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Computer Science

Faculty & staff

Office

The general office is in room 504 in the Engineering & Computer Science(ECS) Building. For general inquiries, call us at 250-472-5700 or email cscrecep@uvic.ca.

Mailing address

Department of Computer Science
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2
Canada

Faculty

  • Celina Berg

    Teaching professor; outreach, recruitment & retention coordinator; ECS Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs Computer Science

    Office: ECS 618

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Computer science education

  • Bill Bird

    Associate teaching professor; acting associate chair undergraduate; combined program advisor for MATH/CSC Computer Science

    Office: ECS 632 250-472-5833

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Data compression, computer science education, linear algebra, optimization

  • Roberto Bittencourt

    Assistant teaching professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 552 250-472-5762

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Computer science education, software engineering education

  • Jaya Prakash Champati

    Assistant professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 524 250-472-5899

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Edge artificial intelligence, online learning, age of information, approximation algorithms

  • Sean Chester

    Assistant professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 520 250-472-5721

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Data management, parallel computing, algorithm engineering

  • Yvonne Coady

    Professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 565 250-472-5715

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Scalable distributed system infrastructures, observability in systems, applied AI workflows

  • Daniela Damian

    Professor; ECS-CAPI chair in inclusive science, technology & engineering Computer Science

    Office: ECS 558 250-472-5788

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Software engineering, requirements engineering, human-AI collaboration, computer-supported collaborative work, human-computer interaction, value-based software engineering, global software development, human-centric hybrid intelligence

  • Simon Diemert

    Assistant professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 559

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Safety and security engineering, AI-based engineering tools, assurance for physical AI and adaptive systems, software verification and validation, regulation and ethics in software engineering

  • Neil Ernst

    Associate professor; combined program advisor for Geography/CSC; director, Matrix Institute for Applied Data Computer Science

    Office: ECS 560

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Software engineering, software architecture, requirements engineering, technical debt, empirical methods

  • Anthony Estey

    Associate teaching professor; experiential learning coordinator Computer Science

    Office: ECS 610 250-472-5841

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Computer science education

  • Sudhakar Ganti

    Associate professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 628 250-472-5733

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Traffic management, traffic engineering, quality of service for high speed networks, anomaly detection, traffic based network security analysis, resource allocation for cloud computing

  • Daniel German

    Professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 554 250-472-5790

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Software engineering, software evolution, open source software development, intellectual property

  • Brandon Haworth

    Associate professor; honours advisor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 568 250-472-5772

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Graphics, agent-based modelling, crowd simulation, multi-agent reinforcement learning, deep learning, digital games, human computer interaction, human-centred design, artificial intelligence, augmented intelligence

  • Amber Horvath

    Assistant professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 561 250-472-4903

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Sensemaking, developer experience (DevEx), human-centered software engineering, developer tooling, developer diversity equity and inclusion, social sciences, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, generative AI

  • LillAnne Jackson

    Associate teaching professor Computer Science

    Office: EOW 209

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Memory consistency for multiprocessor architecture, computational geometry, teaching concurrency, computer science education

  • Bruce Kapron

    Professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 620 250-472-5725

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Theory of computing, logic in computer science, computational complexity, cryptography

  • Valerie King

    Professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 622 250-472-5727

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Graph algorithms and data structures, randomized algorithms and probabilistic analysis, fault tolerant distributed computing

  • Alexandra Kitson

    Assistant professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 458 250-472-5896

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Human-computer interaction, interaction design, digital health, extended reality, affective computing

  • Ekaterina Kochmar

    Associate professor Computer Science

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Natural language processing, artificial intelligence in education, machine learning

  • Sajin Koroth

    Assistant professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 530

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Theoretical computer science, complexity theory, communication complexity, circuit complexity

  • Rich Little

    Associate teaching professor; associate chair, undergraduate Computer Science

    Office: ECS 516 250-472-5752

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra, computer science education

