What is Computer Science?

This millennium has been called the Information Age, and Computer Science is at the very heart of this exciting revolution. Computer science, as a discipline, broadly covers all aspects of using information to solve complex problems, ranging from computing’s theoretical foundations in information theory, complexity analysis and algorithm design, to development of novel computational approaches, algorithms, and exciting software prototypes.

The Computer Science research groups at NAU create cutting-edge computational, analytical, and software tools and methodologies to develop computational solutions for an ever-growing range of application domains including astronomy, health informatics, software engineering, eco- and bioinformatics, environmental science and social sciences. The specific areas of expertise of current faculty members span key areas of computer science including high-performance computing, machine learning, data visualization, computer networks, human-computer interaction, computer supported collaborative work, software engineering, and formal methods.

If you are interested in exploring new and innovative applications of computer technologies, we invite you to come join us! To learn more about our research labs, faculty and research staff, research and funding opportunities, and our undergraduate programs, check out the people and projects profiled here, or contact any of our faculty directly with your questions.

Our Research-Intensive Faculty

Eck Doerry

Professor

Research interests: Computer-supported cooperative work, mobile and cloud computing, health informatics, engineering education.

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John Georgas

Interim Dean, CEIAS

Website: Personal

Research interests: Technologies that support healthcare, software and architectural visualization, self-adaptive software systems, software engineering pedagogy and learning, and systems-of-systems modeling.

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Marco Gerosa

Associate Professor

Lab: Intelligent Control Systems (ICONS)

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

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Michael Gowanlock

Assistant Professor

Website: Personal

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

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Alex Groce

Associate Professor

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

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Toby Hocking

Assistant Professor

Lab: SICCS Machine Learning Laboratory

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

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Frédéric Loulergue

Professor

Lab: SICCS Software Engineering Research Laboratory

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

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Dieter Otte

Associate Professor

Research interests: Applied computer networking, distributed systems, software engineering.

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James Palmer

Interim Associate Dean, Associate Professor

Professional interests: Computer graphics, virtual worlds, computer science pedagogy

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Igor Steinmacher

Assistant Professor

Lab: SICCS Software Engineering Research Laboratory

Research interests: Human aspects of software engineering, Open source software communities, Mining software repositories, Software engineering education and training.

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