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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
Kyle Winfree
Associate Director for Graduate Programs, Assistant Professor
Lab: Wearable ICP
Research interests: Wearable computing, therapeutic robotics, brain-computer interfaces
Computer Science and Cybersecurity
Ashish Amresh
Associate Professor
Research interests: Serious Games Development and Game Based Learning
Sareh Assiri
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Cybersecurity, Physically Unclonable Functions (PUF), using PUF for secure -key exchange, keyless cryptography, authentication, and one-way encryption
Hayretdin Bahsi
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Machine Learning to Cyber Security Problems, Security of Cyber-Physical Systems, and Digital Forensics
Khadidja Bakhti
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research interests: Satellite Image Classification, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Citation Analysis, Information Retrieval and Data Mining
Bertrand Cambou
Professor
Research interests: Cybersecurity, novel secure elements, Physically Unclonable Functions, ReRAM
Ana Paula Chaves
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research interests: Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction Domains
Carlo daCunha
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Electronic Materials and Devices, Nonlinear and Stochastic Physics, Cyber Physical Systems
Eck Doerry
Professor
Research interests: Computer-supported cooperative work, mobile and cloud computing, health informatics, engineering education
Jared Duval
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Human Computer Interaction, Assistive Technology, Accessibility, Games and Play
Marco Gerosa
Professor
Website: Personal
Research interests: Software analytics, open-source communities, mining software repositories
Alex Groce
Associate Professor
Research interests: Software testing, software understanding, automated debugging
Toby Hocking
Assistant Professor
Website: Personal
Research interests: machine learning, computational statistics, optimization algorithms, data visualization, interactive genomic data analysis
Michael Leverington
Lecturer
Research interests: Problem-solving practices, computer science pedagogy
Dieter Otte
Associate Professor
Research interests: Applied computer networking, distributed systems, software engineering
James Palmer
Associate Dean, Professor
Research interests: Computer graphics, virtual worlds, computer science pedagogy
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
Andy Wang
Professor
Website: MRTL
Research interests: Metrology, Component-Based Software Development, Trustworthy Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Computer Science Education
Lan Zhang
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research interests: AI for Cybersecurity focusing on vulnerabilities, threats, and defenses in deep learning models
Information Technology
Troy Adams
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Cyber Ethics, and Programming
Olatunji Akinola
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research interests: Networking and Systems Administration, Information Security, Database Management, Information Systems Audit, IT General Controls, Cloud Computing, and securing Cloud Infrastructure
Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Carlo daCunha
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Electronic Materials and Devices, Nonlinear and Stochastic Physics, Cyber Physical Systems
Julie Heynessens
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Electronic circuits, semiconductor materials, engineering analysis
Murali “Mike” Kosgi
Assistant Professor of Practice
Research interests: Circuits, Power & Control Systems, Electric machinery
Mirza Maswood
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Data Structure, Python Programming, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Secure Hardware, Malware Analysis, and Applied Cryptography
Truong Nghiem
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), machine learning and control, autonomous systems
Tuy Nguyen
Assistant Professor
Lab: Digital Systems Design Lab (DSD LAB)
Research interests: Cryptography, Homomorphic Encryption, Hardware Security, System-on-Chip Design
Jie Yang
Assistant Professor of Practice
Research interests: Microprocessors, signals and systems
Venkata Yaramasu
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Wind and photovoltaic energy, high power converters,
model predictive control
Bruce Mackie
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Electrical Engineering with Power courses and New Power Generation Technologies
Alexander Maurer
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research interests: Neuroscience Applications of Statistical Signal Processing and Detection, and Estimation Algorithms for Target Tracking
Rodolfo Echavarria Solis
Assistant Teaching Professor
Professional interests: Electrical and Electronic Circuits, Power Electronics and Scientific Dissemination
Ecoinformatics
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
Associate 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
Chris Hakkenberg
Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Biodiversity, forest structure and dynamics, landscape and community ecology, remote sensing, geospatial analysis, conservation, urbanization
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
Benjamin Ruddell
Professor
Research interests: Hydrology, Complex Systems, Data-driven University Education
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
Alexander F. Shenkin
Assistant Research Professor
Lab: Shenkin Lab
Research interests: Scaling tree and forest canopy traits to ecosystem structure and carbon cycling
Health and Bioinformatics
Tara Furstenau
Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Bioinformatics, computational biology, metagenomic analysis, pathogen detection
Crystal Hepp
Associate 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
Ian Burke
Electrical Engineer
Research interests: Hardware Integration with computer memories for Physically Unclonable Functions
Patrick Burns
Research Associate
Research interests: Earth observation, remote sensing, lidar, hyperspectral imaging
Pawlok Dass
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: carbon cycle; biogeochemistry; terrestrial biosphere; climate change; earth system science; energy; geospatial data science
Ana Kato
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: Climate change, Greenhouse gas emissions, Carbon cycle, GIS & remote sensing, Environmental policy
Jim Le Moine
Laboratory Manager
Research interests: Terrestrial ecosystem science and global change, terrestrial carbon, nitrogen, and mercury cycling, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, phenology
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
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
Xanthe Walker
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society
Research interests: Ecosystem and plant ecology, disturbance, climate change, northern terrestrial ecosystems