Image: Alessandro (Alex) Orso was appointed dean of the University of Georgia College of Engineering in 2025. Before UGA, Orso served as a professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and as director of Georgia Tech’s Scientific Software Engineering Center. He previously served as interim dean of the college during the 2023-2024 academic year. Orso earned his doctorate in computer science and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano in Italy. An expert in software engineering, Orso’s research focuses on software testing, program analysis, and debugging. His work includes the development of techniques for improving software reliability, security and trustworthiness and the validation of those techniques on real-world systems. Orso is a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Jian Liu is an Associate Professor now leading the Mobile Sensing and Intelligence Security (MoSIS) Lab. Before joining UGA, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His research interests include Trustworthy AI, Computational Sensing, Augmented/Mixed Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, and Intelligent Fitness Technologies. His work has been published in top-tier venues across mobile computing, AI, security, and HCI, such as S&P/Oakland, ACM MobiCom, ICML, etc. Dr. Liu has received multiple honors, including the IChemE Biochemical Engineering Award (2023), Best Paper Awards at IEEE SECON (2017) and IEEE CNS (2018), and the Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement Award at both the college and university levels at the University of Tennessee (2025). Before joining UGA as an Assistant Professor, Dr. Zhenlin An was a postdoctoral fellow jointly appointed at the University of Pittsburgh and Princeton University. Dr. An had earned his Ph.D. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research centers on wireless systems and networking (AI4wireless, communication and sensing, battery-free sensor networks), and mobile and ubiquitous computing (localization, multimodal sensing, and immersive virtual/augmented reality applications). His publications span top venues such as ACM MobiCom, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM MobiSys, etc. He has received multiple honors, including the ACM China SIGBED Doctoral Dissertation Award (2022) and Best Paper Awards at IEEE SECON 2020 and 2023. Karthika Subramani earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Georgia in 2021. Afterwards, she became a Research Engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology, working in the Astrolabos Lab. Her research focused on the security postures of web and network technologies and her work integrated expertise in security, data mining, browser instrumentation, and advanced machine learning and deep learning techniques to build systems that address real-world cybersecurity threats. Throughout her career, Dr. Subramani has also nurtured a strong passion for teaching, particularly enthusiastic about bringing interactive and student-centered methods into the classroom, which includes an active learning and AI-assisted instruction, leading her to become a full-time lecturer. Md Mozaharul Mottalib obtained his Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Delaware in 2021 and will be finishing his PhD soon. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the Islamic University of Technology in Bangladesh. Following his undergraduate education, he served in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Green University, Bangladesh. His research interests encompass health informatics, computational epidemiology, machine learning, and data mining. He has collaborated with various national healthcare facilities and organizations to develop innovative healthcare technologies utilizing machine learning applications. Toshiro Kubota has taught computer science and mathematics for over 20 years, offering more than 20 courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has keen research interests in computer vision, medical image analysis, and neural networks. He received his PhD from Georgia Tech and has previously taught at a number of other Institutions. Type of News/Audience: Alumni Research Student Success
