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Current Faculty

Mansoor Abdulhak
Mansoor Abdulhak

Assistant Professor  

Contact:
m.hak@ou.edu
(405) 325-5408
Devon Energy Hall 234
Link: Curriculum Vitae

Research Focus:

  • Software engineering 
  • Requirement engineering
  • Ontologies
  • Semantic web
  • Information recommendation
  • E-learning
John Antonio
John Antonio

Dean, Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy and Lester A. Day Family Chair  

Contact:
antonio@ou.edu
(405) 325-3821
Sarkeys Energy Center 1510

Link: Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Research Focus:

  • Embedded high performance computing
  • Reconfigurable computing
  • Parallel and distributed computing
  • Cluster computing
Mohammed Atiquzzaman
Mohammed Atiquzzaman

Hitachi Chair, Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor

Contact:
atiq@ou.edu
(405) 325-8077
Devon Energy Hall 250
Website: cs.ou.edu/~atiq

Research Focus:

  • Wireless and mobile computing; satellite networks
  • Quality of service for next generation Internet
  • Optical networks
  • Avionics
  • Multimedia over high speed networks
  • Multiprocessor systems and image processing
Jie Cao
Jie Cao

Assistant Professor

Contact:
jie.cao@ou.edu
Devon Energy Hall 210-B
Website: https://mlciv.com

Research Focus:

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Dialogue and Discourse
  • Structured Prediction
  • Trustworthy AI for Education and Healthcare
Qi Cheng
Qi Cheng

Williams Company Foundation Presidential Professor

Contact:
qcheng@ou.edu
(405) 325-1017
Devon Energy Hall 254

Website: cs.ou.edu/~qcheng

Research Focus:

  • Cryptography
  • DNA/molecular computing
  • Algorithmic self-assembly
  • Theoretical computer science
Doga Demirel
Doga Demirel

Associate Professor and Associate Director

Contact:
doga@ou.edu

Devon Energy Hall 241

Research Focus:

  • Design, development, and validation of surgical simulators
  • Interactive Simulations
  • Extended Reality
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Graphics
  • Haptics
  • Artificial Intelligence
Dimitrios Diochnos
Dimitrios Diochnos

Assistant Professor

Contact:
diochnos@ou.edu
(405) 325-2978
Devon Energy Hall 230

Research Focus:

  • Supervised Learning
  • Semi-supervised Learning
  • Adversarial Learning
  • Imbalanced Data
  • Randomized Search Heuristics
Andrew H. Fagg
Andrew H. Fagg

Presidential Associates Presidential Professor and Associate Professor of Computer Science and Bioengineering

Contact:
andrewhfagg@gmail.com
(405) 325-8606
Sarkeys Energy Center 1162

Research Focus:

  • Machine learning
  • Robotics
  • Computational neuroscience 
  • Brain-machine interfaces
  • Interactive art
  • AI/ML for Meteorology
Song Fang
Song Fang

Associate Professor

Contact:
songf@ou.edu
(405) 325-3536
Devon Energy Hall 232

Website: cs.ou.edu/~songf

Research Focus:

  • Wireless and Mobile System Security
  • Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things (IoT) Security
  • Mobile Computing 
  • Application of Machine Learning in Wireless and Mobile Systems
Le Gruenwald
Le Gruenwald

Dr. David W. Franke Professor and Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Presidential Professor

Contact:
ggruenwald@ou.edu
(405) 325-3498
Devon Energy Hall 233

Website: cs.ou.edu/~database/faculty

Research Focus:

  • Mobile and distributed database
  • Multimedia databases
  • Real-time databases
  • Object-oriented databases
  • Temporal databases
  • Data mining
Golnaz Habibi
Golnaz Habibi

Assistant Professor

Contact:
golnaz@ou.edu
Devon Energy Hall 210-F

Research Focus:

  • Robotics
  • Autonomous driving
  • Computer vision
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Machine learning and reinforcement learning
  • Autonomous control and navigation systems
Dean Hougen
Dean Hougen

Professor

Contact:
hougen@ou.edu
(405) 325-3150
Sarkeys Energy Center 1176

Website: cs.ou.edu/~hougen

Research Focus:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Robotics
  • Multi-agent and knowledge-based systems.
Sina Khanmohammadi
Sina Khanmohammadi

