Faculty

Srinivas Akella is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received his Ph.D. in Robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Akella’s research interests are in developing geometric and optimization algorithms for robotics and […]

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION:Genetics of the immune system, molecular biology, genomics, transcriptomics, human population genetics, molecular basis of disease mechanisms

As an associate professor of elementary science education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Ian does research that primarily focuses on the interaction between science and religion. His goal is to help facilitate understanding of science and religion, what makes them each unique, their interaction, and how they both benefit society. Specifically, Ian’s […]

The Carter lab will use computational, molecular, and genetic tools to understand when and how bacteria and fungi form close symbioses that impact their hosts. Morgan Carter began working on host-microbe-microbe interactions during her Plant Pathology Ph.D. training at Cornell University and continued in the area for her postdoctoral work at the University of Arizona. […]

Research Interests Big data analytics Health informatics using social media data Mathematical modeling of infectious diseases

Don Chen is Professor at the Department of Engineering Technology and Construction Management in the William States Lee College of Engineering at UNC Charlotte. His expertise covers performance improvement of pavements and applications of Building Information Modeling in design and construction. As Principal Investigator, Dr. Chen has secured over $1.7M in external funding and published […]

Dr. Elizabeth Cooper received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Southern California in 2011, then worked as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Miami from 2011 to 2014. Afterwards, she became a research associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Clemson University, before joining the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics at the […]

In my lab group, we aim to develop a better understanding of the general principles that have given rise to the diversity of living vertebrates and enabled their persistence. This knowledge not only allows us to gain a better understanding of the evolution of our own genomes, but also provides critical historical context for emergent […]

Dr. Wenwen Dou is currently an assistant professor of College of Computing and Informatics and a core faculty member at Charlotte Visualization Center at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests include Visual Analytics, Text Mining, and Human Computer Interaction. She works in the cutting-edge research area of Visual Text Analytics, which integrates […]

Dr. Colby T. Ford is a computational biologist and cloud AI architect who specializes in building cloud-based solutions for the life sciences. He is the founder of <Tuple>, a Microsoft and Databricks partner consulting firm and is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional awardee for his work relating to bioinformatics in the Azure cloud. His research […]