The University of Texas at San Antonio UTSA college of sciences
Department of Computer Science

Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Rajendra V. Boppana
Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California (1991)
 Office: SB 4.01.52
Phone: (210) 458-5692
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/faculty/boppana
Email: boppana@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Computer Networks; Computer and Information Security
Tom Bylander
Associate Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University (1986)
 Office: SB 4.01.38
Phone: (210) 458-5693
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~bylander/
Email: bylander@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Expert Systems
Anthony T. Chronopoulos
Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1986)
 Office: SB 3.02.16
Phone: (210) 458-7214
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/faculty/atc
Email: atc@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: High Performance Computing; Parallel and Distributed Systems
Daniel A. Jiménez
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (2002)
 Office: SB 4.01.58
Phone: (210) 458-6088
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~dj/
Email: dj@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Computer Architecture; High Performance Computing; Programming Languages and Compilers
Turgay Korkmaz
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona (2001)
 Office: SB 4.01.13
Phone: (210) 458-7346
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~korkmaz/
Email: korkmaz@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Computer Networks; Computer and Information Security
Hugh Maynard
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado (1970)
 Office: SB 4.01.28
Phone: (210) 458-5542
Email: maynard@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Computer and Information Security
Jianwei Niu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Waterloo (2005)
 Office: SB 4.01.36
Phone: (210) 458-7360
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~niu/
Email: niu@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Software Engineering; Computer and Information Security
Kleanthis Psarris
Professor
Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology (1991)
 Office: SB 4.01.10
Phone: (210) 458-4434
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~psarris/
Email: psarris@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Programming Languages and Compilers; Parallel and Distributed Systems; High Performance Computing
John P. Quarles
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida (2009)
 Office: SB 4.01.22
Phone: (210) 458-7433
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~jpq/
Email: jpq@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities
Kay A. Robbins
Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1975)
 Office: SB 4.01.25
Phone: (210) 458-5543
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~krobbins/
Email: krobbins@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Visualization; Computational Biology; Scientific Applications
Steven Robbins
Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973)
 Office: SB 4.01.23
Phone: (210) 458-5544
Web: http://vip.cs.utsa.edu/personnel/srobbins.html
Email: srobbins@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Visualization, Auralization and Animation
Jianhua Ruan
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Washington University in Saint Louis (2007)
 Office: SB 4.01.48
Phone: (210) 458-6819
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~jruan/
Email: jruan@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Biological Networks
Ravi Sandhu
Professor and Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair in Cyber Security
Executive Director, Institute for Cyber Security
Ph.D., Rutgers University (1983)
 Office: BSE 2.304
Phone: (210) 458-6081
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~rsandhu/
Email: ravi.sandhu@utsa.edu
Research Interests: Computer and Information Security; Role-Based Access Control; Authorization and Authentication
Macneil Shonle
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (2009)
 Office: SB 4.01.34
Phone: (210) 458-6961
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~mshonle/
Email: mshonle@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Software Engineering; Aspect-Oriented Programming
Qi Tian
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002)
 Office: SB 4.01.15
Phone: (210) 458-5165
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~qitian/
Email: qitian@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Computer Vision; Multimedia Information Retrieval; Pattern Recognition; Computational Biology
Ali Saman Tosun
Associate Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University (2003)
 Office: SB 4.01.32
Phone: (210) 458-7663
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~tosun/
Email: tosun@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Databases; Computer Networks; Computer and Information Security; High Performance Computing
Jeffery von Ronne
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine (2005)
 Office: SB 4.01.14
Phone: (210) 458-5667
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~vonronne/
Email: vonronne@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Programming Languages and Compilers; Software Reliability and Security; Runtime Environments
Carola Wenk
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Free University Berlin (2002)
 Office: SB 4.01.17
Phone: (210) 458-4501
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~carola/
Email: carola at cs dot utsa dot edu
Research Interests: Algorithms; Computational Geometry; Computational Biology
R. Clint Whaley
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University (2004)
 Office: SB 4.01.12
Phone: (210) 458-5545
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~whaley/
Email: whaley@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Computer Architecture; High Performance Computing; Empirical Optimization
Gregory B. White
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Texas A&M University (1995)
 Office: SB 4.01.54
Phone: (210) 458-6307
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~gbwhite/
Email: Greg.White@utsa.edu
Research Interests: Computer and Information Security
William H. Winsborough
Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1989)
 Office: SB 4.01.26
Phone: (210) 458-5659
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~winsboro/
Email: winsboro at cs dot utsa dot edu
Research Interests: Computer and Information Security; Privacy in Distributed Systems
Shouhuai Xu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Fudan University (2000)
 Office: SB 4.01.46
Phone: (210) 458-5739
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~shxu/
Email: shxu@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Computer and Information Security; Cryptography; Intrusion Detection
Qing Yi
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rice University (2002)
 Office: SB 4.01.30
Phone: (210) 458-5671
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~qingyi/
Email: qingyi@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Programming Languages and Compilers; Parallel and Distributed Systems; High Performance Computing
Weining Zhang
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago (1988)
 Office: SB 4.01.19
Phone: (210) 458-5557
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~wzhang/
Email: wzhang@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Databases; Data Mining; Data Privacy
Dakai Zhu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh (2004)
 Office: SB 4.01.18
Phone: (210) 458-7453
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~dzhu/
Email: dzhu@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Embedded Systems; Real-Time Systems; Parallel and Distributed Systems; High Performance Computing

Adjunct Faculty

Borries Demeler
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Ph.D., Oregon State University (1992)
 Office: UTHSCSA, Medical School 420-D
Phone: (210) 567-6592
Web: http://www.demeler.uthscsa.edu/
Email: demeler@biochem.uthscsa.edu
Research Interests: Modeling of hydrodynamic and thermodynamic properties of biological macromolecules; High-performance network computing and cluster computing; Analytical ultracentrifugation of macromolecular assemblies

Staff

Brian Hogan
Computer Systems Administrator
 Office: SB 3.02.12
Phone: (210) 458-7213
Email: bhogan@cs.utsa.edu
Cindy Murphy
Fiscal Manager
 Office: 4.01.10B
Phone: (210) 458-4443
Email: Cindy.Murphy@utsa.edu
Donna Nanny
Senior Academic Administrative Manager
 Office: 4.01.10D
Phone: (210) 458-4434
Email: Donna.Nanny@utsa.edu
Dan Smolenski
Senior Network Analyst
Director of CS Computing Facilities
 Office: SB 3.01.13
Phone: (210) 458-4433
Email: dsmolens@cs.utsa.edu
Angela Varoff
Administrative Assistant
 Office: SB 4.01.10
Phone: (210) 458-4453
Email: Angela.Varoff@utsa.edu