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
Research interests: Wireless communications, game theory, autonomous decision making.

Bertrand Cambou

Professor of Practice
Research interests: Cybersecurity, novel secure elements, Physically Unclonable Functions, ReRAM.
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Andrew Chrysler

Assistant Professor of Practice
Teaching interests: Electromagnetics, analog circuits, engineering analysis, engineering design methods.

Eck Doerry

Professor
Research interests:Human-computer interaction, engineering education, applied software engineering.

Mohamed Elwakil

Lecturer
Research interests: Deterministic replay, message-passing systems, analysis of concurrent programs.

John Georgas

Associate Professor, Interim Associate Dean
Research interests: Software engineering, software architecture, self-adaptive systems, computer science pedagogy

Marco Gerosa

Associate Professor
Research interests: Software analytics, open-source communities, mining software repositories.

Michael Gowanlock

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

Alex Groce

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

  

Toby Hocking

Assistant Professor
Research interests: machine learning, computational statistics, optimization algorithms, data visualization, interactive genomic data analysis

Julie Heynssens

Lecturer
Teaching interests: Electronic circuits, semiconductor materials, engineering analysis.

Patrick Kelley

Part-time instructor
Teaching interests: Computer architecture, programming language design, compilers.

Michael Leverington

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

Frédéric Loulergue

Professor
Research interests: Programming languages, parallel programming, formal methods, security.

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.

Abolfazl Razi

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Wireless networking, stochastic signal processing, bioinformatics.

Robert Severinghaus

Lecturer
Teaching interests: Engineering design methods, microprocessors.

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.

Delbert Willie

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Quantitative precipitation estimation.

Kyle Winfree

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Wearable computing, therapeutic robotics, brain-computer interfaces.

 

Tolga Yalcin

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Mixed-signal microelectronics, digital signal processing, embedded cybersecurity.

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.

Chris Doughty

Assistant Professor
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
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.

Benjamin Ruddell

Associate Professor
Research interests: Hydrology, complex systems, data-driven university education.

Richard Rushforth

Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Adaptive water management, socio-hydrology, water policy.
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Temuulen “Teki” Sankey

Associate Professor
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
Research interests: High-throughput metagenomic sequencing, pathogen detection and transmission.

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.

Affiliated faculty

Our affiliated faculty join us from across the university and are a key part of supporting our research and student mentorship mission.

Daniel Buscombe

Assistant Research Professor, School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability
Research interests: Geoinformatics, hydrodynamics, sediment dynamics, machine learning, acoustic remote sensing.

James “Greg” Caporaso

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Research interests: Bioinformatics; bioinformatics education; human microbiome.

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.

David Trilling

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

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1295 S. Knoles Dr.
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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