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
Ecological and Environmental Informatics
Health and Bioinformatics

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: Computer-supported cooperative work, mobile and cloud computing, health informatics, engineering education.

Mohamed Elwakil

Lecturer

Email: Mohamed.Elwakil@nau.edu

Phone: 928-523-8248

Research interests: Deterministic replay, message-passing systems, analysis of concurrent programs.

John Georgas

Associate Professor, Interim Associate Dean

Email: John.Georgas@nau.edu

Phone: 928-523-9984

Research interests: Software engineering, software architecture, self-adaptive systems, computer science pedagogy

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.

Toby Hocking

Assistant Professor

Email: Toby.Hocking@nau.edu

Phone: 928-523-5209

Research interests: machine learning, computational statistics, optimization algorithms, data visualization, interactive genomic data analysis

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.

Truong Nghiem

Assistant Professor

Email: Truong.Nghiem@nau.edu

Phone: 928-523-4973

Research interests: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) challenges, smart energy systems; safe autonomous systems.

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.

Igor Steinmacher

Assistant Professor

Email: Igor.Steinmacher@nau.edu

Phone: 928-523-2775

Research interests: Human aspects of software engineering, Open source software communities, Mining software repositories, Software engineering education and training.

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.

Tolga Yalcin

Assistant Professor

Email: Tolga.Yalcin@nau.edu

Phone: 928-523-0279

Research interests: Mixed-signal microelectronics, digital signal processing, embedded cybersecurity.

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.

Kevin Gurney

Professor

Email: Kevin.Gurney@nau.edu

Phone: 928-523-3638

Research interests: Climate change, Greenhouse Gas emissions, Carbon Cycle, Urban Biogeochemistry.

Patrick Jantz

Assistant Research Professor

Email: Patrick.Jantz@nau.edu

Phone: 928-523-9225

Research interests: Forest canopy structure, geoinformatics, remote sensing, sustainable development.

Kiona Ogle

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.

Kimberly Samuels-Crow

Assistant Research Professor

Email: Kimberly.Samuels@nau.edu

Phone: 928-523-2592

Research interests: Stable isotope geochemistry, climate change, paleoclimate, hydroclimate, science communication and outreach.

Temuulen “Teki” Sankey

Associate 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.