Directory
Faculty
Eric Anson
Lecturer
Office: GS 823
Interests: Theoretical computer science, computational biology, algorithms, history of computing, machine learning.
Kobus Barnard
Professor
Office: GS 708
Interests: Computer vision, machine learning, scientific applications, multimedia data.
(Ph.D., Simon Fraser University, 1999)
Christian Collberg
Professor
Office: GS 758
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
Interests: Compilers, program analysis and optimization, programming language implementation.
(Ph.D., The State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1986)
Benjamin Dicken
Lecturer
Office: GS 850
Interests: Software engineering, web development, program analysis, computer science education.
Alon Efrat
Associate Professor
Office: GS 742c
Interests: Geometric pattern machining, realistic input models, geographics information science and spatial databases, algorithms for mobile robots.
(Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University, 1998)
Chris Gniady
Associate Professor (Sabbatical AY18-19)
Office: GS 730
Interests: Operating systems, multiprocessor architecture and instruction-level parallelism, design of high-performance systems.
(Ph.D., Purdue University, 2005)
John H. Hartman
Associate Professor
Office: GS 747
Interests: Scalable storage systems, network file systems, and distributed operating systems.
(Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1994)
Kate Isaacs
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 712
Interests: Information visualization, high performance computing.
(Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 2015)
Kwang-Sung Jun
Assistant Professor
Begins Fall 2019
Interests: Machine Learning
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015)
John Kececioglu
Professor
Office: GS 727
Interests: Computational biology, algorithm design and implementation, combinatorial optimization.
(Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 1991)
Stephen Kobourov
Professor
Office: GS 715
Interests: Graph drawing and information visualization, algorithm design and data organization, geometric algorithms.
(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2000)
Josh Levine
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 754
Interests: Visualization, geometric modeling, topological analysis, mesh generation, and computer graphics.
(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2009)
Russell Lewis
Lecturer
Office: GS 829
Interests: Operating systems, computer architecture. virtualization, and emulation.
David Lowenthal
Professor (Sabbatical AY18-19)
Office: GS 705
Interests: Parallel and distributed computing, operating systems, and run-time systems.
(Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 1996)
Lester I. McCann
Principal Lecturer
Office: GS 819
Interests: Computer Science education, database management systems.
(Ph.D., North Dakota State University, 1994)
Rick Mercer
Senior Lecturer
Office: GS 809
Interests: Computer science education, object-oriented programming and design, agile software development, patterns.
Janalee O'Bagy
Lecturer
Office: GS 854
Interests: Programming language design and implementation, computer science education.
Allison Obourn
Senior Lecturer
Office: GS 858
Interests: Computer science education and computer science outreach.
Todd Proebsting
Professor (Sabbatical AY18-19)
Office: GS 739
Interests: Programming language, compilers, cloud computing, information aggregation.
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1992)
Carlos Scheidegger
Assistant Professor
Office: GS 734
Interests: Data visualization, data analysis, computer graphics.
(Ph.D., University of Utah, 2009)
Ravi Sethi
Professor and Acting Associate Department Head
Office: GS 720
Interests: Software technologies, communications systems, compilers, programming languages, algorithms.
Richard T. Snodgrass
Professor
Office: GS 711
Interests: Science of computing, temporal databases, data semantics, query languages, database management systems.
(Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1982)
Michelle Strout
Professor and Acting Department Head
Office: GS 707
Interests: High performance computing, compilers including use of the polyhedral model, parallel programming models, scientific computing, and software engineering.
(Ph.D., University of California at San Diego, 2003)
Mihai Surdeanu
Associate Professor
Office: GS 746
Interests: Natural language processing, applied machine learning, artificial intelligence.
(Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, 2001)
Beichuan Zhang
Associate Professor
Office: GS 723
Interests: Computer networks, Internet routing architecture and protocols, Internet topology, multicast.
