Faculty

Eric Anson

Associate Professor of Practice
Office: GS 809
Interests: Theoretical computer science, computational biology, algorithms, history of computing, machine learning.
(Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 2000)

Kobus Barnard

Professor
Office: GS 708
Interests: Computer vision, machine learning, scientific applications, multimedia data.
(Ph.D., Simon Fraser University, 1999)

Christian Collberg

Interim Department Head and Professor
Office: GS 758
Research Interests: Programming languages, compilers, intellectual property protection of software, domain-specific search engines.
(Ph.D., University of Lund, 1992)

Saumya Debray

Professor
Office: GS 735
Research Interests: Compilers, program analysis and optimization, programming language implementation.
(Ph.D., The State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1986)

Alon Efrat

Associate Professor
Office: GS 742
Interests: Geometric pattern machining, realistic input models, geographics information science and spatial databases, algorithms for mobile robots.
(Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University, 1998)

John Kececioglu

Professor (on sabbatical AY 23-24)
Office: GS 727
Interests: Computational biology, algorithm design and implementation, combinatorial optimization.
(Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 1991)

Josh Levine

Associate Professor
Office: GS 754
Interests: Visualization, geometric modeling, topological analysis, mesh generation, and computer graphics.
(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2009)

Rick Mercer

Senior Lecturer
Office: GS 826
Interests: Computer science education, object-oriented programming and design, agile software development, patterns.

Jason Pacheco

Assistant Professor
Office: GS 724
Interests: Statistical machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, approximate inference algorithms, and information-theoretic decision making
(Ph.D., Brown University, 2016)

Sazzadur Rahaman

Assistant Professor
Office: GS 734
Research Interests: System and software security, program analysis, applied cryptography, internet measurement

Xinchen Yu

Assistant Professor of Practice
Office: GS 854
Interests: natural language processing and computational social science
(Ph.D., University of North Texas, )