Full-Time Faculty
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William Baggett, Associate Professor of Teaching wbaggett@memphis.edu 901.678.3044 Dunn Hall 390 PhD, Cognitive Psychology, The University of Memphis, 1998 Research Interests: Intelligent tutoring systems |
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Brandon Booth, Assistant Professor bmbooth@memphis.edu 901.860.5091 Dunn Hall 392 PhD, Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2020 Research Interests: Human-centered computing, psychometrics, mobile health, artificial intelligence and games in education, ethical and trustworthy AI |
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Kathryn Bridson, Assistant Professor of Teaching kbridson@memphis.edu Dunn Hall 303 MS, Computer Science, The University of Memphis, 2020 Research Interests: Computer science education |
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Amy Cook, Assistant Professor ascook@memphis.edu 901.678.4128 Dunn Hall 113 PhD, Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University, 2019 Research Interests: Human-computer interaction |
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Dipankar Dasgupta, Hill Professor in Cybersecurity and Director, Center for Information Assurance dasgupta@memphis.edu 901.678.4147 Dunn Hall 333/FIT 324 PhD, Computer Science, The University of Strathclyde, 1994 Research Interests: Bio-inspired computing, cybersecurity, trustworthy AI |
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Scott Fleming, Department Chair and Associate Professor Scott.Fleming@memphis.edu 901.678.3142 Dunn Hall 375A PhD, Computer Science, Michigan State University, 2009 Research Interests: Computer science education, software engineering, human-computer interaction |
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Max Garzon, Professor mgarzon@memphis.edu 901.678.3136 Dunn Hall 325 PhD, Theoretical Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1984 Research Interests: Biomolecular and distributed computing, data science |
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Xiaolei Huang, Assistant Professor xhuang7@memphis.edu Dunn Hall 111 PhD, Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder, 2020 Research Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning, public health |
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Xiajun Jiang, Assistant Professor Xiajun.Jiang@memphis.edu PhD, Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2024 |
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Santosh Kumar, Director, NIH mDOT Center, Director, MD2K Center of Excellence, and Lillian and Morrie
Moss Chair of Excellence Professor in Computer Science Santosh.Kumar@memphis.edu 901.678.2487 Dunn Hall 319/FIT 303G2 PhD, Computer Science, The Ohio State University, 2006 Research Interests: Artificial intelligence (AI) for wearables, mobile sensor big data, sensor-guided behavioral interventions on wearables, behavioral privacy, mobile health (mHealth) |
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Kriangsiri (Top) Malasri, Associate Professor of Teaching and Undergraduate Advising Coordinator kmalasri@memphis.edu Dunn Hall 396 MS, Computer Science, The University of Memphis, 2007 |
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Haomiao Ni, Assistant Professor PhD, Informatics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2024 |
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Christos Papadopoulos, Professor and Sparks Family Chair of Excellence in Global Research Leadership Christos.Papadopoulos@memphis.edu Dunn Hall 137 DSc, Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis, 1999 Research Interests: Computer networks, network security, multimedia communication, distributed systems |
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Vinhthuy Phan, Associate Chair, Associate Professor, and Undergraduate Coordinator vphan@memphis.edu 901.678.1535 Dunn Hall 309 PhD, Computer Science, Stony Brook University, 2003 Research Interests: Computer science education, bioinformatics, data science |
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Vasile Rus, Jack and Jane Morris Professor vrus@memphis.edu 901.678.5259 Dunn Hall 323/FIT 403B PhD, Computer Science, Southern Methodist University, 2002 Research Interests: Artificial intelligence/intelligent systems, data science, natural language processing |
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Salim Sazzed, Visiting Assistant Professor ssazzed@memphis.edu Dunn Hall 131 PhD, Computer Science, Old Dominion University, 2023 Research Interests: Natural language processing, social computing, bioinformatics, computer vision, data mining |
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Fatih Sen, Associate Professor of Teaching fsen@memphis.edu 901.678.3463 Dunn Hall 301 PhD, Computer Science, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, 2014 Research Interests: Teaching methods, programming languages, databases, web technologies, data science, artificial intelligence, educational technology, blogging, entrepreneurship |
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Sajjan Shiva, First Horizon Foundation Distinguished Professor sshiva@memphis.edu 901.678.5667 Dunn Hall 335 PhD, Electrical Engineering, Auburn University, 1975 Research Interests: Software systems, cybersecurity |
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Brodrick Stigall, Assistant Professor of Teaching blstgall@memphis.edu Dunn Hall 320 MS, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018 Research Interests: Voice user interfaces, speech technologies, human-computer interaction, computer science education |
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Deepak Venugopal, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator dvngopal@memphis.edu 901.678.1539 Dunn Hall 317 PhD, Computer Science, University of Texas, Dallas, 2015 Research Interests: Machine learning, artificial intelligence |
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Lan Wang, Dunavant Professor (on Temporary Assignment at NSF as Program Director) lanwang@memphis.edu 901.678.1643 Dunn Hall 133/321 PhD, Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004 Research Interests: Internet architecture, network security, wireless sensor networks |
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Thomas Watson, Associate Professor Thomas.Watson@memphis.edu 901.678.3203 Dunn Hall 315 PhD, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2013 Research Interests: Theoretical computer science, computational complexity |
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Myounggyu Won, Associate Professor mwon@memphis.edu 901.678.2792 Dunn Hall 398 PhD, Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2013 Research Interests: Cyber physical systems, mobile computing, intelligent transportation systems |
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Kan Yang, Associate Professor Kan.Yang@memphis.edu 901.678.3139 Dunn Hall 305 PhD, Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 2013 Research Interests: Data security, blockchain, adversarial machine learning, network security and trust, applied cryptography |
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Xiaofei Zhang, Associate Professor Xiaofei.Zhang@memphis.edu 901.678.2471 Dunn Hall 135 PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2013 Research Interests: Graph databases, distributed and parallel computing |