Faculty

Arie Kaufman, Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Ph.D., Ben Gurion University, Israel. Computer graphics; visualization; virtual reality; user interfaces; multimedia; computer architecture.

Here is a general overview of the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and their research interests.
Leo Bachmair, Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computational logic; automated deduction; symbolic computation.
Hussein Badr, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Penn State University
Computer communication networks and protocols; performance evaluation, modeling and analysis.
Michael Bender, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University
Algorithms; data structures; scheduling; cache and I/O-efficient computing; parallel computing.
Tamara Berg, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research straddling the boundary between Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.
Tzi-cker Chiueh, Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Processor architecture; parallel I/O; high-speed networks; compression.
Samir Das, Associate Professor, Ph.D., George Institute of Technology
Wireless networking and mobile computing; performance evaluation; parallel discrete event simulation.
Ahmad Esmaili, Lecturer, M.S., Stony Brook University
Algorithms; information systems.
Jie Gao, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University
Wireless Networking, Sensor Networks
Radu Grosu , Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Technical University of Muenchen
Modeling and analysis of reactive, hybrid and object oriented systems; model checking; design automation for embedded systems; applied formal methods; software and systems engineering.
Xianfeng Gu, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University
Computer Graphics; Conformal Geometry
Himanshu Gupta, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University
Wireless Networking; Database Systems; Algorithms.
George Hart, Research Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computational geometry; computer-aided geometric design; algorithms and data structures; sculpture.
Rob Johnson, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California, at Berkeley
Computer Security; Software Security
Arie Kaufman, Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Ph.D., Ben Gurion University, Israel
Computer graphics; visualization; virtual reality; user interfaces; multimedia; computer architecture.
Rob Kelly, Associate Chair, Ph.D., New York University
Medical Informatics; Information systems; software engineering; electronic commerce;wireless software
Michael Kifer, Professor, Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Database systems; semantic Web; knowledge representation; logic programming.
Ker-I Ko, Professor, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Computational complexity; theory of computation; computational learning theory.
Bradley Kuszmaul, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Supercomputing; algorithm design to solve systems problems in high-performance computing; wide-area multithreading.
Annie Liu, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University
Programming languages and systems; program optimization; program analysis and transformation; reactive systems; database systems; algorithm design.
Richard McKenna, Lecturer, M.S., Stony Brook University
Computer Science Education; Computer Game Programming; Internet Commerce Programming
Klaus Mueller, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Visualization; volume rendering; computer graphics; medical imaging; visual data mining.
Luis Ortiz, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Brown University
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; computational game theory and economics.
Shaunak Pawagi, Lecturer, Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park
Analysis of algorithms; parallel computing.
Hong Qin, Professor, Ph.D., University of Toronto
Computer graphics; geometric modeling and design; physics-based animation and simulation; scientific computing and visualization; virtual environment; computer vision; medical imaging; applied mathematics.
CR Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Logic Programming; programming Languages; verification.
IV Ramakrishnan, Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Computer Architecture; algorithms; rewrite systems.
Dimitris Samaras, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Computer vision; computer graphics; medical imaging; animation and simulation; image-based rendering; physics-based modeling.
Tony Scarlatos, Lecturer, M.A., Adelphi University
Multimedia; interface design; computer-based training; distance learning.
R. Sekar, Professor, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Computer and network security; software/distributed systems; programming languages; software engineering.
Radu Sion, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University
Information Security; Relational Databases; Distributed Systems.
Steve Skiena, Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Algorithms; computational biology; discrete mathematics; computational geometry.
Scott Smolka, Professor, Ph.D., Brown University
Model checking; semantics of concurrency; CASE tools for safety-critical systems; distributed languages and algorithms.
Eugene Stark, Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Programming language semantics; distributed algorithms; formal specifications; verification; theory of concurrency.
Amanda Stent, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Rochester.
Spoken and multimodal dialogue systems; natural language generation; theories of discourse; information extraction.
Scott Stoller, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University
Distributed systems; fault-tolerance and security; software testing and verification; program analysis and optimization.
Michael Tashbook, Lecturer, M.C.S, University of Virginia
Software engineering (specifically the application of formal methods); computer science education; databases and privacy; biologically-inspired computing.
M. Alex O. Vasilescu, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Computer Vision; Computer Graphics (Animation; Image-based Rendering); Tensor (Multilinear) Algebra; Physics-based Modeling; Machine Learning.
David Warren, Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Logic programming; database systems; knowledge representation; natural language processing.
Anita Wasilewska, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Warsaw University, Poland
Database mining; Bioinformatics:Protein Secondary Structure Prediction; knowledge discovery in data bases; machine learning; uncertainty in expert systems; automated theorem proving.
Larry Wittie, Professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Massively parallel computation; computer architecture; simulation of memory and attention in mammalian brains.
Jennifer Wong, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Wireless Distributed Embedded Systems; Sensor Networks; Embedded Systems and CAD.
Erez Zadok, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
Operating systems; storage and file systems; software portability; networking; security.
Rong Zhao, Director of Software Systems Division, CEWIT, Ph.D., Wayne State University Information retrieval and data mining; user interface and human computer interaction; software engineering; Web technologies; wireless/mobile application development.

Affiliated Faculty

Esther Arkin, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Ph.D., Stanford University
Operations research; computational geometry; algorithms and data structures.
Susan Brennan, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Ph.D., Stanford University
Cognitive Psychology; Psycholinguistics; Human-Computer Interaction.
David Ferguson, Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Technology & Society, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Science; Technology; Engineering and Mathematics Education; Problem Solving; Decision Making.
Xiangmin Jiao, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hgh-performance geometric and numerical computing; Efficient and robust algorithms.
Jerome Liang, Professor, Department of Radiology, Ph.D., The City University of New York
Medical imaging; image processing.
Joseph Mitchell, Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Ph.D., Stanford University
Computational geometry; computer graphics; algorithms and data structures; computer-aided (geometric) design and manufacturing.
Lori Scarlatos, Associate Professor, Department of Technology and Society, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Educational applications employing innovative techniques; physical computing; multi-modal input; collaborative learning spaces.
Xin Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Columbia University
Modeling and analysis of mobile, wireless, ad hoc and sensor networks; Wireless communications and networking.
Yuanyuan Yang, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Parallel and distributed computing systems; high speed networks; multicast communication; optical networks; high performance computer architecture computer algorithms; fault tolerant computing.
Gregory J. Zelinsky, Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Ph.D., Brown University
Visual cognition (attention, search, perception, and memory), with emphasis on the study of eye movements in visual search, change detection, and working memory tasks.
Wei Zhu, Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Ph.D., University of Californ ia, Los Angeles, 1996
Brain image analysis; design and analysis of clinical trials and o ther biomedical studies, and genetics modeling.

Emeritus Faculty

Arthur Bernstein, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia University
Transaction processing; concurrent programming; distributed databases; web services.
Herb Gelernter, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., University of Rochester
Artificial intelligence; knowledge-based, heuristic problem-solving systems; scientific applications.
Jack Heller, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Database systems; office automation; visualization.
Philip Lewis, Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Concurrency and concurrent systems; transaction processing systems; software engineering.
Theo Pavlidis, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Image processing; machine vision; computer graphics; window systems.
David Smith, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hardware description languages and synthesis; VLSI design tools; experimental chip architectures.

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