Faculty
Our Faculty
General inquiries to the department and the M.S. Program should be sent to the Department Chair / Graduate Program Director, William Turkett (turketwh@wfu.edu), and/or the department Academic Coordinator, Zoey Li (lizo@wfu.edu).
William Turkett
Department Chair
Graduate Program Director, Associate Professor
Research Interests: Computational Biosciences, Applications of Machine Learning, Network Security
Sarra Alqahtani
Assistant Professor
Denton Family Faculty Fellow
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning
Grey Ballard
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Numerical Linear Algebra, High Performance Computing, Computational Science
Daniel Cañas
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Software for Computer Science Education, Processes and Thread in Linux
Minghan Chen
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Knowledge-guided Machine Learning, Bioinformatic Inference, Parameter Optimization
Samuel Cho
Associate Professor of Physics
Affiliate of Computer Science
301B Olin Physical Laboratory
Research Interests: Computational Biophysics, High Performance Computing (GPUs)
William Cochran
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ethics of Emerging Technologies, Moral Education, Computer Ethics
Aditya Devarakonda
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: High Performance Computing, Machine Learning, Scientific Computing
Ron Doyle
Presidential Chair in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship
Research Interests: Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Web Application Development, Automation, Artificial Intelligence and the Application of these Topics to Entrepreneurial Innovation.
Jennifer Erway
Professor of Mathematics
Affiliate of Computer Science
Research Interests: Computational Mathematics
Errin Fulp
Professor
Research Interests: Intelligence-driven Approaches to Computer Security, Computer Networks
Don Gage
Research Associate Professor
Natalia Khuri
Assistant Professor
Z. Smith Reynolds Faculty Fellow
Research Interests: Data Mining, Data-centric Artificial Intelligence (DCAI)
Sami Khuri
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: Detection of Patterns in Biological Sequences
Kyle Luthy
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Affiliate of Computer Science
Research Interests: Field-deployable Unmanned Distributed Sensor Systems and Robotics
Paúl Pauca
Professor
Research Interests: Intelligent Remote Sensing for Conservation and Discovery, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Computational Imaging
Bob Plemmons
Research Professor
Reynolds Professor of Computer Science & Mathematics – Emeritus
Research Interests: Computational Mathematics
Rob Robless
Visiting Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Evolution of Domestic Software Engineering Skills
Pete Santago
Professor
Faculty Director of the University WakerSpace
Research Interests: Simulation, Machine Learning, Curriculum Development
Cody Stevens
Adjunct Professor
Senior UNIX Systems Administrator
Olubunmi Sule
Visiting Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Cybersecurity
Xueyuan “Michael” Vanbastelaer
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Systems Security, Privacy, Data Provenance, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning
Fan Yang
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Trustworthy AI
Ying Zhang
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Software Security, Software Engineering
Emeriti Faculty
Jennifer Burg
Professor Emerita
David John
Professor Emeritus
Stan Thomas
Associate Professor Emeritus