Faculty
Our faculty members draw on varied areas of expertise to support our interdisciplinary research and teaching missions and are a core part of unit leadership.
While our School is not divided into departments, our faculty work in three clusters:
Cyber and Software Systems
While our faculty work on projects that expand beyond traditional disciplinary divides, faculty in this area are most closely related to computer science, electrical engineering, and software engineering.
Fatemeh Afghah
Assistant Professor
Email: Fatemeh.Afghah@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5095
Research interests: Wireless communications, game theory, autonomous decision making.
Bertrand Cambou
Professor of Practice
Email: Bertrand.Cambou@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-0076
Research interests: Cybersecurity, novel secure elements, Physically Unclonable Functions, ReRAM.
Andrew Chrysler
Assistant Professor of Practice
Email: Andrew.Chrysler@nau.edu
Teaching interests: Electromagnetics, analog circuits, engineering analysis, engineering design methods.
Eck Doerry
Professor
Email: Eck.Doerry@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-9377
Research interests:Human-computer interaction, engineering education, applied software engineering.
Mohamed Elwakil
Lecturer
Email: Mohamed.Elwakil@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-8248
Research interests: Deterministic replay, message-passing systems, analysis of concurrent programs.
Marco Gerosa
Associate Professor
Email: Marco.Gerosa@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-8860
Research interests: Software analytics, open-source communities, mining software repositories.
Michael Gowanlock
Assistant Professor
Email: Michael.Gowanlock@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-4184
Research interests: High-performance computing, astroinformatics, galactic habitability.
Alex Groce
Associate Professor
Email: Alex.Groce@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-8263
Research interests: Software testing, software understanding, automated debugging.
Julie Heynssens
Lecturer
Email: Julie.Heynssens@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-8882
Teaching interests: Electronic circuits, semiconductor materials, engineering analysis.
Patrick Kelley
Part-time instructor
Email: Patrick.Kelley@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6869
Teaching interests: Computer architecture, programming language design, compilers.
Michael Leverington
Lecturer
Email: Michael.Leverington@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5448
Research interests: Problem-solving practices, computer science pedagogy.
Frédéric Loulergue
Professor
Email: Frederic.Loulergue@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5044
Research interests: Programming languages, parallel programming, formal methods, security.
Phil Mlsna
Associate Professor
Email: Phillip.Mlsna@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-2112
Research interests: Image processing, computer vision, digital signal processing.
Truong Nghiem
Assistant Professor
Email: Truong.Nghiem@nau.edu
Research interests: Cyber-physical systems, integrating smart buildings and smart grids.
Dieter Otte
Associate Professor
Email: Dieter.Otte@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-0876
Research interests: Applied computer networking, distributed systems, software engineering.
Abolfazl Razi
Assistant Professor
Email: Abolfazl.Razi@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-8078
Research interests: Wireless networking, stochastic signal processing, bioinformatics.
Robert Severinghaus
Lecturer
Email: Robert.Severinghaus@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-0738
Teaching interests: Engineering design methods, microprocessors.
Morgan Vigil-Hayes
Assistant Professor
Email: Morgan.Vigil-Hayes@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-4863
Research interests: Computer networking, data mining, network-based human interactions.
Delbert Willie
Assistant Professor
Email: Delbert.Willie@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-7374
Research interests: Quantitative precipitation estimation.
Kyle Winfree
Assistant Professor
Email: Kyle.Winfree@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-7165
Research interests: Wearable computing, therapeutic robotics, brain-computer interfaces.
Jie Yang
Assistant Professor of Practice
Email: Jie.Yang@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-0897
Teaching interests: Microprocessors, signals and systems.
Venkata Yaramasu
Assistant Professor
Email: Venkata.Yaramasu@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6092
Research interests: Wind and photovoltaic energy, high power converters,
model predictive control.
Xi Zhou
Assistant Professor of Practice
Email: Xi.Zhou@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-0902
Teaching interests: Electronic circuits, computer engineering, digital logic, microprocessors.
Ecological and Environmental Informatics
While our faculty work on projects that expand beyond traditional disciplinary divides, faculty in this area are most closely related to ecology, remote sensing, and environmental modeling.
Jarrett “Jay” Barber
Associate Professor
Email: Jarrett.Barber@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6869
Research interests: Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics, ecological and environmental applications.
Chris Doughty
Assistant Professor
Email: Chris.Doughty@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-0025
Research interests: Climate change, biodiversity loss, forest carbon cycling, remote sensing.
Scott Goetz
Professor
Email: Scott.Goetz@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-8903
Research interests: Ecosystem responses to environmental change, Arctic biodiversity, remote sensing.
Kiona Ogle
Associate Professor
Email: Kiona.Ogle@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6200
Research interests: Ecological synthesis and analysis, bayesian applications in ecology.
Andrew Richardson
Professor
Email: Andrew.Richardson@nau.edu
Research interests: Terrestrial ecosystems, forest ecology and the carbon cycle.
Benjamin Ruddell
Associate Professor
Email: Benjamin.Ruddell@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-3124
Research interests: Hydrology, complex systems, data-driven university education.
Richard Rushforth
Assistant Research Professor
Email: Richard.Rushforth@nau.edu
Phone: 602-677-4651
Research interests: Adaptive water management, socio-hydrology, water policy.
Temuulen “Teki” Sankey
Assistant Professor
Email: Temuulen.Sankey@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-7098
Research interests: Remote sensing, desert plant communities, cropland distribution and change.
Health and Bioinformatics
While our faculty work on projects that expand beyond traditional disciplinary divides, faculty in this area are most closely related to genetics and genomics, epidemiology, and population health.
Viacheslav “Slava” Fofanov
Assistant Professor
Email: Viacheslav.Fofanov@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-7664
Research interests: High-throughput metagenomic sequencing, pathogen detection and transmission.
Tara Furstenau
Assistant Research Professor
Email: Tara.Furstenau@nau.edu
Research interests: Bioinformatics, computational biology, metagenomic analysis, pathogen detection.
Crystal Hepp
Assistant Professor
Email: Crystal.Hepp@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-7406
Research interests: Metagenomic analysis, molecular evolution, disease epidemiology.
Joseph Mihaljevic
Assistant Professor
Email: Joseph.Mihaljevic@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5125
Research interests: Ecological informatics, multi-pathogen communities, infectious diseases.
Affiliated faculty
Our affiliated faculty join us from across the university and are a key part of supporting our research and student mentorship mission.
Daniel Buscombe
Assistant Research Professor, School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability
Email: Daniel.Buscombe@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-9280
Research interests: Geoinformatics, hydrodynamics, sediment dynamics, machine learning, acoustic remote sensing.
James “Greg” Caporaso
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Email: Greg.Caporaso@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5845
Research interests: Bioinformatics; bioinformatics education; human microbiome.
Yiqi Luo
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Email: Yiqi.Luo@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-1925
Research interests: Analytical ecological modeling, ecophysiological processes, carbon sequestration.
Nicholas McKay
Assistant Professor, School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability
Email: Nicholas.McKay@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-1918
Research interests: Climate science, paleoclimate, data analysis, data synthesis.
David Trilling
Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Email: David.Trilling@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5505
Research interests: Solar system evolution, observational planetary astronomy, data mining.