30 faculty and 39 courses in Computer Science at Lehigh University.
- Lichao Sun, Assistant Professor h-index 45
In Artificial Intelligence (AI) security and privacy with emphasis on addressing the security and privacy problems related to AI technology. He has published his research papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, including CCS
Notable: “SplitFed: When Federated Learning Meets Split Learning” (2022) · 622 citations
- Lifang He, Associate Professor h-index 45
Machine learning/deep learning, data mining, tensor analysis and biomedical informatics. Related News Novel machine learning model can predict material failure before it happens Tue, Apr 15, 2025 CSE's He, Chuah to host symposi
Notable: “A Survey on Text Classification: From Traditional to Deep Learning” (2022) · 466 citations
- Brian D. Davison, Daniel E. '39 and Patricia M. Smith Professor and Department Chair h-index 43
Notable: “Empirical study of topic modeling in Twitter” (2010) · 1,138 citations
- Henry (Hank) Korth, Professor h-index 33
Notable: “Semantics and implementation of schema evolution in object-oriented databases” (1987) · 668 citations
- Yu Yang, Assistant Professor h-index 33
Notable: “A decentralized optimization algorithm for multiagent system–based watershed management” (2009) · 185 citations
- Mooi Choo Chuah, Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Throughput performance of transport-layer protocols over wireless LANs” (2002) · 204 citations
- Daniel P. Lopresti, Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Building and using a highly parallel programmable logic array” (1991) · 202 citations
- Brian Y. Chen, Associate Professor and Doctoral Program Director h-index 30
Es primarily on bioinformatics and the development of algorithms that make structural observations to elucidate the structural and chemical properties of interfaces formed by proteins, as they bind to other molecules, to extract information
Notable: “Experience-dependent plasticity of dendritic spines in the developing rat barrel cortex in vivo” (2000) · 811 citations
- Hector Munoz-Avila, Professor h-index 30
Es on integrated AI, combining statistical machine learning techniques, symbolic planning and other reasoning techniques with the aim of high-level (e.g., cognitive) capabilities that are greater than the sum of its individual parts. He has
Notable: “SHOP: Simple Hierarchical Ordered Planner” (1999) · 399 citations
- Michael F. Spear, Associate Professor and Master's Program Director h-index 26
Es on concurrency, programming languages, and computer architecture, with a goal of making it easier for programmers to write correct, scalable applications. His focus areas include Persistent Memory, Transactional Memory, Concurrent Data S
Notable: “NOrec” (2010) · 288 citations
- Mushu Li, Assistant Professor h-index 22
Machine learning for communications and networking, cloud and multi-access edge computing, Intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge AI, and next-generation (6G) wireless networks in general. Related News New faculty join Lehigh
Notable: “Holistic Network Virtualization and Pervasive Network Intelligence for 6G” (2021) · 368 citations
- Maryam Rahnemoonfar, Associate Professor h-index 20
Data Science for Sustainability, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, AI for Social Good, Remote Sensing, and Document Image Analysis. Her research specifically focuses on developing novel machine learning and computer vision algorithms
Notable: “Deep Count: Fruit Counting Based on Deep Simulated Learning” (2017) · 520 citations
- Dominic DiFranzo, Assistant Professor h-index 20
Notable: “Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships” (2023) · 195 citations
- Vinod Namboodiri, Professor and Forlenza Chair in Health Innovation and Technology h-index 19
Es on wayfinding solutions for persons with disabilities and is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) and Convergence Accelerator programs. Vinod has received several college and university l
Notable: “Prediction-Based Routing for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks” (2007) · 231 citations
- Roberto Palmieri, Associate Professor h-index 19
Focus on different aspects of concurrency, synchronization, data structures, distributed computing, heterogeneous systems, key-value stores, and distributed systems, spanning from theory to practice. He is passionate about designing and imp
Notable: “Restoration of the eutrophic Orbetello lagoon (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy): water quality management” (2003) · 91 citations
- Bilal Khan, Professor h-index 17
Notable: “Flying Ad-Hoc Networks: Technological and Social Implications” (2016) · 140 citations
- David Saldana, Associate Professor h-index 17
Es on multi-robot systems, swarm robotics, and aerial manipulation, with applications in environmental monitoring, disaster response, and construction. Saldaña’s work aims to develop resilient, adaptive robotic systems capable of operating
Notable: “Resilient Flocking for Mobile Robot Teams” (2017) · 194 citations
- Masoud Yari, Teaching Associate Professor h-index 12
Notable: “Deep multi-scale learning for automatic tracking of internal layers of ice in radar data” (2020) · 42 citations
- Stephen Lee-Urban, Teaching Associate Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Story Generation with Crowdsourced Plot Graphs” (2013) · 210 citations
- Mark Erle, Professor of Practice and Associate Chair h-index 9
Notable: “Decimal multiplication via carry-save addition” (2004) · 136 citations
- Aparna Bharati, Assistant Professor h-index 9
In the areas of Media Forensics, Computer Vision, Biometrics, and Machine Learning. She leads the Computer Vision Research Group and is affiliiated with the AIRLab, I-DISC and the NHI Initiatives at Lehigh. She serves as a member of the
Notable: “Detecting Facial Retouching Using Supervised Deep Learning” (2016) · 140 citations
- Eric Obeysekare, Teaching Assistant Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Utilization and Monetization of Healthcare Data in Developing Countries” (2015) · 50 citations
- Ahmed Hassan, Assistant Professor h-index 7
On distributed computing, multiprocessor programming, systems software, concurrent data structures, Transactional Memory, in-memoory databases, and NUMA-aware software design. His teaching experience spans different courses related to t
Notable: “Optimistic transactional boosting” (2014) · 33 citations
- Corey Montella, Teaching Assistant Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Closing the Loop in Dynamic Soaring” (2014) · 53 citations
- Jialiang Tan, Teaching Assistant Professor h-index 2
Notable: “What every scientific programmer should know about compiler optimizations?” (2020) · 21 citations
- Elroy Sturdivant, Professor of Practice
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education, with a focus on finding ways to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM. Related News Lehigh Engineering welcomes new faculty Tue, Aug 15, 2023 Elroy Stur
- George Witmer, CSB Co-Director and Professor of Practice
- Houria Oudghiri, Teaching Professor
- Jeffrey D. Heflin, Professor
Establishing semantic interoperability between heterogeneous information systems, scalable ontology reasoning, and developing formal theories of distributed ontology systems. He is one of the pioneers of Semantic Web research and wr
- Kallie Pearl, Teaching Assistant Professor and IDEAS Co-director
Computer science education, with a special focus on finding ways to foster inclusive and equitable learning environments. Related News Leadership updates: I-DISC, I-CPIE, IDEAS Wed, Aug 20, 2025 CSE Prof. Kallie (Ziltz) Pearl honored wit
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.