Meet our Faculty
Rittika Shamsuddin
Assistant Professor
Arunkumar Bagavathi
Assistant Professor
Dr. Bagavathi received his B.S. from Anna University in 2014 and his Ph.D from the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2019. For his thesis, he developed models
to extract actionable patterns to support human decisions. He developed these models
with distributed computing frameworks like Apache Hadoop and Spark to support big
data. His focus is mainly on social networks. He worked on modeling hate speech evolution
and their diffusion dynamics in social media. He also worked on building a framework
to extract features from Multiplex or Multiview networks. His favorite part of his
research is to generating innovative ideas to analyze and extract knowledge from massive
datasets.
Blayne Mayfield
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Mayfield received his PhD in Computer Science from the Missouri University of
Science & Technology in Rolla, MO. in 1998. His primary research is in the area of
digital entertainment. This includes work in AI, video game technologies, and extended
realities (virtual, augmented, and mixed realities). His secondary research is in
the area of mobile computing.