Continuing Faculty
Khaled Ahmed
Assistant Professor

Office: Engineering A0407E
Phone: (618) 453-6179
Email: kahmed@cs.siu.edu
Education: Ph.D. Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
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
Abdullah Aydeger
Assistant Professor

Office: Engineering A0409F
Phone: (618) 453-6032
Email: aydeger@cs.siu.edu
Education:
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University
Current Research Interests:
Network Security, Software Defined Networking, and Network Function Virtualization
Homepage: https://www2.cs.siu.edu/~aydeger
Norman F.Carver III
Associate Professor

Education: Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts
Current Research Interests:
Machine learning and data sciences, AI approaches to optimization and control problems, multi-agent systems.
Homepage: https://www.cs.siu.edu/~carver/
Dunren Che
Professor, Undergraduate Program Director

Education: Ph.D., Computer Science, Beijing University Of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Current Research Interests:
Database and Data Mining, Big Data Management and Analysis, Machine Learning and Recommendation, Cloud & Fog/Edge Computing, Crowdsourcing, Scientific Workflow, Personalized Learning
Homepage: https://www.cs.siu.edu/~dche
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.
Homepage: https://www.cs.siu.edu/gupta
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.
Homepage: https://www.cs.siu.edu/~hexmoor
Chun-Hsi "Vincent" Huang
Director of the School of Computing

Education:
Ph.D. 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.
Homepage: https://www.cs.siu.edu/~xhuang
Xiaoqing "Frank" Liu
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
Tong Shu
Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D. Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Current Research Interests:
Parallel and Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Big Data, Scientific Workflow, Wireless Networks, Cloud Computing, Energy Efficiency
Homepage: https://www2.cs.siu.edu/~tshu
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
Homepage: https://www.cs.siu.edu/~ksinha
Sajedul Talukder
Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D. Computer Science, Florida International University
Current Research Interests:
Security and abuse detection in online and geosocial networks, data privacy, machine learning, distributed computing systems, mobile applications.
Homepage: https://www.cs.siu.edu/~stalukder
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
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.
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Homepage: https://math.siu.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/samadi.php