Faculty & Staff

Director of School

Margala, Martin Phishing
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

Aygun, Sercan
Assistant Professor
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 351
Phone: (337) 482-1047
Email: sercan.aygun@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://www.sercanaygun.com/
Research Interests: Emerging Computing, Stochastic and Hyperdimensional Computing, tiny Machine Learning, Embedded Systems

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
Associate Professor
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 239
Phone: (337) 482-1676
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
Associate 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/

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

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

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/

Mokhtari, Ali
Instructor
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 237
Phone: (337) 205-4901
Email: ali.mokhtari@louisiana.edu
Research Interests: Machine Learning Systems, Distributed Computing Systems, Resource Allocation, Cloud Computing, Heterogeneous Computing, Sustainable AI

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

Shi, Min
Assistant Professor
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 350
Phone: (337) 482-8410
Email: min.shi@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://www.medai-lab.com
Research Interests: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Medical AI, Graph Learning

Totaro, Michael W.
Associate Professor
Francis Patrick Clark/BORSF Endowed Professorship in the School of Computing & Informatics I
Office: James R. Oliver, Room, 203
Phone: (337) 482-5697
E-mail: michael.totaro@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/dr-michael-w-totaro-op/bio
Research Interests: AI/intelligent systems applications -- specifically, machine and deep learning/artificial neural networks (ANNs) -- as well as modeling and simulation (discrete-event, agent-based, and system dynamics) across a broad range of disciplines.

Tozal, Mehmet E.
Associate Professor
Francis Patrick Clark/BORSF Endowed Professor
Interim Informatics Program Coordinator
Office: James R. Oliver, Room, 348
Phone: (337) 482-6604
E-mail: metozal@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://metozal.gitlab.io/public/
Research Interests: Complex Systems, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Cybersecurity

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
 

Zheng, Hao
Assistant Professor
Office: James R. Oliver, Room, 357
Phone: (337) 482-XXXX
E-mail: hao.zheng@louisiana.edu
Homepage: https://hzaoheng123.github.io/HZ/
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machie Learning, Medical AI, Visualization

Director |Faculty | Staff

Staff

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

Leger, Troy
Sr. System Administrator
Office: James R. Oliver, Room 302
​Phone: (337) 335-0221
Email: troy.leger@louisiana.edu