Faculty Directory
| 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. Core Faculty |
| 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. |
| Alexander Berg, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Computer Vision and related problems in other fields. |
| 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. |
| Yejin Choi, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University Statistical approaches and computational models for Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics; Interdisciplinary research connecting Natural Language Processing with Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psychology, and Cognitive Science. |
| Rezaul Alam Chowdhury, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas Design and analysis of algorithms and data structures for combinatorial problems; Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Experimental algorithmics. |
| Samir Das,
Professor, Ph.D., Georgia 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. |
| Paul Fodor, Lecturer/Research Assistant Professor, PhD Stony Brook University Knowledge representation; logic programming; Natural Language Processing |
| Jie Gao,
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University Wireless Networking, Sensor Networks |
| Radu Grosu
, Associate 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,
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University Computer Graphics; Conformal Geometry |
| Himanshu
Gupta, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University Wireless Networking; Database Systems; Algorithms. |
| 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. |
| Annie Liu,
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University Programming languages and systems; program optimization; program analysis and transformation; reactive systems; database systems; algorithm design. |
| Yanni Liu, Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Canada Computer Networks; Design and performance evaluation of resource management strategies in computer networks and systems; Wireless networks; Computer network protocols; Performance modeling and evaluation; Computer and network security; Distributed systems; Database management. |
| 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 analytics. |
| Luis Ortiz, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Brown University Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; computational game theory and economics. |
| Donald Porter,
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin Operating Systems, Concurrent Programming, Security. |
| 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. |
| C.R. Ramakrishnan,
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stony Brook University Logic Programming; programming Languages; verification. |
| I.V. Ramakrishnan,
Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin Artificial intelligence, Computational Logic, Machine Learning/Computational Logic Combination, Information Retrieval, Computer Accessibility. |
| Dimitris Samaras,
Associate 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. |
| Michael Schatz, Adjunct Assistant Professor , Ph.D., University of Maryland Genomics, Genome Assembly & Validation, Sequence Alignment, Metagenomics, High Performance and Multicore Computing, Parallel Algorithms, Cloud Computing |
| R. Sekar,
Professor, Ph.D., Stony Brook University Computer and network security; software/distributed systems; programming languages; software engineering. |
| Radu Sion,
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University Cyber-security, Trusted computing |
| Steve Skiena,
Distinguished Teaching 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. |
| Scott Stoller, 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. |
| 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; data mining; machine learning; medical informatics; software engineering; user interfaces. |
Research Faculty
| Yevgen Borodin, Assistant Research Professor, Ph.D., Stony Brook University Computer accessibility; information retrieval; natural language processing, web automation, applications of machine learning, human computer interaction. |
| Seon Joo Kim, Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D Computer Science, University of North Carolina Computer Vision with specific interests in topics such as Radiometry/Photometry in vision, Computational Photography, and Visualization. |
| Charles Ward, Assistant Research Professor, PhD in Computer Science, The University of Alabama News and Text Analysis, Computational Biology, Algorithms. |
| Wei Zeng, Research Scientist, Ph.D Computer Science, Stony Brook University joint with Chinese Academy of Sciences Conformal Geometry, Quasi-Conformal Geometry; Surface Matching, Regisitration, Shape Analysis. |
Affiliated Faculty
| Esther Arkin, 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. |
| Sangjin Hong, Associate Professor, Acting Graduate Director, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Hgh-performance geometric and numerical computing; Efficient and robust algorithms. |
| Xiangmin Jiao, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Low power and low complexity VLSI design for multimedia wireless communications and digital signal processing systems. |
| Joseph Mitchell, Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Ph.D., Stanford University Computational geometry; sensor networks; algorithms and data structures; air traffic management; computer graphics; 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 such as tangible user interfaces; physical computing; multi-modal input; collaborative learning spaces; multiplayer gaming; computer graphics; computer-human interaction; spatial databases; multimedia. |
| 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 California, Los Angeles Brain image analysis; design and analysis of clinical trials and other 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 Emeritus, 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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