Computer Science Faculty & Staff
Chairperson
Dr. Richard Burns
- Office: UNA150
- Phone: 610-436-2204
- Fax: 610-436-3530
- Email: rburns@wcupa.edu
Administrative Assistant

- Ms. Kathleen Barimani
- Office: UNA150
- Phone: 610-436-2204
- Fax: 610-436-3530
- Email: KBarimani@wcupa.edu
Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty
Dr. Afrand Agah
- Ph.D. University of Texas at Arlington
- Professor
- Office: UNA136
- Phone: 610-430-4419
- Email: AAgah@wcupa.edu
- Teaching & Research: Security in sensor and mobile ad-hoc networks, Intrusion detection, Security and trust in pervasive computing, Economic modeling of security protocols.
Dr. Richard Burns
- Ph.D. University of Delaware
- Associate Professor
- Chairperson
- Office: UNA150
- Phone: 610-436-2204
- Email: rburns@wcupa.edu
- Teaching & Research: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Knowledge Representation, Cognitive Science, Information Retrieval.
Dr. Si Chen
- Ph.D. University at Buffalo - SUNY
- Assistant Professor
- Graduate Coordinator
- Computer Science System Administrator
- Office: UNA142
- Phone: 610-436-6998
- Email: SChen@wcupa.edu
- Teaching & Research: Augmented reality security, software security, malware analysis, cyber-physical system security, mobile crowd-sensing system.
Dr. Liu Cui
- Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
- Assistant Professor
- Assessment Coordinator
- Office: UNA140
- Phone: 610-430-4960
- Email: LCui@wcupa.edu
- Teaching & Research: Dynamic spectrum access and related policies including spectrum right, spectrum trading, decision and risks analysis in spectrum sharing, Security issues in spectrum sensing.
Dr. Richard G. Epstein
- Ph.D. Temple University
- Professor
- Office: UNA131
- Phone: 610-436-3231
- Email: REpstein@wcupa.edu
- Teaching & Research: Software Engineering, Software Processes, Social and Ethical Implications of Computing.
Dr. Zhen Jiang
Ph.D. Florida Atlantic University
Professor
Office: UNA129
Phone: 610-738-0350
Email: ZJiang@wcupa.edu
Teaching & Research: Network Protocols, OO Design, Computer Graphics, Performance Evaluation.
Ph.D. Virginia Commonwealth University
Assistant Professor
Office: UNA144
Phone: 610-436-2181
Email: HNguyen@wcupa.edu
Teaching & Research: Distributed optimization and machine learning, approximation algorithms, network science.
Ph.D. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Assistant Professor
Assistant Chair
Office: UNA139
Phone: 610-436-2595
Email: LNgo@wcupa.edu
Teaching & Research: Distributed systems, big data analytics, and computer science education.
Dr. Cheer-sun Yang
Ph.D. University of Delaware
Professor
Internship Coordinator
Office: UNA145
Phone: 610-738-0450
Email: CYang@wcupa.edu
Teaching & Research: Networking, Network Security, Parallel Programming, Software Testing.
Adjunct Faculty
Steven Battilana
- Office: UNA146
- Phone: 610-430-4198
- Email: SBattilana@wcupa.edu
- Teaching & Research: Web Technology, General Computer Science.
Paul Dinsmore
- Office: UNA156
- Phone: 610-430-4960
- Email: PDinsmore@wcupa.edu
- Teaching & Research: General Computer Science.
Sherry Patterson
- Office: UNA133
- Phone: 610-430-4412
- Email: SPatterson@wcupa.edu
- Teaching & Research: General Computer Science.
Steven Richter
- Office: UNA137
- Phone: 610-430-4748
- Email: SRichter@wcupa.edu
- Teaching & Research: General Computer Science.
Hengzhi Ai
- Office: UNA130
- Phone: 610-436-2595
- Email: HAi@wcupa.edu
- Teaching & Research: General Computer Science.
Ola Ajaj
- Office: UNA133
- Phone: 610-430-4412
- Email: oajaj@wcupa.edu
- Teaching & Research: General Computer Science.