  • Chenxi Liu

    Assistant professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 619

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Computer graphics, image generation, vector graphics and 2D visual representations, sketch processing, geometry processing, human-centred creative AI tools

  • Shengyao Lu

    Assistant professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 615 250-472-4280

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Graph-native AI, graph representation learning, human-centered, trustworthy and explainable AI

  • Yun Lu

    Assistant professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 518 250-472-4833

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Differential privacy theory and applications, privacy estimators and auditors, secure multiparty computation and rational cryptography, especially blockchain security under rational attackers

  • Zhenjian Lu

    Assistant professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 626 250-472-5731

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Computational complexity theory

  • Regan Mandryk

    Professor, Canada research chair tier 1, digital games and immersive social technologies Computer Science

    Office: ECS 452 250-472-5735

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Human-computer interaction, digital games, e-sports, affective computing, social computing and digital collaboration

  • Ashery Mbilinyi

    Assistant professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 562 250-472-5890

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Medical image analysis, machine learning for healthcare, information retrieval, computer vision

  • Nishant Mehta

    Associate professor; combined program advisor for Statistics/CSC Computer Science

    Office: ECS 608 250-472-5798

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Machine learning theory

  • Hausi Müller

    Professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 614 250-472-5719

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Software engineering, software evolution, autonomic computing, adoption-centric software engineering, software architecture, software reverse engineering, software reengineering, program understanding, visualization, software engineering tool evaluation

  • Miguel Nacenta

    Associate professor; associate chair, graduate; combined program advisor for Psychology/CSC Computer Science

    Office: ECS 456 250-472-5330

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Human-computer interaction, information visualization, design, user experience, typography, perception, cognition

  • Ibrahim Numanagić

    Associate professor; Canada research chair, tier 2, computational biology and data science; combined program advisor for HINF/CSC Computer Science

    Office: ECS 526 250-472-5049

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Computational biology, bioinformatics, algorithms, data science, programming languages

  • Jianping Pan

    Professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 566 250-472-5796

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Computer networks and distributed systems

  • Charles Perin

    Associate professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 460 250-472-5783

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Information visualization, personal visualization, human-computer interaction, interaction design, interactive technologies, data empowerment, sports visualization, augmented reality, situated visualizations

  • Teseo Schneider

    Assistant professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 612 250-472-5837

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Geometry processing, computer graphics, numerical simulations

  • Sowmya Somanath

    Associate professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 454 250-472-5794

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Human-computer interaction, interaction design, creativity support tools, systems for wellbeing and happiness, future of work, tangibles and physical computing

  • Kevin Stanley

    Chair; professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 504A 250-472-5704

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Data analytics, sensors, geomatics

  • Ulrike Stege

    Associate professor; director of Master of Engineering in Applied Data Science (MADS) program Computer Science

    Office: ECS 532 250-472-5729

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Computational biology, parameterized complexity, design of heuristics, graph theory, cognitive psychology

  • Margaret-Anne Storey

    Professor; Canada research chair tier I, human and social aspects of software engineering Computer Science

    Office: ECS 564 250-472-5713

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Software engineering, human-computer interaction, information visualization, social informatics, knowledge management and computer-supported collaborative work

  • Gabriel Tamura

    Associate teaching professor Computer Science

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Software architecture, software engineering, applied data science/AI, digital twins

  • Alex Thomo

    Professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 556 250-472-5786

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Large-scale graph algorithms, social network analysis, knowledge graphs, LLM applications, differential privacy, data management systems

  • George Tzanetakis

    Professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 606 250-472-5711

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Computer audition, audio signal processing, machine learning, music information retrieval, human computer interaction, computer assisted music education, music robotics and sensors

  • Norha Villegas

    Professor; software engineering program director Computer Science

    Office: ECS 562 250-472-5175

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Self-adaptive and autonomic systems, dynamic context management and situation awareness, agentic AI & generative AI ecosystems, digital twins and cyber physical systems, quantum software engineering, engineering education research

