The University of Nebraska–Lincoln will award promotion and/or tenure to 95 faculty, including three School of Computing faculty, in 2026.
Hau Chan and Nirnimesh Ghose have both been promoted to associate professor and granted tenure, and associate professor Sasitharan (Sasi) Balasubramaniam has been granted tenure.
Chan joined the School of Computing in 2018. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University in 2015 and completed three years of postdoctoral fellowships, including at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University in 2018. His main research lies in multi-agent aspects of AI for society and social good, focusing on developing modeling and algorithmic foundations for tackling societal problems involving agents and predicting agent behavior in societal contexts, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), game theory, mechanism design, and machine learning to better inform policymaking and (collective) decision-making. He currently leads the Computational Decision Science (CDS) Lab.
Ghose joined the School of Computing in 2019. He received his Ph.D. in the Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2019, received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2012, and obtained his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Babu Banarasi Das National Institute of Technology & Management affiliated to the Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India in 2010. His research focuses on network security and privacy with applications to emerging wireless networks, cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-things, aviation and transportation networks, bio-social inspired dynamic spectrum access and the interaction between cybersecurity and social networks. He currently leads the Security of Wireless & Ad hoc Networks (SWAN) Lab.
Balasubramaniam joined the School of Computing in 2021. He received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Ph.D. degree from University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, in 1998 and 2005, respectively, and his Master of Engineering Science (Computer and Communication Engineering) from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, in 1999. His research interests are in wet-neuromorphic AI computing, molecular communications and computing, simulation and modeling of multi-species communications in the microbiome, Internet of Bio-Nano Things, bio-inspired communications and computing and terahertz communications for 6G. He currently directs the Living Digital Systems Lab and serves as the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications.
View the full list of faculty receiving promotion and tenure in 2026 in Nebraska Today.