Faculty & Staff

Biography

Dr. Sajjan Shiva is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. After retiring from UAH, he joined the University of Memphis in 2002 as the Director of the Computer Science Division and transitioned it into the Department of Computer Science in 2005. He served as the Founding Chair of the Memphis Department of Computer Science through 2015. Before his time at UAH, he previously served on the computer science faculty at Alabama A&M University. He has also served as the Manager of Software Quality Assurance at Teledyne Brown Engineering; Senior Software Engineer and Executive Manager (Technical) at Intergraph Corporation; and Technical Advisor, Computer Technologies Division, U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command. Dr. Shiva has consulted with industry and government organizations in the areas of software engineering, computer architecture, artificial intelligence, and expert systems. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a life member of ACM. He has received research funding from NSF, NASA, U.S. Department of Defense, and ONR. His current interests are game theoretic cyber security and secure software engineering.