Computer Science Faculty

Shawn Bailey, Adjunct Lecturer  
Hafiz M. Ali, Lecturer  

Thomas Bartenstein, Adjunct Lecturer

BA, Swarthmore College; PhD, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

Specialty: Programming languages and compilers; stream programming; microprocessor test generation and diagnostics

SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador, 2021

Ali J. Ben Ali, Lecturer

BS, Kuwait University; MS, City College of New York (CUNY City College); Ph.D., University at Buffalo (SUNY)

Specialty: Mobile systems; Edge computing; Robotics and autonomous systems; Machine learning

Jeremy Blackburn, Assistant Professor

BSCS, MSCS, PhD, University of South Florida

Affiliated: Center for Imaging, Acoustics and Perception Science (CIAPS); Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC); Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP)

Jason Boubin, Assistant Professor

PhD, The Ohio State University

Specialty: Autonomous Systems, Edge Computing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Distributed Systems

Kenneth Chiu, Associate Professor

BA, Princeton University; PhD, Indiana University

Affiliated: Center for Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems (CoCo); Center for Imaging, Acoustics and Perception Science (CIAPS); Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS); First-Year Research Immersion (FRI); Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP)

Specialty: High-performance computing/machine-learning, big data, bioinformatics

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2018-2019

Joseph V. Cornacchio, Professor Emeritus

PhD, Syracuse University

 

Michal Cutler, Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot

 

Weiying Dai, Associate Professor

BS, MS, Peking University; MS, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Affiliated: Center for Imaging, Acoustics and Perception Science (CIAPS); Center of Biomanufacturing for Regenerative Medicine (CBRM); Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Science (CAMRIS)

Specialty: Brain imaging; biomedical image processing; neuroimaging; blood flow imaging; functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); clinical applications of imaging techniques (such as stroke and Alzheimer's Disease); pattern recognition; data mining; machine learning; computer vision; information retrieval

Ding (Zeyu) Ding, Assistant Professor

BS, Zhejiang University; MS, °®¶¹´«Ã½; PhD, Penn State University

Specialty: Data Privacy, Software Security, Machine Learning on Private Data

Richard R. Eckert, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Kansas

University Award for Excellence in International Education, 2007-2008; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1998-1999
Jason Foos, Lecturer  

David Garrison, Lecturer

BS, SUNY at Fredonia; MA, PhD, MS, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

Specialty: Algorithms; optimization; software applications to modern algebra

Kanad Ghose, SUNY Distinguished Professor

BTech, MTech, University of Calcutta; MS, PhD, Iowa State University

Affiliated: Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM); Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems (ES2); Center for Heterogeneous Integration Research of Packaging (CHIRP); Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC)

Specialty: Power-aware microarchitectures and systems; computer systems; secure microarchitectures, high-performance computing; cyber-physical systems

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2017-2018; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2005-2006

Kartik Gopalan, Professor

BE, Delhi Institute of Technology; MS, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai; PhD, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Affiliated: Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC)

Specialty: Cloud computing, virtualization, cybersecurity operating systems, distributed systems, computer networks

Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Professor

MS, PhD, Indiana University

Specialty: Cloud computing; big data computing; distributed systems; high performance computing; web services; component-based technologies; problem-solving environments

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2016-2017; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008-2009

William Hallahan, Assistant Professor Specialty: Program analysis; program synthesis; symbolic execution; functional languages; programmable networks

Merwyn Jones, Adjunct Lecturer

BS, Clarkson University; MS, Syracuse University

Specialty: Mainframe virtualization and software project management

Kyoung-Don Kang, Professor

BS, MS, Kyungpook National University; MS, PhD, University of Virginia

Affiliated: Integrated Electronics Engineering Center (IEEC); Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls

Specialty: Real-time data analytics; cyber-physical systems; Internet of Things

Leslie C. Lander, Associate Professor

BA, University of Cambridge; MSc, PhD, University of Liverpool

Specialty: Programming languages; programming paradigms; formal aspects of software engineering

Provost's Award for Outstanding Graduate Director, 2013-2014; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2005-2006

Michael J. Lewis, Associate Professor

BS, Duke University; MS, Pennsylvania State University; PhD, University of Virginia

Specialty: Grid and cloud computing; high-performance computing; bioinformatics; machine learning; data analytics

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2007-2008

Yu (David) Liu, Professor

MSE, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Specialty: Software systems; programming languages; software engineering; energy-aware systems; data-intensive software; unmanned aerial vehicles

Hui Lu, Assistant Professor

BE, ME, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; PhD, Purdue University

Specialty: Cloud computing; operating systems; computer networks; file and storage systems; distributed systems

