ICS - Key Persons


Alan Ito

Job Titles:
  • IT Workforce and Regulated Policy Lead, University of Hawaii at Mānoa

Alice Kon

Research interests: Emerging architectures; Programming models; Machine learning; Partial differential equations.

Anthony Peruma

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
Research interests: Program comprehension, Software refactoring, Software maintenance & evolution.

Arnold Kishi

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor, Hawaii State Office of Enterprise Technology Services

Barbara Endicott-Popovsky

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Research interests: Computer science education; Computer crime; Information systems education; Model curricula; Security and privacy; Information science education; Quality assurance; Documentation; Local area networks; Networks; Operating systems security; Software and ITS engineering; Software evolution; Web applications; Web services.

Brent Aurenheimer

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Research interests: Software engineering; Human-computer interaction; Formal methods of software development.

Burt Lum

Job Titles:
  • Broadband Strategy Officer, Hawaii State Department of Economic Development and Tourism

Carleton Moore

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Research interests: Software management, computer games, human and social aspects of security and privacy, human-centered computing, interactive games, massively-multiplayer online games, privacy policies, process validation, project and people management, software creation and management, software development process management.

Charles Shackford

Job Titles:
  • IT Network / System Admin

Clyde Shiigi

Job Titles:
  • Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer, DataHouse

Dan Suthers

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, CIS PhD Program
Research interests: Technology Enhanced Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Informatics. Cognitive, social and computational perspectives on designing and evaluating software for learning, collaboration, and community.

David Chin

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
Research interests: User modeling, natural language processing, intelligent agents, empirical evaluation, AI for computer games.

David Pager

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Dusko Pavlovic

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Edo Biagioni

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Frances Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Researcher

Guylaine Poisson

Job Titles:
  • Department Associate Chair / Industry Liaison
Research interests: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology

Gwen Jacobs

Job Titles:
  • Director of Cyberinfrastucture, University of Hawaii at Mānoa

Henri Casanova

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Jason Leigh

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Jim Takatsuka

Job Titles:
  • Digital Advisor, Microsoft Federal

Karen Yamamoto

Job Titles:
  • President, Decision Research

Katy Tarrit

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
Research interests: Neuroscience, digital signal and image processing, computer security.

Kenny Ka

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Kim Binsted

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Research interests: Artificial intelligence, human-computer interfaces, and long-duration human space exploration.

Kyungim Baek


Lee Altenberg

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor
  • Mathematics

Mahdi Belcaid

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Data science education, Probabilistic programming in genomics, Big data approximation.

Martha Crosby

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Research interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial intelligence; Cognitive science; Computer science education; Information science education; Authentication; Cognitive robotics; Collaborative learning; HCI theory; Concepts and models; Integrated and visual development environments; Interaction design theory; Concepts and paradigms; Model curricula; Philosophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence; user-centered design; virtual reality.

Mehdi Tarrit

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Research interests: Software engineering, cybersecurity.

Michael Brian Ogawa

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Specialist

Narayan, Ravi

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Neal Miyake

Job Titles:
  • Business Deputy, Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific ( NIWC Pacific )

Nodari Sitchinava

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Nurit Kirshenbaum

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
Research interests: Human-centered design, tangible user interfaces, cyberinfrastructure, shape-changing interfaces, learning technologies, games, interactive media, authoring and visualization tools.

Peter Sadowski

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Graduate Program Chair

Peter Yiğitcan Washington

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Peter-Michael Seidel

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Curriculum Committee Chair
Research interests: Computer arithmetic, Computer architecture; Formal methods; Hardware security.

Philip Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Ray Tsuchiyama

Job Titles:
  • Guild Consulting

Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka

Job Titles:
  • Principal, Canaan Partners VC

Rich Gazan

Job Titles:
  • Library and Information Science / School of Communication and Information
  • Professor
Research interests: Interdisciplinary collaborations; online communities; and scientometrics.

Richard Halverson

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Rick Kazman

Job Titles:
  • Information Technology Management / Shidler College of Business

Scott Robertson

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair

Steve Sakata

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, EWorld Enterprise Solutions

Susanne Still

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Todd Tomita

Job Titles:
  • IT System Admin