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Office of Undergraduate Research

Computer Science

Faculty Mentors

Md Masud Rana, Ph.D.

Department: Computer Science

Email: mrana15@lamar.edu

Research interests:

  • Secure next-generation IoT networks
  • Trustworthy machine learning
  • Offensive and defensive cybersecurity
  • Cyber-physical systems security and privacy
  • AI for cybersecurity
  • Deep learning and data mining

Appropriate majors:

  • Computer Science
  • MIS
  • ECE
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data Science

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: /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: /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