Department of Computing Sciences in the College of Science & Engineering

Department of Computing Sciences

Chandra N Sekharan, Ph.D.

Department Chair and Professor

Office: CI 341
Email: chandra.sekharan@tamucc.edu

Juanita Pena

Administrative Associate

Office: CI 340
Phone: (361) 825-6068
Email: juanita.pena@tamucc.edu

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Faculty in the Department of Computing Sciences

Tianxing Chu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Office: RFEB 314F
Phone: (361) 825-2685
Email: tianxing.chu@tamucc.edu

Saman DeSilva, Ph.D.

Professional Assistant Professor

Office: CI 331
Phone: (361) 825-3831
Email: saman.desilva@tamucc.edu

Davey Edwards, Ph.D.

Professional Assistant Professor

Office: RFEB 314D
Phone: (361) 825-3419
Email: davey.edwards@tamucc.edu

Marwa Hassan

Computer Science Instructor

Office: RFEB 316M
Phone: (361) 825-3187
Email: marwa.hassan@tamucc.edu

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

Minhua Huang, Ph.D.

Professional Assistant Professor

Office: RFEB 316L
Phone: (361) 825-3265
Email: minhua.huang@tamucc.edu

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

Ahmed Mahdy, Ph.D.

Vice President for Research and Innovation
Interim Dean COSE, Professor 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 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

Chen Pan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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

Carlos Rubio Medrano, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office: CI 339
Phone: (361) 825-3436
Email: carlos.rubiomedrano@tamucc.edu

Maha Shamseddine, Ph.D.

Professional Assistant Professor

Office: RFEB 316P
Email: maha.shamseddine@tamucc.edu

Hongzhi Song, Ph.D.

Professional Assistant Professor

Office: RFEB 314C
Phone: (361) 825-3198
Email: hongzhi.song@tamucc.edu

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.

Michael Starek, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Civil and Geospatial Engineering

Office: RFEB 310A
Phone: (361) 825-3978
Email: michael.starek@tamucc.edu

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.