FACULTY BY RESEARCH
Farokh B. Bastani, Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Software Engineering (Software Reliability, Formal Methods), Program Transformation, Self-Stabilization and Inherent Fault Tolerance.
Sergey Bereg, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Institute of Mathematics, Belarus
Computational and Discrete geometry, Computational Biology, Geographic Information Systems, Facility Location, Robotics.
Joao W. Cangussu, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University
Software process monitoring, control, and management. Software testing and the application of control theory aspects to computer science related problems.
R Chandrasekharan, Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkley
Combinatorial Optimization, Computational Geometry, Scheduling, Telecommunications Networks and Integer Programming.
Lawrence Chung, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Toronto
Developing a framework and a tool, for mapping object-oriented functional requirements into object-oriented designs, and compiling an object-oriented design language into a database programming language.
Jorge A. Cobb, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas Austin
Computer Networking, Quality of Service in Computer Networks.
Kendra Cooper, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of British Columbia
Software engineering modularization and re-use techniques (component based, aspect-oriented, and product line) with a focus on requirements engineering and software architecture.
Ovidiu Daescu, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Algorithm Design, Computational Geometry and Geometric Optimization, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, Image Analysis and Processing, and Computational Medicine.
G.R.Dattaterya, Assoc. Professor, Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Stochastic Modeling, Parameter Estimation and Adaptive Optimization in Communication, Signal and Image Processing, and Computer Network Systems.
Jing Dong, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Waterloo
Software Engineering, Component-Based Software, Design Pattern, Software Architecture, Formal Method, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, UML, Distributed Computing, Software Verification, Web-based Computing, E-commerce.
Dr. Ding-Zhu Du, Professor, Ph. D., University of California at Santa Barbara
His research interests include combinatorial optimization, communication networks, and theory of computation. He has published more than 140 journal papers and 40 books. He is the editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Optimization and book series on Network Theory and Applications.
Andras Farago, Professor, Ph.D., Techical University of Budapest, Hungary
Design and analysis of communication networks and protocols.Models, analysis/synthesis methods and algorithms in telecommunications.
Xiaohu Guo, Assist. Professor, Ph.D., State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook
Computer Graphics, Computer Animation and Simulation, Geometric and Physics-Based Modeling, Human-Computer Interaction, Scientific Visualization, Virtual Reality, Medical Imaging.
Gopal Gupta, Professor, Ph.D., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Implementation, Semantics and Applications of Programming Languages, Constraint, Logic, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Engineering, Software Verification, Real-time Systems, Agent/Web-based Computing, Interoperability, and Parallel and Distributed Processing.
Kevin Hamlen, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University
Software Security, Compilers, Programming Languages, Program Verification, Virtual Machines, Mobile Code, Automata and Complexity Theory
Sanda Harabagiu, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Southern California
Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Textual Question-Answering, reference resolution and textual cohesion and coherence.
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Associate Professor, Ph.D, Purdue University
His research interests include statistical natural language processing, machine learning, automated acquisition of semantic knowledge from large amounts of text, summarization, question answering, intelligent information retrieval, digital libraries, text mining, bioinformatics, and medical informatics.
Dung T. Huynh, Professor, Department Head
Computational complexity theory, automata and formal languages, concurrency theory, communications networks and protocols, parallel computation, and software metrics.
Jason Jue, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California at Davis
High - speed communication networks, with an emphasis on the design and performance evaluation of architectures and protocols for wavelength - division multiplexed (WDM) optical networks.
Murat Kantarcioglu, Ph.D, Purdue University
His research interests lie at the intersection of Privacy, Security, Data Mining and Databases: Security and Privacy issues raised by data mining; Distributed Data Mining techniques; Security issues in Databases; Applied Cryptography and Secure Multi-Party Computation techniques; Use of data mining for intrusion detection.
Latifur Khan, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Southern California
Dr. Khan has more than fifty journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers focusing in the areas of: multimedia information management, data mining, intrusion detection, and database systems.
Yang Liu, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Purdue University
Her general research interest is human language (including speech and written text) processing.
Ying Liu , Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
His research is in the areas of natural language processing, machine learning, and information retrieval, where his goal is to develop algorithms and systems that will allow computer users to effectively locate and extract useful information from online text.
Rym Mili, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Ottawa, Canada
Software Engineering, Software Visualization, and Agent Technology. Dr. Mili is the head of the Software and Information Visualization research lab.
Neeraj Mittal, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Distributed Computing, Distributed Objects, Mobile Computing, Networking and Security.
