Faculty, Specialists, and Staff

C. Titus Brown, Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering; Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Ph.D., California Institue of Technology (2006)

Research Interests: Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Open Source Software Development, Software Engineering

Joyce Chai, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Duke University (1998)

Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Conversational Systems

Betty H.C. Cheng, Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1990)

Research Interests: Software Engineering, Formal Methods, Embedded Systems

Laura Dillon, Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1984)

Research Interests: Formal Methods, Software Engineering

Wayne Dyksen, Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Purdue University (1982)

Research Interests: Numerical Methods, Computer Security

Richard J. Enbody, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Minnesota (1987)

Research Interests: Computer Architecture, Computer Security

Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Northwestern University (1983)

Research Interests: Graph Theory, Computer Networks

Anil K. Jain, University Distinguished Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Ohio State University (1973)

Research Interests: Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Biometrics

Rong Jin, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University (2003)

Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning, Information Retrieval

Sandeep Kulkarni, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Ohio State University (1999)

Research Interests: Fault Tolerance, Distributed Systems

Alex Liu, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (2006)

Research Interests: Computer and Network Security, Networking

Philip K. McKinley, Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1989)

Research Interests: Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Artificial Life

Matt W. Mutka, Professor
Chairperson, Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison (1988)

Research Interests: Distributed Systems, Computer Networks, Wireless and Mobile Systems

Charles A. Ofria, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology (1999)

Research Interests: Evolutionary Computing, Adaptive Systems

Charles B. Owen, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Dartmouth College (1998)

Research Interests: Multimedia Systems, Augmented Reality

Sakti Pramanik, Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Yale University (1974)

Research Interests: Database Systems, Human Genome

William F. Punch, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Ohio State University (1989)

Research Interests: Intelligent Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Data Mining

Jon Sticklen, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Ohio State University (1987)

Research Interests: Knowledge-Based Systems, Pedagogy of Science, Mathematics and Engineering (STEM) Areas

Yanni Sun, Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis (2008)

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology

Pang-Ning Tan, Associate  Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Minnesota (2002)

Research Interests: Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning

Yiying Tong, Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Southern California (2004)

Research Interests: Computer Animation, Discrete Differential Geometry, Discrete Geometric Modeling

Eric Torng, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Stanford University (1989)

Research Interests: Algorithms, Graph Theory, Computer Networks, Distributed Systems

John J. Weng, Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1989)

Research Interests: Humanoid Robots, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Li Xiao, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D., College of William and Mary (2002)

Research Interests: Distributed and Networking Systems, Computing Resource Management

Research Interests: Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobile Computing, and Networked Embedded Systems.

Mark McCullen, Academic Specialist

Operating Systems, Programming

Kevin Ohl, Specialist-Instructor

CSE 101/103

Teresa Isela VanderSloot, Academic Specialist

Undergraduate Advising, CSE 291, 491

 Monika Sobolewska, Teaching Specialist

Computing Concepts and Competencies

CSE 101/103

Cathy Davison, Administrative Assistant, Office Supervisor
office: 3115A EB
tel: 353-6484

Departmental accounts, Assistant to the Chair

Debbie Kruch, Administrative Assistant
office: 3115 EB
tel: 353-1679

Research grant accounting, student payroll, Strategic Partner liason

Linda Moore, Secretary
office: 3115 EB
tel: 355-5210

Graduate student records

Norma Teague, Secretary
office: 3115 EB
tel: 353-3148

Travel, reimbursements, and purchasing

Christina Chan, Professor
 Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1990)

Research Interests: Systems Biology, Computational Biology, Drug-Gene Delivery Systems

 Jin Chen,  assistant professor

MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory

Michael Feig, Associate Professor
 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Houston (1999)

Research Interests: Computational Biochemistry, Database Systems, Data Mining

 Erik Goodman, Professor
Ph.D. University of Michigan (1972)
Electrical and Computer Engineering; Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Computational biology, evolution, evolutionary computation,  wireless networks

Gary Hsieh, Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Communication; Telecommunications, Information Studies, and Media
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, Incentives and Motivation, Behavior Change, Ubiquitous Computing

Leslie Kuhn, Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1989)

Research Interests: Algorithms and Data Mining for molecular modeling/design 

Robert T. Pennock, Professor
Lyman Briggs College; Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh (1991)

Research Interests: Evolutionary Computing, Artificial Life, Philosophy of Science

Charles Steinfield, Professor
Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media
Ph.D., University of Southern California

Research Interests: Organizational and Social Impacts of Communication and Information,
Technology, Collaborative Systems, E-Commerce