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Director of School


Margala, Martin
Professor of Computer Science 
Director of School of Computing and Informatics

Endowed Chair of Computer Science Eminent Scholar
Fulbright Distinguished Chair
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 222
Phone: (337) 482-1094
Email: martin.margala@louisiana.edu
Homepage:https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/margala/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ANcbeNIAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Interests: Digital & Mixed-Signal VLSI Design & VLSI Testing, Design for Reliability, Secure Reconfigurable Architectures and Heterogeneous Computing Architectures
 

 

Faculty


Borst, Christoph
Professor
Hardy Edmiston Endowed Professor
in Computer Science II

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 342
Phone: (337) 482-1023
Email: christoph.borst@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://vrlab.cmix.louisiana.edu/people/dr-christoph-borst/
Research Interests: Virtual Reality, Visualization, Interaction, Graphics, Haptics

Chaudhry, Beenish Moalla
Assistant Professor
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 239
Email: beenish.chaudhry@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/chaudhry/
Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Health Informatics, Mobile Computing, Health Data Analytics

Chen, Li
Assistant Professor

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 233
Phone: (337) 482-6774
Email: li.chen@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/lichen/
Research Interests: Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning Systems, Resource Allocation, Cloud Computing

Chen, Sheng
Associate Professor

Lockheed Martin/BORSF Endowed Professor
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 236
Phone: (337) 482-5807
Email: chen@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/schen/
Research Interests: Programming languages, Software Engineering, Type systems, software product lines, and Language-based security

Chu, Chee-Hung Henry
Professor

Lockheed Martin/BORSF Endowed Professor
Executive Director, Informatics Research Institute
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 304
Phone: (337) 482-6309
Email: chu@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/chu/
Research Interests: Signal and image processing, pattern recognition, machine vision, internet technologies

Shuvalaxmi Dass
Assistant Professor

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 305
Phone: (337) 482-6603
Email: shuvalaxmi.dass@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/shuva/
Research Interests: Software security, misconfiguration security, machine learning, bio-inspired algorithms, ethical hacking, cybersecurity education

Dasgupta, Subrata
​Professor Emeritus

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 309
Phone: (337) 482-2928
Email: subrata@louisiana.edu
Homepage: Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests: Creativity Studies, History & Philosophy of Computer Science, Cognitive History, Theory of the Artificial Sciences

Ducrest, Frank
Master Instructor

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 215
Phone: (337) 482-5001
E-mail: fdd@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/ducrest/
Teaching Areas: Object oriented programming, introductory data structures, applications programming using C#/.net/ASP and Java, small robot development and use, Android, iOS and cross-platform mobile development.

Gastineau, Marilyn
Instructor
Office: Conference Center, Room 161
Phone: (337) 482-2803
E-mail: mgastineau@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/gastineau/

Guillott, Barbara
Instructor,  informatics
Office: Agnes Edwards Hall/Conference Center Room 157
Phone: (337) 482-2802
Email: barbara.guillott1@louisiana.edu

 

Hei, Xiali (Sharon)
Associate Professor
Alfred and Helen M. Lamson Endowed Professorsor
Office: James R. Oliver Hall, Room 205
Phone: (337) 482-1037
Email: c00404592@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/sharon/
Research Interests: Fast Encryption, Security of Wireless Medical Devices, Biometrics security, Mobile security, Device Security, Network Forensics.

Hsu, Sonya H.Y.
Associate Professor
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 206
Phone: (337) 482-1667
E-mail: sonyahsu@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/hsu/
Research Interests: IT Operations in Healthcare, Applied Computing in Business Operations, Data/information Security in Distributed Computing

Islam, Aminul
Associate Professor

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 219
Phone: (337) 482-6609
E-mail: aminul@louisiana.edu
Homepage: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~axi1977/
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Text Analytics, Data Analytics, Big Data

Istre, Nona
Master Instructor
Program Coordinator for
Computer Science
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 222-G
Phone: (337) 482-6608
E-mail: nona@louisiana.edu
Homepage: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~wle2581/

Kolluru, Ramesh
Professor and University Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Development
Office: Martin Hall, Suite 338
Phone: (337) 482-5811
Email: ramesh@louisiana.edu
Homepage: http://vpresearch.louisiana.edu/research-offices/vice-president-research
Research Interests: Control Systems, Health Informatics, Social Computing


