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Computer Science Faculty
Kyungim Baek
Associate Professor Curriculum Committee Chair
POST 305C
808-956-8560
kyungim@hawaii.edu
Research interests: Computer vision, machine learning, computational modeling of visual perception.
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Education: Ph.D. 2002, Computer Science, Colorado State University; M.S. 1996, Computer Science, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea; B.S. 1994, Mathematics, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
Mahdi Belcaid
Associate Research Professor
Department Associate Chair
POST 306B
808-956-6049
mahdi@hawaii.edu
Edo Biagioni
Associate Professor
POST 305F
808-956-3891
esb@hawaii.edu
Kim Binsted
Professor
POST 303D
808-956-6107
binsted@hawaii.edu
Henri Casanova
Professor
Undergraduate Committee Chair
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
Huaijin (George) Chen
Assistant Professor
huaijin@hawaii.edu
Computational Imaging and Robotic Perception (CIRP) Lab
Research interests: Computational imaging/photography, computer vision, robotic perception.
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Education: Ph.D. 2019, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University; B.S. 2013, Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
David Conner
Instructor
dbconner@hawaii.edu
Research interests: Digital transformation, information systems, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, programming languages, computer graphics, data visualization, user interface design, video game design, animation, educational design.
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Education: M.S. 1996, Computer Science, Brown University; B.S. 1991, Mathematics and Computer Science, Brown University; B.A. Visual Art 1991, Brown University.
Professional experiences: Chief Information Officer, Hawaii State Department of Education; Chief Information Security Officer, Estée Lauder Companies; Global Head of Vulnerability Management, Morgan Stanley.
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 Hawai’i at Mānoa; M.S. 1975, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; B.S. 1959, Colorado State University
Kaveh Karden
Instructor
kaveh@hawaii.edu
Research interests: Computer graphics, genetic algorithms and programming.
Education: M.S. 2010, Computer Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; B.S. 1985, Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professional experience: Software Engineer, Softimage; Software Lead, Square USA; Instructor, ACM University of Hawaii; Senior Software Developer, Weta Digital.
Nurit Kirshenbaum
Assistant Professor
nuritk@hawaii.edu
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. 202, 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
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
Associate Professor
POST 314D
808-956-3973
depengli@hawaii.edu
Mehdi Tarrit Mirakhorli
Professor
POST 307B
mehdi23@hawaii.edu
Carleton Moore
Assistant Professor
POST 314F
808-956-6920
cmoore@hawaii.edu
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
Assistant Professor
POST 310B
peruma@hawaii.edu
Guylaine Poisson
Professor
Department Chair Director for Graduate professional Programs
POST 317
808-956-3500
808-956-3496
guylaine@hawaii.edu
Andrey A. Popov
Assistant Professor
808-956-3494 apopov@hawaii.edu
Scott Robertson
Professor
scottpr@hawaii.edu
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 Sadowski
Associate Professor
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
Italo Santos
Assistant Professor
POST 303F
isantos3@hawaii.edu
Research interests: Software engineering and human aspects, open-source software, human-computer interaction, empirical software engineering, and software engineering education and training.
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Education: Ph.D. 2025, Informatics and Computing, Northern Arizona University; M.S. 2020, Computer Science and Computational Mathematics, University of São Paulo, Brazil; B.S. 2018, Digital Media and Systems, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Peter-Michael Seidel
Associate Professor
POST 311A
808-956-6068
pseidel@hawaii.edu
Nodari Sitchinava
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
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
Katy Tarrit
Assistant Professor
POST 305E
katytm7@hawaii.edu
Yifan Wang
Assistant Professor
yifanw@hawaii.edu
Research interests: Databases, high-dimensional data systems, AI+DB, data analytic systems, information retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for LLM.
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Education: Ph.D. 2024, Computer Science, University of Florida; M.S. 2019, Computer Science, University of Florida; B.S. 2017, Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Haopeng Zhang
Assistant Professor
haopengz@hawaii.edu
ALOHA Lab
Research interests: Natural language processing, generative AI, specifically text summarization, multi-modal LLM, LLM applications.
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Education: Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Davis; M.S., Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; M.S., Computational Science, Georgia Institute of Technology; B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Faculty Specialists
Kenny Ka‘aiakamanu-Quibilan
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
POST 303A
808-956-5428
kennydq@hawaii.edu
Professor of Practice
Shivam Kishore
Professor of Practice Vancouver, Canada shivam.kishore@un.org
Senior Advisor, Digital Transformation
United Nations Environment Program, United Nations System Staff College and D4DInsights
Startup Investor & Advisor
Techstars, 500 Global
Research interests: AI governance and ethics in global development, Digital transformation for climate resilience and sustainability, Data-driven public policy and institutional innovation, Responsible technology investment and capacity building, Impact Investment and Sustainable Technology Scaling
Education: MLA, Harvard University, BASc Engineering, Simon Fraser University
Eliane Ubalijoro
Professor of Practice Nairobi, Kenya E.Ubalijoro@cifor-icraf.org
Chief Executive Officer
Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Director General ICRAF
Research interests: Molecular Genetics, Agriculture, biotechnology, Climate change, international development, food security, biodiversity, sustainable development and global health, Economic development
Education: Ph.D. 2001, McGill University; M.Sc. 1995, McGill University; B.Sc. 1992, McGill University
Cooperating and Affiliate Graduate Faculty
Lee Altenberg
Adjunct Professor
Mathematics
altenber@hawaii.edu
Brent Aurenheimer
Professor
Computer Science
Fresno State University
brent@csufresno.edu
Rich Gazan
Professor
Library and Information Science
School of Communication and Information
HL 102A
808-956-5094
gazan@hawaii.edu
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
Computational Scientist
UH Mānoa, UH Maui High Performance Computing
koniges@hawaii.edu
Igor Molybog
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
POST 205H
molybog@hawaii.edu
Research interests: Computational techniques for learning from data that are highly scalable with the availability of the compute; working on optimizers and model architecture scaling schemes that would allow predictable and efficient training of Transformer models containing hundreds of billions of parameters.
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Education: Ph.D., Operations Research, 2022, University of California, Berkeley
Lenore Pipes
Assistant Professor
Pacific Biosciences Research Center
lpipes@hawaii.edu
Research interests: Metagenomics, phylogenetics, bioinformatics,
algorithm development, genomics, software development, computational
biology.
Education: Ph.D. Computational Biology, Cornell University; M.S.
Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University; B.A. Biology, Swarthmore
College
John Sheppard
Professor
Hawaii Cancer Center
johnshep@hawaii.edu
Dennis Streveler
Professor (retired)
strev@hawaii.edu
Susanne Still
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
WAT 440
808-956-2970
Peter Washington
Affiliate Grad Faculty
UCSF Assistant Professor
Research interests: Consumer Health Informatics, mHealth, Health AI, Digital Health, Applied Clinical Informatics
Scholar
Education: Ph.D. 2022, Bioengineering, Stanford; B.S. 2015, Computer Science, Rice
Faculty Emeriti
Philip Johnson
Professor
POST 303G
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
David Chin
Professor Emeritus
POST 303G
chin@hawaii.edu
Stephen Itoga
Professor Emeritus
POST 303G
itoga@hawaii.edu
David Pager
Professor Emeritus
POST 303G
Staff
Wesley Sugimoto
Administrative and Fiscal Support
POST 317/317B
808-956-8249
wesleysu@hawaii.edu
Todd Tomita
IT System Admin.
POST 327
808-956-7639
toddtt@hawaii.edu
Charles Shackford
IT Network/System Admin.
POST 327
808-956-4989
shackfor@hawaii.edu