Faculty

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Degree Institution: Iowa State University Degree: Ph.D. Molecular Biology Dr. Cory R. Brouwer is Director of the Bioinformatics Services Division and Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics at UNC Charlotte. He and his team provide a wide range of bioinformatics and computational biology services to the NCRC, UNC Charlotte and surrounding area life sciences community. […]

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 […]

Dr. Cao is a Teaching Associate Professor at UNC Charlotte. Previously, she worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Johnson C. Smith University. She received her Ph.D. in Information Technology from UNC Charlotte in 2008. Her research primarily focuses on wireless networking and mobile computing with an emphasis […]

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

Degree Institution: University of Maryland, College Park Degree: Ph.D. Computer Science Year Graduated: 1988 Research Description: Enterprise Integration, Information Privacy and Security, Electronic Commerce, and Computer integrated manufacturing.