Our Members

Learn more about the current members of the Open Cloud Institute.

Omar Abbaas

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering (COE)

  • Omar.Abbaas@UTSA.edu
  • Research Interests: Smart manufacturing, Smart supply chain, Cyber-physical systems, Scheduling, Network optimization, Transportation, Logistics, Inventory management, Revenue management, Alternative fuel distribution, Quality and reliability

Ethan C. Ahn

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (COE)

  • chiyui.ahn@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Energy-efficient logic and memory devices for future data-centric computing paradigm; Carbon-based and other emerging nano-materials including carbon nanotube, graphene, GNR, and TMDs; Experimental and computational nano-device research focusing on electronic (electron)/thermal (phonon)/magnetic (spin) transport; Beyond-CMOS nanoelectronics including spintronics (spin + electronics, magneto-electronics), steep sub-threshold swing (sub-60 mV/dec) transistors, and energy-harvesting and -conversion materials and devices technology.

David Akopian

Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (COE)

  • david.akopian@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Wireless Sensing and Location Technologies, Human Activity Data Collection and Supporting Mobile Applications

Adel Alaeddini

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Biomechanics (COE)

  • adel.alaeddini@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Big Data Analytics in Healthcare and Manufacturing, Statistical Learning in Systems Modeling and Control

Bernard Arulanandam

Vice Provost of Research

Tufts University

Nicole Beebe

Professor

Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security (COB)

  • nicole.beebe@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Digital forensics (media and network intrusion forensics; intelligent forensic algorithms), Cyber security (behavioral, managerial and technical issues), Data Analytics (cyber analytics; computational forensics)

Krystel Castillo

Endowed Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering (COE)

  • krystel.castillo@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Optimization of Energy-Efficient Digital Manufacturing Processes, Supply Chain Network Design for Smart Manufacturing/Clean Energy, Stochastic and Multi-criteria Optimization, Data-driven Modeling and Big Data Analytics

Raymond Choo

Assistant Department Chair of ISCS

Department of Information Systems (COB)

  • Raymond.Choo@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Big data analytics (including privacy-preserving, identification of real-world events and big data forensics), Cyber security, Offensive cyber (cyber crime, identification and exploitation of vulnerabilities, cyber operations, etc.), Defensive cyber (design of lightweight security solutions, blockchain-based solutions, etc.), Digital forensics, including forensics-by-design (e.g. cloud forensics, mobile device and app forensics, smart vehicle forensics, IoT forensics and drone forensics)

Gabriela Ciocarlie

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

  • gabriela.ciocarlie@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: cyber-physical systems security, anomaly detection, network- and application-level security, adversarial machine learning

Kevin Desai

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

  • Kevin.Desai@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Collaborative virtual environments, Computer vision, Virtual/augmented/mixed realities

Lide Duan

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (COE)

Yusheng Feng

Professor Emeritus

  • Research Interests: Computational Biomechanics and Bioengineering

Nikolaos Gatsis

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (COE)

  • nikolaos.gatsis@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Smart power grids, renewable energy management, wireless communications and networking, and cyber-physical systems, with focus on optimization methods and resource allocation

Artyom Grigoryan

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (COE)

Mo Jamshidi

Professor Emeritus

  • moj@wacong.org
  • Research Interests: Large-scale systems, Cyber-Physical Systems, Big Data Analytic, Computational intelligence, Mobile robotics

John Joseph

Assistant Professor

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Construction Management

  • john.joseph@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Environmental Justice Issues, Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis for Environmental Models, Contaminant Fate and Transport, Climate Change

Brian Kelley

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (COE)

  • brian.kelley@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: 4G Cellular Communications, signal processing algorithms for wireless communications, 3G cellular, OFDMA, MIMO, ultra wideband communications, systems on a integrated circuit chip (SoC), digital radios, software definable radio (SDR), object oriented modeling of large scale communication systems, application specific DSP processors, system level design, high speed computer arithmetic

Harry R. Millwater Jr.

Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering (COE)

  • harry.millwater@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Probabilistic Methods for Risk Assessment of Gas Turbine Rotors, Development of Enhanced Probabilistic Life Prediction Methodologies for Engine Rotor Life Extension, Innovative Methods for Engine Health Monitoring

Leslie Neely

Assistant Professor

Department of Educational Psychology (COEHD)

  • Leslie.Neely@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Human Behavior, STEM Education, Math Education, Autism Behavior, Bilingual + Bicultural, Community Partners + Outreach

Jeff Prevost

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (COE)

  • jeff.prevost@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Cloud Computing, virtual resource placement optimization, auto-deploy and configure domain specific cloud resources, quantum computation, quantum key security

John P. Quarles

Professor

Department of Computer Science

  • john.quarles@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Virtual reality, Mixed reality, Augmented reality, Serious games, 3D user interfaces, Interactive computer graphics, Human-computer interaction, Modeling and simulation

Paul Rad

Associate Professor

Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security (COB)

  • paul.rad@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making and Autonomy, Machine Learning Algorithm, Distributed Real-Time Computing

Hatim Sharif

Professor

Department of Civil Engineering (COE)

  • hatim.sharif@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Hydrometeorology, Flood Modeling and Forecasting, Remote Sensing, Natural Hazards, Transportation Safety Climate Change, Public Health, Geographic Information Systems

Jianqiu (Michelle) Zhang

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

  • michelle.zhang@utsa.edu
  • Research Interests: Signal processing for bioinformatics and biomedical applications, information theory and applications in genomics, and wireless communications.

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