Faculty
Our faculty members draw on varied areas of expertise to support our interdisciplinary research and teaching missions.
Fatemeh Afghah
Assistant Professor
Email: Fatemeh.Afghah@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5095
Research interests: Wireless communications, game theory, autonomous decision making.
Jarrett “Jay” Barber
Associate Professor
Email: Jarrett.Barber@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6869
Research interests: Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics, ecological and environmental applications.
Bertrand Cambou
Professor of Practice, Cybersecurity
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: Digital logic, 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.
Chris Doughty
Assistant Professor
Email: Chris.Doughty@nau.edu
Research interests: Climate change, biodiversity loss, forest carbon cycling, remote sensing.
Mohamed Elwakil
Lecturer
Email: Mohamed.Elwakil@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-8248
Research interests: Deterministic replay, message-passing systems, analysis of concurrent programs.
Viacheslav “Slava” Fofanov
Assistant Professor
Email: Viacheslav.Fofanov@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-7664
Research interests: High-throughput metagenomic sequencing, pathogen detection and transmission.
Marco Gerosa
Associate Professor
Email: Marco.Gerosa@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-8860
Research interests: Software analytics, open-source communities, mining software repositories.
Scott Goetz
Professor
Email: Scott.Goetz@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-8903
Research interests: Ecosystem responses to environmental change, Arctic biodiversity, remote sensing.
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.
Crystal Hepp
Assistant Professor
Email: Crystal.Hepp@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-7406
Research interests: Metagenomic analysis, molecular evolution, disease epidemiology.
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.
Joseph Mihaljevic
Assistant Professor
Email: Joseph.Mihaljevic@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5120
Research interests: Ecological informatics, multi-pathogen communities, infectious diseases.
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.
Kiona Ogle
Associate Professor
Email: Kiona.Ogle@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6200
Research interests: Ecological synthesis and analysis, bayesian applications in ecology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Affiliated faculty
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.
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.