Dr. Charles Liu is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at CSULA. His research interests include parallel architectures, high performance computing for signal processing, real-time architectures, embedded architectures, and message passing-based parallel algorithms. He is the director of the CSULA SERENADES Laboratory, through which an educational pipeline was established based on the NASA Minority University and College Education and Research Partnership Initiative (MUCERPI) program. Partnerships have been developed among CSULA, its surrounding high schools, community colleges, and the University of Southern California (USC), a prestigious Ph.D.-granting institution. In the first three years of the program, more than 15 technical papers have been published by the participating students. All of the twelve SERENADES graduates have been either hired by government research centers, the local aerospace industry, or admitted to the graduate schools for M.S. and Ph.D. studies. Dr. Liu is Co-PI of a NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, entitled “Graduate Engineering Education to Serve the Aerospace Industry in Urban Los Angeles and the Antelope Valley.” He is a Co-PI of an NSF-sponsored multimedia research supplement program, Multimedia Animation Technologies Incorporated in Engineering Systems (MATIES). He participates in the research of the animation and visualization of a number of aerospace applications. He was also a Co-PI of the Strengthen Education in Engineering and Research (STEER) program through the NSF Research Experience for Teachers (RET) conducted in 2003 and 2005, and focused on the training of the local science and mathematics teachers for the enhancement of pedagogical skills, and development of program assessments mechanisms [STEER]. He is also a Co-PI of the NASA University Research Center (URC) grant and is leading the high performance digital computation and communication research team.

Office: E&C244
Phone: (323) 343-5802
FAX: (323) 343-4547
Email: cliu@calstatela.edu

Dr. Eun-Young Kang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science (CS). Dr. Kang has expertise in computer graphics, computer vision and multimedia (hypertext, audio, video, and 2D/3D graphics) processing and she teaches Computer Graphics, Advanced Artificial Intelligence (Computer Vision) and Multimedia Software Systems courses. She has been involved in many research projects dealing with image-based rendering, graphics, and video processing during her doctoral work at University of Southern California, and she continues to expand her research interests in computer animation for scientific visualization. Since Fall 2006, she has been involved in an NSF grant project that aims to produce computer animations, simulation systems, and games for topics in cosmology. Also, she has been served as a research mentor for NSF LSAMP and NIH MBIR.

Office: E&T A-241A
Phone: (323) 343-4513
Fax: (323)343-6672
Email: eykang@calstatela.edu

Dr. Guo is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cal State LA where she conducts research and teaches. Her research interest includes information security, multimedia communications and databases.  She has published about 20 papers in prestigious journals and conferences which lead to two U.S. patents. Dr. Guo is very active in her research fields and has been invited to review papers for more than 20 journals and conferences.  Dr. Guo developed three undergraduate and two graduate courses on information security and networks. Since she joined Cal State LA in 2005, she has taught more than 10 different courses and supervised 4 graduate students. 

Office: E&T A-322
Phone: (323) 343-6673
Fax: (323)343-6672
Email: hpguo@calstatela.edu

Dr. Mauricio Castillo was born in Mexico City.  At the age of 16, he migrated to the United States to continue his education and pursue his goals.  After graduating from high school, he continued my education at California State University, Los Angeles.  It was difficult since he was the first member in his family to attend college, eventually, with the encouragement of his family, teachers and friends he was able to adjust to the university system.

He completed my Ph.D. program at Colorado State University in Fort Collins where his dissertation topic was to develop an assessment tools for evaluating the effectiveness of technology programs in East Los Angeles Area.  Furthermore he hopes to assess technology curriculum and learn how technology education can improve the learning of students in diverse school settings.  Finally, he expects to promote the importance of teacher preparation and training in the area of technology education so that teachers are better equipped to teach and integrate these new ideas in their everyday teaching efforts.

One of the most important things he has learned in the past year, particularly as a result in attending several professional conferences in the field of technology, is the lack of teacher and professors teaching in this area.  In addition, a research of interest is game design approach and engineering education.

Office: E&T207
Phone: (323) 343-4573
FAX: (323) 343-4571
Email: mcastil2@calstatela.edu