Geospatial Computer Science Program Directory
Geospatial Computer Science Program
![Picture of Michael Starek](../directory/thumbs/mstarek.jpg)
Michael Starek, Ph.D.
Professor and Program CoordinatorOffice: NRC 3407
Phone: (361) 825-3978
Email: michael.starek@tamucc.edu
Website: https://mantisresearch.org/faculty
My research explores the merging of geomatics, remote sensing, and geospatial computing for science and engineering problems. Expertise includes LiDAR, autonomous sensing & UAS, photogrammetry, machine learning, and GIS.
![Picture of Jose Baca](../directory/thumbs/jbaca.jpg)
Jose Baca, Ph.D.
Assistant ProfessorOffice: RFEB 222B
Phone: (361) 825-2144
Email: jose.baca@tamucc.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/bacajose/
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Tianxing Chu, Ph.D.
Assistant ProfessorOffice: RFEB 314F
Phone: (361) 825-2685
Email: tianxing.chu@tamucc.edu
Website: https://mantisresearch.org/faculty
Knowledge discovery with emergent remote sensing and geospatial techniques applied to real-world concerns such as modeling sea-level change and land deformation
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Lucy Huang, Ph.D.
Associate ProfessorOffice: RFEB 310B
Phone: (361) 825-2646
Email: lucy.huang@tamucc.edu
•Geospatial Semantic Web development: Ontology construction & mapping, semantic interoperability
Internet GIS: Web Map service development
GIS in public health: agent-based modelling and simulation
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Taoran Ji, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 317
Phone: (361) 825-3625
Email: taoran.ji@tamucc.edu
Website: https://taoranj.github.io/
Dr. Ji is a machine learning expert with a passion for developing innovative techniques to solve real-world problems. His research interests include event detection, forecasting and impact analysis, time-series forecasting, and natural language processing. In addition to his research, Dr. Ji serves as a reviewer for several major machine learning conferences, such as AAAI, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, SIGSPATIAL, PAKDD, ECML PKDD, and ITSC.
![Picture of Dulal Kar](../directory/thumbs/dkar.jpg)
Dulal Kar, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 321
Phone: (361) 825-5878
Email: dulal.kar@tamucc.edu
Website: https://faculty.tamucc.edu/dkar
Signal and image processing algorithms, network architecture and performance measurement, network and information security, information retrieval, and educational technology
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Scott King, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 341
Phone: (361) 825-5877
Email: scott.king@tamucc.edu
Website: https://faculty.tamucc.edu/sking
Computer Graphics: Facial Animation and Modeling, Real-Time Graphics, Rendering, Scientific Visualization; Face-to-Face Human Computer Interaction
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Bozhen Liu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 323
Phone: (361) 825-2406
Email: bozhen.liu@tamucc.edu
![Picture of Ahmed Mahdy](../directory/thumbs/amahdy.jpg)
Ahmed Mahdy, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President for Research and InnovationProfessor of Computer Science
Phone: (361) 825-3881
Email: ahmed.mahdy@tamucc.edu
Wireless Networking, Innovative Computing, Software Engineering
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Antonio Medrano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geospatial EngineeringOffice: RFEB 314E
Phone: (361) 825-2548
Email: antonio.medrano@tamucc.edu
Website: http://antoniomedrano.github.io
Spatial Optimization; High-performance Computing; Geospatial Algorithm Engineering
![Picture of Carlos Rubio Medrano](../directory/thumbs/crubiomedrano.jpg)
Carlos Rubio Medrano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 339
Phone: (361) 825-3436
Email: carlos.rubiomedrano@tamucc.edu
Website: https://carlosrubiomedrano.com/
![Picture of Chandra N Sekharan](../images/default.jpg)
Chandra N Sekharan, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Chair of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 341
Phone: (361) 825-2478
Email: chandra.sekharan@tamucc.edu
Website: https://csekharan.com/
![Picture of Mehdi Sookhak](../images/default.jpg)
Mehdi Sookhak, Ph.D.
Assistant ProfessorOffice: CI 327
Phone: (361) 825-3622
Email: mehdi.sookhak@tamucc.edu
Cloud Computing, Edge and Fog computing, Distributed systems, Network security, WSN, VANET, UAV, SDN, Deep learning and distributed learning applications in cybersecurity, GIS, and remote sensing.
![Picture of Dugan Um](../directory/thumbs/duganum.jpg)
Dugan Um, Ph.D.
Associate ProfessorOffice: RFEB 222C
Phone: (361) 825-3381
Email: dugan.um@tamucc.edu
Website: https://faculty.tamucc.edu/duganum
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Wenlu Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: Ci 342
Phone: (361) 825-3711
Email: wenlu.wang@tamucc.edu
Website: https://wenlu-w.github.io
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Yongzhi Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer ScienceOffice: CI 332
Phone: (361) 825-2448
Email: yongzhi.wang@tamucc.edu
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Hua Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Civil EngineeringOffice: RFEB 319C
Phone: (361) 825-2467
Email: hua.zhang@tamucc.edu
Website: https://wesa.tamucc.edu
Hydrology, water resources management, geospatial analysis, infrastructure resilience, environmental systems analysis