CIS Faculty and Administration

Department Chair | Program Directors | Staff | Faculty | Part-time and Adjunct Facutly

Department Chair 

Dr. Daniel Leeds
340A John Mulcahy Hall
Email: [email protected]

Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies (Rose Hill)
Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan | JMH 334 | [email protected]

Assistant to the Chair for Undergrad Studies (Lincoln Center)
Mohamed Rahouti | LL610C (LC) [email protected]

Graduate Program Directors

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Dr. Ying Mao | JMH 336 | [email protected]

M.S. in Computer Science
Dr. Gary Weiss | LL 610D | [email protected]

M.S. in Data Science
Dr. Yijun Zhao | LL 610E | [email protected]

M.S. in Cybersecurity
Dr. Thaier Hayajneh | LL 616A | [email protected]

Department Staff

Department Administrator
Palma A. Salerno | JMH 340 | [email protected]

System Administrator
Luis Torres | JMH 329| [email protected]

Rose Hill Department Assistant
Anthony Califano | JMH 340 | 718-817-4480 | [email protected]

Lincoln Center Department Associate
Eliane A. Victoria | LL 813 | 212-636-6310 | [email protected]

Full-Time Faculty

Mohammad Ruhul Amin
Assistant Professor
Degree: PhD in Computer Science, Stony Brook University
Email: [email protected]
Office: LL 610G (LC)
Phone:  646-312-8766  
Research Area(s): Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Data Science.

Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan
Associate Professor
Director, Fordham Dependable and Secure System Research and Education Lab
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 334 (RH)
Phone: 718-817-0582
Research Areas: Dependability, Cyber Security, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and Internet of Things

Juntao Chen
Assistant Professor
Degree: PhD, New York University
Email: jchen504 (at) fordham.edu
Office: LL 610H (LC)
Phone: 646-868-4173 
Research Area(s): Game and Decision Theory for Cybersecurity, Secure and Resilient Socio-Cyber-Physical Systems, Optimization and Machine Learning for Complex Networked Systems

Eugenio GrippoLecturer
Degree: PhD, University of Southern California (USC)
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 340 (RH)
Research Area(s): Analysis of Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML), Power Grid / Smart Grid, Control Systems

Adam K. Hastings
Assistant Professor
Degree: Ph.D, Columbia University
Email: [email protected]
Office: LL 808B (LC)
Phone: 646-293-3961
Research Area(s): Hardware Security, Security Economics, Computer Architecture

Thaier Hayajneh
University Professor
Founder Director, Fordham Center of Cybersecurity
Program Director, MS in Cybersecurity
Director of Cybersecurity Research and Education lab
Degree: PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Email: [email protected]
Office: LL 616A (LC)
Phone: 212-636-7785
Research Area(s): Applied Cryptography, Network Security

Dakota Hernandez
Lecturer
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 340 (RH)

Frank Hsu
Clavius Distinguished Professor of Science and Professor of Computer and Information Science
Degree: PhD, University of Michigan
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 402A (RH)
Phone: 718-817-4483
Research Area(s): Interconnection networks for massively parallel computer systems, communication networks and VLSI designs, parallel algorithms and architectures, telecommunication network design and optimization, graph theory and combinatorial problems.

Nikitas Kounavelis
Lecturer
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 333 (RH)

Daniel Leeds
Associate Professor
Chair of the Computer and Information Sciences Department
Degree: PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 308A (RH)
Phone: 718-817-5196
Research Area(s): Computational principles of perception, statistical analysis of brain data, computer vision, machine learning

Yanjun Li
Associate Professor
Degree: PhD, Wright State University
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 402B (RH)
Phone: 718-817-0505
Research Area(s): Text Mining, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Ontology, Information Retrieval, Bioinformatics Analysis, Parallel and Distributed Computing

Zigeng Liu
Lecturer
Email:  [email protected]
Office: JMH 328D (RH)
Phone: 718-817-4482
Research Areas: Expert on design of robust supply chain networks, pricing in supply chains and supply chain competition.

Damian Lyons
Professor Emeritus
Director of the Computer Science PhD program
Degree: PhD, University of Massachusetts
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 320 (RH)
Phone: 718-817-4485
Research Area(s): Wide area visual navigation for robot teams. Formal analysis of software for robotic systems operating in unstructured environments. Integration of planning and reaction in robotic systems. Bioinspired robotics. 

Ying Mao
Associate Professor
Degree: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Boston
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 336
Phone: 718-817-5149
Research Area(s): cloud computing, virtualization, resource management for machine learning algorithms, data-intensive systems, high-performance computing.

Robert K. Moniot
Associate Professor
Degree: PhD (Physics), University of California, Berkeley; MS (Computer Science), New York University
Email: [email protected]
Office: Rose Hill
Phone: 718-817-4480
Research Area(s): Accelerator-based mass spectrometry of radioisotopes, applied to archeology, geophysics and meteoritics. Scale-space and equation-error minimization approaches to problems in image reconstruction and solution of partial differential equations. Analysis of computer ethics issues.

Mohamed Rahouti
Associate Professor
Degree: Ph.D., University of South Florida
Email: [email protected]
LL610C (LC)
Research Area(s): Computer Networking and Networking Security, Secure and Resilient Software Defined Networking-Enabled Applications for Smart Cities, and Networked Emergency Response Systems.

Marlon Seaton
Lecturer
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 340 (RH)

Tadeusz Strzemecki
Degree: PhD, Stevens Institute of Technology
Email: [email protected]
Office: LL 610-B (LC)
Phone: 212-636-6332
Research Area(s): Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Complexity of Algorithms, Theory of Computation.

Karen Trovato
Lecturer
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 308A (RH)
Phone: 718-817-0785

David S. L. Wei
Professor
Degree: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 328 (RH)
Phone: 718-817-4497
Research Area(s): Parallel and Distributed Computing, Mobile Computing, and Networking.

Wenqi Wei
Assistant Professor
Degree: PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: [email protected]
Office: LL 610H
Research Areas: Trustworthy AI, Data Privacy, Responsible AI, Machine Learning, Data Mining

Arthur G. Werschulz
Professor Emeritus
Degree: PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University
Email: [email protected]
Research Area(s): Information-based complexity (the complexity of partial differential equations and integral equations).

Xiaolan Zhang
Associate Professor
Degree: PhD, University of Massachusetts, 2007
Email: [email protected]
Office: JMH 340A (RH)
Phone: 718-817-4484
Research Area(s): computer networks and distributed systems.

Yijun Zhao
Associate Professor and Program Director of M.S. in Data Science (MSDS)
Degree: PhD, Tufts University
Email: [email protected]
Office: LL 610E
Phone: 212-636-7816
Research Areas: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Statistical Pattern Recognition, Algorithms

Yiyin Zhou
Assistant Professor
Email: [email protected]
Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus (Lowenstein 808C)

Affiliated Part-time and Adjunct Faculty