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Computer Science Faculty

Kyungim Baek

Kyungim Baek
Associate Professor
POST 303F
808-956-8560
kyungim@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Computer vision, Computational modeling of visual perception, Deep learning, Neural computation.
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Education: Ph.D. 2002, Colorado State University; M.S. 1996, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea; B.S. 1994, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

Mahdi Belcaid

Mahdi Belcaid
Assistant Research Professor
POST 306B
808-956-6049
mahdi@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Data science education, Probabilistic programming in genomics, Big data approximation.
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Education: Ph.D. 2011, University of Hawaii at Mānoa; M.S. Université du Québec à Montréal

Edo Biagioni

Edo Biagioni
Associate Professor
POST 305F
808-956-3891
esb@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Wireless networking; Power, security, routing, and reliability in wireless networks, particularly wireless sensor networks.
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Education: Ph.D. 1991, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Informatik Diplom 1985, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule; B.S. 1981, MIT

Kim Binsted

Kim Binsted
Professor
POST 303D
808-956-6107
binsted@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Artificial intelligence, human-computer interfaces, and long-duration human space exploration.
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Education: Ph.D. 1996, University of Edinburgh; M.S. 2015, (Planetary Geology) University of Hawaii at Mānoa; B.S. 1991, McGill

Henri Casanova

Henri Casanova
Professor
POST 310C
808-956-2649
henric@hawaii.edu

CoRG – Concurrency Research Group
Research interests: High performance computing, parallel and distributed computing, parallel application scheduling, simulation of distributed applications and platforms.
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Education: Ph.D. 1998, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; M.S. 1994, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse; B.S. 1993, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique, d’Electrotechnique, d’Informatique et d’Hydraulique de Toulouse

Martha Crosby

Martha Crosby
Professor
POST 305D
808-956-3493
crosby@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial intelligence; Cognitive science; Computer science education; Information science education; Authentication; Cognitive robotics; Collaborative learning; HCI theory; Concepts and models; Integrated and visual development environments; Interaction design theory; Concepts and paradigms; Model curricula; Philosophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence; user-centered design; virtual reality.
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Education: Ph.D. 1986, University of Hawaii at Mānoa; M.S. 1975 University of Hawaii at Mānoa; B.S. 1959 Colorado State University

Barbara Endicott-Popovsky

Barbara Endicott-Popovsky
Associate Professor

endicott@uw.edu

Research interests: Computer science education; Computer crime; Information systems education; Model curricula; Security and privacy; Information science education; Quality assurance; Documentation; Local area networks; Networks; Operating systems security; Software and ITS engineering; Software evolution; Web applications; Web services.
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Education: Ph.D. 2007, University of Idaho; M.S. 1987, Seattle Pacific University; M.B.A. 1985, University of Washington; B.A. 1967, University of Pittsburgh

Richard Halverson

Richard Halverson
Instructor

richardh@hawaii.edu

Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson
Professor

POST 314E
808-956-3489
johnson@hawaii.edu

CSDL – Collaborative Software Development Lab
Research interests: Climate change, Food resiliency, Software engineering, Educational technology.
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Education: Ph.D. 1990, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; M.S. 1985, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; B.S. 1980, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research interests: Human-centered design, tangible user interfaces, cyberinfrastructure, shape-changing interfaces, learning technologies, games, interactive media, authoring and visualization tools.
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Education: Ph.D. 2021, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; M.S. 2016, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; B.S. 2001, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Jason Leigh

Jason Leigh
Professor

Keller 102A
808-956-9164
leighj@hawaii.edu

LAVA – Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications
HI-DSI – Hawai‘i Data Science Institute
Research interests: Big data visualization, virtual reality, high performance networking, video game design.
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Education: Ph.D. 1998, University of Illinois, Chicago; M.S. 1990, Wayne State University; B.S. 1988, University of Utah

Depeng Li

Depeng Li
Associate Professor

POST 314D
808-956-3973
depengli@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Security and privacy, Internet of Things, Applied cryptography, Operating system development, Network security.
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Education: Ph.D. 2010, Dalhousie University; M.S., Shandong University; B.S., Shandong University

Katy Tarrit Mirakhorli
Assistant Professor
POST 305E
katytm7@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Neuroscience, digital signal and image processing, computer security.
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Education: Ph.D. 2014, University of the West of England; M.Sc. 2010, Cranfield University; B.Sc. 2007, University of Bordeaux

Mehdi Tarrit Mirakhorli
Associate Professor
POST 307B
mehdi23@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Software engineering, cybersecurity.
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Education: Ph.D. 2014, DePaul University; M.S. 2008, National University (Shahid Beheshti), Tehran, Iran; BS. 2006, Teacher Training University of Iran, Tehran.

