About CaRDS
Board Of Directors
Dr. Frank Hagelberg
Professor and Chairperson of the Board of Directors
Ph.D. in Physics University of Bonn, Germany
Specialty: Physics
Research: Computational Physics and Material Science
423-439-6725
hagelber@etsu.edu
279 Brown Hall
Dr. Michele Joyner
Associate Professor and member of the Board of Directors
Ph.D. in Mathematics 1997, North Carolina State University
Specialty: Computational applied mathematics
Research: Deterministic and stochastic models, parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification
423-439-6974
joynerm@etsu.edu
308 R Gilbreath Hall
Dr. Steve Karsai
Professor and Member of the Board of Directors
Specialty: Biology
Research: Emergent patterns in complex systems, agent-based modeling
423-439-5601
karsai@etsu.edu
363 Brown Hall
Dr. Brian Bennett
Assistant Professor and Member of the Board of Directors
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Nova Southeastern University
Specialty: Computing
Research: Software Engineering and Development, Machine Learning Techniques and data mining
423-439-6961
bennetbt@etsu.edu
4-476 Nicks Hall
Dr. Mohammad S. Khan
Assistant Professor and Member of the Board of Directors
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering 2013, University of Louisville
Specialty: Computing
Research: Ad-hoc networks, network tomography, connected vehicles and vehicular social networks
423-439-5808
khanms@etsu.edu
483 Nicks Hall
Dr. Philip Pfeiffer
Professor and Member of the Board of Directors
Ph.D. in Computer Science 1991, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Specialty: Computing
Research: Programming languages, systems and software engineering
423-439-5355
phil@etsu.edu
4-467 Nicks Hall
Dr. Jeff Knisley
Professor and Member of the Board of Directors
Ph.D. 1990, Vanderbilt University,
Specialty: Computational and Applied Mathematics,
Research: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
423-439-4716
knisleyj@etsu.edu
308-K Gilbreath
Advisors to the Board
Karen King, Ph.D.
Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice Provost for Information Technology Services
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Specialty: Information Technology, elearning, research computing
423-439-7068
kingk@etsu.edu
425 Nicks Hall
Dr. Edmon Begoli
External Advisor, Chief Data Architect, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Specialty: Big Data, Data Engineering and Data Architecture
865-576-0559
begolie@ornl.gov
Oak Ridge National Labs
Dr. Debra Knisley
Emerita
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, ETSU