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Mathieu, K. Kourouma, Ph.D., SCJP

Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Computer Science

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Dr. Mathieu Kourouma has been with the Department of Computer Science, College of Sciences and Engineering, Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, since August 2006. Dr. Kourouma earned a B.S. degree in electrical and Electronics from the Polytechnic Institute of the University Gamal Abdel Nasser of Conakry-Guinea, in January 1991, an M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications and Computer Engineering, respectively in August 1997 and May 2005, from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette-Louisiana-U.S.A. He is a Sun Microsystem Certified Java Programmer. His teaching experience includes Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunication, Polytechnic Institute of the University Gamal Abdel Nasser of Conakry-Guinea, 1991-1994 and then 1997-1999; Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1999-2005; Instructor, Department of Computer Science, Southeastern University, Hammond, Louisiana, 2005-2006; Adjunct-Professor, Department of Computer Science, Baton Rouge Community College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2009-Present; and Professor, Department of Computer Science, Southern University and A&M College, 2006-Present. His teaching areas include Telecommunications, Computer Networking, Desktop and Server Networking, Wireless Communications, Electronics, Electrical, Microprocessors, Digital Logic, Programming, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Programming Logic and Design, Database Management Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Software Development, etc. His research areas include Telecommunications, Computer Networking, Wireless Communications, Sensor Networks, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, IoT, and Information Systems. He has more than ten publications in these areas. His professional and practical experience includes H1N1 Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence design and implementation for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Baton Rouge, LA; Database Management System of Contractors and Sub-Contractors for the Center of Energy and Environmental Studies, Southern University, and A&M College; Training of AT&T and BellSouth Employees for the Sage Group; Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM certified, Consulting and Training of employees of the Guinean’s Ministry of Telecommunications; Software Application Development using Java, VBA, C++, Python, and PHP; Administrator of the MSDN Alliance Software Program. He is the Director of SUBR Oracle Academy and Administrator of SUBR TestOut/CompTIA. His skills include Wireless Networking, Wired Networking, Troubleshooting Electronic Devices and Networks, Robotics; etc. He is a member of NSTA, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate), IEEE, and ACM.

Trivedi, Sudhir Kumar
Professor of Computer Science

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Dr. Trivedi holds two Ph.D. degrees: one in Mathematics and the other in Computer Science. He has taught courses in computer science at Louisiana State University and Southern University. He served as the President of the Faculty Senate of Southern University from 2000 to 2004 and 2008 to 2012. In 2012, the Louisiana AAUP Conference honored him with the prestigious J. Thomas Hamrick Award for his exemplary efforts on behalf of academic freedom. Currently, he serves as the Vice President of the Louisiana AAUP Conference. During his 21 years at Southern, Dr. Trivedi has directed theses and projects of more than 100 computer science graduate students. His areas of interest include algorithms, cloud computing, neural networks, systems theory and analysis, and computational modeling using reconstruction analysis. He is devoting considerable efforts to building collaborations with some higher education institutions in India.

 

 

Angie Gwee
Professor of Computer Science
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 Dr. Gwee is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Southern University (SU). She holds two PhD degrees: one in Musicology and the other in Computer Science. She has taught courses in Music and Computer Science at Louisiana State University and Southern University. She has won awards for research at international conferences. Her current research interests include Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Algorithmic Complexity, and Ubiquitous Computing. 

 

Kandara, Osman
Associate Professor of Computer Science
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Dr. Kandara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Southern University, Baton Rouge. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science at Louisiana State University (LSU). He worked as a full-time professor at LSU before joining SUBR. He has been an active reviewer and member of the program committees at various international conferences. His current research interests include Software Engineering, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Internet Security, and Algorithm Development.  

  

Yang, Shizhong 
Associate Professor of Computer Science 
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Dr. Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Southern University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2006 in Computational Physics and Electrical Computer Engineering. He then worked in an NSF-supported ab initio Molecular Dynamic method development project at Southern University. He was an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at SUBR from January 2008 to May 2008. In June 2008, he joined the LONI Institute at SUBR Department of Computer Science, working on NASA-BOR-supported Thermal Barrier Coating (TBC) (Co-PI) and high-temperature alloys such as high entropy alloys (PIs) projects. His research has been supported by DOE, NASA, NSF, NIH, LABoR, etc. Currently, his research group supports a high-performance computing (HPC) lab and a sample preparation lab. Postdoc(s), visiting scholar(s), and students have been working on the projects by closely collaborating with LBNL, HPSTAR, etc. on nano-material design, modeling, simulation, synthesis, characterization, and property validation. The group has been using LONI HPC machines, the LBNL ALS facility, along with facility at the LSU TIER center. The group has been also working on NIH-LBRN-supported virus protein-protein and ligand-protein interaction simulation projects (PI). Over recent years, Dr. Yang’s research area covers Computer Science and Electrical Computer Engineering, Biochemistry, Physics, Chemistry, and Material Science. His recent research interests include high-performance computation algorithms, software design, Raman spectrum data mining, 3D visualization of scientific data, digital signal processing, data mining application in material science; EBV gH-gL/integrins and prefusion gB/gH-gL interaction prediction, HSV gK and UL20 viruses membrane interaction, drug and vaccine design; Computational material science: metadynamics and evolutional method material structure prediction, electronic structure and optical properties of doped ZrO2 and Al2O3/ZrO2, ab initio plane wave, and full potential material simulation: doped C60 and CNT, computational surface physics: physisorption and chemisorption, GW and quantum Monte-Carlo method and application in computational novel nano-materials design, modeling, and simulation.

 

 

Dr. Jackson, Lynette 
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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 Dr. Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Southern University. She has taught at the secondary and collegiate levels for over 10 years.  She is responsible for teaching at the undergraduate level and serves on the Curriculum, Accreditation, Handbook, and Company Relations committees.  Her research interests include Big Data, Computer Engineering, Mobile Applications, and Pair Learning.