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Dr. Daniel Bilar

Rank: Assistant Professor

Background: Ph.D. Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth College, 2003

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-7191

Site: http://cs.uno.edu/~dbilar

Office: MATH 336

Research: Highly Evolved Malware Detection and Classification, Risk Analysis of Computer Network, Entropic Defenses

Dr Christopher Taylor

Rank: Assistant Professor

Background: Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Virginia, 2008

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-2402

Site: http://cs.uno.edu/~taylor

Office: CERM 217

Research: Algorithms, Computational Biology, DNA Sequence Analysis, Microarray and Sequencing Technology

Dr. Dongxiao Zhu

Rank: Assistant Professor

Background: Ph.D. Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, 2006

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504)280-2406

Site: http://cs.uno.edu/~dzhu/

Office: CERM 217

Research: Computational biology, statistical genetics/genomics, biostatistics.

Dr. Christopher Summa

Rank: Assistant Professor

Background: Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-2400

Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~csumma

Office: CERM 211

Research: Protein structure/function relationships, protein structure prediction, and protein design and engineering.

Dr. Jing Deng

Rank: Assistant Professor

Background: Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, 2002

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-7191

Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~jing

Office: Math 336

Research: Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), Wireless Sensor Networks, Multiple Access Control (MAC), Backoff Control, Energy Efficiency, Wireless Network Security, Information Assurance.

Dr. Nauman Chaudhry

Rank: Assistant Professor

Background: Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Michigan, 1998

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-6754

Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~nauman

Office: Math 348

Research: Tuning and self-management of Database Systems, Extending Database Systems to Support Streaming Data, Extending Database Systems for Advanced Application Areas.

Dr. Stephen Winters-Hilt

Rank: Assistant Professor

Background: Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, 2003

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 896-2761

Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~winters

Office: CERM 217

Research: Machine Learning Methods, Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics.

Dr. Vassil Roussev

Rank: Assistant Professor

Background: Ph.D., Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-2405

Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~vassil

Office: Math 312

Research: Distributed systems-- computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), on-the-spot digital forensics, mobile devices. Software engineering-- pattern-based techniques, component and service based models, agile development methods.

Dr. Adlai DePano

Rank: Associate Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator

Background: Ph.D., Computer Science, John Hopkins University, 1987

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-7370

Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~adlai

Office: Math 310

Research: Computational Geometry (polygonal approximations, algorithm analysis, data structures), Computer Science Education (pedagogical tools and techniques), Software Metrics (software development resource allocation), Applied Mathematics (graph theory, combinatorics)

Dr. Jaime Nino

Rank: Associate Professor

Background: Ph.D., Mathematics, Tulane University, 1981

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-7362

Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~jaime

Office: Math 331

Research: Object Oriented technology, Software engineering, Software architecture, Programming languages, Computer Science education.

Dr. Golden Richard III

Rank: Professor

Background: Ph.D., Computer Science, Ohio State University, 1995

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-6045

Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~golden

Office: Math 346/322

Research: Computer Security, Digital Forensics, Mobile Computing, and Operating Systems. Current research: innovative evidence collection and analysis tools for digital forensics investigators.

Dr. William Greene

Rank: Professor

Background: Ph.D., Mathematics, Tulane University

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-6755

Site: faculty/bill/bill.html

Office: Math 330

Research: Genetic algorithms, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Complexity analysis.

Dr. Frederick Hosch

Rank: Emeritus Professor

Background: Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, 1972

Contact: E-mail

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Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~fred

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Research: Object-oriented methods and the software development curriculum, Network and System Administration, Domain theory, Denotational semantics, and programming language design.

Dr. Shengru Tu

Rank: Professor, Graduate Coordinator

Background: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Illinois, 1991

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-7108

Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~shengru

Office: Math 313

Research: Service-oriented computing, Software integration, Software testing, Petri Net theory and applications.

Dr. Zhiyu Zhao

Rank: Computational Scientist

Background: Ph.D., Engineering and Applied Science, University of New Orleans, 2008

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-7076

Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~sylvia/

Office: Math 321

Research: Bioinformatics, Content-based information retrieval

Dr. Mahdi Abdelguerfi

Rank: Professor, Department Chairman

Background: Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Michigan, 1987

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-7107

Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~mahdi

Office: Math 312

Research: Spatio-temporal database systems, High-performance geographical information systems, Synthetic environments reconstruction and Parallel database systems.

Sal Tillis

Rank: Emeritus Director of the University Computing and Communications and Retained Instructor

Background: M.A. Physics and Education, University of New Orleans, 1968

Contact: E-mail

Phone: (504) 280-6754

Site: http://www.cs.uno.edu/people/faculty/sal/sal.html

Office: Math 342

Research: Optical Scanners, scanner fonts, and optical handwritten character scanners.

Dr. Lizhe Xu

Rank: Research Assistant Professor

Background: Ph.D., Virology, University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 1994

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Research: Bioinformatics: Microarray data analysis, Data mining: the interaction and integration of biomedical public databases. The relationship between Human beta retrovirus infection and human liver disease Primary Biliary Cirrhosis.

John Shea

Rank: Senior Research Associate

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Research: Meterological/Oceanographic data analysis, Geological Information Grid(GiC-ES), Navy FORCEnet, and Seapower initiatives.

Dr. Alexander Tchourbanov

Rank: Postdoc

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Research: Alexander Tchourbanov does resarch with the UNO/RIC Nanopore Cheminformatics Project, particularly focusing on Hidden Markov model feature extraction. Dr. Tchourbanov also does research in eukaryotic splice site recognition with the UNO/RIC Bioinformatics group and with Dr. Rogozin at NIH.

Dr. Alexander Stoyanov

Rank: Postdoc

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Research: Alexander Stoyanov does research with the UNO/RIC Nanopore Cheminformatics Project, with particular focus on the buffer and bilayer conditions that are used during nanopore detector operations. Dr. Stoyanov is also helping with the study of binding interactions using the nanopore detector via the introduction of chaotropic agents to the buffer. Dr. Stoyanov is also performing parallel studies of capillary electrophoresis and nanopore characterization of molecules and molecular populations.