Assistant Professor

Contact: 
sinakhan@ou.edu
(405) 325-1792
Devon Energy Hall 210-A

Laboratory: www.3sigmalab.com

Research Focus:

  • Neural Data Science
  • Neural Dynamics
  • Network Neuroscience
  • Machine Learning
  • Signal Processing
Chao Lan
Chao Lan

Assistant Professor

Contact:
clan@ou.edu
(405) 325-5735
Devon Energy Hall 210-E

Research Focus:

  • Machine learning
Ze Shi Li
Ze Shi Li

Assistant Professor

Contact: 
zeshili@ou.edu
Devon Energy Hall 244
Laboratory: zeshili.github.ioLaboratory

Research Focus:

  • Software engineering
  • AI for software engineering
  • Requirements engineering
  • Human computer interaction
  • Human centered AI
  • Human aspects of software engineering
  • Adoption of AI
Ziming Liu
Ziming Liu

Assistant Professor

Contact: 
ziming.liu-1@ou.edu
Sarkeys Energy Center 1170
Website: https://superspark1.github.io/

Research Focus:

  • Human-Centered AI
  • AI for Health and Well-Being
  • Brain–Computer Interaction and Cognitive Technologies
  • Intelligent Systems for Healthcare Management
  • Multimodal AI for Healthcare
Sean Mackay
Sean Mackay

Assistant Professor

Contact:
snmackay@ou.edu
Devon Energy Hall 243

Website: snmackay.github.io

Research Focus:

  • Computing Education
  • Undergraduate Education
  • AI-assisted learning
  • Learning software

 

Anindya Maiti
Anindya Maiti

Assistant Professor

Contact:
am@ou.edu
(405) 325-4951
Devon Energy Hall 460

Website: maiti.info/anindya

Research Focus:

  • Privacy and Security
  • Information Assurance
  • Network Security
  • Blockchains
  • Machine and Deep Learning.
Amy McGovern
Amy McGovern

Lloyd G. and Joyce Austin Presidential Professor

Contact:
amcgovern@ou.edu
National Weather Center/NWC 2506
mcgovern-fagg.org/amy

Research Focus:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Reinforcement learning 
  • Relational knowledge discovery
  • Robotics
  • AI/ML for Meteorology
Marmar Moussa
Marmar Moussa

Assistant Professor 

Contact:
marmar.moussa@ou.edu
(405) 325-4379
Devon Energy Hall 253
Google Scholar

Research Focus:

  • Algorithms
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Analytics
  • Computational Genomics
  • Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
  • Single Cell Omics
  • Cancer Immunomics
Sanjana Mudduluru
Sanjana Mudduluru

Assistant Professor

Contact:
sanjana@ou.edu
(405) 325-5427
Devon Energy Hall 231

Research Focus:

  • Machine learning
  • Medical Image processing
  • Data analytics
  • Computer Science education
Chongle Pan
Chongle Pan

Professor of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering

Contact:
cpan@ou.edu
(405) 325-2972
Devon Energy Hall 231
www.thepanlab.com/

Research Focus:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • High-performance computing
  • Knowledge discovery 
Egawati Panjei
Egawati Panjei

Assistant Professor

Contact:
egawati.panjei@ou.edu
Devon Hall Room 235

Research Focus:

  • Outlier/Anomaly Detection and Explanation
  • Real Time Data Stream Processing and Analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining
Ali Reza Pedram
Ali Reza Pedram

Assistant Professor

Contact:
apedram@ou.edu
Sarkeys Energy Center 1174
https://alirezapedram.github.io

Research Focus:

  • Robotics
  • Autonomous Systems and Decision Making
  • Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning
  • Generative AI and Diffusion Models
  • Optimization and Control
Ghulam Jilani Quadri
Ghulam Jilani Quadri

Assistant Professor

Contact:
quadri@ou.edu
(405) 325-5237
Devon Energy Hall 242
http://jiquadcs.com/

Research Focus:

