Faculty

Omar Darwish, DSc

Associate Professor

DSc from Towson University
MSc from Jordan University of Science and Technology
BSc from Jordan University of Science and Technology

Office: MCL 414
Phone: 940-898-2157
email: odarwish@twu.edu 
Teaching interests: computer science and bioinformatics
Research interests: Bioinformatics, RNA-Seq Analysis, Design and Development of Database, web interface and Pipelines for Bioinformatics Applications, Databases, Data Mining.

Islam Ebeid, PhD

Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
MS, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
BS, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Office: MCL 412
Phone: 940-898-2165
Email: iebeid@twu.edu

Teaching Interests: Data science
Research Interests: Data quality and integration, artificial intelligence, graph theory,
information retrieval and seeking, biomedical informatics

David Gardner, PhD

Associate Professor

PhD from University of North Texas
MS from University of North Texas
BA from University of North Texas

Office: MCL 421
Phone: 940.898.2162
email: dgardner@twu.edu
Teaching interest: computer science

Jonathan Gratch, PhD

Associate Professor

PhD from University of North Texas
MA from Bond University, Australia
BA from Texas Christian University

Office: MCL 302G
Phone: 940.898.2175
email: jgratch@twu.edu
Teaching interests: computer science and informatics

Wen Xu, PhD

Associate Professor

PhD from University of Texas at Dallas
MS from Dalian University of Technology, China
BS from Dalian University of Technology, China

Office: MCL 422
Phone: 940.898.2177
email: wxu1@twu.edu 
Teaching interest: computer science

Jian Zhang, PhD

Professor

PhD from Tulane University
MS from Tulane University
BS from Hefei University of Technology, China

Office: MCL 302F
Phone: 940.898.2163
email: jzhang@twu.edu
Teaching interests: computer science and informatics

Vyacheslav (Slava) Zavalin, PhD

Assistant Professor

Office: SH 421B
Phone: 940-898-2626
Email: vzavalin@twu.edu 

Research interests: Cataloging and classification; metadata; subject analysis; information organization; access in digital libraries; data analytics; Big and Smart Data; digital imaging; data visualization.