Computer Science Faculty

Dewan Ahmed
Personal Website: http://webpages.charlotte.edu/dahmed Degree Institution: University of Ottawa, Canada Degree: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 2009 Education: Computer Science Dr. Dewan T. Ahmed received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He completed M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He devised a […]

Srinivas Akella
Personal Website: http://webpages.charlotte.edu/sakella Degree Institution: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Degree: Ph.D. Robotics Year Graduated: 1996 Research Areas: Robotics Research Description: Dr. Srinivas Akella’s research interests are in robotics, with a focus on motion and manipulation planning. His recent work has focused on coordinating multiple UAVs (i.e., drones) for coverage and formation tasks. He enjoys […]


Julio Bahamon
Personal Website: https://juliobahamon.wordpress.com Degree Institution: North Carolina State University Degree: Ph.D. in Computer Science Dr. Bahamón was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He earned his Bachelor of Science from the Computer Science program at Texas A&M University – Kingsville and a Master of Science in Computer and Information Sciences from Florida State University. Before returning to […]

Aileen Benedict
Personal Website: https://aileens.space/ Aileen Benedict is a Visiting Lecturer and PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from UNC Charlotte. Her research interests span several areas, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), recommendation systems, data science/data mining, AI ethics and society, and computer science (CS) education research. […]

Razvan Bunescu
Website:https://webpages.charlotte.edu/rbunescu Ph.D. Institution: The University of Texas at Austin Research Description: Dr. Bunescu’s research interests lie in the general area of machine learning, with a major focus on applications in natural language processing, music information retrieval, and more recently computational creativity. His work on the development of machine learning models for tasks in natural language […]

Qiong Cheng
Degree: Ph.D., Computer Science Degree Institution: Georgia State University Year Graduated: 2009



Mohsen Dorodchi
Personal Website: https://webpages.charlotte.edu/mdorodch/ Lab and Website: Director : Text Processing Lab, Member : Charlotte Visualization Center, MLWINS Lab PhD Institution: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Research Description: Dr. Dorodchi’s research interests are in predictive analytics and knowledge extraction using multimodal data and particularly text. His major focus has been on development of AI-based applications related to students’ learning and […]