Computer Science Department Faculty

Faculty

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Allbeck, Jan: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2009
Interests: Computer Graphics, Animation, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Game Design, Crowd Simulation
Ammann, Paul: Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1988
Interests: Software Testing, Fault Tolerance, Reliability, Formal Methods for Secure Information Systems
Aydın, Hakan Aydin: Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2001
Interests: Real-Time Systems, Power-aware Computing, Fault Tolerance
Barbará, Daniel Barbara: Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1985
Interests: Data Mining and its Applications
Brodsky, Alex (): Associate Professor, Ph.D., Hebrew University, 1991
Interests: Decision Guidance Systems and Adaptive Enterprise Optimization; Constraints in Databases, Constraint Databases and Programming; Constraints, Inference Channels, and Information Sharing in Secure Information Systems
Carver, Richard: Associate Professor, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1989
Interests: Concurrent Programming and Computer-Based Education
Chen, Jim X. (): Professor, Ph.D., University of Central Florida, 1995
Interests: Computer Graphics, Visualization, Simulation, Virtual Reality, Networks, Distributed Interactive Simulation, Networked Virtual Environment
Chen, Songqing (): Assistant Professor, Ph.D., College of William and Mary, 2004
Interests: Internet Content Delivery Systems, Internet Measurement and Modeling, Operating Systems and System Security, and Distributed Systems and High Performance Computing
De Jong, Kenneth: University Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1975
Interests: Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, Adaptive Systems
Domeniconi, Carlotta: Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California Riverside, 2002
Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Pattern recognition, Classification, Clustering, Feature Relevance Estimation, Text Mining, Bioinformatics
Durić, Zoran: Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Maryland, 1995
Interests: Computer Vision, Video Image Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Vision Based Control, Physics-Based Modeling
Fleck, Dan: Instructor, M.S., George Mason University, 2001
Interests: Computer Vision and Image Processing, Human-Computer Interfaces, Robotics, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Gomaa, Hassan: Professor and Chair, Ph.D., Imperial College, London University, 1976
Interests: Software Engineering, Real-Time and Distributed Software Design, Software Product Line Architectures, Software Performance Engineering, Software Agents
Hamburger, Henry: Professor (Emeritus), Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1971
Interests: Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Heishman, Ric: Term Assistant Professor, Ph.D., George Mason University, 2007
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision
Kerschberg, Larry: Professor, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1969
Interests:Intelligent Search, E-Business, Agent-Based Systems, the Semantic Web
Košecká, Jana Kosecka: Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1996
Interests: Computer Vision, Robotics, Image Based Rendering, Image Processing, Autonomous Mobile Agents, Hybrid Systems
Li, Fei (): Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University, 2008
Interests: Online and Randomized Algorithms, Approximation Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, Algorithmic Support for Operating Systems and Networks.
Lien, Jyh-Ming (): Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2006
Interests: Computational Geometry, Multiagent Systems, Motion Planning, Computer Graphics
Lin, Jessica (): Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California Riverside, 2005
Interests: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Time Series Visualization, Streaming Data and Anomaly Detection
Locasto, Michael: Visiting Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University, 2008
Interests: Information Security, Intrusion Detection & Response, Debugging, Threat Models, Vulnerability Analysis, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture
Luke, Sean: Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2000
Interests: Evolutionary Computation, Multiagent Systems, Distributed Knowledge Representation, Robotics, and Virtual Biology
Maddox, Tamara: Term Assistant Professor, J.D., College of William and Mary, 1991
Interests: Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Law and Ethics
Malek, Sam: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2007
Interests: Architecture-based Software Development and Deployment, Embedded and Distributed Systems, Middleware Solutions, Quality of Service Analysis
Menascé, Daniel A.: Professor, Ph.D., UCLA, 1978, ACM Fellow, Member IFIP WG 7.3
Interests: Autonomic Computing, E-commerce, Scalability and Reliability of Web Services and E-commerce Sites, Analytic Performance Modeling, Software Performance Engineering, Distributed Systems
Motro, Amihai (): Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1981
Interests: User Interfaces to Databases, Uncertainty Management in Information Systems, Integrity and Security of Databases, Multiple Database Environments
Nordstrom, David: Term Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of California (Berkeley), 1976
Interests: Computer Security, Programming Languages
Offutt, Jeff: Professor, Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1988
Interests: Software Testing and Analysis, Formal Methods, Change-impact Analysis, Web Software Engineering
Pullen, J. Mark: Professor, D.Sc., George Washington University, 1981, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow
Interests: Networks and Distributed Applications, Distributed Education and Training
Rangwala, Huzefa (): Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2008
Interests: Structural Bioinformatics, Chemoinformatics, Genomics, Data Mining, High Performance Computing.
Richards, Dana: Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1984
Interests: Comparisons of Protein Sequences, Steiner Tree Algorithms, Information Dissemination in Networks, Parallel Algorithms for Median Filters
Rine, David: Professor (Emeritus), Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1970
Interests: Software Engineeriong, Software Maintenance and Reuse, Object Technology
Setia, Sanjeev (): Professor and Associate Chair, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1993
Interests: Network Security, Ad hoc Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Peer-to-Peer Computing, High Performance Computing, Middleware, Performance evaluation of Computer Systems
Shehu, Amarda: Assistant Professor, Rice University, 2008
Interests: Computational Structural Biology, Structural Bionformatics, Computational Biophysics, Protein Structure Prediction, Molecular Motion Computation, Molecular Design, Multiscale Modeling, Robotics-inspired Sampling Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence
Sibley, Edgar: University Professor, Eminent Scholar, Sc.D., MIT, 1967.
Interests: Information Systems Policy, Organizational Informatics
Simon, Robert: Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1996
Interests: Computer Networks, Distributed Multimedia and Real-time Systems, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Performance Modeling and Simulation, Multimedia Databases and Video-on-Demand Systems
Sood, Arun (): Professor, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1971
Interests: Image and Multimedia Computing, Distributed Systems, Security Architectures
Sousa, João Pedro: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2005
Interests: Software Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Self-aware/adaptive Systems and Human Factors for Ubiquitous computing
Stavrou, Angelos: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007
Interests: Large Systems Security and Survivability, Secure Peer-to-Peer and Overlay Networking, Distributed Systems Reliability, Fairness and Statistical Inference, and Privacy and Anonymity
Tecuci, Gheorghe: Professor, Ph.D., University of Paris-South, 1988, Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, 1988
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents, Machine Learning, Knowledge Acquisition and Problem Solving, Knowledge Engineering, Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
Wang, Pearl (): Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1983
Interests: Parallel and Distributed Computing
Wang, Xinyuan (Frank) (): Assistant Professor, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2004
Interests: Network Security, Intrusion Source Tracing, Active Intrusion Response
Wechsler, Harry: Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1975, IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow
Interests: Biometrics, Computer Vision, Data Mining, Human-Computer Interfaces, Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning
White, Elizabeth: Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1995
Interests: Software Architecture, Middleware, Distributed Computing, Interoperability, Dynamic Reconfiguration
Wijesekera, Duminda (): Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University (Logic), 1990, Ph.D., University of Minnesota (Computer Science), 1998
Interests: Security, Multimedia, Networks, Control and Signalling, Logic
Zhong, Yutao (): Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2005
Interests: Program Analysis and Optimization, Compilers