• Kai Chang
• Sanjeev Baskiyar
• Saad Biaz
• Homer Carlisle
• Richard Chapman
• James Cross
• Juan Gilbert
• Drew Hamilton
• Dean Hendrix
• Wei-Shinn Ku

• Alvin Lim
• Daniela Marghitu
• Hari Narayanan
• Xiao Qin
• Cheryl Seals
• Min-Te Sun
• David Umphress
• Yu Wang
• Levent Yilmaz

Kai Chang
Department Chair

Office: 3101 Shelby Center 
Phone: (334) 844-6310
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Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1986
Software testing; software comprehension and visualization tools; software complexity metrics; computer supported cooperative work; artificial intelligence; expert systems; information assurance education. Current research includes software engineering and The Distributive Collaborative Writing Aid.

Sanjeev Baskiyar
Associate Professor

Office: 3127C Shelby Center 
Phone: (334) 844-6306
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Saad Biaz
Associate Professor

Office: 3101Q Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6307
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Ph.D., Texas A & M University , 1999
Networking; Wireless Networking; Mobile Computing; Distributed systems; Computer Architecture; TCP issues over wireless networks. Current research includes routing protocols for adhoc networks over bluetooth and performance of transport protocols over Bluetooth technology.

Homer Carlisle
Associate Professor

Office: 3101T Shelby Center 
Phone: (334) 844-6308
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Ph.D., Emory University, 1970
Programming languages; languages and algorithms for distributed and parallel processing; operating systems. His research interests include parallel computation and the software testing of Ada programs. He is also investigating compilation for distributed processor evaluation of programs.

Richard Chapman
Associate Professor

Office: 3127G Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6314
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Ph.D., Cornell University, 1994
VLSI CAD tool design; formal methods; high level synthesis; history of computing; wireless security. He is a major professor for the "Better Tools and Better Interfaces for Hardware-Software Codesign" and "Efficient, Formally Verified Tools for High Level Synthesis and Hardware-Software Codesign" research projects.

James Cross
Professor

Office: 3127D Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6315
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Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1986
Software engineering: design methodology, testing, reverse engineering, and CASE tools. Recent research includes the development of CASE tools oriented toward reverse engineering, maintenance, and testing of Ada software. He is the Principal Investigator and Director of the GRASP Research Project.

Juan Gilbert
T-SYS Distinguished Associate Professor

Office: 3112 Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6316
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Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 2000
Human-Centered Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Spoken Language Systems, Databases, Information Management, Educational Technology, Pervasive Computing, Secure Voting Systems. Director of the Human Centered Computing (HC2) Lab.

Drew Hamilton
Associate Professor

Office: 3101D Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6360
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Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1996
Computer and Network Security, Software Vulnerability Analysis, Simulation of Computer Networks, Software Engineering, Software Architectures, Computer Networking, Distributed Computing.

Dean Hendrix
Associate Professor

Office: 3127B Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6305
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Ph.D., Auburn University, 1996
Software engineering; software visualization; software metrics; reverse engineering; program understanding; markup languages; programming languages; secure software development. His current research includes the GRASP Project.

Wei-Shinn Ku 
Assistant Professor

Office: 3108 Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6341
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Alvin Lim
Associate Professor

Office: 3110 Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6326
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Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993
Wireless networks; high performance networks; mobile computing and databases; reliable and dynamically reconfigurable distributed systems; complex software development; parallel processing; performance measurements and analysis.

Daniela Marghitu
Comp 1000 Coordinator

Office: 3118 Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6386
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Ph.D., University of Craiova, Romania, 1998
Instructor and Coordinator of three Information Technology minor courses: COMP1000, COMP2000 Network Programming with HTML and Java, and COMP5000/6000 Web Application Development. She is developing and managing course WEB sites as well as evaluating, implementing and integrating Information Technology, Assistive & Adaptive Technologies applications with current course materials in order to provide a complete teaching solution.

Hari Narayanan
Professor

Office: 3127F Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6312
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Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1992
Human-computer interaction; learning technology; cognitive science; artificial intelligence. He leads the Intelligent & Interactive Systems Research Group.

Xiao Qin
Assistant Professor

Office: 3101E Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6327
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Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2004
Parallel and distributed systems, real-time computing, storage systems, computer security, fault tolerance, performance evaluation.  Current research includes energy-efficient parallel disk systems and reliability models of fault-tolerant storage systems.

Cheryl Seals
Assistant Professor

Office: 3127H Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6319
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Ph.D., Virgina Tech, 2004
End User Programming: human computer interaction (HCI), human centric computing, visual programming environments, software engineering, and empirical studies of programmers.

Min-Te Sun
Assistant Professor

Office: 3101R Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6330
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Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2002
Computer networking; Ad Hoc Networks; Wireless LAN; Bluetooth; Sensor Networks; Wireless ATM.

David Umphress
Associate Professor

Office: 3127E Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6335
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Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1987
Software engineering; software processes; software design; object-oriented technologies; palm computing; software engineering education; project simulation; secure software development.

Yu Wang
Assistant Professor

Office: 3101P Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-5170
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Ph.D., Arizona State, 2003
Context-Sensitive and Situation-Aware Computing; Middleware Systems; Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Wireless Computing; Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET); Distributed and Ubiquitous Computing; Software Engineering.

Levent Yilmaz
Assistant Professor

Office: 3116 Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-6343
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Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 2002
Simulation modeling: simulation theory and methodology, simulation for conflict analysis and management, agent-directed simulation, model V&V. Software engineering: dependable computing, reuse, formal methods.