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Computer science and engineering
Industrial engineering
Software engineering

Ronald Askin

Ronald Askin
 Professor

Research interests
Logistics, manufacturing systems analysis, production planning and scheduling, operations research, applied statistics

[email protected]
(480) 965-2567
Tempe campus, BYENG 548

Janaka Balasooriya

Janaka Balasooriya
Associate Program Chair, Computer Systems Engineering
Associate Teaching Professor

Research interests 
Distributed, internet and grid computing, web service coordination primitives and system architectures, biological data integration and interoperability, middleware and embedded software

[email protected]
(480) 727-8593
Tempe campus, BYENG 578

Ayan Banerjee

Ayan Banerjee
Assistant Research Professor

Research interests
Power management in high performance data centers, cyber physical systems, medical control systems, data mining, mobile computing

[email protected] 
Tempe campus, BYENG 517

Ajay Bansal

Ajay Bansal
Assistant Professor

Research interests
Logic programming, constraint programming, answer set programming, data mining, machine learning, semantic computing, service-oriented architecture.

[email protected]
(480) 727-1647
Polytechnic campus, PRLTA 230V
Research website

Srividya Bansal

Srividya Bansal
Associate Professor
Program Chair, Software Engineering

Research interests
Semantic computing, big data integration, semantics-based solutions for outcome-based instruction design in STEM education, delivery models for software engineering education; web service description, discovery and composition.

[email protected]
(480) 727-5107
Polytechnic campus, PRLTA 230G
Research website

Chitta Baral

Chitta Baral
Professor

Research interests
Knowledge representation, temporal logics, logic programming, dynamic systems, text extraction, question answering, natural language semantics, bioinformatics

[email protected]
(480) 727-6047
Tempe campus, BYENG 572
Research website

Dimitri Bertsekas

Dimitri Bertsekas

Dimitri Bertsekas
Fulton Chair of Computational Decision Making

Research interests
Reinforcement learning, artificial intelligence, optimization, linear and nonlinear programming, data communication networks, parallel and distributed computation

[email protected]

Chris Bryan

Chris Bryan
Assistant Professor

Research interests
Information visualization, visual analytics, virtual reality, data storytelling, data analysis, explainable machine learning and artificial intelligence; perception and cognition, human-computer Interaction, data privacy and security

[email protected]
Tempe campus
Research website

Kevin Burger

Kevin Burger
Assistant Teaching Professor

Research interests
Embedded systems, introductory programming, data structures and algorithms, computer architecture and organization, web development

[email protected]
(480) 965-1493
Tempe campus, BYENG 516

Zhichao Cao

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Zhichao Cao
Assistant Professor

Research interests
Data Infrastructure, key-value store (RocksDB, LevelDB, and HBase), NoSQL database, data deduplication, backup and archive system, file system, hierarchical storage system, distributed storage system, compute-storage disaggregation

[email protected]
Tempe campus

Linda Chattin

Linda Chattin
Teaching Professor

Research interests
Discrete optimization, stochastic processes and probabilistic modeling, emergency service location

[email protected]
(480) 965-3811
Tempe campus, BYENG 526

Michael Clough

Michael Clough
Assistant Teaching Professor

Research interests
Measurement of nano/microscale mechanisms underlying thermofluidic and interfacial phenomena for design of nanoengineered solutions that enhance macroscale performance of a variety of industrial applications including energy systems, thermal desalination, and transportation systems.

[email protected]
(480) 965-2804
Tempe campus, BYENG 480

Adolfo Escobedo

Adolfo Escobedo
 Assistant Professor

Research interests
Theory and application of linear and mixed integer programming; design, analysis, and efficient implementation of optimization algorithms; computational linear algebra; power systems operation and planning; circular economy.

