Tenured Faculty

Xi (Sunshine) Niu

Associate Professor and Director of CCI Honors Program
Software and Information Systems

Education: ​ Ph.D., Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012 M.S., Software, Tsinghua University, 2006 Dr. Xi “Sunshine” Niu is Associate Professor at the Department of Software and Information Systems, and Director of CCI Honors Program. She also holds a joint appointment at the Department of Business Information Systems & Operations Management […]

Demitrios Papanikolaou

Assistant Professor
Software and Information Systems

Personal Website: www.dimitris-papanikolaou.com Degree Institution: Harvard University Degree: Doctor of Design (D.Des) Year Graduated: 2016 Dimitris Papanikolaou is an Assistant Professor at UNCC, jointly between the School of Architecture and the Department of Software and Information Systems. His research investigates how the study of system dynamics, social behavior, and information technology can inform new design […]

Manuel Pérez-Quiñones

Professor
Software and Information Systems

Personal Website: http://webpages.charlotte.edu/mperez19/ Degree Institution: The George Washington University, Washington DC Degree: D.Sc. Year Graduated: 1996 Research Areas: Human-Computer Interaction Dr. Manuel A. Pérez Quiñones is Professor of Software and Information Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests include personal information management, human-computer interaction, and CS education. He holds a […]

Zbigniew Ras

Professor and KDD Lab. Director
Computer Science

Personal Website: http://webpages.charlotte.edu/ras/ Degree: D.Sc. (Habilitation) Computer Science Dr. Zbigniew Ras is a professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He also holds professorship position in the Institute of Computer Science at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw, Poland. His PhD degree is from University of Warsaw and DSc […]

Erik Saule

Associate Chair - Research and Graduate Education, Associate Professor
Computer Science

Personal Webpage: http://webpages.charlotte.edu/esaule/ Degree Institution: Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Degree: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 2008 Education: Computer Science (Informatique) Research Areas: Algorithms and Complexity, Computer and Parallel Architecture, Data Mining, Middleware Erik Saule is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department of UNC Charlotte and has been a faculty of UNC Charlotte since August […]

Mohamed Shehab

Professor
Software and Information Systems

Personal Website: https://liisp.charlotte.edu/mshehab Degree Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Degree: Ph.D. Computer Engineering Year Graduated: 2007 Research Description: Information Privacy and Security, Access Control and Authentication, Usable Security and Privacy, Application Security Dr. Shehab is a Professor of Software and Information Systems Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received his […]

Meera Sridhar

Associate Professor
Software and Information Systems

Dr. Meera Sridhar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems at UNC Charlotte. Her research interests span language-based and systems security, formal methods, and their application to web, mobile and Internet-of-Things security. Her research is currently supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). She received her Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in […]

Kalpathi Subramanian

Associate Professor
Computer Science

Personal Website: http://webpages.charlotte.edu/krs/ Degree Institution: University of Texas at Austin Degree: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 1990 Research Description: Dr. Kalpathi Subramanian’s research interests are in the areas of Computer Graphics, Scientific, Engineering and Medical Visualization, and more recently, Computer Science Education. Current research projects also include virtual and augmented reality applications in different disciplinary areas. Recent […]

Gabriel Terejanu

Professor
Computer Science
Woodward 403C

UQ Lab website: https://www.UncertaintyQuantification.org  Gabriel Terejanu is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has previously held academic positions at the University of South Carolina and was a fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. His industry experience includes roles as a software engineer and quantitative researcher in […]

Pu Wang

Associate Professor
Computer Science

Personal Website: http://webpages.charlotte.edu/pwang13/ Pu Wang received his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2003, and his M.E. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, in 2008. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology under the guidance […]