Ph.D., The University of South Carolina
M.S., The University of South Carolina
B.S., The University of South Carolina
B.S., Francis Marion College

Object-Oriented Modeling
Design Patterns

Ken Araujo joined the Francis Marion faculty in 2008. From 1991 to 2008 he was a member of the department of mathematics at Florence-Darlington Technical College and also taught as an adjunct instructor for Coker College. He was a member of the department of mathematics at Francis Marion College from 1986 to 1988. His research has been published in Proceedings of The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium.

Ph.D., University of South Carolina
M.S., University of South Carolina
B.E., University of Mumbai, India

Artificial intelligence and Multiagent Systems
Machine and Statistical Learning
Data Science

Hrishi Goradia joined Francis Marion University as a Computer Science faculty member in 2008. He teaches courses on artificial intelligence with an emphasis on machine learning and data science, data structures and algorithms, mobile application development, and programming languages among others. His research interests include predictive analytics, data-driven decision making, automated negotiations among machines, and software engineering. His research has been published in many leading conferences and journals, including the Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, Intelligent Agent Technology, American Association of Artificial Intelligence, and Service-Oriented Computing. He has also authored a book - Automated Negotiations in Multiagent Systems: Modeling, Analysis, and Algorithms.

M.S., Stevens Institute of Technology
B.S., University of Maryland

Software Engineering
Networking

Padmaja Rao joined the Francis Marion faculty in 2005. She teaches courses in object-oriented programming, software engineering and networking. Before coming to FMU, she worked for eight years in IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York where her research areas included network management, directory services and security. Her work was presented at many conferences including IEEE 802.9 Working Group Task Force and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on secure DNS. She holds a patent in the area of network security architecture.

M.B.A., Francis Marion University
B.S., Francis Marion University

Servers and Systems

Patsy Sauls joined the Francis Marion CS faculty in 2010. From 1997 to 2009, she worked in the Academic Computing Services and Campus Technology at FMU as a Coordinator of User Services and as a Server and System Specialist. She also worked as a Computer Programmer for the Department of Mathematics from 1983-1997.

Her focus for the last several years has been on installing and maintaining servers and systems such as OpenVMS, Novel, Microsoft, VMware, Cisco NAC, and packetshaper. She has earned several computer certifications including CNA (Novel 5.1) and MCSE (Microsoft 2000).

M.S., University of South Carolina
B.S., Francis Marion University

Robotics

Jeremy Lewis was born in Louisiana, moving to South Carolina in 1998. His education began at Horry-Georgetown Technical College with work in both applied programming and networking. He earned his Bachelor's of Science at Francis Marion and his Master's of Science at the University of South Carolina. He is currently finishing his PhD and maintains industry experience in his spare time.