Dan Moldovan, Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Parallel and Distributed Processing.
Simeon Ntafos, Professor, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Program Testing, Software Reliability Estimation, Testing of Distributed and Concurrent Software, Computational Geometry, and Robotics.
Vincent Ng, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University
His research is in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.
Ivor P. Page, Professor, Ph.D., Brunel University, U.K.
Distributed algorithms, including resource allocation problems, and in computer graphics.
B. Prabhakaran, Assoc. Prof., Ph.D., Indian Inst. of Technology, Madras, India
Synchronization models for multimedia authoring and presentation. Resource management in terms of network Quality of Service (QoS), disk usage, and buffer resources, in multimedia environments based on synchronization models. Collaborative multimedia authoring.
Ravi Prakash, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Mobile Computing (Location management, Mobile-TCP, Cell Planning, Channel allocation), Checkpointing and Recovery, Causally and Totally Ordered Message Delivery, Clocks and Dependency Tracking.
Balaji Raghavachari, Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Design and analysis of algorithms, Graphs, Approximation algorithms, Combinatorial optimization, Network design, Telecommunication networks, Vehicle routing and traversal problems.
Kamil Sarac, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara
Networked group communication (including multicast and anycast services, overlay networks and peer-to-peer networking) and network monitoring and management.
Haim (Shvaytser) Schweitzer , Assoc. Professor, Ph.D., Hebrew University, Israel
Computer vision, machine learning, and related Internet technology.
Edwin Sha, Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University
Parallel and Distributed systems, VLSI, DSP and, Telecommunication Systems, Parallelizing Compiler, Low-Power Systems, System-Level Synthesis, Hardware/Software Co-design, Operating Systems, Java and Multimedia Systems.
I. Hal Sudborough, Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Telecommunication networks, parallel computation networks, efficient parallel (and sequential) algorithms, structure of complexity classes, picture processing, automata and formal languages, graph/network algorithms (esp. embedding and layout problems), combinatorial problems (esp. sorting by prefix reversals), and computational biology.
Bhavani Thuraisingham, Professor, Ph.D., University of Wales, United Kingdom
Dr. Thuraisingham’s research in information security and information management has resulted in over 60 journal articles, over 200 refereed conference papers, and three US patents. She is the author of seven books in data management, data mining and data security including one on data mining for counter-terrorism.
Ioannis "Yanni" G. Tollis, Research Professor , Ph.D., University of Illinois
Graph Drawing, Information Visualization, Computer Aided Design, VLSI Layout, Telecommunication Networks, Computational Geometry, Algorithm Engineering and Applications.
Klaus Truemper, Professor, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Computational logic and intelligent computer systems. Ongoing application projects cover integration of logic computation into programming languages, computational logic, learning logic and data mining, natural language processing, handwriting interpretation, traffic control, optimization and learning relevant questioning in expert systems.
S.Venkatesan, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Fault tolerance, distributed algorithms, telecommunication networks, and mobile computing.
Yuke Wang, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan Canada
High-speed and Low-Power Algorithms and VLSI Design, both Custom and Computer-Aided Design in areas of Computer Arithmetic, Transformation, Error Correction and Security, for Applications including Wireless LAN, Home Network, 3G Wireless Communication, Internet Appliances and Multimedia.
W. Eric Wong, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University
Software engineering (testing, reliability, metrics, program comprehension), and telecommunication networks (performance analysis and quality of service).
Weili Wu, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Database Systems, spatial data management, geo-spatial data mining, clustering and information retrival, and Distribute Database Systems.
I-Ling Yen, Professor, Ph.D., University of Houston
Distributed and parallel operating systems, Load Balancing, Atomic Transactions and Consensus Protocols, Mutual, Exclusion, Fault Tolerance for Parallel and Distributed Systems, Fault-Tolerant Web Server, Inherent Fault Tolerance, Off-the-Shelf Fault-Tolerance,Multimedia Systems and Tools, Networking, Object-Oriented Real-Time Systems, Self-Stabilizing Systems, Assessment Methods for Multiagent Systems.
Kang Zhang, Professor, Ph.D., University of Brighton, UK
Groupware, Software Visualization, Visual Programming, and Parallel and Distributed Systems and Programming Tools.
S.Q. Zheng, Professor, Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara
Algorithms and Data Structures, Computer Architectures, Hardware/Software Co-design, Optical Interconnects, Optimization, Parallel and Distributed Processing, Telcommunication and Networks, VLSI.