Carleton Moore

Carleton Moore
Associate Professor

POST 314F
808-956-6920
cmoore@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Software management, computer games, human and social aspects of security and privacy, human-centered computing, interactive games, massively-multiplayer online games, privacy policies, process validation, project and people management, software creation and management, software development process management.
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Education: Ph.D. 2000, University of Hawaii, Mānoa; M.S. 1995, University of Hawaii, Mānoa; B.S. 1988, University of Colorado, Boulder

Dusko Pavlovic

Dusko Pavlovic
Professor
POST 311B
808-956-9639
dusko@hawaii.edu

ASECO – Adaptive Security and Economics Lab
Research interests: Security, Network computation and economics, Quantum computation, Software, Semantics, Categories
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Education: Ph.D. 1990, Utrecht University

Anthony Peruma

Anthony Peruma
Assistant Professor
POST 310B

peruma@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Program comprehension, Software refactoring, Software maintenance & evolution.
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Education: Ph.D. 2022, Rochester Institute of Technology; M.S. Rochester Institute of Technology; B.S. Bangalore University, India.

Guylaine Poisson

Guylaine Poisson
Professor
Department Associate Chair
Industry Liaison
POST 303C
808-956-3496
guylaine@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology
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Education: Ph.D. 2005 Université du Québec à Montréal; M.S. 1997 Université de Montréal

Scott Robertson

Scott Robertson
Professor
Department Chair
POST 317
808-956-3500
scottpr@hawaii.edu

HICHI – Hawaii Computer-Human Interaction Group
Research interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Sociotechnical systems; Social computing and social informatics; Community informatics and civic engagement; Smart cities; Digital democracy and e-participation.
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Education: Ph.D. 1983, Yale University; M.A. 1979, California State University, Fullerton; B.A. 1976, University of California, Irvine

Peter Sadowsky

Peter Sadowski
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Chair
POST 306C
808-956-2023
psadow@hawaii.edu

Peter Sadowski’s Group
Research interests: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, neural networks, learning in biological systems. Applications of machine learning to physics, astronomy, weather, and climate.
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Education: Ph.D. 2016, Computer Science, University of California, Irvine; B.S. 2009, Computer Science, California Institute of Technology

Peter-Michael Seidel

Peter-Michael Seidel
Associate Professor
Curriculum Committee Chair
POST 311A
808-956-6068
pseidel@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Computer arithmetic, Computer architecture; Formal methods; Hardware security.
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Education: Dr.-Ing 2000, Habilitation 2002, University of the Saarland at Saarbruecken, Germany; B.Sc. 1994, M.Sc. 1994, University of Hagen, Germany

Nodari Sitchinava

Nodari Sitchinava
Associate Professor
POST 309C
808-956-3581
nodari@hawaii.edu

AlgoPARC – Algorithms and Parallel Computing Group
Research interests: Algorithms for modern parallel systems; Cache-efficient parallel algorithms for multicores and GPUs; I/O-efficient algorithms, cache-oblivious algorithms and communication-efficient distributed algorithms; Computational geometry and graph algorithms.
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Education: Ph.D. 2009, University of California, Irvine; M.Eng. 2003, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; S.B. 2002, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dan Suthers

Dan Suthers
Professor
Chair, CIS PhD Program
POST 309B
808-956-3890
suthers@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Technology Enhanced Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Informatics. Cognitive, social and computational perspectives on designing and evaluating software for learning, collaboration, and community.
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Education: Ph.D. 1993, University of Massachusetts; M.S. 1988, University of Massachusetts; B.F.A. 1979, Kansas City Art Institute