[email protected]
(480) 965-5248
Tempe campus, BYENG 346

Xuerong Feng

Xuerong Feng
Associate Teaching Professor

Research interests
Algorithm design and analysis, including network algorithms, Bioinformatics algorithms and parallel algorithms

[email protected]
(480) 965-2855
Tempe campus, BYENG 512

Kevin Gary

Kevin Gary
Associate Professor

Research interests
Software architecture and design, open source software, agile methods, applications in healthcare and e-learning.

[email protected]
(480) 727-1373
Polytechnic campus, PRLTA 230C

Yoshihiro Kobayashi

Yoshihiro Kobayashi
Associate Teaching Professor

Research interests
Game design, game development, digital fabrication, AI in design, virtual reality, building information modeling, procedural modeling, computer graphics, PRISM Lab at ASU

[email protected]
(480) 965-3708
Tempe campus, BYENG 354

Baoxin Li

Baoxin Li
Associate Director for Academic and Student Affairs, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
Professor

Research interests
Computer vision and pattern recognition, image/video processing, statistical methods in visual computing, machine learning

[email protected]
(480) 965-1735
Tempe campus, BYENG 502
Research website

Tim Lindquist

Tim Lindquist
Professor Emeritus

Research interests
Software engineering, distributed and mobile systems, web applications and programming languages

[email protected]
(480) 727-2783
Polytechnic campus, PRLTA 230
Research website

Ross Maciejewski

Ross Maciejewski

Ross Maciejewski
Director, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence and Professor
Co-director, Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center of Excellence

Research interests
Information visualization, geographical visualization, computer graphics, syndromic surveillance, volume rendering, non-photorealistic rendering, decision support systems

[email protected]
(480) 965-2785
Tempe campus, BYENG 344
Visual Analytics & Data Exploration Research
Center For Accelerating Operational Efficiency

Ryan Meuth

Ryan Meuth
Assistant Teaching Professor

Research interests
Examining ways to improve engineering education, in particular the first year engineering experience

[email protected]
(480) 727-6389
Tempe campus, BYENG 438

Katina Michael

Katina Michael
Professor
Joint appointment with School for the Future of Innovation in Society

Research interests
Emerging technologies, innovation, informatics, technology and society, policy and society, ubiquitous computing, digital media, wearable computing, embedded devices, big data, open data, drones, cybersecurity, IoT, robotics, automation

 

[email protected]
(480) 965-6316
Tempe campus
Research Website

Ariane Middel

Ariane Middel

Ariane Middel
Assistant Professor
Joint appointment with School of Arts, Media and Engineering

Research interests
Urban climate, heat mitigation, thermal comfort, human biometeorology, modeling and simulation, microclimate, local climate, climate-sensitive urban design, climate adaptation and mitigation, urban heat islands, urban climate informatics, geographic information systems, human-environment interaction, land use and land cover, sustainability, geovisualization

[email protected]
(480) 967-2875
Tempe campus
Research Website

Pitu Mirchandani

Pitu Mirchandani
Professor, The Avnet Chair in Supply Chain Networks

Research interests
Optimization, decision-making under uncertainty, real-time control and logistics, application interests in urban service systems, transportation, and homeland security

[email protected]
(480) 965-2758
Tempe campus, BYENG 332
Advanced Transportation and Logistics: Algorithms and Systems (ATLAS) Research Laboratory
Research Website

Rong Pan

Rong Pan
Associate Professor

Research interests
Industrial statistics, reliability analysis and time series modeling

[email protected]
(480) 965-4259
Tempe campus, BYENG 352

Ted Pavlic

Ted Pavlic
Associate Professor

Research interests
Distributed algorithms, autonomous systems, decentralized decision making, complex adaptive systems, self organization, hybrid dynamical systems, sustainability in the built environment, behavioral ecology, behavioral economics, operations research, bio-mimicry and bio-inspiration, parallel computation, robotics,energy systems, intelligent control, optimization, game theory, resource allocation, collective behavior

[email protected]
(480) 965-2899
Tempe campus, BYENG 314
Research website

Fengbo Ren

Fengbo Ren
Associate Professor

Research interests
Hardware acceleration, embedded, reconfigurable, and parallel computing solutions for data analytics and information processing, energy-efficient computing, data-driven compressive sensing, hardware-friendly machine learning

