Members | GulfSCEI

GulfSCEI Members

Key Personnel

Mahdi Abdelguerfi

Director

Professor

GulfSCEI

mahdi@cs.uno.edu

Research Interests

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

Faculty & Staff

Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz

Director of AiR Lab & Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

aredwann@uno.edu

Research Interests

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems
Dimitrios Charalampidis

Department Chair

Department of Electrical Engineering

Research Interests

Image and Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, FPGAs, Neural Networks
Md Tamjidul Hoque

Director of Bioinformatics and Machine Learning Lab & Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

thoque@uno.edu

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

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

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

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

Research Interests

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

Department Chair

Department of Mathematics

Research Interests

Statistical computing, Statistical Consulting, Sequential Analysis, Selection and Ranking, Sampling, Biostatistics, Clinical Trials
Christopher Summa

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

csumma@cs.uno.edu

Research Interests

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

Senior Research Software Engineer

GulfSCEI

Research Interests

Automated Aeronautical Symbology, Machine Learning, Web Applications, Mobile Applications
Dr. Md Meftahul Ferdaus

Postdoctoral Research Associate

GulfSCEI

mferdaus@uno.edu
Ted Holmberg

Postdoctoral Research Associate

GulfSCEI
Md Fourkanul Islam

Research Software Engineer

GulfSCEI

Research Interests

Web Development, Cross-Platform App Development, Machine Learning, Databases, Cloud
Sean Naquin

Research Software Engineer

GulfSCEI
Dr. Jay Ratcliff

Senior Research Associate

GulfSCEI

Graduate Research Assistants

Rasha Alshawi

Graduate Research Assistant

GulfSCEI
Shahana Chowdhury

Doctoral Research Assistant

GulfSCEI
Anav Katwal

Graduate Research Assistant

GulfSCEI
Manisha Panta

Doctoral Research Assistant

GulfSCEI
Austin Schmidt

Doctoral Research Assistant

GulfSCEI
Padam Thapa

Doctoral Research Assistant

GulfSCEI

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Oscar Cabezas

Undergraduate Research Assistant

GulfSCEI
Johny Lopez

Undergraduate Research Assistant

GulfSCEI

Former Faculty & Staff

Shaikh Arifuzzaman

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

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Research Interests

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

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

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

Emeritus Associate Director

Professor

Department of Biology

Research Interests

Oyster biology, epizootiology, fisheries and habitat suitability models
Minhaz Zibran

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

Research Interests

Software Engineering