Computer & Information Sciences

John Johnstone, Administrator

Yuliang Zheng, Department Chairperson

Baocheng Geng, Assistant Professor (P)

Chengcui Zhang, Professor (P)

Curtis Carver Jr., Professor (P)

Da Yan, Assistant Professor (P)

J.William Cupp, Instructor (P)

Jeremy Blackburn, Assistant Professor (P)

John Johnstone, Associate Professor (P)

Kai Zhao, Assistant Professor (P)

Mahmut Unan, Assistant Professor (P)

Md Shohel Rana, Assistant Professor (P)

Peter Pirkelbauer, Assistant Professor (P)

Purushotham Bangalore, Professor (P)

Ragib Hasan, Associate Professor (P)

Dr. Ragib Hasan is a tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He leads the SECuRE and Trustworthy Computing Lab (SECRETLab). He is also the founder of Shikkhok.com — an award-winning free education platform in Bengali language, and the co-ordinator of the BanglaBraille project, aimed at creating educational material for visually impaired children in South Asia.

He is recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for his research o...

Sidharth Kumar, Assistant Professor (P)

Thomas Gilray, Assistant Professor (P)

Warren Jones, Professor - Emeritus (P)

William Byrd, Assistant Professor (P)

Yuliang Zheng, Professor (P)

Elliot Lefkowitz Ph.D., Professor (S)

My work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) encompasses a number of roles and interests. As a Professor of Microbiology, my research interests are directed at deriving a better understanding of the processes and consequences of microbial evolution and how variation of the genomic sequences of microbes impacts that evolution. I am also interested in the role that microbes play in human health and disease. To pursue these interests my lab focuses on bioinformatics analysis – the devel...

J. Crawford Downs Jr., Professor (S)

Jake Chen Ph.D., Professor (S)

Dr. Jake Y. Chen is the Chief Bioinformatics Officer at UAB Informatics Institute and a Professor of Genetics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering. Previously, he was the founding director of Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine. He has over 25 years of R&D experience in biological data mining and systems biology, with over 180 peer-reviewed publications. He is currently President-elect of the Midsouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society. He is an el...

James Cimino MD, Professor (S)

Jeffrey Curtis MD, MS, MPH, Professor (S)

Dr. Jeffrey R Curtis is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Curtis received a Medical Degree (MD) and a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland, OR. He subsequently completed a residency in internal medicine at Oregon Health & Science University and a fellowship in rheumatology at UAB. He completed a graduate program in Clinical Informatics at Stanfo...

John Osborne, Assistant Professor (S)

Ramaraju Rudraraju, Assistant Professor (S)

Dr. Rudraraju is a health informatics researcher with extensive experience in designing software and database architecture for longitudinal patient registries. His current research is focused on applying machine learning and natural language processing to discover valuable insights from healthcare data.

During his graduate studies, Dr. Rudraraju worked as a lead developer on a research project funded by Google to develop a voice-activated interface to enable children with cerebral palsy...