Computer Science
Faculty and Staff Directory
Leadership
Gerald Gannod, Ph.D.
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 | WebsiteDoug Talbert, Ph.D.
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 | ProfileProfessor
William Eberle, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Data mining; graph-based anomaly detection; and fraud detection.
931-372-3278 | weberle@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 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 (PRSC) 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 (BRUN) 429 | Profile
Stephen Scott, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interest: Cloud; cluster; and grid computing; resilient high performance distributed; heterogeneous; and parallel computing.
931-372-6484 | sscott@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 431 | Profile
Amabreen Siraj, Ph.D.
Professor (On Leave of Absence)
Research Interest: Network security; security in smart grids; and security education.
asiraj@tntech.edu | ProfileAssociate Professor
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 (BRUN) 427 | ProfileAssistant Professor
Maanak Gupta, Ph.D.
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
Muhammad Ismail, Ph.D.
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 | ProfileSusmit Shannigrahi, Ph.D.
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 | WebsiteDenis Ulybyshev, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Data privacy; web security; information retrieval; industrial control systems and SCADA systems, blockchain-based technologies; machine learning.
931-372-6127 | dulybyshev@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 406 | Profile | WebsiteLecturer
April Crockett
Lecturer
931-372-6435 | acrockett@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 330 | Profile | Website
Instructor
Cyril Focht
Instructor
Research Interests: Game studies; electronic literature and interactive fiction; how interaction and systems convey meaning in interactive artworks; software studies; social impacts of technology and computing; interdisciplinary education between computing; humanities; and the arts.
931-372-3137 | cfocht@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 428 | Profile | Website
Jeffrey Graves
Instructor
jgraves@tntech.edu
Adjunct
Mark Boshart, Ph.D.
Adjunct
Research Interests: Computer science education; computer graphics; and computer animation.
931-372-3428 | mboshart@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 232
Eric Brown
Adjunct
Research Interests: Cybersecurity risk assessment
931-372-3602 | elbrown@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall (PRSC) 414 | Profile
Md Toufiqul Islam
Adjunct
931-372-3333 | mtislam@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 432
Staff
Amy Davis
Outreach Coordinator
931-372-6061 | aldavis@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall (BRUN) 240 | ProfileEmily Disbrow
Administrative Associate
931-372-3691 | edisbrow@tntech.edu | Bruner (BRUN) Hall 238 | Profile
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