People
Jake Chen
Professor142 THT
(205) 996-0738
Research and Teaching Interests: Big data analytics, translational bioinformatics, systems biology, personalized medicine
James Cimino
Professor100 THT
(205) 996-1958
Research and Teaching Interests: Medical concept representation, controlled vocabulary, biomedical informatics, medical decision making
Jeffrey Curtis
Professor802D FOT
(205) 934-7727
Research and Teaching Interests: Rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, osteoporosis, biomedical data analytics
J. Crawford Downs
Professor309A Volker Hall
(205) 996-8674
Research and Teaching Interests: Ocular biomechanics including computational and experimental methods, glaucoma
Baocheng Geng
Assistant Professor4147 University Hall
(205) 934-1297
Research and teaching interests: Human decision making, distributed detection and information fusion, optimization for signal processing and machine learning, internet of things.
Ragib Hasan
Professor
University Hall 4141
Research and Teaching Interests: Cloud Security, the Internet of Things, Digital Forensics, Mobile Malware Security, Secure Provenance, Biomedical Device Security, Social Network Security, Database Security
John K. Johnstone
Associate Professor (joint appointment in Ophthalmology) and PhD Program DirectorUniversity Hall 4161
(205) 975-5633
Research and Teaching Interests: Shape Modeling, Morphometry, Matrix Algorithms, Formal Languages
Sha Lai
Assistant Professor
UH 4145
(205) 975-3432
Research and Teaching Interests: Data limitations in machine learning, with applications in communication and medical imaging
Elliot Lefkowitz
Professor276 BBRB
(205) 427-1836
Research and Teaching Interests: Microbial genomics and evolution, bioinformatics, clinical informatics
Xi Li
Assistant ProfessorUniversity Hall 4151
(205) 934-3346
Matthew Might
Professor858B KAUL
(205) 996-1490
Research and Teaching Interests: Precision medicine, biomedical informatics
John D. Osborne
Asst. Professor 142 THT
(205) 996-0736
Research and Teaching Interests: Relationship between genotype and phenotype, natural language processing
Brandon Oubre
Assistant ProfessorUniversity Hall 4149
(205) 934-0653
Hy Truong-Son
Assistant Professor
University Hall 4149
(205) 934-8604
Qing Tian
Assistant ProfessorUniversity Hall 4153
(205) 934-8657
Research and teaching interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data Science, AI
Mahmut Unan
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director (MS/Certificate)
University Hall 4159
(205) 996-4136
Research and Teaching Interests: Medical Image Analysis, Medical Robotics, Digital Image Processing, Algorithms and Data Structure, Computer Organization
Amber Wagner
Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
(205) 934-2213
Research and teaching interests: Computer science education, human-computer interaction, accessible computing.
Tianyang Wang
Assistant ProfessorUniversity Hall 4157
Research and teaching interests: AI, machine learning, computer vision, broad data science, and biomedical informatics.
Chengcui Zhang
ProfessorUniversity Hall 4143
Research and Teaching Interests: Database Systems, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Machine Learning
Faculty
Jake Chen
Professor142 THT
(205) 996-0738
Research and Teaching Interests: Big data analytics, translational bioinformatics, systems biology, personalized medicine
James Cimino
Professor100 THT
(205) 996-1958
Research and Teaching Interests: Medical concept representation, controlled vocabulary, biomedical informatics, medical decision making
Jeffrey Curtis
Professor802D FOT
(205) 934-7727
Research and Teaching Interests: Rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, osteoporosis, biomedical data analytics
J. Crawford Downs
Professor309A Volker Hall
(205) 996-8674
Research and Teaching Interests: Ocular biomechanics including computational and experimental methods, glaucoma
Baocheng Geng
Assistant Professor4147 University Hall
(205) 934-1297
Research and teaching interests: Human decision making, distributed detection and information fusion, optimization for signal processing and machine learning, internet of things.
