office: Faner 3042
Phone: (618) 453-6039
Email: wainer@cs.siu.edu
William Wright
Professor Emeritus
D.Sc., Washington University (St. Louis)
Mehdi Zargham Research Activities
Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Computer Science, Michigan State University
Research Interests:
    Mobile learning, pattern recognition, data mining.
Office: Faner 2124
Phone: (618) 453-6042
Email: mehdi@cs.siu.edu
Michelle M. Zhu Research Activities
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Computer Science, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Office: Faner 2142
Phone: (618) 453-6057
Email: mzhu@cs.siu.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Sean Bozorgzad Research Activities
M.D., University of British Colombia
Research Interests:
    Obesity diagnosis and treatment, soft computing, patient education, information technology in the outpatient medical practice, human/machine interface, occupational medicine and industrial accident management, international medical education, osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment.

Phone: (618) 988-9777
Email: bozorgzad@msn.com
Mark Byrd Research Activities
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Physics, University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests:
    Quantum error prevention methods, simulating quantum systems with quantum systems, quantum information theory.

Office: Neckers
Phone: (618) 453-2271
Email: mbyrd@physics.siu.edu
Frank Gaitan Research Activities
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, University of Illinois
Research Interests:
    Quantum control, decoherence, quantum algorithms in the presence of noise, quantum error correcting codes, fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Office: Neckers 477
Phone: (618) 453-1055
Email: gaitan@physics.siu.edu
Dimitrios Kagaris Research Activities
Professor
Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, Dartmouth College
Research Interests:
    VLSI design automation, built-in self-test, communication networks, bioengineering.
Office: Engineering E-111
Phone: (618) 453-7973
Email: kagaris@engr.siu.edu
Mohammad R. Sayeh Research Activities
Professor
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Oklahoma State University
Research Interests:
    Photonics and neural networks.
Office: Engineering E-204
Phone: (618) 453-7066
Email: sayeh@siu.edu
Spyros Tragoudas Research Activities
Professor
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas
Research Interests:
    CAD for VLSI, design for testability, computer networks.
Office: Engineering E-113
Phone: (618) 453-7027
Email: spyros@engr.siu.edu

Lecturers

Staff

Terri Elliott
Office Administrator
Chair Assistant
Graduate Program Assistant
Office: Faner 2123
Phone: (618) 453-6041
Email: terri@cs.siu.edu
Teresa Rodriguez
Office Support Associate
Main Office Assistant
Undergraduate Program Assistant
Office: Faner 2125
Phone: (618) 536-2327
Email: office1@cs.siu.edu
Yung-Chuan Lee
Computer Information Specialist
Office: Faner 2135
Phone: (618) 453-6051
Email: ylee@cs.siu.edu