GulfSCEI Members

Key Personnel

  • Mahdi Abdelguerfi
    Mahdi Abdelguerfi
    Director
    Professor
    GulfSCEI

    Research Interests
    Spatio-Temporal Database Systems, High-Performance Geographical Information Systems, Synthetic Environments Reconstruction, Parallel Database Systems

Faculty & Staff

  • Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz
    Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz
    Director of AiR Lab & Assistant Professor
    Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests
    Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems

  • Dimitrios Charalampidis
    Dimitrios Charalampidis
    Department Chair
    Department of Electrical Engineering

    Research Interests
    Image and Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, FPGAs, Neural Networks

  • Md Tamjidul Hoque
    Md Tamjidul Hoque
    Director of Bioinformatics and Machine Learning Lab & Associate Professor
    Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests
    Deep Machine Learning/AI, Computer Vision, Evolutionary Computation, Bioinformatics, Disorder Protein Prediction, Gene Regulatory Network, AI in Game Development, Data Science

  • Mark Kulp
    Mark Kulp
    Associate Professor
    Department of Earth and Environmental Science

    Research Interests
    Geology of the northern Gulf Coast with a special emphasis on the sedimentary framework of the Mississippi River delta system and evolution of the latest Quaternary Louisiana coastal plain in response to changes in sediment supply, sea-level rise, and subsidence.

  • Robert Mahon
    Robert Mahon
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

    Research Interests
    Modern and ancient sediment transport, river and delta morphodynamics, stratigraphy of Earth and Mars

  • Ben Samuel
    Ben Samuel
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests
    Interactive Narrative, AI-Driven Game Design, Social Simulation, Computationally Assisted Performance, Mixed-Initiative Systems

  • Tumulesh Solanky
    Tumulesh Solanky
    Department Chair
    Department of Mathematics

    Research Interests
    Statistical computing, Statistical Consulting, Sequential Analysis, Selection and Ranking, Sampling, Biostatistics, Clinical Trials

  • Christopher Summa
    Christopher Summa
    Associate Professor
    Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests
    Bioinformatics, Computational Structural Biology, Protein Structure Modeling and Prediction, Molecular Dynamics of Biomolecules

  • Shengru Tru
    Shengru Tru
    Professor
    Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests
    Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Integration with GIS Web Services, Web Service Testing, Semantic Web Services, Database and Big Data Systems, Computer Education

Research Staff

  • Nathan Cooper
    Nathan Cooper
    Senior Research Software Engineer
    GulfSCEI

    Research Interests
    Automated Aeronautical Symbology, Machine Learning, Web Applications, Mobile Applications

  • Dr. Md Meftahul Ferdaus
    Dr. Md Meftahul Ferdaus
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    GulfSCEI

  • Ted Holmberg
    Ted Holmberg
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    GulfSCEI

  • Md Fourkanul Islam
    Md Fourkanul Islam
    Research Software Engineer
    GulfSCEI

    Research Interests
    Web Development, Cross-Platform App Development, Machine Learning, Databases, Cloud

  • Sean Naquin
    Sean Naquin
    Research Software Engineer
    GulfSCEI

  • Dr. Jay Ratcliff
    Dr. Jay Ratcliff
    Senior Research Associate
    GulfSCEI

Graduate Research Assistants

  • Rasha Alshawi
    Rasha Alshawi
    Graduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Shahana Chowdhury
    Shahana Chowdhury
    Doctoral Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Anav Katwal
    Anav Katwal
    Graduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Manisha Panta
    Manisha Panta
    Doctoral Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Austin Schmidt
    Austin Schmidt
    Doctoral Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Padam Thapa
    Padam Thapa
    Doctoral Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

Undergraduate Research Assistants

  • Oscar Cabezas
    Oscar Cabezas
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Johny Lopez
    Johny Lopez
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

Former Faculty & Staff

  • Shaikh Arifuzzaman
    Shaikh Arifuzzaman
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests
    Big Data Mining and Analysis, Graph (Network) Analytics, Parallel Algorithms, High Performance Computing, Large-scale Scientific Computing

  • Ioannis Georgiou
    Ioannis Georgiou
    Associate Professor
    Department of Earth and Environmental Science

    Research Interests
    Modeling circulation and transport in coastal systems, coastal geomorphology, delta channel network dynamics, morphodynamic modeling of deltas and barrier islands

  • Malay Ghose-Hajra
    Malay Ghose-Hajra
    Assistant Professor & Graduate Coordinator
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research Interests
    Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering, Coastal Restoration and Protection, Aerial Photogrammetry Applications, Numerical Modeling, Instrumentation and Monitoring

  • Atriya Sen
    Atriya Sen
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests
    Artificial Intelligence, particularly AI & explanation, computational logic, cognitive AI systems, philosophy of AI, automated scientific discovery, computational philosophy, biodiversity informatics, AI for sustainability and conservation biology, bioinformatics generally

  • Thomas Soniat
    Thomas Soniat
    Emeritus Associate Director
    Professor
    Department of Biology

    Research Interests
    Oyster biology, epizootiology, fisheries and habitat suitability models

  • Minhaz Zibran
    Minhaz Zibran
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Computer Science

    Research Interests
    Software Engineering

Former Research Staff

  • Charles Crawford
    Charles Crawford
    Research Software Engineer
    GulfSCEI

  • Daniel Murphy
    Daniel Murphy
    Research Software Engineer
    GulfSCEI

  • Dustin Peabody
    Dustin Peabody
    Research Software Engineer
    GulfSCEI

  • Daniel Ward
    Daniel Ward
    Senior Research Software Engineer
    GulfSCEI

Former Graduate Assistants

  • Tasia Denapolis
    Tasia Denapolis
    Doctoral Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Devin Frey
    Devin Frey
    Graduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Pujan Pokhrel
    Pujan Pokhrel
    Doctoral Research Assistant
    Department of Computer Science

  • Elias Sandner
    Elias Sandner
    Graduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Astha Sharma
    Astha Sharma
    Graduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Matt Toups
    Matt Toups
    Graduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Zhao Yang
    Zhao Yang
    Doctoral Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Maximilian Zöch
    Maximilian Zöch
    Graduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

Former Undergraduate Assistants

  • Charles Becker
    Charles Becker
    Webmaster
    GulfSCEI

  • Kristen Maus
    Kristen Maus
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Samip Neupane
    Samip Neupane
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Rishav Rajendra
    Rishav Rajendra
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Bijay Regmi
    Bijay Regmi
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Abhishek Sapkota
    Abhishek Sapkota
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Perabjoth Singh
    Perabjoth Singh
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI

  • Huy Vu
    Huy Vu
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    GulfSCEI