Stefan Andrei, Ph.D.

Department: Computer Science

Email: stefan.andrei@lamar.edu

Research interests:

• Additive manufacturing (3-D printing)
• Real-time embedded systems
• Theoretical computer science
• Systems verification
• Software engineering

Appropriate majors: 

• Computer Science
• Computer Information Sciences
• Mathematics

Sinan Kockara, Ph.D.

Department: Computer Science

Email: skockara@lamar.edu 

Research interests:

• Virtual reality-based surgery simulations
• Augmented reality
• Biomedical image processing
• Analysis for skin diseases 

Appropriate majors:

• Computer Science
• Computer Information Sciences
• Mathematics 

Xingya Liu, Ph.D.

Department: Computer Science

Email: xliu@lamar.edu 

Research interests:

• Cybersecurity
• Next-generation wireless networks
• Frog computing
• Mobile computing

Kami Makki, Ph.D.

Department: Computer Science

Email: kmakki@lamar.edu 

Research interests:

• Databases and knowledge-based systems in wireless and mobile devices
• Mobile and wireless computing
• Security
• Intelligent web applications
• Big data
• Social networking

Appropriate majors:

• Computer Science
• Computer Information Sciences
• Mathematics

Timothy Roden, Ph.D.

Department: Computer Science

Email: troden@lamar.edu 

Research interests:

• Computer game development
• Computer graphics
• Artificial intelligence
• Mobile application development

Appropriate majors:

• Computer Science
• Computer Information Sciences

Bo Sun, Ph.D.

Department: Computer Science

Email: bsun@lamar.edu 

Research interests:

• Computer security
• Intrusion detection
• Simulation and distributed systems
• Wireless networking

Appropriate majors:

• Computer Science
• Computer Information Sciences

Sujing Wang, Ph.D.

Department: Computer Science

Email: sujing.wang@lamar.edu

Link to faculty web page: https://www.lamar.edu/arts-sciences/computer-science/people/faculty-members/sujing_wang.html

Research interests:

• Data mining and knowledge discovery
• Spatial-temporal clustering
• Geographic information systems
• Geographic computation
• Big data
• Computer modeling and simulation

Appropriate majors:

• Computer Science
• Computer Information Systems              

Jing Zhang, Ph.D.

Department: Computer Science

Email: jzhang9@lamar.edu 

Link to faculty web page: https://www.lamar.edu/arts-sciences/computer-science/faculty-staff/jing_zhang.html 

Research interests:

• Image processing
• Computer vision
• Machine/deep learning
• Pattern recognition
• Medical image analysis 

Appropriate majors:

• Computer Science
• Electrical Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Mathematics