Faculty and Staff
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Department of Computer Science and Information Technology
In person: 139 Engineering and Computing Center
Phone: (320) 308-4966
Email: csit@stcloudstate.edu
Mailing Address:
139 Engineering and Computing Center
St. Cloud State University
720 4th Ave S
St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498
Staff
![Cliff Moran](_files/images/Moran.jpg)
Cliff Moran
- Office Administrator
(320) 308-4966 | ECC 139
Contact for questions about programs or general inquiries.
Faculty
![Mark Petzold](_files/images/petzold.jpg)
Mark Petzold
- Department Chair
- Professor of Computer Science
- Ph.D. 2001 University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
(320) 308-4182 | ECC 139B
Interests: Speech Synthesis/Detection, Computer Data Communications
![Bilal Al-Ahmad](_files/images/bilal_al_ahmad.jpg)
Bilal Al-Ahmad
- Associate Professor of Software Engineering
- PhD 2015 North Dakota State University
(320) 308-4965 | ECC 234
bilal.al-ahmad@stcloudstate.edu
Interests: Software Requirements Engineering, Software Design, Software Testing, Software Projects Managements, Software Engineering Education, Machine Learning, and Software Defined Networks
![Omar Al-Azzam](_files/images/Omar Al-Azzam_1.jpg)
Omar Al-Azzam
- Professor of Software Engineering and Computer Science
- Director of Software Engineering Graduate and Undergraduate Programs
- Ph.D. 2012, North Dakota State University
(320) 308-5196 | ECC 248
Interests: big-data analytics, bioinformatics, data mining
![Andrew A. Anda](_files/images/Anda.jpg)
Andrew A. Anda
- Professor of Computer Science
- Ph.D. 1995, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
(320) 308-2044 | ECC 223
Interests: High-performance scientific computing, Computing Ethics
![Adriano Cavalcanti](_files/images/adriano_cavlcanti.png)
Adriano Cavalcanti
- Associate Professor of Software Engineering
- Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering Monash University
(320) 308-4734 | ECC 246
adriano.cavalcanti@stcloudstate.edu
https://web.stcloudstate.edu/vq5252rg/
Interests: Biomedical Computing, Brain-Computer Interface, Cloud Computing, Computer Graphics, Mobile technology, Nanorobotics, Robotics
Jayantha Herath
- Professor of Computer Science
- Ph.D. 1988, Keio University (Japan)
(320) 308-2142 | ECC 259
Interests: computer architecture, distributed and parallel computing
![Dave Keller](_files/images/20150714_102628_dave-keller.jpg)
Dave Keller
- Professor in Cybersecurity
- Director of the Cybersecurity Program
- MS 2018 - Minnesota State University-Moorhead, BS 1989 - Mankato State University
(320) 308-2221 | ECC 254
Interests: Network Security, Operating System Security and Security of IOT
![Jalal Khalil](_files/images/jalal_khalil.jpg)
Jalal Khalil
- Assistant Professor of Software Engineering
- PhD 2023 University of Alabama at Birmingham
(320) 308-4963 | ECC 252
Interests: Geospacial Data Management, Graph Mining, Data Analytics
Ezzat Kirmani
- Professor of Information Technology Security
- Ph.D. Illinois Institute of Technology
(320) 308-3071 | ECC 147
Interests: computer networks, security, dependability, performability, performance evaluation; fault management, network management, modeling, and cluster computing
![Akalanka Bandara Mailewa](_files/images/akalanka.jpg)
Akalanka Bandara Mailewa
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Ph.D. 2020, Texas Tech University
(320) 308-5695 | ECC247
Interests: Big Data Security, IoT Security, Cyber-Security, Computer Networking, Cryptography, Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, and Software Test Automation
![Jie H. Meichsner](_files/images/Meichsner.jpg)
Jie H. Meichsner
- Professor of Computer Science
- Ph.D. 1996, Tohoku University (Japan)
![Ramnath Sarnath](_files/images/Sarnath Ramnath 100x100.jpg)
Ramnath Sarnath
- Professor of Computer Science
- Director of Computer Science Graduate Programs
- Ph.D. 1994, State University of New York at Buffalo
(320) 308-4960 | ECC 145
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/rsarnath
Interests: algorithm analysis and design, data-structures, computational geometry and object-oriented software design
![Maninder Singh](_files/images/msingh.jpg)
Maninder Singh
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Ph.D. 2019, North Dakota State University
(320) 308-4971 | ECC 258
https://web.stcloudstate.edu/msingh/
Interests: Software Quality, Requirement Engineering, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Graph Mining, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Empirical Software Engineering.
Emeriti Faculty
Bryant A. Julstrom
- Professor of Computer Science
- Ph.D. 1987, University of Iowa
Donald O. Hamnes
- Professor of Computer Science
- Ph.D. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities