Geospatial Computer Science Program in the College of Engineering

Faculty in the Geospatial Computer Science Program
Advisors for the College

Geospatial Computer Science Program

Michael Starek, Ph.D.

Professor and Program Coordinator

Office: 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.

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Faculty in the Geospatial Computer Science Program

Jose Baca, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Office: RFEB 222B
Phone: (361) 825-2144
Email: jose.baca@tamucc.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/bacajose/

Tianxing Chu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Office: 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

Lucy Huang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Office: 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

Taoran Ji, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office: 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 Science

Office: 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 Science

Office: 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

Bozhen Liu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office: CI 323
Phone: (361) 825-2406
Email: bozhen.liu@tamucc.edu

Ahmed Mahdy, Ph.D.

Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation
Professor of Computer Science

Phone: (361) 825-3881
Email: ahmed.mahdy@tamucc.edu

Wireless Networking, Innovative Computing, Software Engineering

Antonio Medrano, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Geospatial Engineering

Office: 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 Science

Office: 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 Science

Office: CI 341
Phone: (361) 825-2478
Email: chandra.sekharan@tamucc.edu
Website: https://csekharan.com/

Mehdi Sookhak, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Office: 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.

Dugan Um, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Office: RFEB 222C
Phone: (361) 825-3381
Email: dugan.um@tamucc.edu
Website: https://faculty.tamucc.edu/duganum

Wenlu Wang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office: 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 Science

Office: CI 332
Phone: (361) 825-2448
Email: yongzhi.wang@tamucc.edu

Hua Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

Office: RFEB 319C
Phone: (361) 825-2467
Email: hua.zhang@tamucc.edu
Website: https://wesa.tamucc.edu

Hydrology, water resources management, geospatial analysis, infrastructure resilience, environmental systems analysis

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Geospatial Computer Science Program Directory