Faculty Profiles

Anne H.H. Ngu is currently a University Distinguished Professor and PhD Program Director with the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. From 1992-2000, she worked as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia. She has held research scientist positions with Telcordia Technologies; Microelectronics and Computer Technology (MCC); University of California, Berkeley; CSIRO, Australia; Tilburg University, The Netherlands, and the Institute of Systems Science, Singapore. She was a summer faculty scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2003-2006. Dr Ngu has published over 160 technical papers in journals and refereed conferences in computer science. With her co-authors, she was recognized by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering for one of the most influential papers of the journal's three decades in 2024. Her research was funded by NSF, National Labs, the Department of Education, the Australian Research Council, and private industries. She was a recipient of the 2013 NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) created this award to recognize computing professors for their outstanding mentorship, high-quality research opportunities, and efforts to encourage and advance undergraduates (particularly women and minorities) in computing-related fields. She has obtained funding and directed the NSF REU Site Program at Texas State University from 2011-2024. She is currently the PI of a large collaborative NSF Smart and Connected Health grant for the study of personalized watch-based fall risk analysis and detection using cross-modal learning. She was also one of the Co-PIs of the STEM program for increasing the recruitment and retention of female undergraduates in Engineering and Computer Science. She received Texas State University's Presidential Distinction Award in Scholarly and Creative Activities in 2010 and 2022 and the Presidential Distinction Services Awards in 2014 and 2017. In 2019, she was also honored as a recipient of the Alpha Chi Favorite Professor at Texas State University. Her professional service includes serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, Program Chair of WISE 2015 in New York City, and Organization Chair of ICDE99 in Sydney, Australia, for which she received an Outstanding Contribution award.