Sanda Harabagiu, associate professor of computer science and holder of the Erik Jonsson School Research Initiation Chair, is a natural language processing expert. Her primary interest is question answering, a rapidly growing field that develops algorithms for searching through immense amounts of information. Read her profile...
Kevin Hamlen, an assistant professor of computer science, has dedicated himself to the field of language-based security. He develops automated program-rewriting technologies for enforcing security policies that constrain the behavior of untrusted code. Among the advances Dr. Hamlen has helped develop is Mobile, an extension of the .NET Common Intermediate Language.
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Neeraj Mittal is interested in building distributed systems that can tolerate faults. An assistant professor of computer science, his work is intended to enable multiple computers to continue working together on a complex problem even when one or more of the computers fail. He’s also doing research concerning the emerging field of cognitive radio as well as the security of wireless sensor networks. Read his profile...
Yang Liu, an assistant professor of computer science, works at the intersection of language and computing. “I fell in love with speech and language processing as an undergraduate, and I’ve been working on it ever since,” she says. “It combines theory with real-world applications, and you can work on natural-language problems from the perspectives of either electrical engineering or computer science.” Read her profile...
