Research

Leonard L. Brown
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
PhD, The University of Oklahoma
http://cs.uttyler.edu/Faculty/Brown/Brown.html

Sumit Ghosh
Professor of Computer Science
PhD, Stanford University
http://cs.uttyler.edu/Faculty/Ghosh/index.html

Areas of teaching and research interest: VHDL, secure ATM network design, IP router architecture, determining network operating point for operational networks, network architecture to resist lightning-fast intrusions, novel computer architectures to defeat next generation viruses, deep space networking and distributed visualization, asynchronous distributed simulation-based net-centric complex systems design, validation, and testing, impact of topology on network performance, wireless mobile networks, principles of network security, hardening networks through synthesis and modeling of security attacks, mobile computing, intelligent transportation systems, stability and absolute performance of asynchronous distributed algorithms, integrating continuous and discrete simulations within a single framework, distributed resources allocation, continuity of care in medicine, patient medical record integration, modeling synthetic creativity in artificial life, point location algorithm in computational geometry for 3-space, compiler-driven reconfigurable computer architecture, qualitative metrics for evaluating advanced graduate courses, issues in the Ph.D. process, physics of computer engineering problems, creative design in UG engineering education, and practical techniques for engineering ethics education.

Sumit Ghosh presently serves as Professor of the Computer Science at The University of Texas at Tyler. He was the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award for 2004.

Arun Kulkarni
Professor of Computer Science
PhD, Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay)
Post-doctoral fellowship: Virginia Tech.
http://www.uttyler.edu/kulkarni/

Areas of teaching and research interest: Soft Computing, Database Systems, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition.

Dr. Arun Kulkarni, Professor of Computer Science, has been with The University of Texas at Tyler since 1986.  He has more than sixty refereed papers to his credit, and he has authored two books. His awards include the 2005-2006 President’s Scholarly Achievement Award, 2001-2002 Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching award, 1999-2000 Alpha Chi Outstanding Faculty Member, 1997 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship award, 1997 Piper award nominee for The University of Texas at Tyler, and the 1984 Fulbright Fellowship award.  He has successfully completed eight research grants during the past ten years.

Artur Mikitiuk
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
PhD, The University of Kentucky
http://cs.uttyler.edu/Faculty/Mikitiuk/index.html

Areas of teaching and research interest: Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Logic, Answer Set Programming Systems, Operating Systems, UNIX

Kay Pleasant
Senior Lecturer of Computer Science
MS, The University of Texas at Tyler
http://cs.uttyler.edu/Faculty/Pleasant/index.html

Areas of teaching and research interest: Computer Science Education, C/C++, Java/Object-Oriented Design and Programming

Ms. Pleasant serves as lead advisor for all entering computer science and computer information systems students.  She was co-PI for U.T. Tyler’s involvement in the Infinity Project and most recently served as student contests coordinator for the Texas Computer Education Association.  Kay holds Texas teaching certification in computer science 8-12.

Stephen B. Rainwater
Interim Chair and Associate Professor of Computer Science
EdD, Texas A&M University-Commerce
http://cs.uttyler.edu/Faculty/Rainwater/Rainwater.html

Areas of teaching and research interest: Computer Science Education, Programming Languages, Algorithm Analysis

Dr. Stephen Rainwater is Associate Professors of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Tyler and currently serves as interim chair of the department.  His professional career spans thirty years as a teacher of computer science and mathematics at the high school, community college, and university levels…the last twenty-six years as a faculty member at U.T. Tyler.  Over the course of this time, he has taught more than twenty-five undergraduate and fifteen graduate courses.  His research interest has primarily focused on the effectiveness of using low/no-cost software tools and techniques for teaching concepts in computer science.

Dr. Rainwater’s professional leadership has included service as President of the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA), Computer Science Representative on the governing board of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), President of the East Texas Council of Teachers of Mathematics, program co-chair of the 1988 NCTM Southwestern Regional Conference, and mathematics section chair of the Texas Academy of Science.  As an officer of TCEA, Dr. Rainwater on numerous occasions gave expert testimony re: computer science to the Texas State Board of Education and the State Board for Educator Certification. At U.T. Tyler, he has served as President of the Faculty Senate and director of an NSF-funded undergraduate research program which endeavors to increase the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing careers in STEM fields.  In 2006, Dr. Rainwater was recognized with the UT-System Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2008, he was awarded the Lecil and Barbara Chandler Endowed Professorship in Computer Science.  His doctoral dissertation researched the predictive effects of community college student characteristics on academic achievement in computer science at the university level.

Nary Subramanian
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
PhD, The University of Texas at Dallas
http://cs.uttyler.edu/Faculty/Subramanian/Subramanian.html

Areas of teaching and research interest: Home Control Systems, Data Communications, Expert Systems, Legal Systems, Information Systems, Bioinformatics, Large Databases, Software Engineering, Software Metrics, System Security.

George M. Whitson III
Professor of Computer Science
PhD, The University of Illinois
http://cs.uttyler.edu/Faculty/Whitson/Whitson.html

Areas of teaching and research interest: Computer Security, Operating Systems, Networking, Distributed Objects, E-Commerce, Neural Networks and Web-Based Distance Education.