Dr. Erdogan Dogdu is the director of AI Lab. He is a Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. He earned his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr. Dogdu’s research interests span big data, applied machine learning, data science, and cybersecurity. He has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on numerous national and international research projects, including an IBM Shared University Research Award for work in social media analytics. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers, and co-authored two books.

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Dr. Roya Choupani is the co-director of AI Lab and an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. She earned her PhD degree in computer engineering from TU Delft in the Netherlands. Her research interests include multimedia computing, artificial intelligence, applied machine learning, data science and cybersecurity. 

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Iman Khazrak is a Ph.D. candidate in Data Science at Bowling Green State University, where he works as a Research Assistant. He holds master’s degrees in Physics and Applied Statistics and Operations Research. His research focuses on AI, including generative modeling, deep learning, and scalable machine learning systems. His work advances diffusion models through improved noise scheduling, efficient sampling, and latent architectures. He also studies robust learning under data scarcity, medical image analysis, and real-world AI systems such as healthcare pipelines and small language model routing. He has contributed to optimization methods and published in leading Q1 journals and international venues.

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