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Faculty & Research

Faculty associated with the Computer Science Programs

 

Peterborough Campus:

 

Brian Patrick looking at the camera with his hand on his chin and a lake behind himBrian Patrick

Department Chair & Associate Professor
BCS (Concordia), MSc (Queen’s), PhD, MBA (McGill)

OC 102.8, (705) 748-1011 ex. 7804, bpatrick@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Parallel job scheduling; Parallel algorithms; Information Systems

 

 

Richard Hurley wearing an orange shirt, looking at the cameraRichard Hurley

Full Professor
BSc (New Brunswick), PhD (Waterloo)

OC 102.3, (705) 748-1011 ex. 7542, rhurley@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Distributed systems; Performance modeling; Liberated learning

 

 

Sabine McConnell 

Professor
BSc, MSc, PhD (Queen’s)

OC 102.7, (705) 748-1011 ex. 7803, sabinemcconnell@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Data mining; Astronomy

 

Omar Alam wearing a brown turtleneck sweater smiling at the cameraOmar Alam

Associate Professor
BSc (King Abdulaziz), MSc (Queen’s), PhD (McGill)
Omar's Website

OC 118, (705) 748-1011 ex. 7347, omaralam@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Model-Driven Software Engineering; Aspect-Oriented Modelling; Advanced Separation of Concerns; Software Architecture; Mining Software Repositories

 

Quazi Rahman wearing a blue plaid button up shirt, looking at cameraQuazi Abidur Rahman 

Assistant Professor
BSc (Khulna), MSc (King Fahd), PhD (Queen's)

OC 102.4, (705) 748-1011 ex. 7854, quazirahman@trentu.ca 

Research Interests: Data Mining; Applied Machine Learning; Health/Medical Informatics

 

 Prof. Guo in a black suit with white dress shirt, looking at cameraBin Guo

Assistant Professor
BSc (North University of China), MSc (Winnipeg), PhD (McMaster)

OC102.9, (705) 748-1011 ex. 7249, binguo@trentu.ca
Homepage: https://bin-guo.github.io/

Research Interests: Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency, Graph Algorithms, Data Structures, Graph Mining, Graph Database, Graph Neural Networks

 

Prof. Ghaleb in blue dress shirt looking at camera  Taher Ghaleb

Assistant Professor
BSc (Taiz), MSc (King Fahd), PhD (Queen's)

OC 120, (705)748-1011 ex. 6244,   taherghaleb@trentu.ca
 Homepage: taher-ghaleb.github.io

Research Interests: DevOps-Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), Data-Driven Software Analytics, Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering, Mining Software Repositories

 

Prof. Genkin in blue suit looking at camera with arms folded  Mikhail Genkin

Assistant Professor
BSc (Carleton University), MSc (University of Ottawa), PhD (Carleton University)

OC 119,   mikhailgenkin@trentu.ca

Research Interests: artificial intelligence and machine learning for autonomic systems, smart buildings, smart campus and cities, big data, distributed and high-performance computing

 

 

Brian Srivastava wearing a black suit and dark sunglassesBrian Srivastava   

Lecturer

OC 102.5, (705) 748-1011, bsrivastava@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence; Computer Graphics; Mobile development; Military simulation; Game Development

 

 

 

Durham Campus:

 

Wenying Feng wearing a purple and white blazer with her arms crossed facing the camera​Wenying Feng

Professor
BSc (Hebei), MSc (Shaanxi), PhD (Glasgow)

Durham GTA, (705) 748-1011 ex. 7249, wfeng@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Web Caching; Network Intrusion Detection; Nonlinear Spectral Theory and Applications; Boundary Value Problems

 

 

Alaa Alslaity

Assistant Professor
BSc and MSc (JUST University), PhD (University of Ottawa)

Durham GTA, alaaalslaity@trentu.ca 

Research Interests: HCI; Persuasive Technologies; Personalization and Adaptation; Applied ML; Recommender Systems

 

Bilal Momani

Assistant Professor
BSc (Mutah), MSc & PhD (University of Ulster)

Durham GTA Campus- B326, bilalmomani@trentu.ca 

Research Interest: AI with a focus on Knowledge-Based Systems, Computer Vision, Image Processing, and IoT Applications for Smart Cities.

 

 

 

Headshot of Professor Makhdumabanu Saiyed wearing a black top 

Makhdumabanu Saiyed

Assistant Professor
B.Eng, M.Eng (Gujarat University), PhD (University of Regina)

Durham GTA Campus- PLZ117, makhdumabanusaiyed@trentu.ca 

Research Interest: Network Security, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Neural Networks, and Game Theory.

 

 

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