Faculty

Biography: Dr. Arslanyilmaz teaches courses related to Multimedia, E-Commerce, Client-Side and Server-Side Programming, and Databases. His research focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of simulations, games, learning systems, and training applications incorporating game and artificial intelligence theories

Biography: Mr. Gilliland is a lecturer in the Computer Science and Information Systems Department. After assuming several roles in the industry, he started his teaching career as an adjunct faculty and remained in that position for thirteen years. In 2013, he became a full-time instructor. After four years as an instructor, in 2017, he became a full-time lecturer. He has a passion for teaching.

Biography: Mr. Jones is a Lecturer in the Computer Science and Information Systems Department.

Biography: Dr. Kramer is an associate professor in computer science and information systems. He is a member of ACM and currently involved in the acm international collegiate programming contest, where he has served at different roles: contestant, 1985-1986; world finalist, 1987; coach, 1998-2005; ysu site director, 2006-2012; east central na regional director, 2013-present.

Biography: Dr. Alina Lazar is a professor in the department of computer science and information systems at Youngstown State University. Her research interests lie at the intersection between machine learning and data mining. Lately, she has been working on applying machine learning algorithms to software engineering related datasets and other scientific datasets. She is also interested in adapting learning algorithms to scale well in order to deal with large real data sets.

Biography: Dr. Sullins is an associate professor in Computer science and Information systems. He has taught courses in a variety of areas at YSU, including Artificial Intelligence, Web Design, Object-Oriented Programming, Encryption, and Game Design. He has also contributed to the creation of the Master’s program in Computing and Information Systems, and administered it for its first years.

Biography: Dr. Feng “George” Yu is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, where he founded a research lab called Data Lab devoted to the research of Data-Oriented Sciences. Dr. Yu’s major research interests include databases, big data, and cloud computing.