Faculty and Staff
The UALR Information Science department is home to a talented group of faculty and staff who strive for excellence in the areas of teaching, scholarship and service.
Faculty
Nitin Agarwal, PhD, Assistant Professor
- Research Interests - Internet technologies and social computing
- Office - EIT Building, Room 553
- Email - nxagarwal@ualr.edu
- Phone - (501) 683-7155
Daniel Berleant, PhD, Professor
- Research Interests - Bioinformatics (biological text mining and biotech futures), Probability (interval-valued probabilities and applications including financial analysis and decision-making under severe uncertainty), Technology foresight (including but not limited to the information sciences and biotechnology)
- Office - EIT Building, Room 562
- Email - jdberleant@ualr.edu
- Phone - (501) 569-3488
Serhan Dagtas, PhD, Associate Professor
- Research Interests - Multimedia analysis, databases, image processing, computer graphics, and Internet technologies
- Office - EIT Building, Room 554
- Email - sxdagtas@ualr.edu
- Phone - (501) 683-7267
Elizabeth Pierce, PhD, Associate Professor
- Research Interests - Information Quality, Data Mining, Data Integration, and Entity Resolution
- Office - EIT Building, Room 551
- Email - expierce@ualr.edu
- Phone - (501) 683-7056
John Talburt, PhD, CDMP, Professor
- Research Interests - Information Quality, Data Integration, Entity Resolution, Semantic Interoperability, and Knowledge Representation
- Office - EIT Building, Room 549
- Email - jrtalburt@ualr.edu
- Phone - (501) 371-7616
Mihail Eduard Tudoreanu, DSc, Associate Professor
- Research Interests - Information visualization, human-computer interaction, distributed systems, and virtual reality
- Office - EIT Building, Room EIT 560
- Email - metudoreanu@ualr.edu
- Phone - (501) 683-7268
Rolf Wigand, PhD, Professor
- Research Interests - Electronic commerce, electronic markets, information flow, information management, networked organizations, value chains, strategic alignment and deployment of information and communication technologies
- Office - EIT Building, Room 548
- Email - rtwigand@ualr.edu
- Phone - (501) 371-7647
Ningning Wu, PhD, Associate Professor
- Research Interests - Data mining, secure data mining, network intrusion detection, and information systems security
- Office - EIT Building, Room 556
- Email - nxwu@ualr.edu
- Phone - (501) 683-7051
Xiaowei Xu, PhD, Professor
- Research Interests - Database management systems, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, and bioinformatics
- Office - EIT Building, Room 552
- Email - xwxu@ualr.edu
- Phone - (501) 683-7266
Staff
Natalie Rego
- Administrative Specialist III
- Office - EIT Building, Room 539
- Email - ncrego@ualr.edu
- Phone - (501) 682-8029