Abdullah Arslan, Ph.D.

Department Head/Professor

Office Time

Tuesday and Thursday, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2002
• M.S., Computer Science, University of North Texas, 1996
• B.S., Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 1990

Academic Positions

• Department Head, Texas A&M University-Commerce(now East Texas A&M University), 2023-Present
• Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce(now East Texas A&M University), 2023-Present
• Associate Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce(now East Texas A&M University), 2016-2023
• Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce(now East Texas A&M University), 2009-2016
• Assistant Professor, University of Vermont, 2002-2009
• Teaching Associate, UC Santa Barbara, 2001

Research Funding

• $76,756, NSF Funding, 2015-2018

Selected Publications

• Arslan, A. N., Anandan, J.,Fry, E., Monschke, K., Ganneboina, N., Bowerman, J. (2017) Efficient RNA Structure Comparison Algorithms. Special Issue of J. of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, World Scientific, Vol. 15, No. 6
• Arslan, A. N, He, D., He. Y., and Wu, X. (2015) Pattern Matching With Wildcards and Length Constraints. Journal of Discrete Algorithms, Vol. 35, pp. 9-16.
• Arslan, A. N. (2015) Fast Algorithms for Local Similarity Queries in Two Sequences (2015) International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, Vol. 26, No. 5, 625–642.
• Arslan, A. N., George, B., and Stor, K. (2015) New Algorithms for Pattern Matching with Wildcards and Constraints (2015) Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms, and Applications, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1550032