The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University welcomed 10 new faculty members for the fall 2022 semester with research expertise in areas such as approximation algorithms, high-level programming models and computational geometry.
“The computer science and engineering department continues to expand significantly, not only at College Station but also at Galveston with the start of our degree program there this fall,” said Dr. Scott Schaefer, head of the department. “I’m excited to have these promising faculty join our program, and we look forward to their future contributions and successes.”
The new faculty members include:
Marcus Botacin, visiting assistant professor who received his doctoral degree in computer science from the Federal University of Paraná and his master’s degree in computer science and bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Campinas. His research interests include reverse engineering, antivirus, malware, forensics and hardware-assisted security.
Zoran Budimlić, instructional associate professor and director of undergraduate studies at Texas A&M University at Galveston who received his doctoral and master’s degrees in computer science from Rice University and his bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Belgrade. His research interests include compiler optimizations, runtime systems, high-performance and parallel computing, computer science education and high-level programming models.
Christiana Chamon, instructional assistant professor who received her doctoral and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M and her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston. Her research interests include unconditional (information-theoretic) security over the wire, analog electronics design for information security and unconditionally secure electronics design.
Victoria Crawford, assistant professor who received her doctoral degree in computer engineering and her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in mathematics from the University of Florida. Her research interests include applied optimization, approximation algorithms and data mining.
Alpaslan Duysak, instructional associate professor who received his doctoral degree from the National Centre for Computer Animation at Bournemouth University, master’s degree in electrical engineering from Penn State and bachelor’s degree in electrical-electronics engineering from Gazi University. His research interests include computer graphics, haptic design, deformation algorithms, optimization and machine learning.
Alan Kuhnle, assistant professor who received his doctoral degree in computer science and master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Florida and his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Florida State University. His research interests include data science, machine learning, combinatorial optimization, and algorithms and theory.
Sandeep Kumar, associate professor of practice who received his doctoral degree in computer science from Purdue University, master’s degree in computer science from the University of Tennessee and bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. His research interests include computer security and computer networking.
Jason O’Kane, professor who received is doctoral and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and bachelor’s degree in computer science from Taylor University. His research interests include planning algorithms, autonomous robots and computational geometry.
Wenping Wang, professor who received his doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Alberta and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in computer science from Shandong University. His research interests include computer vision, visualization, computer graphics, and geometric modeling and computing.
Tianbao Yang, associate professor who received his doctoral degree in computer science from Michigan State University and his bachelor’s degree in automation from the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include optimization, artificial intelligence and machine learning.