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.
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.
Paul Flikkema
Professor
Email: Paul.Flikkema@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6114
Office: 90-323
Professional interests: Networked communication, computation systems
John Georgas
Interim 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.
James Palmer
Associate Director, Associate Professor
Email: James.Palmer@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5376
Office: 90-305
Professional interests: Computer graphics, virtual worlds, computer science pedagogy
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
Director, 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.
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.
Marc Tollis
Assistant Professor
Email: Marc.Tollis@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-3406
Research interests: Phylogenetics, molecular evolution, comparative genomics, cancer evolution.
Affiliated faculty
Our affiliated faculty join us from across the university and are a key part of supporting our research and student mentorship mission.
Logan Berner
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Email: Logan.Berner@nau.edu
Research interests: Terrestrial ecology, climate change, remote sensing
Patrick Burns
Research Associate
Email: Patrick.Burns@nau.edu
Research interests: Earth observation, remote sensing, lidar, hyperspectral imaging
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.
Katharyn Duffy
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Email: Katharyn.Duffy@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-1263
Research interests: Terrestrial biosphere-Earth system interactions; climatic change effects on phenology and land-atmosphere carbon exchange
Camilo Fagua
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Email: Camilo.Fagua@nau.edu
Research interests: Spatial analysis, land use change, remote sensing, species distribution modelling, tropical ecology
Adrianna Foster
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Email: Adrianna.Foster@nau.edu
Research interests: Forest ecology, vegetation dynamics, disturbances, ecological modeling, climate change, remote sensing
Deborah Huntzinger
Associate Professor, School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability
Email: Deborah.Huntzinger@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-1669
Research interests: Climate science, terrestrial carbon cycling, ecological modeling, model-data synthesis, greenhouse gas footprint analysis.
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.
Richard Massey
Postdoctoral Scholar
Email: Brian.Richard.Massey@nau.edu
Research interests: Remote sensing, climate change, agriculture, machine learning, high-performance computing, cloud computing architecture
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.
Drew Peltier
Postdoctoral Scholar
Email: Drew.Peltier@nau.edu
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.
Bijan Seyednasrollah
Postdoctoral Scholar
Email: bijan.seyednasrollah@nau.edu
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
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.
Adam Young
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Email: Adam.Young@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-1263
Research interests: Phenology and climate change; land-atmosphere interactions; fire ecology; Arctic and boreal forest ecology; geospatial analysis and statistical modeling