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Faculty

Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty

Amin Alipour
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Oregon State University

maalipou@central.uh.edu
713-743-7462
Office: PGH 574

Guoning Chen
Associate Professor
Associate Chair
Ph.D., Oregon State University

gchen16@uh.edu
713-743-5788
Office: PGH 566

Albert Cheng
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

amcheng@uh.edu
713-743-3353
Office: PGH 534

Rathish Das
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook

rathish@uh.edu
713-743-1382
Office: PGH 595

Zhigang Deng
Moores Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

Ph.D., University of Southern California

zdeng4@central.uh.edu
713-743-1018
Office: PGH 228

Christoph Eick
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Karlsruhe (Germany)

ceick@uh.edu
713-743-3345
Office: PGH 589

Omprakash Gnawali
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California

gnawali@uh.edu
Office: PGH 230

Stephen S.-H. Huang
Professor
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

shuang@cs.uh.edu
713-743-3338
Office: PGH 219

Lennart Johnsson
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair; Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Chalmers Institute of Technology (Sweden)

Johnsson@cs.uh.edu
713-743-3371
Office: PGH 592

Ioannis Kakadiaris
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor; Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

ioannisk@uh.edu
713-743-1255
Office: HBS 322

Ernst Leiss
Professor
Dr. Techn., Vienna University of Technology (Austria)

eleiss@uh.edu
713-743-3359
Office: PGH 522

Sen Lin
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University

slin50@Central.UH.EDU
713-743-1652
Office: PGH 593

Jinyang Liu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

jliu217@Central.UH.EDU
713-743-8043
Office: PGH 569

Arjun Mukherjee
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

arjun@cs.uh.edu
Office: PGH 582

Jingchao Ni
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

jni8@Central.UH.EDU
713-743-3984
Office: PGH 594

Carlos Ordonez
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

carlos@uh.edu
713-743-1013
Office: PGH 571

Gopal Pandurangan
Professor
Ph.D., Brown University

gopal@cs.uh.edu
713-743-5556
Office: PGH 572

Ioannis Pavlidis
Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

ipavlidis@uh.edu
713-743-0101
Office: HBS 306

Shishir Shah
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Department Chair

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

shah@cs.uh.edu
713-743-3360
Office: PGH 215

Weidong (Larry) Shi
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

wshi3@uh.edu
713-743-2688
Office: PGH 536

Thamar Solorio
Professor
Ph.D., National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics (Mexico)

solorio@cs.uh.edu
713-743-5542
Office: PGH 584

Jaspal Subhlok
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Rice University

jaspal@uh.edu
713-743-3340
Office: PGH 217

Nikolaos V. Tsekos
Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

nvtsekos@uh.edu
713-743-3358
Office: PGH 595

Rakesh Verma
Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York-Stony Brook

rverma@uh.edu
713-743-3348
Office: PGH 532

Panruo Wu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

pwu7@uh.edu
713-743-7615
Office: PGH 564

Feng Yan
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., College of William & Mary

fyan5@uh.edu
713-743-2930
Office: PGH 589

Jianyi Yang
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

jyang71@Central.UH.EDU
713-743-7553
Office: PGH 590

Chengming Zhang
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington

czhang59@Central.UH.EDU
713-743-0744
Office: PGH 567

Instructional Faculty

Dan Biediger

Daniel Biediger
Instructional Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston

debiediger@uh.edu
713-743-3357
Office: PGH 579

Victoria Hilford
Instructional Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston

vhilford@cs.uh.edu
Office: PGH 513

Carlos Rincon
Instructional Associate Professor
Director, ConocoPhillips Computer Science Learning Center

Ph.D., University of Houston

carincon@uh.edu
713-743-8547
Office: PGH 577

Nouhad Rizk
Instructional Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Ed.D., Leicester University (United Kingdom)

njrizk@uh.edu
713-743-3710
Office: PGH 565

Chang Yun
Instructional Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston

cyun@uh.edu
713-743-3366
Office: PGH 514

Joint Faculty

Zhu Han
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Joint Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Big Data Analysis, Wireless Networking, Smart Grid, Resource Allocation, and Security

zhan2@uh.edu
713-743-4437
Office: W302 Engineering Building 2

Fatima Merchant
Professor of Engineering Technology; Joint Professor of Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Computer Engineering Technology and Computational Health Informatics, Biotechnology

Badrinath Roysam
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Joint Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., Washington University
Biological Image Analysis, High-Performance Computing, Brain Tissue Mapping and Neuroprosthetic Devices, Computational Immunology, Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems

broysam@central.uh.edu
713-743-4400
Office: N325 Engineering Building 1

Adjunct Faculty

Uma Ramamurthy
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Memphis

Venkat Subramaniam
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston

Lecturers

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Kevin Long
Lecturer
M.S., Rice University

Pranav Mantini
Lecturer; Senior Researcher, Quantitative Imaging Lab
Ph.D., University of Houston

pmantini@uh.edu
713-743-1857
Office: PGH 524

Raj Singh
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette