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Computer Science Faculty
Khaled Ahmed, Graduate Program Director, Assistant Professor
Ansuman Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Education:
Ph.D., Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta
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Mark Byrd, Professor
Zhong Chen, Assistant Professor
Bidyut Gupta, Professor
Henry Hexmoor, Professor
Md Belayat Hossain, Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Electronics and Computer Science, University of Hyogo
Current Research Interests: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Computer Vision, Medical Image Processing, and Healthcare Analytics.
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Chun-Hsi "Vincent" Huang, Director of the School of Computing
Computer Science
Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo
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Xiaolan "Sharon" Huang, Assistant Professor
Xiaopeng Jiang, Assistant Professor

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618-453-9421
xiaopeng.jiang@siu.edu
Alvi Ataur Khalil, Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Education:
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering – Florida International University (FIU), USA, 2025
Current Research:
Cybersecurity, Reinforcement Learning, Blockchain, Game Theory, Intrusion Detection, Formal Verification, Zero-Knowledge Techniques
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618-453-4656
alviataur.khalil@siu.edu
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Xiaoqing "Frank" Liu, Dean of the College of Engineering
Dr. Liu's research interests include cyber argumentation based social media and networking, data analytics based recommendation systems, service computing, cyber physical systems, software engineering, applied artificial intelligence, and advanced computing and data applications.
Education:
Ph.D. Computer Science, Texas A&M University
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David Paper, Clinical Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Education:
Ph.D., Management Information Systems, Southern Illinois University
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Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Education:
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia State University
Research areas:
AI and Data Science. Particularly, Graph Machine Learning, Graph mining, Graph GenAI, Network Science, and their applications across different domains, including bioinformatics, health data analysis, event and sequence understanding, and vision-language reasoning tasks
Teaching areas:
Machine Learning, Deep learning, Network Science, AI, Database, Big Data
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Rana Salameh, Undergraduate Program Director, Clinical Assistant Professor
S. Yaser Samadi, Professor
Professor of Statistics, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2014. Multivariate and Matrix Time Series Analysis.
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Sayed Chhattan Shah, Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Education:
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, 2012
Research Areas:
Mobile Distributed Systems, IoT, Healthcare Digital Twins
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618-453-4685
sayedchhattan.shah@siu.edu
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