, Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1999, University of Kansas).
Research Interests: Network Resource Management, Queueing Theory, Application of Telecommunications to Disaster Recovery Operations. Email: beardcumkc.edu.

Baek-Young Choi, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2003, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities).
Research Interests: Network Security/Traffic/Performance, Quality of Service, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Real-Time Systems, Sensor/Wireless Networks. Email: choibyumkc.edu.

Oleg Gusak, Visiting Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2001, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey).
Research Interests: Computer Networks-Modeling and Performance Evaluation, Wireless Networks, Optical Networks. Email: gusakoumkc.edu.

Lein Harn, Professor (Ph.D. 1984, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities).
Research Interests: Cryptosystem Design, Computer Security, Network Security. Email: harnlumkc.edu.

Vijay Kumar, Professor (Ph.D. 1983, Southampton University, UK).
Research Interests: Main Memory Databases, Mobile Computing, Mobile Database Security, Sensor and Web Technology, Bioinformatics. Email: kumarvumkc.edu.

Yugyung Lee, Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1997, New Jersey Institute of Technology).
Research Interests: Semantic Web, Data mining, Intelligent Agents, Peer-to-Peer Computing, Medical Informatics. Email: leeyuumkc.edu.

Deep Medhi, Professor & UMKC Trustees' Faculty Fellow (Ph.D. 1987, University of Wisconsin-Madison).
Research Interests: Survivable Network Design and Architecture, Dynamic Routing, Network Management, Network Security, Wireless/Sensor Networks, Bio-Medical Informatics. Email: dmedhiumkc.edu.

Ken Mitchell, Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1997, University of Missouri-Kansas City).
Research Interests: Teletraffic modeling, Linear Algebraic Queueing Theory, Congestion control and traffic management in Wireless networks. Email: mitchellkeumkc.edu.

EK Park, Professor (Ph.D. 1988, Northwestern University).
Research Interests: Software engineering, Object-Oriented Design, Formal Methods, Optical Networking. Email: ekparkumkc.edu.

Jerry Place, Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1984, University of Kansas).
Research Interests: Communications Network Design and Analysis, Telecommunications Architecture and Networks, Optical Networks, Simulation. Email: placeumkc.edu.

Xiaojun Shen, Professor (Ph.D. 1989, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
Research Interests: Distributed Algorithms, Parallel Processing, Interconnection Networks. Email: shenxumkc.edu.

Khosrow Sohraby, Dean, School of Computing & Engineering, and Curators' Professor of CSEE (Ph.D. 1985, University of Toronto).
Research Interests: Design and Analysis of High Speed Computer and Communications Networks, Traffic Management and Analysis, Wireless and Mobile Communications. Email: sohrabykumkc.edu.

Prem Uppuluri, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2003, SUNY-Stony Brook).
Research Interests: Computer System Security: Intrusion Prevention, Vulnerability Analysis; System Call Interposition, Secure operating systems, OS for Sensor Networks. Email: uppuluripumkc.edu.

Appie van de Liefvoort, Professor and Department Chair of CSEE Department (Ph.D. 1982, University of Nebraska-Lincoln).
Research Interests: Linear Algebraic Queueing theory, Algorithms, Network Performance Modeling. Email: appieumkc.edu.