Chair of the Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computing and Informatics, UNC Charlotte: The Department of Software and Information Systems (SIS) is best known for its teaching and research in intelligent systems, human centered design, and cyber security. The Department has 20 faculty, 55 PhD students, 200 MS students, and 330 undergraduate students. SIS contributes significantly to regional and international efforts in Cybersecurity, Data Science, and CS Education research.

Website: http://maryloumaher.net

I teach and engage in research in the field of Human-Computer Interaction at UNC Charlotte. My research involves developing and evaluating novel interaction techniques, creativity support tools and technologies to support the arts. Beyond technology and art, I am also interested in politics, gender issues, philosophy, behavioral economics, neuroscience, psychology and sociology.
I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in 2006. I have a Masters of Mathematics in CS and a Bachelor of Arts in Honours Economics and Applied Studies, both from Waterloo.

Website: http://www.celinelatulipe.com/

My general research interests are Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), with focus in Usable Security and Privacy. My research has focused on privacy on social network sites and mobile phones, interactive secure programming, and education in usable security and secure programming.

Website: http://hci.uncc.edu/~richter

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Dr. Xi Niu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Software and Information Systems. Before joining UNC Charlotte in 2015, Dr. Niu was an assistant professor at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University (Indianapolis Campus).

Dr. Niu's research is in the intersection of data analytics, search behavior, interactive information retrieval. Her recent projects include text mining for serendipitous recommendation, transaction log analysis of e-commerce websites, analyzing user-generated contents. She has substantial experience in analyzing online user behavior to generate insights about user experience. Her specialties include:

• Quantitative analysis of large-scale user behavior data
• Transaction log analysis
• Triangulation of quantitative and qualitative methods
• Interactive information retrieval
• She has published many refereed research papers in top journals and conferences. She has won several awards and grants from different sources.

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I am passionate about teaching courses on the importance and value of Human Computer Interaction, especially as our reliance on technology moves from recreational to critical. My research is in the areas of novel and embodied interaction techniques, supporting the creative work of artists and choreographers, and understanding how interaction techniques and interface design can impact end-user explorability, satisficing, and satisfaction.

Website: bertogonzalez.com

My research involves the design, development and evaluation of collaborative systems and the study of socio-technical impacts of intervention of such syestems in work flow. I have been deeply involved in various National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects. I have designed, developed, implemented and evaluated the Video Collaboratory application which is a software to support asynchronous collaborative processes around videos.

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Stephen joined the HCI Lab in the Fall of 2014. Stephen is interested in exploration in conceptual spaces and education research. He is advised by Celine Latulipe.

Stephen's work in education and with Lightweight Team has resulted in a publication at ICER and SIGCSE.

Stephen is curently researching how people explore high-dimensional spaces. Specifically, whether scaffolding and collaboraiton affect the way that people explore these spaces.

Website: http://stevemacn.github.io

I started PhD in UNCC from Fall 2013 under supervision of Dr. Mary Lou Maher, working on NatureNet, the Willful Marionette projects, and finding interesting patterns in citizen science data. My general interests are

• Computational cognitive modeling
• Data mining and knowledge discovery
• Machine learning and pattern recognition

Website: http://webpages.uncc.edu/~mmahzoon/index.html

I am interested in user interaction with online videos, multiple video interaction and video collaboration. I also like iOS programming and web programming. Projects - Video Collaboratory , NatureNet

Website: http://xiajinyue.info

IT security problems are a big concern today. To address this problem, I am researching various novel techniques to help software developers detect security vulnerabilities as they are writing code. By using a new annotation technique, dubbed interactive annotation, input from developers can be used to enable tools to assist developers in the detection of application-specific vulnerabilities. Specifically, my research is focused on advancing these techniques.

Website: http://www.tylerthomaswebsite.net

This is my first year at UNCC (Fall 2015). I'm interested in exploring art and technology from an HCI perspective: imagining new interaction techniques that inspire creativity as well as studying how these new techniques influence cognition and the creative process. I studied computer science and music as an undergraduate at Wellesley College and I am fascinated now thinking about musical instruments from an interaction perspective and thinking about computers as creative tools.

Website: http://webpages.uncc.edu/jokerlun/

I am working on interactive program analysis for software security. The research is a part of the OWASP ASIDE project. The aim of research is to apply combined static-dynamic analysis to detect software vulnerabilities at development time (such as Eclipse plugins) inorder to help programmers in finding and removing the security vulnerabilities in IDEs.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahmoudmohamadi

My main research interests are in the areas of machine learning, image processing, data mining and knowledge representation. I have done my undergraduate research on the topic "Content Based Image Retrieval Using Relevance Feedback" where I tried to uniquely improve retrieval result by my integration of relevance feedback in the system. I am working in a project named "ASIDE"(Application Security plug-in for Integrated Development Environment), an Eclipse plug-in which focuses on helping the developers to detect software vulnerabilities,write secure code and educating students about secure programming and good coding practices. I am exploring both security and HCI areas under Dr. Bill Chu who is guiding me in the security aspect of ASIDE and Dr. Heather Lipford who is guiding me in the HCI aspect.

Website: http://webpages.uncc.edu/nnur/

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My work focuses on understanding how and to what extent influence can affect the security and privacy decisions made by people. This work looks at the intersection of influence and the crowdsourcing to provide better security and privacy information to people.

Website: https://eriknorthrop.com

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Lina Lee is a Ph.D. student in the College of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte. She received a B.S. and a M.S. in Housing and Interior Design from Kyung Hee University in South Korea. After then, she received a dual degree: M.S. in Architecture and M.S. in Information Technology Software at UNC Charlotte. She is a member of the InDe Lab and HCI Lab at UNC Charlotte. Her research interest is in the area of Human-Computer Interaction with particular focus on designing user experiences and intelligent user interfaces for the elderly with gesture-based interactive techniques that enhance public engagement.

Website: http://llee52.wixsite.com/linalee

Research Interests: Usable Privacy & Security

Website: http://webpages.uncc.edu/aalqhata/

I started PhD in UNCC from Spring 2016 under supervision of Dr. Mary Lou Maher. My research is about applying CS tools such as ML and NLP to analyze teams’s attitude and behavior in CS education.

Website: https://cci.uncc.edu/directory/dehbozorgi-nasrin