Ragib Hasan
Professor
University Hall 4141
Research and Teaching Interests: Cloud Security, the Internet of Things, Digital Forensics, Mobile Malware Security, Secure Provenance, Biomedical Device Security, Social Network Security, Database Security
John K. Johnstone
Associate Professor (joint appointment in Ophthalmology) and PhD Program DirectorUniversity Hall 4161
(205) 975-5633
Research and Teaching Interests: Shape Modeling, Morphometry, Matrix Algorithms, Formal Languages
Sha Lai
Assistant Professor
UH 4145
(205) 975-3432
Research and Teaching Interests: Data limitations in machine learning, with applications in communication and medical imaging
Elliot Lefkowitz
Professor276 BBRB
(205) 427-1836
Research and Teaching Interests: Microbial genomics and evolution, bioinformatics, clinical informatics
Xi Li
Assistant ProfessorUniversity Hall 4151
(205) 934-3346
Matthew Might
Professor858B KAUL
(205) 996-1490
Research and Teaching Interests: Precision medicine, biomedical informatics
John D. Osborne
Asst. Professor 142 THT
(205) 996-0736
Research and Teaching Interests: Relationship between genotype and phenotype, natural language processing
Brandon Oubre
Assistant ProfessorUniversity Hall 4149
(205) 934-0653
Hy Truong-Son
Assistant Professor
University Hall 4149
(205) 934-8604
Qing Tian
Assistant ProfessorUniversity Hall 4153
(205) 934-8657
Research and teaching interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data Science, AI
Mahmut Unan
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director (MS/Certificate)
University Hall 4159
(205) 996-4136
Research and Teaching Interests: Medical Image Analysis, Medical Robotics, Digital Image Processing, Algorithms and Data Structure, Computer Organization
Amber Wagner
Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
(205) 934-2213
Research and teaching interests: Computer science education, human-computer interaction, accessible computing.
Tianyang Wang
Assistant ProfessorUniversity Hall 4157
Research and teaching interests: AI, machine learning, computer vision, broad data science, and biomedical informatics.
Chengcui Zhang
ProfessorUniversity Hall 4143
Research and Teaching Interests: Database Systems, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Machine Learning
Adjunct Faculty
Meet our featured alumni from the Department of Computer Science and connect with them on LinkedIn.
Jimmie Barnes
Owner of The Condor Corporation
David Brasfield
Founder of ThreatAdvice
Stephen Brossette
Co-founder MedMined Inc. and MedSnap LLC
Lee Cha
Founder of VitruSys, LLC software development consulting service (with Tony Heffner)
Gordon Colburn
Owner and operator of Group 309, Inc.
Julie Hanna
Founder of Scalix, Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship
Felicia Haynes
Owner of Tennessee Industrial Electric
Tony Heffner
Founder of VitruSys, LLC software development consulting service (with Lee Cha)
Cynthia Huss
CEO of Coastal Vascular & Interventional, PLLC
Anita LeMay
Senior Sales Engineer with Rocket Software
Prakash Muthuhrishnan
CTO at Purchasing Power
Darmesh Shah
Co-founder and CTO of HubSpot
Anuj Vohra
CEO of ChirpAnywhere Inc.
James Wu
CEO and co-founder of DeepMap
Sherry Yu
Principal Enterprise Architect, Red Hat
People
Whether you want to become a computer science professional or to apply computing technology to solve problems arising from other domains, the faculty and staff at the Department of Computer Science are here to help you succeed. Our faculty members are not only experts in their own fields, but are also approachable and take pride in focusing on students and helping them become the next generation of computer science professionals.
Knowledge That Is State of the Art
Our faculty members understand that future graduates require the latest knowledge and skills to succeed in a rapidly changing world. They continuously replenish the departmental reservoir of state of the art knowledge through cutting edge research in the broad field of computer science. They emphasize cyber security, big data, biomedical applications, and advanced cyber infrastructures.
Collaboration With the World
Our faculty and staff collaborate closely with colleagues from other universities, industries, and government agencies to address our shared challenges in research and education, and they give back to the community and professional organizations through various service activities.
Please browse the faculty profiles to learn more about their innovations in both teaching and research.



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