Faculty and Staff
SIU's School of Computing boasts world-renowned, interdisciplinary scholars deeply engaged in student development and innovative problem-solving. Our Faculty, enriched by distinguished guest lecturers, regularly contribute to reputable journals, blending advanced expertise with practical insights.
Our dedicated Staff, utilizing leading technologies, ensure a seamless and innovative learning experience, with additional support from industry-leading recruiters and our Advisory Board.
Students are offered extra guidance through our Advisement Center.
Khaled Ahmed
Associate Professor
Office: Engineering A0307C
Phone: (618) 453-6048
Email: kahmed@cs.siu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Current Research Interests:
High-Performance Computing, Distributed and Parallel computing, Peer-to-Peer computing, Big Data, Machine Learning, and Image processing.
Website: https://www.cs.siu.edu/~kahmed
Ansuman Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor
Office: Engineering A0409G
Phone: (618) 453-6057
Email: ansuman.bhattacharya@siu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta
Current Research Interests:
Current Research Interests: Broad areas of Networks and Network Security, especially, Next Generation Networks, Internet-of-Things, Cognitive Radio Networks, Software Defined Networks, Green Communication and Wireless Network Security.
Website: https://www.cs.siu.edu/~ansuman
Director: ANNS Lab
Zhong Chen
Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, Wuhan University of Technology
Current Research Interests:
Development, analysis, implementation, and experimental evaluation of big streaming data mining algorithms, deep learning techniques, and applications in healthcare and medical physics.
Website: https://www2.cs.siu.edu/~zchen/
Director: Learning, Optimization, and Analysis from Data Lab (LOAD Lab)
Bidyut Gupta
Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Calcutta
Current Research Interests:
Fault-tolerant computing, routing algorithms in computer networks, architecture design of P2P networks, P4P networks, Fog P2P networks.
Website: https://www.cs.siu.edu/gupta
Director: Peer 2 Peer Network Lab
Henry Hexmoor
Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, University at Buffalo
Current Research Interests:
Artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, cognitive science, knowledge representation and reasoning, cybersecurity, blockchain.
Website: https://www.cs.siu.edu/~hexmoor
Director: Control, Command and Communications of Networked Systems Lab
Md Belayat Hossain
Email: belayat@cs.siu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Electronics and Computer Science, University of Hyogo
Current Research Interests: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Computer Vision, Medical Image Processing, and Healthcare Analytics.
Chun-Hsi "Vincent" Huang
Director of the School of Computing
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo
Current Research Interests:
Extreme-Scale Computing and Data Analytics, Computational Biology, Security and Applied Algorithmics.
Xiaolan "Sharon" Huang
Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, Southern Illinois University
Current Research Interests:
Bioinformatics, big data analytics, machine learning, high performance computing.
Website: https://www.cs.siu.edu/~xhuang
Director: Bioinformatics & HPC Research Lab
Ahmed Imteaj
Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, Florida International University
Current Research Interests:
Machine Learning, Federated learning, Artificial Intelligence, Multi-modality, Generative AI, and Cybersecurity.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ahmedimteaj
Director: Security, Privacy and Intelligence for Edge Devices (SPEED Lab)
Xiaopeng Jiang
Education: Ph.D. Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Current Research Interests: Broad areas of Machine Learning and Systems. Specifically, Federal Learning, Mobile Computing, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Autonomous System.
Xiaoqing "Frank" Liu
Professor, Dean of the College of Engineering
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, Texas A&M University
Current Research Interests:
Cyber argumentation based social media and networking, data analytics based recommendation systems, service computing, cyber physical systems, software engineering, applied artificial intelligence, and advanced computing and data applications.
Abdur Rahman Bin Shahid
Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, Florida International University
Current Research Interests:
Cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, adversarial machine learning, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, Digital Twin, and blockchain.
Website: https://www.abdurshahid.info/
Director: Secure and Trustworthy Intelligent Systems Lab (SHIELD Lab)
Koushik Sinha
Associate Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, Jadavpur University
Current Research Interests:
Mobile computing, Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, Complex Networks, Social Computing, Crowdsourcing Systems.
