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Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty
	Alipour, M. Amin Assistant Professor Ph.D., Oregon State University Software Engineering, Software Testing and Analysis	Office: PGH 574 (713) 743-7462 maalipou@central.uh.edu
	Chen, Guoning Associate Professor Ph.D., Oregon State University Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization, Computational Topology, Geometric Modeling, Dynamical Systems	Office: PGH 566 (713) 743-5788 gchen16@uh.edu
	Cheng, Albert Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin Real-Time and Embedded Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems, AI, Functional Reactive Programming, Software Engineering, Power-Aware Computing, Computer Security, Computer Networks	Office: PGH 534 (713) 743-3353 amcheng@uh.edu
	Deng, Zhigang Moores Professor Director of Graduate Studies Ph.D., University of Southern California Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Human Computer Conversation, Robotics	Office: PGH 219 (713) 743-1018 zdeng4@central.uh.edu
	Eick, Christoph Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Karlsruhe (Germany) Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Evolutionary Computing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Databases	Office: PGH 589 (713) 743-3345 ceick@uh.edu
	Gabriel, Edgar Professor Associate Department Chair Ph.D., University of Stuttgart (Germany) Message Passing Systems, High Performance Computing, Parallel Computing on Distributed Memory Machines, Grid Computing	Office: PGH 228 (713) 743-3857 egabriel@uh.edu
	Gnawali, Omprakash Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Southern California Wireless and Sensor Networks, Network Protocols and Architectures, Mobile Sensing, Social Networks, and Distributed Systems	Office: PGH 230 gnawali@uh.edu
	Huang, Stephen S.-H. Professor Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Security, Intrusion Detection	Office: PGH 209 (713) 743-3338 shuang@cs.uh.edu
	Johnsson, Lennart 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) Parallel Computer Systems Architecture, Run-Time Systems, Data Parallel Programming and Large-Scale Applications	Office: PGH 592 (713) 743-3371 Johnsson@cs.uh.edu
	Kakadiaris, Ioannis Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Biomedical Image Analysis; Computational Biomedicine; Biometrics; Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition	Office: HBS 322 (713) 743-1255 ioannisk@uh.edu
	Laszka, Aron Assistant Professor Ph.D., Budapest University of Technology and Economics Security, Cyber-Physical Systems, Game Theory, Economics of Security	Office: PGH 524 alaszka@uh.edu
	Leiss, Ernst Professor Dr. Techn., Vienna University of Technology (Austria) Vector and Parallel Computing, Data Security, Databases, Formal and Programming Languages, Geophysical Data Processing	Office: PGH 522 (713) 743-3359 eleiss@uh.edu
	Mukherjee, Arjun Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago Bayesian Inference, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Spam, Web Mining	Office: PGH 582 arjun@cs.uh.edu
	Ordonez, Carlos Associate Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology Data Science Systems, Big Data	Office: PGH 571 (713) 743-1013 carlos@uh.edu
	Pandurangan, Gopal Professor Ph.D., Brown University Algorithms, Distributed Computing, Networks, Large-scale Data, Computational Biology	Office: PGH 572 (713) 743-5556 gopal@cs.uh.edu
	Pâris, Jehan-François Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Distributed Systems, Storage Systems, Performance Evaluation	Office: PGH 569 (713) 743-3341 jfparis@uh.edu
	Pavlidis, Ioannis Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota Computational Biomedicine, Biometrics, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Software Engineering	Office: HBS 306 (713) 743-0101 ipavlidis@uh.edu
	Shah, Shishir Professor Department Chair Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin Quantitative Microscopy, Computational Biology, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Instrumentation	Office: PGH 215 (713) 743-3360 shah@cs.uh.edu
	Shi, Weidong (Larry) Associate Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology Enabling System Technologies for Services, Computing Systems, Behavioral Computing	Office: PGH 567 wshi3@uh.edu
	Solorio, Thamar Professor Ph.D., National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics (Mexico) Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction	Office: PGH 584 (713) 743-5542 solorio@cs.uh.edu
	Subhlok, Jaspal Professor Ph.D., Rice University Educational technologies and their impact on learning; Parallel and Distributed Computing	Office: PGH 217 (713) 743-3340 jaspal@uh.edu
	Tsekos, Nikolaos V. Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computer Technology, Robotics and Physiology	Office: PGH 595 (713) 743-3358 ntsekos@cs.uh.edu
	Verma, Rakesh Professor Ph.D., State University of New York-Stony Brook Formal Methods, Computational Logic, Text/Data Mining and Computer Security	Office: PGH 532 (713) 743-3348 rverma@uh.edu
	Vilalta, Ricardo Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Machine Learning, Computational and Statistical Learning Theory, Neural Networks, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence	Office: MRE 203C (713) 743-3614 vilalta@cs.uh.edu
	Wu, Panruo Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Riverside High performance computing, Numerical Algorithms and Software, Parallel/Distributed Computing, and Big Data Analytics	Office: PGH 564 pwu7@uh.edu

Instructional Faculty
	Hilford, Victoria Instructional Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Houston	Office: PGH 513 vhilford@cs.uh.edu
	Long, Kevin Professor of Practice M.S., Rice University	Office: PGH 565 kblong@uh.edu
	Rincon, Carlos Instructional Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Houston	Office: PGH 577 (713) 743-8547 carincon@uh.edu
	Rizk, Nouhad Instructional Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Ed.D., Leicester University (United Kingdom)	Office: PGH 529 (713) 743-3710 njrizk@uh.edu
	Yun, Chang Instructional Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Houston	Office: PGH 514 (713) 743-3366 cyun@uh.edu

Joint Faculty
	Gurkan, Deniz Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Technology Joint Associate Professor of Computer Science Ph.D., University of Southern California Computer networking, measurements, software-defined networking, interoperable data exchange protocols, distributed systems, optical fiber communications.	Office: TCB 230B (713) 743-4037 dgurkan@uh.edu
	Han, Zhu 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	Office: W302 Engineering Building 2 (713) 743-4437 zhan2@uh.edu
	Merchant, Fatima Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Technology Joint Associate Professor of Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin Computational Biology and Medicine	fmerchant@uh.edu
	Roysam, Badrinath 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	Office: N325 Engineering Building 1 (713) 743-4400 broysam@central.uh.edu

Adjunct Faculty
	Ramamurthy, Uma Adjunct Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Memphis	uma.ramamurthy@bcm.edu
	Stotzer, Eric Adjunct Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Houston	ejstotzer@uh.edu
	Subramaniam, Venkat Adjunct Professor Ph.D., University of Houston	svenkat@cs.uh.edu

Lecturers
	Biediger, Daniel Lecturer Ph.D. Candidate, University of Houston	debiediger@uh.edu
	Jin, Aobo Lecturer Ph.D., University of Houston	ajin4@uh.edu
	Mantini, Pranav Lecturer Research Associate, Quantitative Imaging Lab Ph.D., University of Houston	pmantini@uh.edu
	Singh, Raj Lecturer Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette	rsingh@cs.uh.edu

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