Tenured Faculty

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 […]

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.

Presonal Webpages: http://webpages.charlotte.edu/wdou1/ Degree Institution: University of North Carolina at Charlotte Degree: Ph.D. Education: Computer Science I’m Wenwen Dou, currently a research assistant professor at the Charlotte Visualization Center. I work in the cutting-edge research area of Visual Text Analytics, which integrates statstical and machine learning methods with powerful interactive visualization for analyzing large amounts […]

Personal Website: https://cci-hit.charlotte.edu/ Degree Institution: Vanderbilt University Degree: Ph.D. Research Description: Health Informatics, Clinical Information and Decision Support Systems, Data Warehousing, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Yaorong Ge, Ph,D., comes to the Department of Software and Information Systems as a tenured Associate Professor after serving as an Associate Professor in the […]

Personal Website: https://uncc.academia.edu/MirsadHadzikadic/CurriculumVitae Degree Institution: Southern Methodist University Degree: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 1987 Research Description: Complex Adaptive Systems/Simulation and Modeling, Health Informatics/Population Health, Data Mining/Analytics, Cognitive Science/Brain Informatics/Neuroeconomics

Siddharth is a new faculty in the department of computer science (College of Computing and Informatics) at UNCC. His research interests are in web-mining, data analytics, computational social science, and applied machine learning with a primary emphasis on analyzing, characterizing, and forecasting information (news, rumors, memes, advertisements, etc.) dynamics on online social networks & social […]

Personal Website: http://webpages.charlotte.edu/mlee173 Lab and Website: Video and Image Analysis Lab Ph.D. Institution: Colorado State University Research Description: Dr. Jake Lee’s research interests are in foundational machine learning, with an emphasis on reinforcement learning. Recent projects in robotics, adaptive systems, human-AI interactions are investigated under NSF and NIH support. Diverse angles of learning including knowledge […]

Personal Website: http://webpages.charlotte.edu/alu1/ Degree Institution: Purdue University Degree: Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2005) Lab and Website: Visualization Lab, Gaming and Mixed Reality Lab Research Description: Dr. Aidong Lu’s research interests are visualization, mixed reality, intelligent systems, and applied machine learning. Her recent work funded by NSF focuses on new augmentation technology with interdisciplinary research […]

Personal Website: http://maryloumaher.net Degree Institution: Carnegie Mellon University (1984) Degree: Ph.D. Research Description: Mary Lou’s research interests span a broad area of design and computing, specifically the study and development of novel interaction and communications technology, and models of design and creativity. Her research draws on and contributes to human-computer interaction, intelligent systems, computer-supported collaborative […]

Personal Website: http://webpages.charlotte.edu/taghi/ Degree Institution: Oklahoma State University Degree: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 1986 Research Areas: