Faculty
Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty
Amin Alipour
Assistant 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
Arjun Mukherjee
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
arjun@cs.uh.edu
Office: PGH 582
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 567
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
ntsekos@cs.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
Ricardo Vilalta
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Physics
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
vilalta@cs.uh.edu
713-743-3614
Office: MRE 203C
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
Instructional Faculty
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 Assistant 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
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