Interim Department Head, Dr. Reda Ammar is pleased to announce the addition of 3 new faculty to the departments growing list of accomplished scholars.

Dr. Derek Aguiar joins the department as an Assistant Professor. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University and his research interests are probabilistic modelling, computational biology, machine learning and algorithms.

Dr. Qian Yang joins the department as an Assistant Professor. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and her research interests are machine learning for physical science, computational math and applied algorithms.        

Dr. Ahmad Jbara joins the department as an Assistant Professor in-Residence. He received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his research interests are program comprehension, code complexity metrics, software engineering, systems engineering, object-process methodology and secure usability.

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