Computer Science and Software Engineering Faculty

• Saad Biaz
• Richard Chapman
• John A. "Drew" Hamilton Jr.
• Dean Hendrix
• Wei-Shinn Ku

• Alvin Lim
• Xiao Qin
• David Umphress

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.

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.

John A. "Drew" Hamilton Jr.
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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Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2007

Spacial/temporal data management; mobile data management; information security and privacy; location-based services; peer-to-peer systems; geographic information systems.

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.

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.

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.