  • Visualization and Graphics
  • Visual Analytics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Perception and Cognition Science
  • Explainable ML and AI Models
  • Human-Computer Teaming
  • Information Accessibility
  • Data Science
  • Health and Humanities: Visualization for Social Good
Sridhar Radhakrishnan
Sridhar Radhakrishnan

Senior Faculty Fellow, Office of Vice President for Research and Partnerships; Williams Professor, School of Computer Science

Contact:
sridhar@ou.edu
(405) 325-2319
Sarkeys Energy Center 1178
sridharradhakrishnan.info

Research Focus:

  • Protocol design for wireless and mobile computing sensors
  • Power aware protocols in mobile networks
  • Algorithms for quality of service routing in broadband networks
  • Resource allocation issues in wireless networks
Shishir Shah.
Shishir Shah

CS Director and OU Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Contact:
sshah@ou.edu
Devon Energy Hall 158

Research Focus:

  • Computer vision and video analytics
  • Human motion and behavior recognition
  • Biomedical and microscope image analysis
  • Machine learning and pattern recognition
  • AI systems integration and real-world applications
Deborah Trytten
Deborah Trytten

Presidential Professor

Contact:
dtrytten@ou.edu

Devon Energy Hall 252
cs.ou.edu/~trytten

Research Focus:

  • Undergraduate education in computer science
  • Collaborative learning
  • Technology usage in classroom teaching
Richard Veras
Richard Veras

Assistant Professor

Contact:
richard.m.veras@ou.edu
Devon Energy Hall 210-C

Research Focus:

  • High Performance Computing (HPC) including code synthesis for performance
  • Parallel algorithm design
Yi Wu
Yi Wu

Assistant Professor

Contact:
yi.wu-1@ou.edu
Devon Energy Hall 210-G
https://ywu960702.github.io/

Research Focus:

  • Mobile Sensing & Computing
  • Wearable Software Engineering
  • Cybersecurity and Privacy
  • Smart Healthcare
Shangqing Zhao
Shangqing Zhao

Assistant Professor

Contact:
shangqing@ou.edu
Devon Energy Hall 210-D
cs.ou.edu/~shangqing

Research Focus:

  • Novel mobile system design
  • Network science
  • Mobile and network security
  • Machine learning for network & security applications

Emeritus Faculty

Sudarshan Dhall
Sudarshan Dhall

Emeritus Professor

Contact:
sdhall@ou.edu

Research Focus:

  • Parallel and distributed computing
  • Graph algorithms
  • Operating systems.
Chris Weaver
Chris Weaver

Associate Professor

Website: cs.ou.edu/~weaver

Research Focus:

  • Information Visualization
  • Visual Analytics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Databases
  • Data Mining
S. Lakshmivarahan
S. Lakshmivarahan

Emeritus Professor 

Contact:
varahan@ou.edu

Research Focus:

  • Learning algorithms
  • Interconnection networks
  • Scientific computing and parallel processing
  • Data mining
  • Dynamic data assimilation and applications to meteorology/finance

Affiliate Faculty

David Ebert
David Ebert

Associate Vice President of Research and Partnerships, Chief AI and Data Science Officer, Computer Science Engineering Endowed Innovation Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contact:

ebertd@arizona.edu

Dept. of ECE, University of Arizona

Research Focus:

  • Visual analytics
  • Human-computer teaming
  • Trustable AI
  • Fundamental data science advances 
  • Defense and security
  • Health and digital humanities
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou

Professor of Microbiology, Director of Institute for Environmental Genomics, George Lynn Cross Research Professor and Presidential Professor

Contact:
jzhou@ou.edu

Website:
http://www.ou.edu/ieg

Research Focus:

  • Medical and clinical bioinformatics
  • Data science
  • AI & ML in critical care
  • Imaging and medical physics
Henry Neeman
Henry Neeman

Associate Professor, Assistant Vice President, Information Technology – Research Strategy Advisor

Contact:
hneeman@ou.edu
Engineering Lab 212

Website: hneeman.oscer.ou.edu/

Research Focus:

  • High performance computing
  • Scientific computing
  • Parallel and distributed computing
  • Structured adaptive mesh refinement
  • Scientific visualization