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Computer Science Faculty
Kyungim Baek
Associate Professor
POST 303F
808-956-8560
kyungim@hawaii.edu
Mahdi Belcaid
Assistant Research Professor
POST 306B
808-956-6049
mahdi@hawaii.edu
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
Professor
POST 303D
808-956-6107
binsted@hawaii.edu
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
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
Associate Professor
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
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
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. 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
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
Katy Tarrit Mirakhorli
Assistant Professor
POST 305E
katytm7@hawaii.edu
Mehdi Tarrit Mirakhorli
Associate Professor
POST 307B
mehdi23@hawaii.edu
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
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 Associate Chair
Industry Liaison
POST 303C
808-956-3496
guylaine@hawaii.edu
Scott Robertson
Professor
Department Chair
POST 317
808-956-3500
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
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
Associate Professor
Curriculum Committee Chair
POST 311A
808-956-6068
pseidel@hawaii.edu
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
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 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
Kenny Ka‘aiakamanu-Quibilan
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
POST 303A
808-956-5428
kennydq@hawaii.edu
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 Profesor
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. More specifically, he is 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
Susanne Still
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
WAT 440
808-956-2970
Frances Zhu
Assistant Researcher
HSGC Associate Director
Hawaii Institute for Geophysics and Planetology
POST 524B
zhu@higp.hawaii.edu
808-956-5738
Faculty Emeriti
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
Marilou Matsuura
Academic Support
External Relations
POST 317/303B
808-956-7467
marylou4@hawaii.edu
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