Mentors
Dr. Kecheng Yang
Kecheng Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018 and 2015, respectively, both with Prof. James H. Anderson. Before that, he received his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Hunan University in 2013. His research interests include real-time and cyber-physical systems, scheduling theory and resource allocation algorithms, and heterogeneous multiprocessor platforms. His work has been published in a variety of top-tier conferences and journals, such as RTSS, DAC, ICCAD, TPDS, TCAD, and has won two Outstanding Paper Awards.
Dr. Anne H.H. Ngu
Anne H.H. Ngu is currently a Full Professor and Ph.D. Program Director with the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. From 1992-2000, she worked as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia. She had held research scientist positions with Telcordia Technologies; Microelectronics and Computer Technology (MCC); University of California, Berkeley; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia and the Tilburg University, The Netherlands. She was a summer faculty scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2003-2006. Dr. Ngu has published over 120 technical papers in journals and refereed conferences in computer science. Dr. Ngu’s main research interests are in data analytics and management, smart health, scientific workflows, and service computing. She was a winner of the 2013 NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award and the Presidential Distinction Award for Services, Texas State University in 2017 and 2014.
Dr. Mylene C.Q. Farias
Mylene Farias is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. She received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA. She received her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, in 1995 and her M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, in 1998. Her current interests include video quality metrics, biomedical engineering and medical imaging systems, multimedia signal processing, immersive media, and visual attention. To date, she has published 54 scientific journals and 110 peer-reviewed conference papers. Dr. Farias is a Senior Member of IEEE and the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She is also a member of ACM. She has served as member and area chair in technical program committees of several conferences, and she is an associate editor of several journals.
Dr. Heena Rathore
Heena Rathore is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Texas State University. Academically, she has worked as an assistant professor of instruction at The University of Texas at San Antonio and as a visiting assistant professor at Texas A&M University, Texarkana. She also worked as a data scientist and program manager at Hiller Measurements in Austin. Before that, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the US-Qatar Joint Collaborative Project between Temple University, the University of Idaho, and Qatar University. She received her Ph.D. in computer science and engineering on a Tata Consultancy Services Research scholarship at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India. Her research interests include cognitive AI, cybersecurity of cyber-physical systems, and biologically inspired systems. She has been the winner of several prestigious awards, including Educationist Empowering India, IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Individual Achievement Award, IEEE Central Texas Section Achievements Award, IIT Alumni Award for Recognizing Excellence in Young Alumni, NI Global Engineering Impact Award, and others.
Dr. Apan Qasem
Apan Qasem is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Texas State University. He leads the Compilers Research Lab (https://compilers.cs.txstate.edu) where he and his students are working on a number of projects in the broad area of high-performance computing with an emphasis on developing intelligent compiler techniques for improving programmer productivity, performance and energy efficiency. His research has received funding from the National Science Foundation (including a CAREER award in 2013), Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Semiconductor Research Consortium (SRC), AMD, NVIDIA, Intel and IBM (including a Faculty Award in 2008). He has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications including four that won best paper awards. He won the Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Teaching at Texas State in 2012 and has been selected as Favorite Professor by the Alpha Chi National Honor Society on four occasions. He currently serves as his department’s Associate Chair. In the past, he has been a Visiting Professor at University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics and a Visiting Scholar at AMD Research. He received his PhD from Rice University.