[email protected]
(480) 727-5793
Tempe campus
Research website

Andrea Richa

Andrea Richa
President’s Professor

Research interests
Self-organizing particle systems, programmable matter, bio-inspired algorithms, distributed computing and algorithms, theory of wireless communication, graph, randomized, and approximation algorithms, self-stabilizing overlay networks, combinatorial optimization, distributed resource allocation

[email protected]
(480) 965-7555
Tempe campus, BYENG 440
Research website

George Runger

George Runger
Professor
Program Chair, Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Graduate Program Chair, Industrial Engineering

Research interests
Statistical learning, process control, data mining for massive, multivariate data sets

[email protected]
(480) 965-3193
Mayo Clinic, Samuel C. Johnson Research Bldg 13212 

Douglas Sandy

Douglas Sandy
Assistant Teaching Professor

Research interests
Computer systems performability, structured machine architecture, and embedded systems engineering

[email protected]
480-727-1253
Polytechnic campus

Arunabha Sen

Arunabha Sen

Arunabha Sen
Professor
Program Chair, Computer Science and Engineering

Research interests
Resource optimization in optical, wireless and sensor networks, video transmission over mobile ad-hoc networks, network processors, system/network on chip design, combinatorial optimization, algorithm design and analysis

[email protected]
(480) 965-6153
Tempe campus, BYENG 530
Research website

Aviral Shrivastava

Aviral Shrivastava
Professor
Graduate Program Chair, Computer Science and Engineering

Research interests
Compilers and micro architectures for embedded systems, including techniques for power, performance reliability, temperature and code size improvement

[email protected]
(480) 727-6509
Tempe campus, CTRPT 203-15
Research website

Dan Shunk

Dan Shunk
Professor Emeritus

Research interests
Agile, enterprise and CIM systems, group technology, planning systems, economics of computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) strategy and strategic role of technology

[email protected]
(480) 965-6330
Tempe campus, BYENG 360

Violet Syrotiuk

Violet Syrotiuk
Associate Professor

Research interests
Cross-layer design and optimization in changing network conditions, modeling and monitoring, medium access control protocols, multi-hop wireless networks including MANETs, WSNs, WMNs, and cognitive radio networks

[email protected]
(480) 965-7034
Tempe campus, BYENG 434
Research website

Kurt VanLehn

Kurt VanLehn
Professor, The Diane and Gary Tooker Chair for Effective Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Research interests
Applications of AI to education (Intelligent Tutoring Systems, teachable agents, tutorial NL dialogue systems), human learning (student modeling; cognitive modeling), cognitive science

[email protected]
(480) 727-6348
Tempe campus, BYENG M1-01
Research website

Hao Yan

Hao Yan
Assistant Professor

Research interests
Real time modeling and analysis with large scale high dimensional data, data fusion for modeling of complex systems, and smart adaptive sampling strategy and data reconstruction

[email protected]
Tempe campus, BYENG 338
Research website

Stephen Yau

Stephen Yau
Professor

Research interests
Trust management and security, software engineering, distributed systems, service based systems, ubiquitous/pervasive computing

[email protected]
(480) 965-2647
Tempe campus, BYENG 488

Yu Zhang

Yu Zhang
Assistant Professor

Research interests
Multi-agent systems, human-aware planning, multi-agent planning, automated planning and scheduling, distributed robot systems, human-robot interaction

[email protected]
Tempe campus, BYENG 594
Research website

Ming Zhao

Ming Zhao
Associate Professor

Research interests
Distributed/cloud computing, big data, high-performance computing, autonomic computing, virtualization, storage systems, operating systems

[email protected]
(480) 727-7850
Tempe campus, BYENG 412
Research website

Jia Zou

Jia Zou
Assistant Professor

Research interests
Data-intensive distributed systems, machine learning systems, blockchain, development of dynamic applications

[email protected]
Tempe campus