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Who We Are

Our faculty members draw on varied areas of expertise to support our interdisciplinary research and teaching missions..

While our School is not divided into departments, our faculty work various clusters as shown below.

Leadership

Viacheslav “Slava” Fofanov

Director, Assistant Professor
Research interests: High-throughput metagenomic sequencing, pathogen detection and transmission

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Kyle Winfree

Associate Director for Graduate Programs, Assistant Professor
Lab: Wearable ICP
Research interests: Wearable computing, therapeutic robotics, brain-computer interfaces

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Isaac Shaffer

Associate Director for Undergraduate Programs, Lecturer

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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.

 

Ashish Amresh

Associate Professor 
Research interests: Serious Games Development and Game Based Learning

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Sareh Assiri

Assistant Professor of Practice
Research interests: Cybersecurity, Physically Unclonable Functions (PUF), using PUF for secure -key exchange, keyless cryptography, authentication, and one-way encryption

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Paul Bakke

Lecturer

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Bertrand Cambou

Professor
Research interests: Cybersecurity, novel secure elements, Physically Unclonable Functions, ReRAM

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Ying- Chen “Daphne” Chen

Assistant Professor
Lab: Semiconductors and Device Research Laboratory (SDRL)
Research interests: Nanotechnology, Emerging Electronics, Memory, Flexible Electronics

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Carlo daCunha

Assistant Professor
Lab: Complex Electronic Systems Laboratory (CES Lab)
Research interests: Novel electron devices for high performance computing, nanoelectronics, complex systems

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Eck Doerry

Professor
Research interests: Computer-supported cooperative work, mobile and cloud computing, health informatics, engineering education

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Jared Duval

Assistant Professor
Lab: Playful Health Technology Lab 
Research interests: Human Computer Interaction, Assistive Technology, Accessibility, Games and Play

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Paul Flikkema

Professor
Lab: Personal
Research interests: Wireless communication and networking, embedded systems, and wireless sensor/actuator networks

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John Georgas

Vice Provost, Professor
Website: Personal
Research interests: Technologies that support healthcare, software and architectural visualization, self-adaptive software systems, software engineering pedagogy and learning, and systems-of-systems modeling

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Marco Gerosa

Professor
Lab: SICCS Software Engineering Research Laboratory
Website: Personal
Research interests: Software analytics, open-source communities, mining software repositories

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Michael Gowanlock

Assistant Professor
Website: Personal
Research interests: High-performance computing, astroinformatics, galactic habitability

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Alex Groce

Associate Professor
Research interests: Software testing, software understanding, automated debugging

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Julie Heynessens

Senior Lecturer
Teaching Interests: Electronic circuits, semiconductor materials, engineering analysis

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Toby Hocking

Assistant Professor
Lab: SICCS Machine Learning Laboratory
Website: Personal
Research interests: machine learning, computational statistics, optimization algorithms, data visualization, interactive genomic data analysis

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Patrick Kelley

Instructor
Website: Personal
Teaching interests: Programming, Compilers, Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, Virtual & Augmented Reality
Academic interests: Cognitive Science, Ethics, Music, Japanese

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Murali “Mike” Kosgi

Assistant Professor of Practice
Teaching interests: Circuits, Power & Control Systems, Electric machinery

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Michael Leverington

Lecturer
Research interests: Problem-solving practices, computer science pedagogy

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Truong Nghiem

Assistant Professor
Lab: Intelligent Control Systems (ICONS)
Research interests: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), machine learning and control, autonomous systems

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Tuy Nguyen

Assistant Professor
Lab: Digital Systems Design Lab (DSD LAB)
Research interests: Cryptography, Homomorphic Encryption, Hardware Security, System-on-Chip Design  

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Dieter Otte

Associate Professor
Research interests: Applied computer networking, distributed systems, software engineering

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James Palmer

Associate Dean, Professor
Professional interests: Computer graphics, virtual worlds, computer science pedagogy

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Igor Steinmacher

Assistant Professor
Lab: SICCS Software Engineering Research Laboratory
Research interests: Human aspects of software engineering, Open source software communities, Mining software repositories, Software engineering education and training

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Morgan Vigil-Hayes

Assistant Professor
Lab: Community Aware Networks & Information Systems (CANIS)
Research interests: Computer networking, data mining, network-based human interactions

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Andy Wang

Dean, CEIAS and Professor, SICCS
Research interests: Component-based software development; Trustworthy computing; Cyber-physical systems; and Computer Science education

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Jie Yang

Assistant Professor of Practice
Teaching interests: Microprocessors, signals and systems

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Venkata Yaramasu

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Wind and photovoltaic energy, high power converters, model predictive control

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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
Research interests: Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics, ecological and environmental applications

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Logan Berner

Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Terrestrial ecology, climate change, remote sensing

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Chris Doughty

Associate Professor
Lab: Doughty Lab
Research interests: Climate change, biodiversity loss, forest carbon cycling, remote sensing

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Scott Goetz

Professor
Lab: Global Earth Observation & Dynamics of Ecosystems (GEODE)
Research interests: Ecosystem responses to environmental change, Arctic biodiversity, remote sensing

