Director
Timothy Havens
- Director, Great Lakes Research Center
- Director, Institute of Computing and Cybersystems
- William and Gloria Jackson Professor
- thavens@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3115
- GLRC 307
Associate Directors
- Associate Dean, College of Computing
- Professor, Applied Computing
- Affiliated Professor, Computational Science and Engineering
- cai@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1471
- Rekhi Hall 110
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Cybersecurity
- Computer Network
- Machine Learning
- Computing Education
- Associate Director, Research Development, Institute of Computing and Cybersystems
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Plant-Herbivore Interactions
- Plant Biochemistry and Secondary Metabolites
- Invasive Insect Threats
- Biochemical and Molecular Genetics
Research Services
- Project Management
- Pre-award Proposal Development and Budgeting Support
- Post Award Project Administration
- Institute and Department Budget Administration
- Institute and Department Reporting
- Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships
Staff
- Research Scientist
Specialties
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Language model watermarking
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Social impacts of artificial intelligence
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Text segmentation
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Image enhancement
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Neural radiance fields
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3D Gaussian splatting
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Efficient computer vision
- Research Coordinator
- MS Student, Integrated Geospatial Technology
Learning Interests
- Natural Disaster Mapping
- GIS-Informed Threat Mitigation
- GIS Utilization in Social Sciences
- Archaeological Site Analysis
- Google Scholar
- ResearchGate
Research Services
- Pre-submission proposal assistance, including editing, writing, and submission compliance
- Project Management
- Event planning/outreach
- Website/Social Media/Blog
- Media and Promotion

Beth Techtmann
- Research Communications Coordinator
- Great Lakes Research Center
- Institute of Computing and Cybersystems
- btechtma@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2713
- GLRC 312
Roles and Areas of Responsibility
- Research Communications
- Graphic Design Support
- Marketing Materials
- Content Development for Social Media
- Pre-Award Proposal Development Support
- Website Development
Student Workers

Hollis Aitkens
- Research Development Support
Research services
Assisting with institute activities, events, and day-to-day operations.

"Nothing vast enters the world of mortals without a curse!!"
Yogendra Kanchapu
- Technical Analyst
Specialties
- AI
- ML
- NLP
- Data Visualization

"Why do we fall? So we might learn to pick ourselves up."
—Batman
—Batman
Tagore Kosireddy
- Social Media and Technical Support
Research Interests
- AI
- ML
- NLP
- LLMs
- DeepRL
- Google Scholar
Research Services
- Developing and maintaining scripts/tools/apps for ICC processes
- Creating graphic designs for ICC social media posts