CITeR/Researchers

Bank of America Distinguished Professor
Co-director for the Charlotte AI Institute (CLTAI2)
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow 
Board of directors, Biometrics Institute
President-elect, IEEE Biometrics Council
Research interests: biometrics, machine learning, security, image processing 

Professor and coordinator for National Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education and Research
Research interests: communication theory, error control coding, and network security

Associate professor and program coordinator for Biometrics minor
Research interests: biometrics, micro/nanophotonics, and biosensing, with a strong emphasis on large‑scale data, sensor systems, and machine learning for human identification

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Senior vice president for Research, Innovation and Economic Development
Research interests: Machine learning, pattern recognition, biometrics, language technologies

Co-director and principal research scientist in the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS)
Associate director of community engagement, Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Research interests: AI, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, information retrieval

John and Eva Cillag Endowed Chair in Science and Engineering
Martin J. Vanderploeg Endowed Professor in the College of Engineering
Professor in the department of Computer Science
Director of the i-PRoBe Lab
Research interests: biometrics, privacy, computer vision and deep learning

Senior research scientist at the Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland)
Professor at the University de Lausanne (UNIL) at the School of Criminal Justice
Director of the Swiss Center for Biometrics at Idiap
IEEE Fellow
IAPR Fellow
Research interests: face recognition, speaker recognition, vein recognition, attack detection (presentation attacks, morphing attacks, deepfakes) and template protection

Professor in the department of Software and Information Systems
Co-director, HCI Lab
Member of the UNC Charlotte Cyber Defense and Network Assurability Center
Research interests: usable security and privacy, human-computer interaction, and social computing

Assistant professor in Computer Science
PC member for SIGMOD, KDD, ICDM, AAAI, SIGSPATIAL
Reviewer for TKDE, TIST, TIFS, TMC, DAPD, and Computer & Security
NSF CAREER Awardee
Research interests: privacy-preserving methods for computer vision; behavioral, and health data; theoretically well-grounded privacy models such as differential privacy

Assistant professor in computer science
Co-founder of the Charlotte Vision Lab (CharMLab)
Researcher in AI4Health Center
Research interests: video representation learning and robotic vision

Associate professor in computer science
Co-director for AI4Health Center
Research interests: deep learning and reinforcement learning, with applications in smart sensing, networking, computer vision, internet of nano-things, and cyber-physical systems

Adjunct faculty
Emeritus member of the Board of Directors for IDPro
Research interests: cybersecurity, focusing on identity & access management
Active credentials include CISSP, CIDPRO, and PMP

Professor and dean in the College of Computing and Informatics
Former director of CITeR
Research interests: information assurance and biometrics, software engineering with emphasis on verification and validation, and resilient computing

Professor
Research interests: statistical methodologies for bio-authentication technologies such as facial recognition and fingerprint readers
Fulbright Scholar

Professor and associate chair for computer science
Program director for computer science graduate studies
Research interests: machine learning, computer vision, data compression, search algorithms & data structures, bioinformatics, computational biology

Professor, electrical & computer engineering
Research interests: processor architecture (multi/many-core multi-threading architecture), embedded systems, power/energy-aware computing, interaction between operating system and micro-architecture, hardware acceleration techniques and reconfigurable computing

Professor and chair, mathematics and Coulter School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Co-director, data analytics MS program
Research interests: complex networks, epidemiological modeling, power systems, with applications of mathematics to problems of biology, psychology, social sciences and biometrics, data science and applied machine learning, information visualization

Research scientist
Research interests: machine learning, pattern classification and artificial intelligence; applications are biometric person authentication and handwritten word recognition

Courtesy professor, electrical & computer engineering, Clarkson University
Professor & chair, software engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
Research interests: software engineering, behavioral biometrics, cybersecurity, and education research

Academic dean and professor
Associate director for faculty support for the Institute for STEM Education
Member of the Tau Beta Pi and the Eta Kappa Nu honor societies
Research interests: signal processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and STEM Education

Associate professor
Research interests: variational analysis, data science, and image processing; focuses on the restoration and analysis of noisy or incomplete data, with applications spanning materials science, biomedical imaging, and STEM education.

Associate professor
Research interests: programming languages, software engineering; formal methods in computing, especially automated verification; parallel, distributed, and concurrent computing; applied machine learning

Teaching assistant professor
Research interests: DNA analysis and quality management

University Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Douglas E. Zongker Endowed Professor in Engineering
Research interests: biometrics, machine learning

Anil K. and Nandita Jain Endowed Professor of Engineering
MSU Research Foundation Professor
Research interests: computer vision, pattern recognition, image and video processing, machine learning, human computer interface, medical image analysis, multimedia retrieval

Professor
Inaugural chair, AI and society
Katherine Johnson Chair in Artificial Intelligence, department of Computer Science and Engineering
Research interests: structured linear algebra (with applications in machine learning), database algorithms, theory of error-correcting codes, algorithms and society

Professor
Director, SEAS/SOM Cybersecurity MS program
Director, Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education (CEISARE)
Research interests: behavioral biometrics, computer security, distributed systems, fault-tolerant computing (hardware/software)

Professor and Carl V. Granger Endowed Chair
Director of research, computer science and engineering
Director, center for translational AI and digital health
Research interests: digital Health; mobile, wearable, and wireless sensing systems; artificial intelligence for healthcare; brain-computer interfaces; digital twins; biometrics; cybersecurity, privacy, and trustworthy AI

Professor
Director of graduate studies
Research interests: LOC (lab-on-a-chip); MicroTAS (Micro Total Analysis Systems); BioMEMS (Bio Micro Electro Mechanical Systems); SANS (Sample-to-Answer Nano/microfluidic Systems); nanobiosensors for bio/chemical/environmental applications; world-to-chip interfacing and packaging; single cell manipulation, sorting, and detection; microvalves; micropumps; microfluidics

Professor, chair, & director of graduate studies, biomedical engineering
Adjunct professor, computer science and engineering
Research interests: develop novel optical and ultrasonic imaging techniques to meet needs in cancer and neurological research

Professor
Director, communication science center
Faculty athletics representative
Research interests: interpersonal communication, deception, Facial Action Coding System (FACS)

Associate professor
Research interests: ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction, intelligent perception, active health, artificial intelligence, and the application of related technologies in smart healthcare, biometric recognition, and the Internet of Things

Associate professor, computer science and engineering & AI and society
Associate director of AI strategy and positioning, Institute for AI and Data Science
Director, cUBlab
Research interests: Obtaining a better understanding of the dynamics and cognitive representations of stereotypes and prejudice, and their inter-relationships with sociocultural structure and behavior

SUNY Empire Innovation Professor and department chair
Research interests: document image understanding; video analysis; pattern recognition; computer vision; media forensics; artificial intelligence

Associate professor, computer science and engineering
Faculty director, women in science and engineering
Research interests: applied cryptography; information security; privacy-preserving computation and outsourcing

SUNY Distinguished Professor & SUNY Empire Innovation Professor
Co-director, Center for Information Integrity
Director, Institute for Artificial and Data Science
Research interests: digital media forensics; computer vision; machine learning