40 faculty and 24 courses in Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines.
- Hua Wang, Professor h-index 83
Machine learning and data mining, as well as their applications in medical image computing, health informatics, cheminformatics, material informatics, additive manufacturing, bioinformatics, and computer vision, where he aims at dev
Notable: “Computing Interaction Effects and Standard Errors in Logit and Probit Models” (2004) · 1,820 citations
- Pejman Tahmsebi, Associate Professor h-index 51
Notable: “Segmentation of digital rock images using deep convolutional autoencoder networks” (2019) · 302 citations
- C. Estelle Smith, Assistant Professor h-index 40
Human-Computer Interaction and Social Computing Whole- Human-Centered Design for UI/UX, AI/ML, and Community Data Science Computational Spiritual Support Mental Health and Social Support Online Communities Recent Papers The Impact of Govern
Notable: “Pathways to Macroscale Order in Nanostructured Block Copolymers” (1997) · 314 citations
- Dejun Yang, Associate Professor h-index 39
In networking, mobile sensing and computing, and Internet of things. Specifically, I apply game theory, optimization, algorithm design, and machine learning to resource allocation, security, and privacy problems in these areas.” Recent
Notable: “Smart Grid — The New and Improved Power Grid: A Survey” (2011) · 3,305 citations
- Thomas Williams, Associate Professor h-index 39
Notable: “Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations” (2009) · 776 citations
- H. Sebnem Duzgun, Professor and Fred Banfield Distinguished Endowed Chair h-index 33
Notable: “GIS-based site selection methodology for hybrid renewable energy systems: A case study from western Turkey” (2013) · 341 citations
- Tracy Camp, Founding Department Head and Emeritus Professor h-index 31
The credibility of ad hoc network simulation studies and the use of wireless sensor networks in geosystems. Dr. Camp has received over 20 grants from the National Science Foundation, including a prestigious NSF CAREER award. In tota
Notable: “A survey of mobility models for ad hoc network research” (2002) · 4,598 citations
- Iris Bahar, Department Head and Professor h-index 31
Lie broadly in areas of computer system design and design automation. A main theme of her research over the years has been energy-efficient and reliable computing, from robots, to high-end processors, embedded systems, and emerging technolo
Notable: “DRUM: A Dynamic Range Unbiased Multiplier for approximate applications” (2015) · 318 citations
- Bo Wu, Associate Professor h-index 26
Lies in the broad field of compilers and programming systems, with an emphasis on program optimizations for heterogeneous computing and emerging architectures. Most of my research activities have centered around data locality enhancement fo
Notable: “Large-scale privacy protection in Google Street View” (2009) · 251 citations
- Qi Han, Professor h-index 25
Cyber physical systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile sensing, and robotic sensor networks. I design algorithms, develop techniques, and build systems to enable pervasive and mobile computing applications, where mobile robo
Notable: “A Survey of Fault Management in Wireless Sensor Networks” (2007) · 382 citations
- William Hoff, Emeritus Associate Professor h-index 21
Computer vision and pattern recognition, with applications in augmented reality, robotics, video aided navigation, and activity recognition. Education B.S. Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology M.S. Physics, University of Illino
Notable: “In Vivo Knee Kinematics Derived Using an Inverse Perspective Technique” (1996) · 334 citations
- Mahadevan Ganesh, Professor h-index 19
Notable: “Spatio-temporal pattern formation on spherical surfaces: numerical simulation and application to solid tumour growth” (2001) · 234 citations
- Gabriel Fierro, Assistant Professor h-index 19
Es on the design and development of efficient, practical systems that enable sustainable practices at societal scale through making critical cyberphysical data easier to discover, manage and leverage. Dr. Fierro is a founder and the lead ma
Notable: “Occupant comfort and behavior: High-resolution data from a 6-month field study of personal comfort systems with 37 real office workers” (2018) · 142 citations
- Tolga Can, Associate Department Head and Teaching Professor h-index 18
Bioinformatics, graph theory, and algorithms. He has worked on protein structure analysis and on large-scale biological networks. He has taught various courses such as Bioinformatics, Data Structures and Algorithms, Computational Ge
Notable: “The CHEMDNER corpus of chemicals and drugs and its annotation principles” (2015) · 421 citations
- Neil Dantam, Associate Professor h-index 15
Es on robot planning and control, operating at the intersection of the symbolic and continuous domains. I am especially interested in automating robot programming by developing techniques that are mathematically verifiable, physically appli
Notable: “Incremental Task and Motion Planning: A Constraint-Based Approach” (2016) · 169 citations
- Kathleen Kelly, Teaching Associate Professor h-index 15
Notable: “Living with contradictions: Controversies in feminist social ethics” (1994) · 132 citations
- Dinesh Mehta, Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Algorithms for ASTAP--A network-analysis program” (1973) · 290 citations
- Chuan Yue, Professor h-index 13
Es on (1) Web, Mobile, Cloud, Cyber-Physical, IoT and AI systems security, (2) usable security and privacy, (3) vulnerability measurement and analysis, and (4) cybersecurity education. Labs and Research Centers Center for Cyber Security and
Notable: “Phishing suspiciousness in older and younger adults: The role of executive functioning” (2017) · 82 citations
- Mehmet Belviranli, Associate Professor h-index 13