Patrick H. Madden, Associate Professor

BS, MS; New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

Specialty: Combinatorial optimization; algorithms and VLSI design automation

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2014-2015

Omer Malik, Adjunct Lecturer

BA, MFA, University of Alaska Fairbanks; MS, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

Specialty: Web programming and development; mobile programming; networking

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2020-2021

Weiyi Meng, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor

BS, Sichuan University; MS, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Specialty: Internet-based information retrieval; metasearch engines; web database integration; web data quality; web information extraction; social media data analytics

University Award for Excellence in International Education, 2019-2020; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2007-2008

Steven A. Moore, Adjunct Lecturer

BA, MFA, University of Alaska Fairbanks; MS, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

Specialty: Web programming and development; mobile programming; networking

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2020-2021

Hoda Naghibijouybari, Assistant Professor

MS, Iran University of Science and Technology; PhD, University of California, Riverside

Affiliated: Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC)

Specialty: Architectural support for security; GPU security; computer architecture; heterogeneous computing

Walter G. Piotrowski, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

 

Dmitry V. Ponomarev, Professor

BS, Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics; MS, SUNY Polytechnic Institute; PhD, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

Affiliated: Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC)

Specialty: Computer architecture, security; high-performance computing

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2015-2016

Aravind Prakash, Associate Professor

MS, University of Miami; PhD, Syracuse University

Affiliated: Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC)

Specialty: Software security; program analysis (source code and binary); memory forensics

Seunghee Shin, Assistant Professor

MS, Northeastern University; PhD, North Carolina State University

Specialty: Computer architecture and systems

Sujoy Sikdar, Assistant Professor

MS, PhD Rensselear Polytechnic Institute

Specialty: Artificial Intelligence; computational social choice; mechanism design; algorithm design; machine learning; computational social science

Adnan Siraj Rakin, Asssistant Professor

B.Sc., Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology; MS & PhD, Arizona State University

Specialty: Security of Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Computer Vision & Side-Channel Attacks

Zerksis D. Umrigar, Lecturer

BS, Indian Institute of Technology – Madras; MS, University of Notre Dame; PhD, Syracuse University

Specialty: Automating courseware development; programming languages; systems programming

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching, 2016-2017

George Weinschenk, Lecturer

BFA, Indiana University and Purdue University at Indianapolis; BA, MA, Florida Atlantic University; MA, PhD, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

Specialty: Technical communications instruction; computer ethics

Guanhua Yan, Associate Professor

BS, Huazhong University of Science & Technology; ME, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications; PhD, Dartmouth College

Affiliated: Center for Cognitive Applications (CAPS); Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC)

Specialty: Cybersecurity; big data; modeling and simulation

Ping Yang, Associate Professor

BS, Zhongshan University; ME, Chinese Academy of Sciences; MS, PhD, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Affiliated: Center for Cognitive Applications (CAPS); Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC)

Specialty: Information and systems security, privacy, and formal methods

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2020-2021

Lijun Yin, Professor

BS, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication; MS, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; PhD, University of Alberta, Canada

Affiliated: Center for Cognitive Applications (CAPS); Center for Imaging, Acoustics and Perception Science (CIAPS); Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC); First-Year Research Immersion (FRI); Integrated Electronics Engineering Center (IEEC)

Specialty: Computer vision and graphics; 3D object analysis and synthesis; image understanding and pattern recognition; human computer interaction; multimedia; biometrics

Lois B. DeFleur Prize for Academic Achievement at °®¶¹´«Ã½, 2019; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2013-2014

Yifan Zhang, Associate Professor

BS, Beihang University; PhD, College of William and Mary

Specialty: Mobile computing; operating systems; embedded systems; wireless networking

Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Professor

BS, MS, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Affiliated: Center for Cognitive Applications (CAPS); Center for Imaging, Acoustics and Perception Science (CIAPS)

Specialty: Machine learning; artificial intelligence; data mining and knowledge discovery; multimedia information indexing and retrieval; computer vision and image understanding; pattern recognition

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2012-2013; Chancellor's Promising Inventor Award, 2003

Shiqi Zhang, Assistant Professor

PhD, Texas Tech University

Affiliated: Center for Imaging, Acoustics and Perception Science (CIAPS); First-Year Research Immersion (FRI)

Specialty: Artificial intelligence; robotics; human-robot interaction; machine learning

Yingxue Zhang, Assistant Professor

PhD, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; MS, Stevens Institute of Technology

Specialty: Artificial Intelligence; deep learning; spatial-temporal data science; human behavior analysis

William L. Ziegler, Associate Professor

BS, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY); MS, Syracuse University

Specialty: Engineering management; effective communication in engineering and science; student centered experiential/active/co-op/internship learning

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2010-2011