Faculty

Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty
Instructional Faculty
Joint Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Lecturers

Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty

Alipour, M. Amin
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Oregon State University
Software Engineering, Software Testing and Analysis

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

Chen, Guoning
Associate Professor
Associate Chair
Ph.D., Oregon State University
Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization, Computational Topology, Geometric Modeling, Dynamical Systems

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

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

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

Das, Rathish Incoming Fall 2023
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook
Parallel Algorithms, Approximation Algorithms, and Big-data Algorithms

rathish@uh.edu
TBD
Office: PGH 595

Deng, Zhigang
Moores Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Human Computer Conversation, Robotics

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

Eick, Christoph
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Evolutionary Computing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Databases

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

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

gnawali@uh.edu
Office: PGH 230

Huang, Stephen S.-H.
Professor
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Security, Intrusion Detection

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

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

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

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

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

Ernst Leiss

Leiss, Ernst
Professor
Dr. Techn., Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
Vector and Parallel Computing, Data Security, Databases, Formal and Programming Languages, Geophysical Data Processing

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

Lin, Sen Incoming Fall 2023
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University
Wireless networking, machine learning, reinforcement learning, meta-learning, efficient continual learning

slin50@Central.UH.EDU
TBD
Office: PGH 593

Mukherjee, Arjun
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Bayesian Inference, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Spam, Web Mining

arjun@cs.uh.edu
Office: PGH 582

Ordonez, Carlos
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Data Science Systems, Big Data

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

Pandurangan, Gopal
Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
Algorithms, Distributed Computing, Networks, Large-Scale Data, Computational Biology

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

Pavlidis, Ioannis
Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Computational Biomedicine, Biometrics, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Software Engineering

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

Shah, Shishir
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Department Chair
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Quantitative Microscopy, Computational Biology, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Instrumentation

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

Shi, Weidong (Larry)
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
System Security, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Computer Architecture

wshi3@uh.edu
713-743-2688
Office: PGH 567

Solorio, Thamar
Professor
Ph.D., National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics (Mexico)
Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction

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

Subhlok, Jaspal
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Rice University
Educational Technologies and Their Impact on Learning, Parallel and Distributed Computing

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

Tsekos, Nikolaos V.
Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computer Technology, Robotics and Physiology

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

Verma, Rakesh
Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York-Stony Brook
Formal Methods, Computational Logic, Text/Data Mining and Computer Security

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

Vilalta, Ricardo
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Physics
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Machine Learning, Computational and Statistical Learning Theory, Neural Networks, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence

vilalta@cs.uh.edu
713-743-3614
Office: MRE 203C

Wu, Panruo
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
High performance computing, Numerical Algorithms and Software, Parallel/Distributed Computing, and Big Data Analytics

pwu7@uh.edu
Office: PGH 564

Yan, Feng
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., College of William & Mary
Big Data, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing, Performance Evaluation, Storage, Cross-disciplinary Topics

fyan5@uh.edu
Office: PGH 589

Instructional Faculty

Dan Biediger

Biediger, Daniel Incoming Fall 2023
Instructional Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston

debiediger@uh.edu

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

vhilford@cs.uh.edu
Office: PGH 513

Rincon, Carlos
Instructional Assistant Professor
Director, ConocoPhillips Computer Science Learning Center
Ph.D., University of Houston

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

Rizk, Nouhad
Instructional Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ed.D., Leicester University (United Kingdom)

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

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

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

Joint Faculty

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

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

Merchant, Fatima
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

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

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