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Hossain, Dr. Shahadat

Dr. Scient. (Doktor Scientiarum) in Computer Science (University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway)

Professor
Program Chair, Computer Science
Phone
250-960-5548
Email
shahadat.hossain@unbc.ca
Office
10-2080

After receiving a BTech in Textiles from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, I availed an opportunity to study computational optimization in the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway under Professor Trond Steihaug.

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Casperson, Dr. David

PhD, MMath, BSc

Associate Professor
Phone
250-960-6672
Email
casper@unbc.ca
Office
10-2050
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Shruti Chandra

Chandra, Dr. Shruti

Specially Appointed Visiting Assistant Professor (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Waterloo, Canada), PhD (École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne, Switzerland & Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)

Assistant Professor
Phone
250-960-5418
Email
shruti.chandra@unbc.ca
Office
10-2078

Research and Expertise

Areas of Expertise
Social robotics, robot-mediated instructions, robot-assistive education, human‑centred design, autonomous and interactive systems, interaction design.
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Chen, Dr. Liang

PhD

Professor, Computer Science and Interdisciplinary Studies
Phone
250-960-5838
Email
liang.chen@unbc.ca
Office
10-2046

Research and Expertise

Areas of Expertise
Artificial Intelligence including: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Data Mining; Theory of Computation; Voting Theory, Big data, Data analysis.

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Daniel, Dr. Ben

B.Sc (University of Juba); MSc (University of Twente); M.Phil.ED ( University of Oslo); PhD (University of Saskatchewan)

Director, CTLT
Phone
250-960-6655
Email
ben.danielmotidyang@unbc.ca
Office
TAL 3050

Research and Expertise

Areas of Expertise
Artificial Intelligence in Education, Research Methodologies (Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Methods), Health and Patient Research, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
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Waqar Haque

Haque, Dr. Waqar

PhD (Computer Science), MSc (Computer Science), MSc (Mech Engineering)

Professor
Phone
250-960-6522
Email
waqar.haque@unbc.ca
Office
10-2052

Research and Expertise

Areas of Expertise
Advanced analytics, business intelligence, high-performance computing, data science, management information systems
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Andreas Hirt

Hirt, Dr. Andreas

PhD, MSc (University of Calgary), BSc (University of Northern British Columbia)

Assistant Professor
Phone
250-960-6756
Email
andreas.hirt@unbc.ca
Office
10-2068

Research and Expertise

Areas of Expertise
Networking, cryptography, security, performance evaluation, anonymous communication, databases, data warehouses, data mining, business intelligence.
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Hossain, Dr. Shahadat

Dr. Scient. (Doktor Scientiarum) in Computer Science (University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway)

Professor
Program Chair, Computer Science
Phone
250-960-5548
Email
shahadat.hossain@unbc.ca
Office
10-2080

Research and Expertise

Areas of Expertise
Optimization Algorithms and Software, High-performance Computing (HPC), Complex Social and Technological Networks, Quantum Computing, Big-data Analytics
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Jiang, Dr. Fan

MSc, PhD

Associate Professor
Phone
250-960-6626
Email
fan.jiang@unbc.ca
Office
10-2030

Research and Expertise

Areas of Expertise
big data, data mining, data analysis, association rule mining, frequent pattern mining, social network mining, sentiment analysis, machine learning, data visualization
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Allan Kranz

Kranz, Allan

MSc UNBC, BSc UNBC

Senior Lab Instructor
Phone
250-960-5800
Email
allan.kranz@unbc.ca
Office
10-2058

Research and Expertise

Areas of Expertise
embedded systems, controllers, industrial, data logging, sensors, iot
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Saha, Dr. Sajal

PhD (Western University), MSc (Brock University)

Assistant Professor
Phone
250-960-5866
Email
sajal.saha@unbc.ca
Office
10-2082

Research and Expertise

Areas of Expertise
Machine Learning for Intelligent Wireless Communications, Internet of Things/Everything (IoT/IoE), Cyber-Attack Detection
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