Faculty and Staff

Computer Science Faculty

Dr. Jing Zhang

Position: Associate Professor and Department Chair (Ph.D., University of South Florida)
Research Interests: Image/Video Processing and Analysis, Medical Image Analysis, Computer Vision
Email: jing.zhang@lamar.edu

Department Chair Phone : 880-8776
Department Chair Office : 57
Faculty Phone: 880-7995
Faculty Office:MAES 72
Link: Dr. Jing Zhang's Professional Webpage

Link: Dr. Jing Zhang's Personal Webpage

Dr. Jiangjiang (Jane) Liu

Position: Professor (Ph.D., University at Buffalo)
Research Interests: Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems
Email: jliu@lamar.edu
Faculty Phone: 880-7741
Faculty Office: MAES 87
Link: Dr. Jane Liu's Professional Webpage

Dr. S. Kami Makki

Position: Professor (Ph.D., University of Queensland)
Research Interests: Databases, Security, Mobile and Wireless Computing
Email: kmakki@lamar.edu
Faculty Phone: 880-8783
Faculty Office: MAES 74
Link: Dr. Kami Makki's Professional Webpage

Dr. Bo Sun

Position: Professor (Ph.D., Texas A&M University)
Research Interests: Network Security, Wireless Networks
Email: bsun@lamar.edu
Faculty Phone: 880-8781
Faculty Office: MAES 70
Link: Dr. Bo Sun's Professional Webpage

Dr. Timothy Roden

Position: Associate Professor, College of Arts & Sciences (Ph.D., University of North Texas)
Research Interests: Mobile Computing and Application Development, Game Development, Computer Graphics
Email: troden@lamar.edu
Faculty Phone: 880-2179
Faculty Office: Maes 96
Link: Dr. Timothy Roden's Professional Webpage

Dr. Sujing Wang

Position: Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director (Ph.D., University of Houston)
Research Interests: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Geographic Information System, Big Data, Cloud Computing
Email: sujing.wang@lamar.edu
Faculty Phone: 880-7798
Faculty Office: MAES 67
Link:Dr. Sujing Wang's Professional Webpage
Link: Dr. Sujing Wang's Personal Webpage

Dr. Xingya Liu

Position: Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of North Carolina @ Charlotte)
Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Next-Generation Wireless Networks and Fog Computing and Mobile Computing
Email: xliu@lamar.edu
Faculty Phone: 880-8677
Faculty Office: MAES 86
Link: Dr. Xingya Liu's Professional Webpage

Personal website: http://galaxy.cs.lamar.edu/~xliu

Dr. Rakibul Islam

Position: Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of New Orleans)
Research Interests: Software Engineering, Software Security, Bioinformatics
Email: mislam108@lamar.edu
Faculty Phone : 880-8748
Faculty Office : MAES 69
Link: Dr. Rakibul Islam's Professional Webpage

Dr. Tauhidul Alam

Position: Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Florida International University)
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Motion Planning, Cyber Physical Systems
Email: talam1@lamar.edu
Faculty Phone : 880-8719
Faculty Office : MAES 98
Link: Dr. Tauhidul Alam's Professional Webpage

Dr. Masud Rana

Position: Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Research Interests: Offensive and Defensive Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, Cyber Twins Modeling and Simulation, IoT Network Security and Privacy, Machine Learning for Attack-resilient and Secure Universal Defense
Email: mrana15@lamar.edu
Faculty Phone : 880-8595
Faculty Office : MAES 95
Link: Dr. Masud Rana's Professional Webpage

Mr. Frank Sun

Position:Instructor and System Administrator (M.S., University of Houston)
Research Interests: Linux and Unix system administration, Cyber security
Email: frank.sun@lamar.edu
Faculty Phone: 880-7998
FAX: (409) 880-2364
Faculty Office: MAES 204
Link: Frank Sun's Professional Webpage

Mr. Gregory Yera

Position:Instructor (M.S., Lamar University)
Research Interests: Cyber security
Email: gyera@lamar.edu
Faculty Phone: 880-7213
Faculty Office: MAES 75

Computer Science Emeritus Faculty

Dr. Peggy Doerschuk

Distinguished Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., University at Tulane)

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Email: pdoerschuk@lamar.edu
Faculty Phone : 880-8782
Faculty Office : MAES 71

Computer Science Staff

Jana Reeves

Position: Administrator
Office: MAES 57
Office Phone: 409-880-7707
Email: jreeves6@lamar.edu

Chiou-Yun Chen

Position: Academic Advisor
Office: MAES 68
Office Phone: 409-880-8779
Email: cs_academic_advisor@lamar.edu / cchen4@lamar.edu