Targeted at increasing resource utilization in heterogeneous architectures. He developed runtime systems, scheduling algorithms, analytical models, extended memory spaces, programming abstractions and OS & architecture level support
Notable: “A dynamic self-scheduling scheme for heterogeneous multiprocessor architectures” (2013) · 89 citations
- Samy Wu Fung, Assistant Professor h-index 11
Lie in the intersection of applied mathematics and data science. Education PhD, Applied Mathematics, Emory University, 2019 BSc, Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2014 Research Areas Inverse Problems, Optimization, Deep Learning Optima
Notable: “A Machine Learning Framework for Solving High-Dimensional Mean Field Game and Mean Field Control Problems” (2019) · 206 citations
- Micah Corah, Assistant Professor h-index 11
And Energy-Related applications Planning for robot sensing and perception Development and coordination of multi-robot systems Navigation and control for aerial and mobile robots Applications including Inspection & Videography Link to pe
Notable: “Distributed matroid-constrained submodular maximization for multi-robot exploration: theory and practice” (2018) · 95 citations
- Kaveh Fathian, Assistant Professor h-index 10
Notable: “A Distributed Pipeline for Scalable, Deconflicted Formation Flying” (2020) · 36 citations
- Cyndi Rader, Emeritus Teaching Professor h-index 9
K-12 STEM education and broadening participation in computing. She now enjoys hiking, cycling, skiing and volunteer work. Education BS Computer Science Wright State University 1986 MS Computer Science Wright State University 1991 P
Notable: “Assessing Computational Thinking in CS Unplugged Activities” (2017) · 123 citations
- Dong Chen, Associate Professor h-index 8
Notable: “SunDance” (2017) · 98 citations
- Wendy Fisher, Director of Online and Professional Programs and Teaching Professor h-index 6
Es on applying Machine Learning to Geophysical data to detect anomalous events in earth dams and levees. The understanding and utilization of the massive amounts of data we collected were critical and have applications across various aspect
Notable: “Anomaly detection in earth dam and levee passive seismic data using support vector machines and automatic feature selection” (2016) · 104 citations
- Christine Liebe, Professor of Practice h-index 6
K-12 computer science teacher education, abstraction, computational thinking, critical thinking, and learning through research. She provides CS curriculum and evaluation support to K-12 educators and school districts. Christine has
Notable: “An International Comparison of K-12 Computer Science Education Intended and Enacted Curricula” (2019) · 65 citations
- Kelsey Fulton, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Human-centric approach to secure software development Emphasis on mental models and processes of software developers Usability and improvement of secure development tools Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO
Notable: “Understanding security mistakes developers make: Qualitative analysis from Build It, Break It, Fix It.” (2020) · 19 citations
- Keith Hellman, Teaching Associate Professor h-index 5
Statistics. He began programming in clinical labs for the University of Chicago Hospitals, and for the next decade wrote research oriented analysis software, clinical databases, back-end databases for electronic publishing, and completed
Notable: “An Open and Scalable Emulation Infrastructure for Large-Scale Real-Time Network Simulations” (2007) · 42 citations
- Vibhuti Dave, Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Teaching Professor h-index 5
Digital logic design Computer arithmetic VLSI design Selected Publications Dave, V.; Coulston, C.; , “Multiplication by complements,” Electrical Communications and Computers (CONIELECOMP), 2012 22nd International Conference on
Notable: “A Framework for High-Level Synthesis of System-on-Chip Designs” (2006) · 50 citations
- Guannan Liu, Assistant Professor h-index 5
System and Network Security, Human-Factor Security, and User Authentication. Leveraging systematic and comprehensive measurement techniques, he has investigated various online services to uncover vulnerabilities led by resource mism
Notable: “Fuzzy optimization design-based multi-level response surface of bogie frame” (2019) · 24 citations
- Rob Thompson, Teaching Associate Professor h-index 4
Es on accessibility, computer science education, human computer interaction, blocks-based programming, and computer-supported cooperative work (cscw). Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO /
Notable: “Test generation for designs with multiple clocks” (2003) · 51 citations
- Alexandra Chakarov, Teaching Assistant Professor
- Aysu Betin-Can, Teaching Associate Professor
Automated Software Testing & Verification Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO / Admissions & Financial Aid Financial Aid Graduate Admissions Undergraduate Admissions Re
- Christopher Painter-Wakefield, Teaching Professor
- Hao Zhang, Associate Professor
Human-centered robotics, visual perception, robot learning, human-robot interaction, human-robot teaming, and field robotics. Research “I am a computer scientist and roboticist working on robot perception, learning and adaptation, a
- J. McClurg, Assistant Professor
Programming Languages, Program Synthesis/Verification, Software-Defined Networking Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO / Admissions & Financial Aid Financial Aid Graduate Admissions Und
- Jeffrey Paone, Undergraduate Director and Teaching Professor
- Mark Baldwin, Professor of Practice
- Phillip Romig III, Teaching Associate Professor
- Zibo Wang, Teaching Assistant Professor
Machine learning, biometric authentication, and robotics. Education Ph.D. in Computer Science, Louisiana Tech University, 2017 M.S. in Mathematics and Statistics, Louisiana Tech University, 2017 M.S. in Computer Science, Louisiana T
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.