Faculty

The faculty section offers an alphabetical listing of all full-time faculty in the Computer Science Department.

Jo, Chang-Hyun, Professor
Chair, Department of Computer Science
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma
Software engineering, software process assessment and improvement, object-oriented design, and agent-oriented software engineering
Office: CS-425
Phone: (657) 278-7255
Email: cjo@fullerton.edu
URL: http://jo.ecs.fullerton.edu

Akwafuo, Sampson, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of North Texas, Texas
Computational epidemiology, algorithms analysis, optimization of disease outbreaks and disaster response, contagion modeling
Office: CS-550
Phone: (657) 278-4676
Email: sakwafuo@fullerton.edu
URL: http://sakwafuo.ecs.fullerton.edu/

Susan Barua

Barua, Susan, Professor of Computer Science & Computer Engineering
Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, Ohio
Computer architectures and performance evaluation, neural networks, web-based database development,
and computer networking
Office: CS-502
Phone: (657) 278-3362
Email: sbarua@fullerton.edu
URL: http://www.fullerton.edu/ecs/faculty/sbarua/

Doina Bein Bein, Doina, Professor
Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Automatic Dynamic Decision-making Distributed computing, fault tolerant algorithms, graph embedding, randomized algorithms, sensor fusion, ad hoc and wireless networks
Office: CS-511A
Phone: (657) 278-4822
Email: dbein@fullerton.edu
URL: http://ecs.fullerton.edu/~dbein

Chen, Ning, Professor
Ph.D., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Embedded systems, digital signal processing, robotics, real-time systems, and distributed systems
Office: CS-546
Phone: (657) 278-3293
Email: nchen@fullerton.edu

James S. Choi Choi, James S., Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California, California
Software engineering, reverse software engineering, process modeling & configuration management
Office: CS-427
Phone: (657) 278-7257
Email: jchoi@fullerton.edu

Bing Cong Cong, Bin, Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas, Dallas, Texas
Computer network, parallel processing, neural networks, and heuristic search, software process models, and network security
Office: CS-417
Phone: (657) 278-2031
Email: bcong@fullerton.edu

Mikhail Gofman

Gofman, Mikhail, Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton
System security, policy analysis, and operating systems
Office: CS-429
Phone: (657) 278-7304
Email: mgofman@fullerton.edu
URL: http://ecs.fullerton.edu/~mgofman

Wenlin Han

Han, Wenlin, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Alabama
Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Metaverse, Web3
Office: CS-542
Phone: (657) 278-7151

URL: https://wenlinhan.github.io/

Email: whan@Fullerton.edu

Floyd Holliday Holliday, Floyd, Lecturer
M.A., California State University, Long Beach, California
OOP Software Engg, embedded systems, and web-based application
Office: CS-513
Phone: (657) 278-7021
Email: holliday@fullerton.edu

Paul Inventado

Inventado, Paul Salvador, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Osaka University, Japan
Educational data mining, machine learning, intelligent tutoring systems, and STEM education
Office: CS-534
Phone: (657) 278-3821
Email: pinventado@fullerton.edu
URL: http://www.fullerton.edu/ecs/faculty/pinventado/

Jin, Rong , Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas
Multimedia Systems, Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Realities, Data Mining, Algorithmic Optimization, Social Networks
Office: CS-534
Phone: (657) 278-4970
Email: rong.jin@fullerton.edu
URL: rjin.ecs.fullerton.edu

Shilpa Lakhanpal Lakhanpal, Shilpa, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Western Michigan University (WMU), Michigan
Data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing
Office: CS-538
Phone: (657) 278-7305
Email: shlakhanpal@fullerton.edu

Anand Panangadan Panangadan, Anand, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, California
Machine learning, text mining, social network analysis, sensor networks
Office: CS-548
Phone: (657) 278-3998
Email: apanangadan@fullerton.edu
URL: http://www.fullerton.edu/ecs/faculty/apanangadan/

Ryu, Christopher, Professor

Program Coordinator for M.S in Software Engineering
Ph.D., University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Data science, Computational finance, Software design and architecture
Office: CS-421
Phone: (657) 278-7231
Email: tryu@fullerton.edu
URL: http://tryu.ecs.fullerton.edu

Michael Shafae Shafae, Michael, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, California
Computer graphics, computer games
Office: CS-540
Phone: (657) 278-3291
Email: mshafae@fullerton.edu

Kanika Sood Sood, Kanika, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Oregon
Techniques for suggesting optimal solver methods, enabling users to choose an optimal solver selection technique for their problems, developing a methodology for analyzing revision control and mining issue tracking data to estimate productivity metrics and analyze various scientific software projects
Office: CS-530
Phone: (657) 278-4911
Email: kasood@fullerton.edu

Yun Tian Tian, Yun, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Storage security, cloud security, distributed computing, parallel and high performance computing, and computer science education
Office: CS-544
Phone: (657) 278-2041
Email: ytian@fullerton.edu
URL: http://tianyun.ecs.fullerton.edu

Shawn Wang Wang, Shawn, Professor
Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Databases, knowledge discovery and data mining, pattern matching, and bioinformatics
Office: CS-532
Phone: (657) 278-7258
Email: xwang@fullerton.edu
URL: http://wang.ecs.fullerton.edu/

Dr. Wortman

Wortman, Kevin, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Algorithm design and analysis, data structures, and computational geometry
Office: CS-536
Phone: (657) 278-2968
Email: kwortman@fullerton.edu