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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
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.
Ashish Amresh
Associate Professor
Research interests: Serious Games Development and Game Based Learning
Sareh Assiri
Assistant Professor of Practice
Research interests: Cybersecurity, Physically Unclonable Functions (PUF), using PUF for secure -key exchange, keyless cryptography, authentication, and one-way encryption
Bertrand Cambou
Professor
Research interests: Cybersecurity, novel secure elements, Physically Unclonable Functions, ReRAM
Ying- Chen “Daphne” Chen
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Nanotechnology, Emerging Electronics, Memory, Flexible Electronics
Carlo daCunha
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Novel electron devices for high performance computing, nanoelectronics, complex 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
Julie Heynessens
Senior Lecturer
Teaching Interests: Electronic circuits, semiconductor materials, engineering analysis
Toby Hocking
Assistant Professor
Website: Personal
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
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
Dieter Otte
Associate Professor
Research interests: Applied computer networking, distributed systems, software engineering
James Palmer
Associate Dean, Professor
Professional 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
Dean, CEIAS and Professor, SICCS
Research interests: Component-based software development; Trustworthy computing; Cyber-physical systems; and Computer Science education
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
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
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
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
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
Jim Le Moine
Laboratory Manager
Research interests: Terrestrial ecosystem science and global change, terrestrial carbon, nitrogen, and mercury cycling, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, phenology
Postdoctoral Scholars
Eric Beamesderfer
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: Forest-atmosphere interactions, boundary-layer meteorology, phenology, eddy covariance
Ana Kato
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: Climate change, Greenhouse gas emissions, Carbon cycle, GIS & remote sensing, Environmental policy
Pawlok Dass
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests: carbon cycle; biogeochemistry; terrestrial biosphere; climate change; earth system science; energy; geospatial data science
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
Melakeneh G. Gedefaw
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research interests: Remote sensing, hydro-informatics, network analysis, complex systems, landscape ecology, rangeland degradation, vegetation dynamics, drought, land use/land cover change, food-energy-water nexus, geospatial analysis
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
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