Faculty
Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty
Amin Alipour
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Oregon State University
maalipou@central.uh.edu
713-743-7462
Office: PGH 574
Guoning Chen
Professor
Associate Department Chair
Ph.D., Oregon State University
gchen16@uh.edu
713-743-5788
Office: PGH 566
Albert Cheng
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
amcheng@uh.edu
713-743-3353
Office: PGH 534
Rathish Das
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
rathish@uh.edu
713-743-1382
Office: PGH 595
Zhigang Deng
Moores Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Southern California
zdeng4@central.uh.edu
713-743-1018
Office: PGH 228
Christoph Eick
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
ceick@uh.edu
713-743-3345
Office: PGH 589
Omprakash Gnawali
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California
gnawali@uh.edu
Office: PGH 230
Stephen S.-H. Huang
Professor
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
shuang@cougarnet.uh.edu
713-743-3338
Office: PGH 219
Lennart Johnsson
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair; Professor of Computer
Science, Mathematics, and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Interim Department Chair
Ph.D., Chalmers Institute of Technology (Sweden)
ljohnsson@uh.edu
713-743-3371
Office: PGH 592
Ioannis Kakadiaris
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor; Professor of
Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
ioannisk@uh.edu
713-743-1255
Office: HBS 322
Ernst Leiss
Professor
Dr. Techn., Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
eleiss@uh.edu
713-743-3359
Office: PGH 522
Sen Lin
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University
slin50@Central.UH.EDU
713-743-1652
Office: PGH 593
Jinyang Liu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
jliu217@Central.UH.EDU
713-743-8043
Office: PGH 569
Arjun Mukherjee
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
arjun@uh.edu
Office: PGH 582
Jingchao Ni
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
jni7@uh.edu
713-743-3984
Office: PGH 594
Carlos Ordonez
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
carlos@uh.edu
713-743-1013
Office: PGH 571
Gopal Pandurangan
Moores Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
gpandurangan@uh.edu
713-743-5556
Office: PGH 572
Ioannis Pavlidis
Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
ipavlidis@uh.edu
713-743-0101
Office: HBS 306
Peizhu (Pam) Qian
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rice University
pqian@central.uh.edu
713-743-2476
Office: PGH 550A
Ali Shokri
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rochester Institute of Technology
ashokri@central.uh.edu
713-743-5542
Office: PGH 584
Weidong (Larry) Shi
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
wshi3@uh.edu
713-743-2688
Office: PGH 536
Jaspal Subhlok
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Rice University
jaspal@uh.edu
713-743-3340
Office: PGH 217
Nikolaos V. Tsekos
Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
nvtsekos@uh.edu
713-743-3358
Office: PGH 595
Rakesh Verma
Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
rverma@uh.edu
713-743-3348
Office: PGH 532
Panruo Wu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
pwu7@uh.edu
713-743-7615
Office: PGH 564
Feng Yan
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., College of William & Mary
fyan5@uh.edu
713-743-2930
Office: PGH 589
Jianyi Yang
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
jyang71@Central.UH.EDU
713-743-7553
Office: PGH 590
Chengming Zhang
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington
czhang59@Central.UH.EDU
713-743-0744
Office: PGH 567
Instructional Faculty
Daniel Biediger
Instructional Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston
debiediger@uh.edu
713-743-3357
Office: PGH 579
Victoria Hilford
Instructional Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston
vhilford@Central.UH.EDU
Office: PGH 513
Carlos Rincon
Instructional Associate Professor
Director, ConocoPhillips Computer Science Learning Center
Ph.D., University of Houston
carincon@uh.edu
713-743-8547
Office: PGH 577
Nouhad Rizk
Instructional Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ed.D., Leicester University (United Kingdom)
njrizk@uh.edu
713-743-3710
Office: PGH 565
Chang Yun
Instructional Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston
cyun@uh.edu
713-743-3366
Office: PGH 514
Joint Faculty
Zhu Han
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Joint Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Badrinath Roysam
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Joint Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., Washington University
Adjunct Faculty
Uma Ramamurthy
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Memphis
Venkat Subramaniam
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston
Lecturers
Kevin Long
Lecturer
M.S., Rice University
Pranav Mantini
Lecturer; Senior Researcher, Quantitative Imaging Lab
Ph.D., University of Houston
pmantini@uh.edu
713-743-1857
Office: PGH 524
Nguyen Phan
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Houston
Raunak Sarbajna
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Houston
Anusha Sekar
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Washington
Raj Singh
Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette