Faculty Areas of Expertise
Computer Science
Gerald Gannod, Ph.D.
Chair of Computer Science; Stonecipher Distinguished Professor
Research Interest: Software engineering; agile software development; agile instruction; enterprise computing; mobile computing; data science; analytics; and machine learning.
931-372-6855 | jgannod@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 242 | Profile | Website
Doug Talbert, Ph.D.
Interim Director, CEROC; Associate Chair for Computer Science; Professor
Research Interest: Machine learning; data mining; medical informatics; and usability.
931-372-6178 | dtalbert@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 234 | Profile
William Eberle, Ph.D.
Interim Assistant Dean of Graduate Education for the College of Engineering; Professor
Research Interests: Data mining; graph-based anomaly detection; and fraud detection.
931-372-3278 | weberle@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 235 | Profile | Webpage
David Elizandro, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Institutional leadership; strategic planning; systems integration and effectiveness.
931-372-3386 | delizandro@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall 323 | Profile
Sheikh Ghafoor, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Parallel and distributed computing; high performance computing; programming model for heterogeneous high-performance computing environment.
931-372-3687 | sghafoor@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 429 | Profile
Michael Rogers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: GPGPU computing; distributed computing; distributed shared memory; operating systems; and network protocols.
931-372-6304 | mrogers@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 427 | Profile
Professors
Anthony Skjellum, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interest: High-Performance Computing (MPI, scalable libraries, and
heterogeneous computing, and cybersecurity (with emphases on loT and
blockchain technologies).
931-372-6484 | askjellum@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 431
Associate Professor
Amr Hilal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Wireless networking, internet of things, machine learning, federated
learning
931-372-3253 | ahilal@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 233
Michael Rogers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Research Interests: GPGPU computing; distributed computing; distributed shared memory; operating systems; and network protocols.
931-372-6304 | mrogers@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 427 | Profile
Muhammad Ismail, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Cyber-physical security; networking; smart grids; blockchain;
resource
allocation; machine learning; optimization; stochastic modeling.
931-372-6287 | mismail@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 333 | Profile
Assistant Professors
Amani Altarawneh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Cybersecurity, formal methods and simulation analysis, smart cities
& loT,
computer network security, and blockchain technology & consensus algorithms.
931-372-3096 | aaltarawneh@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 232
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Interim Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Data mining; graph-based anomaly detection; and fraud detection.
931-372-3278 | weberle@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 235 | Profile | Webpage -
Professor
P: (931) 372-3386
Institutional leadership; strategic planning; systems integration and effectiveness.
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Chair of Computer Science; Professor
Research Interest: Software engineering; agile software development; agile instruction; enterprise computing; mobile computing; data science; analytics; and machine learning.
931-372-3691 | jgannod@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 238 | Profile | Website -
Professor
Research Interests: Parallel and distributed computing; high performance computing; programming model for heterogeneous high-performance computing environment.
931-372-3687 | sghafoor@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 429 | Profile -
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Foundational cyber and computer security; access control models; formal analysis; secure cyber physical systems; smart and connected cars; internet of things; ai and machine learning assisted security solutions; malware clustering and classification.
931-372-3525 | mgupta@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 408 | Profile | Website -
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Cyber-physical security; networking; smart grids; blockchain; resource allocation; machine learning; optimization; stochastic modeling.
931-372-6287 | mismail@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 409 | Profile -
Associate Professor
Research Interests: GPGPU computing; distributed computing; distributed shared memory; operating systems; and network protocols.
931-372-6304 | mrogers@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 427 | Profile -
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computer networks; future internet architectures; networking Internet of Things (IoT) devices; future mobile communications.
931-372-6259 | sshannigrahi@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 331 | Profile | Website -
Associate Chair for Computer Science; Professor
Research Interest: Machine learning; data mining; medical informatics; and usability.
931-372-6178 | dtalbert@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 234 | Profile