Peter Washintron

Peter Yiğitcan Washington
Assistant Professor
POST 312B

pyw@hawaii.edu

Hawai‘i Digital Health Lab
Research interests: Digital Health, Precision Health, Data Science, Machine Learning, Human-Centered Computing, Biomedical Informatics.
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Education: Ph.D. Bioengineering 2022, Stanford University; M.S. Computer Science 2018, Stanford University; B.A. Computer Science 2015, Rice University


Faculty Specialists

ICS Academic Advisor, Kenny Quibilan

Kenny Ka‘aiakamanu-Quibilan
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
POST 303A
808-956-5428
kennydq@hawaii.edu

Michael Brian Ogawa

Michael Brian Ogawa
Faculty Specialist
POST 314B
808-956-5069
ogawam@hawaii.edu


Cooperating and Affiliate Graduate Faculty

Lee Altenberg
Adjunct Professor
Mathematics
altenber@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Evolutionary theory; Population genetics; Linear algebra.
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Education: A.B. 1980, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. 1985, Stanford University

ICS

Brent Aurenheimer
Professor
Computer Science
Fresno State University
brent@csufresno.edu

Research interests: Software engineering; Human-computer interaction; Formal methods of software development.
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Education: Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

Rich Gazan

Rich Gazan
Professor
Library and Information Science
School of Communication and Information

HL 102A
808-956-5094
gazan@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Interdisciplinary collaborations; online communities; and scientometrics.
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Education: Ph.D. 2004, LIS, University of California Los Angeles; MLISc 1998, University of Hawaii at Mānoa; B.A. 1987, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Rick Kazman

Rick Kazman
Professor
Information Technology Management
Shidler College of Business
Shidler C-401c
808-956-6948
kazman@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Software architecture design and analysis; Architecture/Design analysis tools and methods; Technical debt/Architecture debt; Socio-technical congruence; IT economics.
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Education: Ph.D. 1991, Carnegie Mellon University; M.Math 1986, University of Waterloo; M.A. 1982, York University; B.A. 1981, University of Waterloo

Alice Koniges

Alice Koniges
Computational Scientist
UH Mānoa, UH Maui High Performance Computing
koniges@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Emerging architectures; Programming models; Machine learning; Partial differential equations.
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Education: Ph.D., Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University; M.S.E., M.A. Princeton University; B.A. University of California, San Diego

Dennis Streveler

Dennis Streveler
strev@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Global medical informatics.
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Susanne Still

Susanne Still
Professor

Physics and Astronomy
WAT 440
808-956-2970

Research interests: Physical limits to information processing; Optimal data representation and the information bottleneck framework; Quantum machine learning; Rules of information acquisition and processing.
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Education: Ph.D., Physics, ETH Zürich

Frances Zhu
Assistant Researcher
HSGC Associate Director
Hawaii Institute for Geophysics and Planetology
POST 524B
zhu@higp.hawaii.edu
808-956-5738

Research interests: Dynamics, controls, systems engineering, and machine learning for space applications.
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Education: Ph.D. 2019, Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University; B.S. 2014, Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University.


Faculty Emeriti

David Chin

David Chin
Professor Emeritus
POST 303G
chin@hawaii.edu

Research interests: User modeling, natural language processing, intelligent agents, empirical evaluation, AI for computer games.
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Education: Ph.D. 1987, University of California, Berkeley; B.S. 1980, MIT; B.S. 1980, MIT

Stephen Itoga

Stephen Itoga
Professor Emeritus

POST 303G
itoga@hawaii.edu

Research interests: Online education.
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Education: B.S. 1965, M.S. 1966, Cornell University; Ph.D. 1973 UCLA

David Pager

David Pager
Professor Emeritus
POST 303G

Research interests: Parsers
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Education: B.S. 1956, Capetown; Ph.D. 1967, London


Staff

Marilou Matsuura

Marilou Matsuura
Academic Support

External Relations
POST 317/303B
808-956-7467
marylou4@hawaii.edu

Wesley Sugimoto

Wesley Sugimoto
Administrative and Fiscal Support
POST 317/317B
808-956-8249
wesleysu@hawaii.edu

ICS

Todd Tomita
IT System Admin.
POST 327
808-956-7639
toddtt@hawaii.edu

ICS

Charles Shackford
IT Network/System Admin.
POST 327
808-956-4989
shackfor@hawaii.edu