Office of the Dean

Lesley Beyersdorf

Administrative Assistant for Associate Deans
Office of the Dean

Trang Do

Business Officer
Office of the Dean

Responsible for the management of budgets and personnel for UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics (CCI). Generates regular reports on expenditures, cost/revenue projections, and variances. Coordinates personnel actions, and contracting.

Schaefer Edwards

Director of Communications
University Communications
Woodward 443K

Jun-tao Guo

Professor and Chair, Bioinformatics and Genomics
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics 311

Personal Webpage: https://guolab.charlotte.edu/directory/jun-tao-guo-phd Degree Institution: University of KentuckyDegree: Ph.D. Molecular and Cellular BiochemistryYear Graduated: 2001 

Ahmed Helmy

Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Office of the Dean

Dr. Helmy’s Personal Website

Colleen Karnas-Haines

Director of Assessment, Planning, and Accreditation
Office of the Dean

Colleen Karnas-Haines, PhD comes to the position of Director of Assessment, Planning, and Accreditation for CCI with adjunct faculty experience and higher education administrative experience in evaluating accreditation criteria and assessment processes. Dr. Karnas-Haines’ doctoral studies specialized in ethnographic, community-centered, and multiculturally based research methods with a cognitive science foundation. Recently she earned her SAS […]

Joe Matesich

Executive Director, Technology Solutions Office
OneIT

Nadia Najjar

Teaching Associate Professor, Interim Director of the Integrated Core Curriculum
Software and Information Systems
Woodward 330F

Dr. Nadia A. Najjar is a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC Charlotte. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from George Mason University and M.S. and Ph.D. in Computing and Informatics from UNC Charlotte. Her graduate work focuses on personalization and recommender systems. Her research projects cross the fields of recommender systems, decision-support systems, artificial […]

Brian Peck

Director of Development
University Advancement

Harini Ramaprasad

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs and Student Success
Computer Science

Personal Website: http://webpages.charlotte.edu/hramapra/ Degree: Computer Science Education: Ph.D., Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 2008 Research Areas: Real-time Embedded Systems, Computer Science Education Brief Biography: Dr. Ramaprasad’s research interests are in the areas of real-time embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, operating systems and computer science education. Recent research work has been in the area of enabling […]