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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 Architecture; Parallel Processing; Fault Tolerance; High-speed Networks

Tom Bylander
Associate Professor
Ph.D., 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; Planning; 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: Distributed Systems and High Performance Computing

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, Programming Languages and Compilers

Turgay Korkmaz
Assistant 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: QoS-based Routing; Multiple Constrained Path Selection; Efficient Dissemination of Network-state Information; Topology Aggregation in Hierarchical Networks; Performance Evaluation of QoS-based Routing Protocols

Chia-Tien Dan Lo
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology (2001)
Office: SB 4.01.17
Phone: (210) 458-7433
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~danlo/
Email: danlo@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Computer Systems and Architectures; Reconfigurable Computing; Low Power Embedded Systems; Software Engineering; Concurrent Garbage Collection; Programming Languages; Computer Networks

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 Security; Computational Geometry; Graphics; VLSI CAD

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; Semantics of Specification Notifications; Automated Software Analysis Tools

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: Parallel and Distributed Systems; Compilers; Programming Languages

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 and Animation of Spatiotemporal Data; Real Time Systems and Protocols; 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: Multiprocessor Memory Architectures and Performance; 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; Network Biology; Data Mining

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.profsandhu.com/
Email: ravi.sandhu@utsa.edu
Research Interests: Cyber-Security Models, Architectures and Protocols; Role-Based Access Control; Usage Control; Authorization and Authentication

Qi Tian
Assistant 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: Multimedia Information Retrieval; Bioinformatics; Biometrics; Statistical Learning; Pattern Recognition

Ali Saman Tosun
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University (2003)
Office: SB 4.01.22
Phone: (210) 458-7663
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~tosun/
Email: tosun@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Multimedia Networks; Multimedia Security; Applications of Multimedia; Security in Databases

Jeffery von Ronne
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine (2005)
Office: SB 4.01.34
Phone: (210) 458-5667
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~vonronne/
Email: vonronne@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Improving Software Reliability and Security using Programming Languages; Compilers; Runtime Environments

Carola Wenk
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Free University Berlin (2002)
Office: SB 4.01.14
Phone: (210) 458-4501
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~carola/
Email: carola at cs dot utsa dot edu
Research Interests: Computational Geometry; Algorithms; Biomedical Applications

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: Empirical Optimization; Backend Compiler Optimization; Computer Architecture; High Performance Computing; Parallel Computing

Gregory B. White
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Texas A&M University (1995)
Office: MS 4.03.28
Phone: (210) 458-6307
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~gbwhite/
Email: Greg.White@utsa.edu
Research Interests: Information Assurance and Security

William H. Winsborough
Associate 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 Security and Privacy in Distributed Systems; Provable Security Properties

Shouhuai Xu
Assistant 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: Provable Security of Cryptographic Protocols; Construction of Secure and Survivable Systems; Secure Electronic Commerce and 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: Compiler Construction and Optimization; Program Analysis; Programming Languages; Parallel and Distributed Systems; Security Analysis; Software Engineering

Ki Hwan Yum
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University (2002)
Office: SB 4.01.11
Phone: (210) 458-5592
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~yum/
Email: yum@cs.utsa.edu
Research Interests: Computer Architecture; Parallel and Distributed Systems; Computer Networks; Cluster Computing; QoS Support in Cluster Networks and Internet; Performance Evaluation; Fault-Tolerant 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: Query Optimization; Deductive Databases; Fuzzy Databases; Web Databases; Data Mining

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: Real-time Systems; Parallel and Distributed Systems

Adjunct Faculty

Borries Demeler
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Ph.D., Oregon State University, Corvallis (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

Research Faculty

Johnnie Birch
Assistant Professor of Research
Ph.D., Florida State University (2007)
Office: SB 3.01.10
Phone: (210) 458-5536
Email: birch@cs.utsa.edu
Web: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~birch/
Research Interests: Compilation techniques for parallelizing, vectoring, and restructuring compilers with emphasis on dependence testing and run-time methods.

Staff

Cory Burkhardt
Research Software Developer
Office: SB 2.01.20C
Phone: (210) 458-7662
Email: cburk@cs.utsa.edu

Erika Martínez De Rizo
Administrative Assistant
Office: SB 4.01.10
Phone: (210) 458-4436
Email: Erika.MartinezDeRizo@utsa.edu

Cindy Murphy
Senior Administrative Associate
Office: SB 4.01.10B
Phone: (210) 458-4443
Email: Cindy.Murphy@utsa.edu

Donna Nanny
Senior Academic Administrative Manager
Office: SB 4.01.10D
Phone: (210) 458-4434
Email: Donna.Nanny@utsa.edu

Dan Smolenski
Senior Systems Analyst
Director of CS Computing Facilities

Office: SB 3.02.13
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

Derrick Wood
Computer Systems Administrator
Office: SB 3.02.12
Phone: (210) 458-7213
Email: dwood@cs.utsa.edu

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