Konecni, Shawn
Instructor

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 313
Phone: (337) 482-6581
Email: shawnk@louisiana.edu

Kulshreshth, Arun K. 
Associate Professor
Francis Patrick Clark/BORSF Endowed Professor
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 226
Phone: (337) 482-6638
E-mail: arunkul@louisiana.edu
Homepage:http://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/arunk/
Research Interests: 3D User Interfaces, Human Computer Interactions (HCI), Games and Virtual Reality

Kumar, Ashok
Associate Professor
Associate Dean of the Ray P. Authement College of Sciences
Chair, Committee on Assessment and Instructional Improvement

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 214
Phone: (337) 482-1669
E-mail: ashok@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/kumar/
Research Interests: VLSI, Embedded Systems, Architecture, Sensor based systems, and Internet of Things (IoT)

Lakhotia, Arun
Professor
Lockheed Martin/BORSF Endowed Professor

Chair, Public Relations Committee
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 325
Phone: (337) 482-6766
Email: arun@louisiana.edu
Homepage: http://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/arun/
Research Interests: Software engineering, security and trusted computing

Lipari, Nicholas G.
Instructor

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 210
Phone: (337) 482-6284
E-mail: nicholas.lipari@louisiana.edu

Maida, Anthony
Associate Professor
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 355
Phone: (337) 482-6308
Email: maida@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/maida/
Research Interests: Intelligent systems, neural networks, brain simulation

Meche, Melanie
Instructor
Office: Agnes Edward, Room 162
Phone: (337) 482-2804
E-mail: mmeche@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/meche/

Najafi, M. Hassan
Assistant Professor

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 353
Phone: (337) 482-6732
Email: najafi@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/najafi/
Research Interests: Stochastic and approximate computing, computer architecture, computer-aided design, energy-efficient VLSI design, and machine learning.

Raghavan, Vijay
Professor Emeritus
ACM Distinguished Scientist
Phone: (337) 280-8451
Email: raghavan@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/vijay/
Research Interests: Information retrieval and extraction, conceptual categorization of text/images, knowledge discovery in databases, big data analytics, integration of unstructured, semi-structured and structured data, and bioinformatics

Totaro, Michael W.
Associate Professor
Associate Director for Operations

Coordinator for Informatics Program
Office: James R. Oliver, Room, 203
Phone: (337) 482-5697
E-mail: miket@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/totaro/
Research Interests: Modeling and simulation (M&S) across a broad range of disciplines, using: Discrete-event M&S, agent-based M&S, system dynamics M&S, and intelligent systems M&S (for example, machine learning approaches -- deep learning, supervised / unsupervised, and so on).

Tozal, Mehmet E.
Associate Professor

Francis Patrick Clark/BORSF Endowed Professor
Chair, Space Advisory Committee
Office: James R. Oliver, Room, 348
Phone: (337) 482-6604
E-mail: metozal@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/tozal/
Research Interests: Complex Systems, Graph/Data Analytics, Computer Networks, Network Security

Tzeng, Nian-Feng
Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair Professor
IEEE Fellow
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 354
Phone: (337) 482-6304
Email: tzeng@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://people.cmix.louisiana.edu/tzeng/
Research Interests: High-Performance Computer Architecture and Systems, Cloud Computing, Computer Communications and Networks, and Dependable Computing and Networked Systems.

West, Brian
Master Instructor

Office: James R. Oliver, Room, 207
Phone: (337) 482-5243
E-mail: bwest@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://cmix.louisiana.edu/node/220
 

Wilson, Beth
Instructor

Office: James R. Oliver, Room, 217
Phone: (337) 482-6776
E-mail: beth.wilson@louisiana.edu
 

 

Director |Faculty | Staff

Staff


Franks, Nancy
Administrative Assistant III
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 307
Phone: (337) 482-6338
Email: nancy.franks@louisiana.edu

Gossen, Taylor B
Administrative Coordinator III

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 222
Phone: (337) 482-6768
Email: taylor.gossen@louisiana.edu
Hinkel, Shari
Administrative Assistant III

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 222-F
Phone: (337) 482-6147
Email: shari@louisiana.edu

Leger, Troy
Sr. System Administrator

Office: James R. Oliver, Room 302
​Phone: (337) 482-1147
Email: troy.leger@louisiana.edu