Website: https://www.cs.siu.edu/~ksinha
Director: Complex Networks & Applications Lab
Constantinos Tsatsoulis
Professor, Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate School Dean
Education:
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Purdue University
Current Research Interests:
Multiagent systems, case based reasoning, machine learning, and intelligent image analysis.
Joint appointments in Computer Science
MARK BYRD
Professor
Office: Neckers
Phone: (618) 453-1054
Email: mbyrd@physics.siu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin
Current Research Interests:
Quantum error prevention methods, simulating quantum systems with quantum systems, quantum information
Website: https://www2.physics.siu.edu/~mbyrd/
S. Yaser Samadi
Associate Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Statistics, University of Georgia
Current Research Interests:
Multivariate time series analysis - High dimensional statistical inference, Tensor data analysis - Big Data - Symbolic data analysis - Dimension reduction for time series data - Sequential analysis for dependent and independent data - Bayesian analysis.
Website: https://math.siu.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/samadi.php
Term Faculty
David Paper
Clinical Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., Management Information Systems, Southern Illinois University
Research interests:
Machine Learning, Data Analytics and Data Science. Leveraging business process improvement techniques and AI technologies to reduce wasteful practices, redudancy, error and costs. AI in everyday lives of human beings and e-Learning.
Rana Salameh
Clinical Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., Education, Southern Illinois University
Research interests:
Game-based assessment, End-user interaction and behavior, Serious games developing, and Cybersecurity awareness.
S M Nahian Al Sunny
Assistant Professor of Practice
Email:
smnahianal.sunny@siu.eduEducation:
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas
Current Research Interests:
Service-oriented Cloud Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Big Data Engineering & Analytics, Internet-of-Things, Edge computing.
John Woods
Assistant Lecturer
Education: M.S., Computer Science, Southern Illinois University
Research interests:
Computer Graphics and Linux/UNIX system programming.
Adjunct Faculty
Garth Crosby
Associate Professor
Email: gvcrosby@tamu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Florida International University
Current Research Interests:
Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Cyber-physical Systems Security, Network Security (Cybersecurity), STEM education
Shahram Rahimi
Professor
Email: rahimi@cse.msstate.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Computational Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi
Current Research Interests:
Computational intelligence and soft computing, multi-agent systems, distributed computing.
MICHELLE M. ZHU
Associate Professor
Email: zhumi@montclair.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, Louisiana State University
Current Research Interests:
Parallel and Distributed Computing in Grid and Cloud, High-Performance Networking, Remote Visualization and bioinformatics.
Emeritus Faculty
K. J. Danhof
Professor Emeritus
Education:
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1969; 1969.
Wen-chi Hou
Professor Emeritus
Email: hou@cs.siu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests:
Statistical databases, query optimization, data stream processing, spatial data structures.
Abraham M. Mark
Professor Emeritus
Education:
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1947; 1950.
Robert J McGlinn
Associate Professor Emeritus
Education:
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1976; 1981.
Namdar Mogharreban
Professor Emeritus
Email: namdar@siu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Based Education, Southern Illinois University
Current Research Interests:
Development, deployment and evaluation of a Learning Objects and its ramifications for e-learning.
Nicholas C.K. Phillips
Associate Professor Emeritus
Education:
Ph.D., University of Natal, 1967; 1988.
Michael S. Wainer
Professor Emeritus
Email: wainer@cs.siu.edu
Education:
Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Research Interests:
Software development, HCI, Computer graphics.
William. E. Wright
Professor Emeritus
Education:
D.Sc., Washington University, 1972; 1970.
Research Interests:
Video-on-demand, File Organization, Database Management Systems, Data Structures
Staff
Connie Jacobs
Office Administrator, Chair Assistant
Office: Engineering A0319B
Phone: (618) 453-6041
Email: connie.jacobs@siu.edu
Pamela Wilkins
Graduate Program Assistant
Office: Engineering A0319
Phone: (618) 453-6042
Email: gradinfo@cs.siu.edu
Michael Barkdoll
Computer Systems Architecture Specialist
Office: Engineering A0311C
Phone: (618) 453-6051
Email: mbarkdoll@cs.siu.edu
Education: M.S., Computer Science, Southern Illinois University