Affiliated Faculty NCSU


Dr. Gregory Byrd, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Expertise: High-performance parallel systems and servers, with a particular focus on mechanisms that reduce communication overhead in parallel and distributed systems.

Dr. Rada Chirkova, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Expertise: Information and knowledge management, analytics, algorithms, and theory of computation

Dr. Jon Doyle, SAS Institute Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science
Expertise: Mathematical foundations of computer science and artificial intelligence; formal representations for knowledge, learning, and reasoning

Dr. Rudra Dutta, Professor, Computer Science Department, and Technical Lead, CentMesh NCSU
Expertise: Internet and SDN architecture, network analytics, optical network design, mobile computing and sensing systems

Dr. Vincent W. Freeh, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Expertise: Distributed systems, file systems, and operating systems.

Dr. Christopher G. Healey, Professor, Department of Computer Science
Expertise: visualization, data and visual analytics, visual perception and visual cognition, large-data management

Dr. Carl Meyer, Professor, Department of Mathematics
Expertise: numerical analysis and matrix computations, applied linear algebra, discrete Markov chains, data mining and cluster analytics, network analysis and Web search

Dr. Kemafor Anyanwu Ogan, Associate Professor and Director of Semantic Computing Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science
Expertise: Web / Big-Data analytics and management, its broader applications; services computing

Dr. David L. Roberts, Assistant Professor and Director of Computational Intelligence and Interactive Games Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science
Expertise: computational modeling of human behavior, decision-making, and cognition with an emphasis on designing interactive virtual environments for data collection and model validation

Dr. Nagiza F. Samatova, Professor, Department of Computer Science
Expertise: data science, with emphasis on data management and analysis at extreme scale, scalable algorithms, and high-performance computing

Dr. Alyson Wilson, Professor, Department of Statistics
Expertise: Bayesian methods, information integration, statistics for problems in defense and security.

Dr. Lian Xie, Professor, Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, and Director, Coastal Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Expertise: Marine meteorology, air-sea interactions, hurricane and storm surge prediction, regional climate, numerical modeling