(Ph.D. UCLA, 2003)
Graduate Students
Chavoosh Ghasemi
PhD Student
Office: GS 718
Interests: Named data networking and content-centric networks, network architecture and protocol design, content delivery networks (CDN), QoS of video streaming services, routing and forwarding in large-area networks, computer networks security.
Hoang Nguyen Hung Van
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Machine learning, natural language processing, data visualization, natural language processing, and question-answering system
Marina Kiseleva
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Machine learning, computer vision, and astronomical applications
Spencer Krieger
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interests: Bioinformatics, algorithms, hypergraphs, cell signaling pathways, protein secondary structure prediction.
Jixian Li
PhD Student
Office: GS 756
Interests: Data visualization, computer graphics, machine learning.
ZhengZhong Liang
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Artificial intelligence, natural language processing, artificial neural networks, question answering system.
Terrence Lim
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interest: Compilers, database management systems, and programming languages
Fan Luo
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence.
Mithun Paul
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Natural language processing, neural networks, machine learning, ethical hacking.
Mahdi Rahimi
PhD Student
Office: GS 718
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, robotics.
Md Ashiqur Rahman
PhD Student
Office: GS 718
Interests: Computer networks, wireless mobile networks, named data networking.
Staci Smith
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interests: High-performance computing (HPC), networking and network topologies in HPC, runtime systems.
Mahdi Soltan Mohammadi
PhD Student
Office: GS 749
Interests: Compilers, sparse computation parallelization and optimization, program verification.
Zheng Tang
PhD Student
Office: GS 710
Interests: Natural language processing, applied machine learning, artificial intelligence.
Claire Taylor
PhD Student
Office: GS 725A
Interests: Security, obfuscation, cyberlaw, natural language processing.
Zhe Wang
PhD Student
Office: GS 756
Interests: Interactive data analysis, data visualization, machine learning.
Manujinda Wathugala
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and distributed systems
Ariyan Zarei
PhD Student
Office: GS 725
Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Zhenge Zhao
PhD Student
Office: GS 756
Interests: Interactive data visualization, big data analysis, machine learning.
Joint and Affiliated Faculty
Sandiway Fong
Associate Professor, CS & Linguistics
Office: Douglass 311
Interests: Natural language processing, artificial intelligence.
Hong Hua
Associate Professor, OpSci & ECE
Office: Meinel 727
Interests: 3D and stereoscopic displays, human computer interaction, virtual and augmented interactions.
Marwan Krunz
Professor, ECE
Office: ECE 356H
Interests: Computer networking, protocol design for wireless systems, media streaming, sensor networks, performance evaluation.
Ming Li
Associate Professor, ECE
Interests: Computer networking, network security, wireless security, privacy-enhancing technologies, cyber-physical system security.
Sudha Ram
Professor, MIS & CS
Office: MClnd 430J
Interests: Enterprise Data Management. Semantic Interoperability among Heterogeneous Data Sources. Biological Data Integration. Semantic Modeling Data Provenance and Quality.
Srinivasa Ramasubramanian
Associate Professor, ECE
Office: ECE 3560
Interests: Optical, wireless, and sensor networks.
Martin Schulz
Affiliate Faculty
Interests: parallel and distributed architectures and applications; performance monitoring, modeling and analysis; memory system optimization; parallel programming paradigms; tool support for parallel programming; power efficiency for parallel systems; op
Carol Soderlund
Adjunct Professor, BIO5 & CS
Office: Bio5 337
Interests: Computational biology, bioinformatics.
Academic Services
Arthur Jordan
Academic Advisor
Office: GS 917D
Advises: Undergraduate students (prospective and current).
Chelsea Skotnicki
Graduate Program Coordinator
Office: GS 917
Advises: Graduate students (prospective and current).
David Smith
Academic Advisor
Office: GS 917C
Advises: Undergraduate students (prospective and current).
Nicole Soley
Academic Advisor
Office: GS 917B
Advises: Undergraduate students (prospective and current).
Financial and Administrative Services
Laboratory Staff
Eric Collins
Information Technology Support Analyst, Principal
Office: GS 728
