Faculty & Staff

Name Position Specialties/Research Contact InfoNote! All phone numbers contain (252) area code.

Dr. John Placer

Department Chair / Professor

  • AI: Fuzzy, Neural and Evolutionary Systems
  • Programming
    Languages

328-9680
placerj@ecu.edu

Dr. Karl Abrahamson

Associate Professor / Dir. of Undergrad Studies

  • Programming Languages 
  • Algorithms

328-9689
karl@cs.ecu.edu

Dr. M. N. H. Tabrizi

Professor / Dir. of Graduate Studies

  • Modeling
  • Simulation
  • Computer Vision
  • Bioinformatics
  • Virtual Reality

328-9691
tabrizim@ecu.edu

Dr. Junhua Ding

Assistant Professor

  • Software Specification and Design
  • Software Verification and Validation
  • Quality Assurance for Medical Systems

737-1908
dingj@ecu.edu

Dr. Qin Ding

Assistant Professor

  • Data Mining
  • Database
  • Bioinformatics

328-9686
dingq@ecu.edu

Dr. K. Gopalakrishnan

Associate Professor

  • Cryptography and Information Security
  • Combinatorics and Algorithms

328-9688
gopal@ecu.edu

Dr. Robert Hochberg

Assistant Professor

  • Graph Theory
  • Bioinformatics

328-9685
hochberg@cs.ecu.edu

Mr. Bobby Hoggard

Teaching Instructor

 

328-9695
hoggardr@ecu.edu

Dr. Masao Kishore

Associate Professor

  • Number Theory
  • Computer Graphics
  • Online Educational Delivery Systems

328-9694 kishorem@ecu.edu

Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan

Professor

  • Software engineering
  • Digital and engineering asset management
  • Information extraction
  • Data mining
  • Information visualization

328-9692 narasimhanl@ecu.edu

Dr. Ronnie Smith

Associate Professor

  • Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Dialog)

328-9687 rws@cs.ecu.edu

Dr. Sergiy Vilkomir

Assistant Professor

  • Software Testing
  • Requirement Engineering
  • System and Software
  • Reliability
  • Formal Methods

328-9690
vilkomirs@ecu.edu

Dr. James Wirth

Associate Professor

  • Algebraic Topology
  • Programming Languages
  • Creating tutorial applications over the Internet

328-9693
wirthj@ecu.edu

Ms. Wanda Strickland

Administrative Support Associate

  • Assistant to the Dept. Chair
  • Academic Program Support
  • Financial Administrator
  • Grant Administrator

328-9681
gayw@ecu.edu