Department of Computer Science

Tianxing Chu, Ph.D.
Assistant ProfessorOffice: RFEB 314F
Phone: (361) 825-2685
Email: tianxing.chu@tamucc.edu
Website: https://mantisresearch.org/faculty
Knowledge discovery with emergent remote sensing and geospatial techniques applied to real-world concerns such as modeling sea-level change and land deformation

Kadir Demir, Ph.D.
Assistant Professional Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: RFEB 316N
Phone: (361) 825-5238
Email: kadir.demir@tamucc.edu

Saman DeSilva, Ph.D.
Professional Assistant ProfessorOffice: CI 331
Phone: (361) 825-3831
Email: saman.desilva@tamucc.edu

Alihan Hadimlioglu, Ph.D.
Professional Assistant Professor in Computer ScienceOffice: RFEB 316P
Phone: (361) 825-5237
Email: alihan.hadimlioglu@tamucc.edu
Website: https://www.hadimlioglu.com

Mahboobeh Haghparast, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Processor of Computer ScienceOffice: RFEB 316J
Phone: (361) 825-3688
Email: mahboobeh.haghparast@tamucc.edu

Lucy Huang, Ph.D.
Associate ProfessorOffice: RFEB 310B
Phone: (361) 825-2646
Email: lucy.huang@tamucc.edu
•Geospatial Semantic Web development: Ontology construction & mapping, semantic interoperability
Internet GIS: Web Map service development
GIS in public health: agent-based modelling and simulation

Minhua Huang, Ph.D.
Professional Assistant ProfessorOffice: RFEB 316L
Phone: (361) 825-3265
Email: minhua.huang@tamucc.edu

Taoran Ji, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 317
Phone: (361) 825-3625
Email: taoran.ji@tamucc.edu
Website: https://taoranj.github.io/
Dr. Ji is a machine learning expert with a passion for developing innovative techniques to solve real-world problems. His research interests include event detection, forecasting and impact analysis, time-series forecasting, and natural language processing. In addition to his research, Dr. Ji serves as a reviewer for several major machine learning conferences, such as AAAI, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, SIGSPATIAL, PAKDD, ECML PKDD, and ITSC.

Dulal Kar, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 321
Phone: (361) 825-5878
Email: dulal.kar@tamucc.edu
Website: https://faculty.tamucc.edu/dkar
Signal and image processing algorithms, network architecture and performance measurement, network and information security, information retrieval, and educational technology

Scott King, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 341
Phone: (361) 825-5877
Email: scott.king@tamucc.edu
Website: https://faculty.tamucc.edu/sking
Computer Graphics: Facial Animation and Modeling, Real-Time Graphics, Rendering, Scientific Visualization; Face-to-Face Human Computer Interaction

Huyen Le, Ph.D.
Assistant Professional Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: RFEB 314E
Phone: (361) 825-3386
Email: huyen.le@tamucc.edu

Bozhen Liu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 323
Phone: (361) 825-2406
Email: bozhen.liu@tamucc.edu

Zhihui Liu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professional Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: RFEB 314F
Phone: (361) 825-3387
Email: zhihui.liu@tamucc.edu

Ahmed Mahdy, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research and InnovationProfessor of Computer Science
Phone: (361) 825-2349
Email: ahmed.mahdy@tamucc.edu
Broadband Wireless Networks, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Sensor Networks, Optical Wireless Networks, Peer-to-Peer Networks, Software Stability, Software Architecture, Software Patterns

Antonio Medrano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geospatial EngineeringOffice: RFEB 314E
Phone: (361) 825-2548
Email: antonio.medrano@tamucc.edu
Website: http://antoniomedrano.github.io
Spatial Optimization; High-performance Computing; Geospatial Algorithm Engineering

Carlos Rubio Medrano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 339
Phone: (361) 825-3436
Email: carlos.rubiomedrano@tamucc.edu
Website: https://carlosrubiomedrano.com/

Chandra N Sekharan, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Chair of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 341
Phone: (361) 825-2478
Email: chandra.sekharan@tamucc.edu
Website: https://csekharan.com/

Habib Senol, Ph.D.
Assistant Professional Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: RFEB 316M
Phone: (361) 825-3248
Email: habib.senol@tamucc.edu

Hongzhi Song, Ph.D.
Professional Assistant ProfessorOffice: RFEB 314C
Phone: (361) 825-3198
Email: hongzhi.song@tamucc.edu

Mehdi Sookhak, Ph.D.
Assistant ProfessorOffice: CI 327
Phone: (361) 825-3622
Email: mehdi.sookhak@tamucc.edu
Cloud Computing, Edge and Fog computing, Distributed systems, Network security, WSN, VANET, UAV, SDN, Deep learning and distributed learning applications in cybersecurity, GIS, and remote sensing.

Michael Starek, Ph.D.
Professor of Geospatial Systems EngineeringOffice: NRC 3407
Phone: (361) 825-3978
Email: michael.starek@tamucc.edu
Website: https://mantisresearch.org/faculty
My research explores the merging of geomatics, remote sensing, and geospatial computing for science and engineering problems. Expertise includes LiDAR, autonomous sensing & UAS, photogrammetry, machine learning, and GIS.

Wenlu Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: Ci 342
Phone: (361) 825-3711
Email: wenlu.wang@tamucc.edu
Website: https://wenlu-w.github.io

Yongzhi Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 332
Phone: (361) 825-2448
Email: yongzhi.wang@tamucc.edu

Mamta Yadav, Ph.D.
Associate Professional ProfessorOffice: CI 320
Phone: (361) 825-2688
Email: mamta.yadav@tamucc.edu

Menda Eulenfeld
Administrative Associate IIIOffice: CI 301
Phone: (361) 825-2474
Email: menda.eulenfeld@tamucc.edu

Juanita Pena
Administrative Associate VOffice: CI 301
Phone: (361) 825-6068
Email: juanita.pena@tamucc.edu