Faculty Advisors and Their CSE 523/524 Projects

Leo Bachmair, Computational logic; automated deduction; symbolic computation.

Hussein Badr, Computer communication networks and protocols; performance evaluation, modeling and analysis. [Projects]

Michael Bender, Algorithms; data structures; scheduling; cache and I/O-efficient computing; parallel computing.

Tamara Berg, Research straddling the boundary between Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.

Tzi-cker Chiueh, Processor architecture; parallel I/O; high-speed networks; compression. [Projects]

Samir Das, Wireless networking and mobile computing; performance evaluation; parallel discrete event simulation. [Projects]

Ahmad Esmaili, Algorithms, information systems.

Jie Gao, Wireless networking, sensor networks.

Radu Grosu , Modeling and analysis of reactive, hybrid and object oriented systems; model checking; design automation for embedded systems; applied formal methods; software and systems engineering. [Projects]

Xianfeng Gu, Computer graphics

Himanshu Gupta, Wireless networking, database systems, algorithms. [Projects]

George Hart, Computational geometry; computer-aided geometric design; algorithms and data structures; sculpture. [Projects]

Rob Johnson, Computer security; software security. [Project]

Arie Kaufman, Computer graphics; visualization; virtual reality; user interfaces; multimedia; computer architecture. [Projects]

Rob Kelly, Medical Informatics, Information systems; software engineering; electronic commerce; wireless software. [Projects]

Michael Kifer, Database systems; logic programming; knowledge representation; artificial intelligence.

Ker-I Ko, Computational complexity; theory of computation; computational learning theory.

Bradley Kuszmaul, Supercomputing; algorithm design to solve systems problems in high-performance computing; wide-area multithreading.

Annie Liu, Programming languages and systems, program optimization, program analysis and transformation, reactive systems, database systems, algorithm design. [Projects]

Richard McKenna, Computer science education; computer game programming; Internet commerce programming

Alexander Mohr, Networking; multimedia.

Klaus Mueller, Visualization; volume rendering; computer graphics; medical imaging; visual data mining. [Projects]

Luis Ortiz, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; computational game theory and economics.

Shaunak Pawagi, Analysis of algorithms; parallel computing.

Hong Qin, Computer graphics; geometric modeling and design; physics-based animation and simulation; scientific computing and visualization; virtual environment; computer vision; medical imaging; applied mathematics. [Projects]

CR Ramakrishnan, Logic programming; programming Languages; verification.

IV Ramakrishnan, Computer Architecture; algorithms; rewrite systems.

Dimitris Samaras, Computer vision; computer graphics; medical imaging; animation and simulation; image-based rendering; physics-based modelling.

Tony Scarlatos, Multimedia; interface design; computer-based training; distance learning.

R. Sekar, Computer and network security; software/distributed systems; programming languages; software engineering. [Projects]

Radu Sion, Information security; relational databases; distributed systems

Steve Skiena, Algorithms; computational biology; discrete mathematics; computational geometry. [Projects]

Scott Smolka, Model checking; semantics of concurrency; CASE tools for safety-critical systems; distributed languages and algorithms. [Projects]

Eugene Stark, Programming language semantics; distributed algorithms; formal specifications; verification; theory of concurrency. [Projects]

Amanda Stent, Spoken and multimodal dialogue systems, natural language generation, theories of discourse, information extraction. [Projects] 

Scott Stoller, Distributed systems; fault-tolerance and security; software testing and verification; program analysis and optimization. [Projects]

David Warren, Logic programming; database systems; knowledge representation; natural language processing.

Michael Tashbook,

M. Alex O. Vasilescu, Computer Vision; Computer Graphics (Animation; Image-based Rendering); Tensor (Multilinear) Algebra; Physics-based Modeling; Machine Learning.

Anita Wasilewska, Database mining; bioinformatics: protein secondary structure prediction; knowledge discovery in data bases; machine learning; uncertainty in expert systems; automated theorem proving.

Larry Wittie, Massively parallel computation; computer architecture; simulation of memory and attention in mammalian brains. [Projects]

Jennifer Wong, Wireless distributed embedded systems; sensor networks, embedded systems and CAD.

Erez Zadok, Operating systems; storage and file systems; software portability; networking; security. [Projects]

Rong Zhao, Information retrieval and data mining; user interface and human computer interaction; software engineering; Web technologies; wireless/mobile application development. [Projects]

Affiliated Faculty Advisors and Their Projects

Esther Arkin, Operations research; computational geometry; algorithms and data structures.

Susan Brennan, Cognitive psychology; psycholinguistics; human-computer interaction.

David Ferguson, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education, Problem Solving. Decision Making.

Xiangmin Jiao, High-performance geometric and numerical computing; Efficient and robust algorithms.

Jerome Liang, Medical imaging; image processing.

Joseph Mitchell, Computational geometry; computer graphics; algorithms and data structures; computer-aided (geometric) design and manufacturing.

Lori Scarlatos, Educational applications employing innovative techniques; physical computing; multi-modal input; collaborative learning spaces.

Xin Wang, Modeling and analysis of mobile, wireless, ad hoc and sensor networks; Wireless communications and networking.

Yuanyuan Yang, Parallel and distributed computing systems; high speed networks; multicast communication; optical networks; high performance computer architecture; computer algortithms; fault tolerant computing.

Gregory J. Zelinsky, 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, Brain image analysis; design and analysis of clinical trials and other biomedical studies, and genetics modeling.