CS Welcomes New Chair Andy Duan
Andy Duan has joined the Department of Computer Science (CS) as chair and professor. He comes to Michigan Tech from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri at Columbia, where he was an associate professor and director of the Computer Graphics and Image Understanding Lab. Duan replaces Linda Ott, who is now emerita chair; she remains in the department as a professor of computer science.
"I am extremely excited to have Andy join our team,” says Dennis Livesay, Dave House Dean of Computing. “The Department of Computer Science is doing really well right now, with significant growth in enrollment, faculty and externally funded research. I'm confident that the future will be even brighter under Andy's leadership."
Duan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research follows two tracks: computer vision, machine learning and biomedical imaging; and computer graphics, virtual reality and augmented reality. Duan is the principal investigator of research projects with active awards exceeding $1 million, and over $16 million in total external funding.
At the University of Missouri at Columbia, Duan was a college-level diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) faculty fellow for close to two years. “That prepared me to do more," said Duan. "A lot of good things are going on at Michigan Tech to address these challenges. I’m hopeful we can work together to find good solutions.”
“As the department chair, I will work to build a strong team focused on a sustainable and strong program and pursue efforts to enhance the ranking and the standing of the department among our peers,” Duan continued. “The College of Computing inspired me. As one of only a few academic colleges in the nation dedicated to computing, it’s a unique opportunity.”
Read more about Duan on the Computing News Blog.