Faculty

Zahid Anwar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor/Challey Scholar
QBB 258 A8
(701) 231-4479
Zahid.Anwar@ndsu.edu

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008

Research Interests: Cybersecurity policy and law, artificial intelligence and machine learning

Anne Denton, Ph.D.

Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator
QBB 258 A28
(701) 231-6748
Anne.Denton@ndsu.edu

University of Mainz, 1996

Research Interests: Data Mining; Bioinformatics; Scientific Informatics; Databases; Geospatial Data; Cloud Computing

Ajay Jha, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
QBB 258 B8
(701) 231-6377
Ajay.Jha.1@ndsu.edu

Kyungpook National University, 2017

Research Interests: Software Engineering, Software Testing and Maintenance

Jun Kong, Ph.D.

Professor
QBB 258 A14
(701) 231-8179
Jun.Kong@ndsu.edu

University of Texas, Dallas, 2005

Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Mobile Computing; Software Engineering

Lu Liu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
QBB 258 A16
(701) 231-5856
Lu.Liu.2@ndsu.edu

University of Texas at San Antonio, 2017

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, & Data Science

Jen Li, Ph.D.

Professor
QBB 258 A12
(701) 231-9662
J.Li@ndsu.edu

University of British Columbia, 2008

Research Interests: Smart and Connected Health, Semantic Web Technologies, Internet of Things (IoT)

Simone Ludwig, Ph.D.

Professor and Department Chair
QBB 258 A22
(701) 231-8197
Simone.Ludwig@ndsu.edu

Brunel University, 2004

Research Interests: Swarm Intelligence; Evolutionary Computation; Fuzzy Reasoning; Cloud Computing

Kenneth Magel, Ph.D.

Professor
QBB 258 A24
(701) 231-8189
Kenneth.Magel@ndsu.edu

Brown University, 1977

Research Interests: Software Engineering; Human-Computer Interfaces; Software Complexity; Software Design

M. Zubair Malik, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
QBB 258 A23
(701) 231-7248
Zubair.Malik@ndsu.edu

University of Texas at Austin, 2014

Research Interests: Program Analysis, Automated Program Repair, Secure Software Development, Software Verification-Validation and Testing, Software Systems (especially large scale Distributed Systems for Datascience and Machine Learning), Formal Methods, Application of Artificial Intelligence in Program Analysis

Saeed Salem, Ph.D.

Professor
QBB 258
(701) 231-6377
Saeed.Salem@ndsu.edu

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2009

Research Interests: Bioinformatics; Data Mining

Jeremy Straub, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
QBB 424A
(701) 231-8196
Jeremy.Straub@ndsu.edu

University of North Dakota, 2016

Research Interests: Artificial / Computational Intelligence; Autonomy Applications in Aerospace; Cybersecurity; 3D Printing Command / Control and Assessment; Educational Assessment in Computing Disciplines

Vasant Ubhaya, Ph.D.

Professor
QBB 258 A9
(701) 231-8947
Vasant.Ubhaya@ndsu.edu

University of California-Berkeley, 1971

Research Interests: Algorithm Analysis; Approximation and Optimization

Changhui Yan, Ph.D.

Professor, Graduate Coordinator of Computer Science
Director, Genomics, Phenomics and Bioinformatics Program
QBB 258 A27
(701) 231-8182
Changhui.Yan@ndsu.edu

Iowa State University, 2005

Research Interests: Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Genomics; Machine Learning; Data Mining; Big Data; Cloud Computing

Affiliated Faculty

Gursimran Walia, Ph.D.

Professor
(701) 231-8562
Gursimran.Walia@ndsu.edu

Mississippi State University, 2009

Research Interests: Empirical Software Engineering; Software Errors and Software Quality Improvement; Requirements Engineering; Human Cognition in Software Engineering; Managing and Estimating Software Quality