Faculty Profiles

Anne H.H. Ngu is currently a Full 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 had held research scientist positions with Telcordia Technologies; Microelectronics and Computer Technology (MCC); University of California, Berkeley; CSIRO, Australia, and Tilburg University, The Netherlands. She was a summer faculty scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2003-2006. Dr Ngu has published over 120 technical papers in journals and refereed conferences in computer science. Her research was funded by NSF, National Labs, the Department of Education, 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 NSF REU site programs at Texas State University since 2011. She is currently the PI of a large collaborative NSF Smart and Connected grant for the study of personalized watched-based fall risk analysis and detection using cross-modal learning. She was also the Co-PI of the STEM program for increasing the recruitment and retention of female undergraduates in Engineering and Computer Science. Her professional service features key leadership roles in multiple international conferences. She was bestowed with a special Outstanding Contribution Award from the IEEE ICDE99 conference. She received Texas State University's Presidential Distinction Award in Scholarly and Creative Activities in 2022 and the Presidential Distinction Services Awards in 2014 and 2017.