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Kevin Gurney

Professor
Lab: The Gurney Lab
Research interests: Climate change, Greenhouse Gas emissions, Carbon Cycle, Urban Biogeochemistry

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Chris Hakkenberg

Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Biodiversity, forest structure and dynamics, landscape and community ecology, remote sensing, geospatial analysis, conservation, urbanization

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Patrick Jantz

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

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Kiona Ogle

Professor
Lab: Ecological Synthesis Lab
Research interests: Ecological synthesis and analysis, bayesian applications in ecology

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Andrew Richardson

Professor
Lab: Terrestrial Ecosystems and Global Change
Research interests: Terrestrial ecosystems, forest ecology and the carbon cycle

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Benjamin Ruddell

Professor
Lab: Complex Systems Informatics Lab (CSIL)
Research interests: Hydrology, complex systems, data-driven university education

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Richard Rushforth

Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Adaptive water management, socio-hydrology, water policy

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Kimberly Samuels-Crow

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

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Temuulen “Teki” Sankey

Associate Professor
Lab: Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics Lab
Research interests: Remote Sensing, Data fusion, UAV Image Analysis, Geospatial analysis, geoinformatics, geostatistics, and GIS

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Alexander F. Shenkin

Assistant Research Professor
Lab: Shenkin Lab
Research interests: Scaling tree and forest canopy traits to ecosystem structure and carbon cycling

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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.

Tara Furstenau

Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Bioinformatics, computational biology, metagenomic analysis, pathogen detection

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Crystal Hepp

Associate Professor
Research interests: Metagenomic analysis, molecular evolution, disease epidemiology

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Joseph Mihaljevic

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Ecological informatics, multi-pathogen communities, infectious diseases

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Marc Tollis

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Phylogenetics, molecular evolution, comparative genomics, cancer evolution

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Research Staff

Kelsey Banister

Research Technician
Research Interests :  Ranavirus genetics and genomics, pathogen detection across Arizona, disease modeling, and genetic epidemiology

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Ian Burke

Electrical Engineer
Research interests: Hardware Integration with computer memories for Physically Unclonable Functions
Lab: NAU Cybersecurity Lab

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Patrick Burns

Research Associate
Research interests: Earth observation, remote sensing, lidar, hyperspectral imaging

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Jill Hager-Cocking

Research Specialist, Senior

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Michael Fell

Application Systems Analyst / Programmer

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Jim Le Moine

Laboratory Manager
Research interests:   Terrestrial ecosystem science and global change, terrestrial carbon, nitrogen, and mercury cycling, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, phenology

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Postdoctoral Scholars

Mohammed Algharib

Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: UAV networking and communications

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Eric Beamesderfer

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: Forest-atmosphere interactions, boundary-layer meteorology, phenology, eddy covariance

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Ana Kato

Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: Climate change, Greenhouse gas emissions, Carbon cycle, GIS & remote sensing, Environmental policy

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Pawlok Dass

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: carbon cycle; biogeochemistry; terrestrial biosphere; climate change; earth system science; energy; geospatial data science

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Camilo Fagua

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: Spatial analysis, land use change, remote sensing, species distribution modelling, tropical ecology

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Adrianna Foster

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: Forest ecology, vegetation dynamics, disturbances, ecological modeling, climate change, remote sensing

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Melakeneh G. Gedefaw

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research interests: Remote sensing, hydro-informatics, network analysis, complex systems, landscape ecology, rangeland degradation, vegetation dynamics,       drought, land use/land cover change, food-energy-water nexus, geospatial analysis

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Richard Massey

Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: Remote sensing, climate change, agriculture, machine learning, high-performance computing, cloud computing architecture

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Drew Peltier

Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: Ecophysiology of drought legacies and mortality. Temporal plasticity of tree growth. Radiocarbon, ENSO, dendroecology, non-structural carbohydrates, Bayesian modeling, climate change, and drought.

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Geoffrey Roest

Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: Anthropogenic carbon emissions, trace gas emissions, climate change, meteorology, air quality, oil and gas, environmental policy

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Bijan Seyednasrollah

Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: Global environmental change; Environmental data science, Hierarchical Bayesian statistics; Process- and physics-based modeling of land-atmosphere interactions; Energy transfer of terrestrial ecosystems; Eco-hydrology

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Adam Young

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: Phenology and climate change; land-atmosphere interactions; fire ecology; Arctic and boreal forest ecology; geospatial analysis and statistical modeling

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Affiliates

 

Bruce Hungate

Regents’ Professor
Research interests:  Ecology and management of global change, and microbial ecology from humans to the globe

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Deborah Huntzinger

Associate Professor, School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability

Research interests: Climate science, terrestrial carbon cycling, ecological modeling, model-data synthesis, greenhouse gas footprint analysis

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Nicholas McKay

Assistant Professor, School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability
Lab: Intelligent Control Systems (ICONS)
Research interests: Climate science, paleoclimate, data analysis, data synthesis

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Jason Sahl

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Infectious disease genomics, comparative genomics, and bioinformatics algorithm development
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David Trilling

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Research interests: Solar system evolution, observational planetary astronomy, data mining

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Xanthe Walker

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society
Research interests: Ecosystem and plant ecology, disturbance, climate change, northern terrestrial ecosystems

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Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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