  • Jens Weber

    Professor; associate dean, professional programs & development Computer Science

    Office: ECS 616 (CSC Office); EOW 108 (AD Office) 250-721-8797

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Software engineering, data and knowledge engineering, health informatics, graph transformation systems, reengineering, safety and security engineering

  • Kui Wu

    Professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 522 250-472-5766

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Computer networks, wireless and mobile networking, mobile computing, network security

  • Yu Yan

    Assistant teaching professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 624 250-472-5760

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Adaptive and personalised learning, affective engineering, machine learning, fuzzy systems, STEM education, data science

  • Michael Zastre

    Associate teaching professor Computer Science

    Office: ECS 528 250-472-5771

Staff

Office staff

J Cameron
Assistant to the chair
Office: ECS 504
jscameron@uvic.ca
250-472-5704

Nancy Chan
Administrative assistant
ECS 504
nmchan@uvic.ca
250-472-5701

David Clark
Undergraduate advising officer
ECS 515
cscadvisor2@uvic.ca
250-472-4766

Aimee Coueslan
Graduate program assistant
ECS 504

250-472-5703

Jessica Davis
Reception/administrative assistant
ECS 504

250-472-5700

Farida Haji
Undergraduate co-op coordinator
Student numbers ending in 4-5
ECS 231
fhe@uvic.ca
250-472-5825

Computer Science IT support
cosi_itsupport@rt.uvic.ca

Mostafa Rahimpour
Graduate co-op coordinator
ECS 212
mrahim@uvic.ca
250-472-5822

Erin Robinson
Administrative officer
ECS 514

250-472-5854

Irene Statham
Undergraduate advising officer
ECS 512
cscadvisor@uvic.ca
250-472-5757

Sheryl Thompson
Undergraduate co-op coordinator
Student numbers ending in 0-3
ECS 216

250-472-5812

Adjunct professors

Maia Hoeberechts — maiah@uvic.ca 

Rick McGeer — rmcgeer@uvic.ca

Majed Mohammed — majedm@uvic.ca       

Aanchan Mohan — aanchan@uvic.ca

Mario Nascimento — nascimento.mario@gmail.com

Morgan Price — morgan.price@ubc.ca

Allan Rempel — agrempel@uvic.ca

Akrati Saxena — akratisaxena@uvic.ca

Venkatesh Srinivasan — srinivas@uvic.ca

Brian Wyvill — bwyvill@uvic.ca

Patrick Zulian — zulianp@uvic.ca     

Sessional & cross-listed instructors

Dennis Hore, cross-listed professor
ELL 318
250-721-7168
dkhore@uvic.ca

Nafiseh Izadyar, sessional instructor
nizadyar@uvic.ca

Niloofar Gilani Larimi, sessional instructor
niloofargilanilarimi@uvic.ca

Navneet Popli, cross-listed assistant teaching professor
npopli@uvic.ca

Raymond Siemens, cross-listed professor
CLE C315
250-721-7255
siemens@uvic.ca

Quinton Yong, sessional instructor
quintonyong@uvic.ca

Emeriti

Mantis Cheng — mantis.cheng@gmail.com

Byron Ehle — behle@uvic.ca

John Ellis — jellis@cs.uvic.ca

Daniel Hoffman — dhoffman@uvic.ca

Nigel Horspool — nigelh@uvic.ca

Eric Manning — ericmanning11@gmail.com

Mike Miller — mmiller@uvic.ca

Jon Muzio — jmuzio@uvic.ca

Wendy Myrvold — wendym@uvic.ca

Dale Olesky — dolesky@cs.uvic.ca

Frank Roberts — fdkr@uvic.ca

Frank Ruskey — ruskey@uvic.ca

Mary Sanseverino — msanseve@uvic.ca

Micaela Serra — mserra@uvic.ca

Ali Shoja — gshoja@gmail.com

Bill Wadge — wwadge@uvic.ca

Sue Whitesides — sue@uvic.ca

Brian Wyvill — bwyvill@uvic.ca