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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

Dr. Ahmed

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

Director: Big Data & Software Engineering Lab (BASE Lab)


Ansuman Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor

bhattacharya

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

Chen

Office: Engineering A0405D

Phone: (618) 453-6056

Email: zhong.chen@cs.siu.edu

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

Gupta

Office: Engineering A0405B

Phone: (618) 453-7194

Email: bidyut@cs.siu.edu

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

Hexmoor

Office: Engineering A0409C

Phone: (618) 453-6047

Email: hexmoor@cs.siu.edu

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

Md Belayat Hossain

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

Dr. Huang

Office: Engineering A0319D

Phone: (618) 453-6033

Email: chuang@cs.siu.edu

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.

Director: Extreme-Scale Computing & Data Analytics Lab


Xiaolan "Sharon" Huang

Assistant Professor

Huang

Office: Engineering A0307A

Phone: (618) 453-6036

Email: 
xhuang@cs.siu.edu

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

Dr. Imteaj

Office: Engineering A0409E

Phone: (618) 453-6039

Email: 
imteaj@cs.siu.edu

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

Xiaoqing Frank Liu

Office: Engineering A0407

Phone: (618) 453-6059

Email: 
xiaoqing.liu@siu.edu

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

Abdur Rahman Bin Shahid

Office: Engineering A0409F

Phone: (618) 453-6032

Email: 
shahid@cs.siu.edu

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

Sinha

Office: Engineering A0407A

Phone: (618) 453-3922

Email: 
koushik.sinha@cs.siu.edu

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

Tsatsoulis

Office: Woody Hall 350

Phone: (618) 453-5289

Email: 
tsatsoul@siu.edu

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

byrd

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

S. Yaser Samadi

Office: Neckers 281

Phone: (618) 453-6502

Email: ysamadi@siu.edu

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

Dr. Paper

Office: A409F

Phone: (618) 453-6032

Email: david.paper@siu.edu

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

rana

Office: A407E

Phone: (618) 453-6179

Email: ranasalameh@siu.edu

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

Education:
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

johnwoods

Office: A405F

Phone: (618) 453-6055

Email: johnheathwoods@siu.edu

Education: M.S., Computer Science, Southern Illinois University

Research interests:  

Computer Graphics and Linux/UNIX system programming.


Adjunct Faculty


Garth Crosby

Associate Professor

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

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

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


NORMAN F. CARVER III

Professor Emeritus

Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts

Research Interests:

Machine learning and data sciences, AI approaches to optimization and control problems, multi-agent systems.


K. J. Danhof

Professor Emeritus

Danhof

Education:
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1969; 1969.


Wen-chi Hou

Professor Emeritus

Dr. Hou

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

Mark

Education: 
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1947; 1950.


Robert J McGlinn

Associate Professor Emeritus

McGlinn

Education: 
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1976; 1981.


Namdar Mogharreban

Professor Emeritus

mogharreban

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

Phillips

Education: 
Ph.D., University of Natal, 1967; 1988.


Michael S. Wainer

Professor Emeritus

Education:
Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Research Interests:

Software development, HCI, Computer graphics.


William. E. Wright

Professor Emeritus

wright

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

Connie

Office: Engineering A0319B
Phone: (618) 453-6041
Email: connie.jacobs@siu.edu


Pamela Wilkins

Graduate Program Assistant

Pamela

Office: Engineering A0319
Phone: (618) 453-6042
Email: gradinfo@cs.siu.edu


Michael Barkdoll

Computer Systems Architecture Specialist

Michael

Office: Engineering A0311C
Phone: (618) 453-6051
Email: mbarkdoll@cs.siu.edu

Education: M.S., Computer Science, Southern Illinois University