Faculty Research

Jian Zhang, PhD

Research specialty: Computer Science Education

Computer science education research focuses on finding effective ways to broaden our understanding of how students learn computing concepts. Zhang’s research emphasizes the effectiveness of different outreach channels for a diverse audience, especially underrepresented student groups. To learn more about her research projects, contact Zhang at jzhang@twu.edu.

Other research interests include: information security, computational intelligence in interactive arts, and image understanding and analysis.

Wen Xu, PhD

Research specialty: Data Mining and Information Management, Computational Social Networks

Xu’s research focuses on data science and its diverse applications. Her work aims to explore innovative ideas in data mining and big data analytics through the development of novel algorithms. These studies span multiple interdisciplinary fields, including mathematics, computer science, sociology, engineering, business, and health sciences. Xu’s research centers on two primary areas: 1. Computational Social Networks, 2. Big data analytics and real-world applications. To learn more about Xu’s research projects, please visit her website https://sites.google.com/site/cswenxu/, or contact her at wxu1@twu.edu.

Islam Akef Ebeid, PhD

Ebeid’s research focuses on biomedical informatics, drug discovery, protein interaction prediction, imaging, network biology, graph theory, language modeling, graph neural networks, network science, data quality, data integration, data science, big data, data mining, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and ethics sustainability in AI.

He leads the Data2AI4LifeSciences Lab at TWU. To learn more about Ebeid’s research or his lab, please visit the Data2AI4LifeSciences Lab website or contact him at iebeid@twu.edu.