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
Benjamin Ruddell
Director, Professor
Research interests: Hydrology, complex systems, data-driven university education.
Kyle Winfree
Associate Director for Undergraduate Programs, Assistant Professor
Lab: Wearable ICP
Research interests: Wearable computing, therapeutic robotics, brain-computer interfaces.
Viacheslav “Slava” Fofanov
Associate Director for Graduate Programs, Assistant Professor
Research interests: High-throughput metagenomic sequencing, pathogen detection and transmission.
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
Associate Professor
Research interests: Wireless communications, game theory, autonomous decision making.
Bertrand Cambou
Professor
Research interests: Cybersecurity, novel secure elements, Physically Unclonable Functions, ReRAM.
Eck Doerry
Professor
Research interests: Computer-supported cooperative work, mobile and cloud computing, health informatics, engineering education.
Paul Flikkema
Professor
Research interests: Wireless communication and networking, embedded systems, and wireless sensor/actuator networks
Marco Gerosa
Associate Professor
Research interests: Software analytics, open-source communities, mining software repositories.
Alex Groce
Associate Professor
Research interests: Software testing, software understanding, automated debugging.
Julie Heynssens
Lecturer
Teaching interests: Electronic circuits, semiconductor materials, engineering analysis.
Toby Hocking
Assistant Professor
Research interests: machine learning, computational statistics, optimization algorithms, data visualization, interactive genomic data analysis
Murali “Mike” Kosgi
Assistant Professor of Practice
Teaching interests: Circuits, Power & Control Systems, Electric machinery
Michael Leverington
Lecturer
Research interests: Problem-solving practices, computer science pedagogy.
Frédéric Loulergue
Professor
Research interests: Programming languages, parallel programming, formal methods, security.
C. Nakai McAddis
Lecturer
Teaching interests: Conlanging, linguistics, programming languages, programming pedagogy
Dariush Navabi
Lecturer
Teaching interests: Object-oriented programming, database managements systems, micro-service architecture.
Truong Nghiem
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) challenges, smart energy systems; safe autonomous systems.
Dieter Otte
Associate Professor
Research interests: Applied computer networking, distributed systems, software engineering.
James Palmer
Interim Associate Dean, Associate Professor
Professional interests: Computer graphics, virtual worlds, computer science pedagogy
Abolfazl Razi
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Wireless networking, stochastic signal processing, bioinformatics.
Igor Steinmacher
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Human aspects of software engineering, Open source software communities, Mining software repositories, Software engineering education and training.
Morgan Vigil-Hayes
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Computer networking, data mining, network-based human interactions.
Tolga Yalcin
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Mixed-signal microelectronics, digital signal processing, embedded cybersecurity.
Fei Xie
Assistant Professor of Practice
Research interests: Machine learning in biomedical engineering, Atrial fibrillation ablation using nanosecond high voltage pulses, BioMEMS, Biomedical signal processing
Jie Yang
Assistant Professor of Practice
Teaching interests: Microprocessors, signals and systems.
Venkata Yaramasu
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Wind and photovoltaic energy, high power converters,
model predictive control.
Xi Zhou
Assistant Professor of Practice
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
Research interests: Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics, ecological and environmental applications.
Logan Berner
Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Terrestrial ecology, climate change, remote sensing
Chris Doughty
Assistant Professor
Lab: Doughty Lab
Research interests: Climate change, biodiversity loss, forest carbon cycling, remote sensing.
Scott Goetz
Professor
Research interests: Ecosystem responses to environmental change, Arctic biodiversity, remote sensing.
Kevin Gurney
Professor
Lab: The Gurney Lab
Research interests: Climate change, Greenhouse Gas emissions, Carbon Cycle, Urban Biogeochemistry.
Patrick Jantz
Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Forest canopy structure, geoinformatics, remote sensing, sustainable development.
Kiona Ogle
Professor
Research interests: Ecological synthesis and analysis, bayesian applications in ecology.
Andrew Richardson
Professor
Research interests: Terrestrial ecosystems, forest ecology and the carbon cycle.
Richard Rushforth
Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Adaptive water management, socio-hydrology, water policy.
Kimberly Samuels-Crow
Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Stable isotope geochemistry, climate change, paleoclimate, hydroclimate, science communication and outreach.
Temuulen “Teki” Sankey
Associate Professor
Research interests: Remote Sensing, Data fusion, UAV Image Analysis, Geospatial analysis, geoinformatics, geostatistics, and GIS
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.
Crystal Hepp
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Metagenomic analysis, molecular evolution, disease epidemiology.
Joseph Mihaljevic
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Ecological informatics, multi-pathogen communities, infectious diseases.
Marc Tollis
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Phylogenetics, molecular evolution, comparative genomics, cancer evolution.
Research Staff
Kelsey Banister
Research Technician
Research Interests : Ranavirus genetics and genomics, pathogen detection across Arizona, disease modeling, and genetic epidemiology
Patrick Burns
Research Associate
Research interests: Earth observation, remote sensing, lidar, hyperspectral imaging
Jim Le Moine
Labatory Manager
Research interests: Terrestrial ecosystem science and global change, terrestrial carbon, nitrogen, and mercury cycling, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, phenology
Staff
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Fields General Inquiries and Questions for SICCS
Postdoctoral Scholars
Eric Beamesderfer
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: Forest-atmosphere interactions, boundary-layer meteorology, phenology, eddy covariance
Pawlok Dass
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: carbon cycle; biogeochemistry; terrestrial biosphere; climate change; earth system science; energy; geospatial data science
Katharyn Duffy
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: Terrestrial biosphere-Earth system interactions; climatic change effects on phenology and land-atmosphere carbon exchange
Camilo Fagua
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: Spatial analysis, land use change, remote sensing, species distribution modelling, tropical ecology
Adrianna Foster
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: Forest ecology, vegetation dynamics, disturbances, ecological modeling, climate change, remote sensing
Chris Hakkenberg
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: Biodiversity, forest structure and dynamics, landscape and community ecology, remote sensing, geospatial analysis, conservation, urbanization
Richard Massey
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: Remote sensing, climate change, agriculture, machine learning, high-performance computing, cloud computing architecture
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.
Geoffrey Roest
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: Anthropogenic carbon emissions, trace gas emissions, climate change, meteorology, air quality, oil and gas, environmental policy
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
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
Affiliates
Bruce Hungate
Regents’ Professor
Research interests: Ecology and management of global change, and microbial ecology from humans to the globe
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.
Yiqi Luo
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Research interests: Analytical ecological modeling, ecophysiological processes, carbon sequestration.
Nicholas McKay
Assistant Professor, School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability
Research interests: Climate science, paleoclimate, data analysis, data synthesis.
Jason Sahl
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Infectious disease genomics, comparative genomics, and bioinformatics algorithm development.
David Trilling
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Research interests: Solar system evolution, observational planetary astronomy, data mining.