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Computer Science Faculty

Thomas Beckers

Research Focus: Closing the gap between machine learning and control theory to develop new algorithms towards safe, robust, and intelligent control of complex systems
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Matthew Berger

Research Focus: Data visualization, machine learning, computer vision, geometry processing
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Gautam Biswas

Research Focus: Model- and Data-Driven methods for Monitoring, Control, Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Fault tolerance in Cyber Physical Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Intelligent Learning Environments, Learning Analytics, Integrated Planning, Scheduling, Control, and Resource Allocation for Complex systems
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Robert Bodenheimer

Research Focus: Virtual Environments, Computer Animation, Computer Graphics
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Benoit Dawant

Research Focus: Medical image processing and analysis, image registration, image segmentation, image-guided surgery.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Tyler Derr

Research Focus: Data mining, social network analysis, graph representation learning, data science for social good
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Abhishek Dubey

Research Focus: Decision Procedures, Big Data, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart-Cities, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Douglas Fisher

Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, particularly machine learning.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Aniruddha Gokhale

Research Focus: Cloud/Edge Computing; Fault tolerant and real-time computing; cyber physical systems; model driven engineering
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Yu Huang

Research Focus: Software Engineering, Human Factors, Medical Imaging, Eye Tracking, Mobile Sensing, Open Source Software, Software-hardware Co-design
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Yuankai Huo

Research Focus: Biomedical data representation, biomedical image processing, machine learning, data science
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

David Hyde

Research Focus: physical simulation, computational physics, computer graphics, high-performance computing, low-level systems work 
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Taylor Johnson

Research Focus: Cyber-physical systems, IoT, formal methods, software engineering, software safety, verification and validation, formal verification, hybrid systems, switched systems, control theory, programming languages, distributed systems, cyber-security, control theory, reliability, automotive systems, aerospace systems, transportation systems, robotics, power electronics, power systems, medical devices
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Gabor Karsai

Research Focus: Model-driven software and system development, model-integrated computing, distributed and resilient software platforms, verification and assurance of autonomous systems
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Soheil Kolouri

Research Focus: Mathematical machine learning, computational optimal transport, and geometric deep learning
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Xenofon Koutsoukos

Research Focus: Hybrid and embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, sensor networks
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Maithilee Kunda

Research Focus: Artificial intelligence, computational cognitive systems, interactive tools for education and assessment, technology and autism
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Forrest Laine

Research Focus: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Programming, Computational Game Theory
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Kevin Leach

Research Focus: Systems security, Software engineering
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Akos Ledeczi

Research Focus: Wireless sensor networks, model integrated computing, embedded systems, computer science education
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Dan Lin

Research Focus: Cybersecurity and privacy, AI attack and defense, Big data processing, Internet of Vehicles
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Meiyi Ma

Research Focus: Machine Learning, Formal Methods, Cyber Physical systems, Internet of Things, Smart Cities, Healthcare
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Daniel Moyer

Research Focus: Computer vision and medical imaging
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Sandeep Neema

Research Focus: Embedded systems, design-space exploration, model integrated computing
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Ipek Oguz

Research Focus: Medical image analysis, image segmentation, machine learning, image registration
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Padma Raghavan

Research Focus: enhancing the parallel performance, energy efficiency and reliability of computations that involve high-dimensional sparse and unstructured data including matrices, and graphs
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Douglas Schmidt

Research Focus: Mobile cloud computing, distributed real-time and embedded middleware, cyber-physical systems, software patterns and frameworks, and digital learning
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Jonathan Sprinkle

01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Janos Sztipanovits

Research Focus: Embedded software, Structurally adaptive systems, Model-integrated computing
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Bryan Ward

Research Focus: Security and resilience of real-time and embedded systems in application areas critical to national security
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

James Weimer

Research Focus: Medical cyber-physical systems, Cyber-physical security
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Jules White

01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Pamela Wisniewski

Research Focus: Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, Privacy, Online Safety, User Experience, and User-Centered Design
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Jie Ying Wu

Research Focus: Surgical robotics, soft-tissue simulation, user action and skill recognition, cognitive load assessment
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Daniel Arena

Research Focus: Computer Science Education Research, Web Design & Development
02Teaching

Gina Bai

Research Focus: Empirical Software Engineering, Software Testing Education, Computer Science Education
02Teaching

Uttam Ghosh

Research Focus: Cybersecurity, software defied networking (SDN), distributed & mobile computing, wireless security, cloud computing and content centric networking
02Teaching

Shervin Hajiamini

Research Focus: Green Computing
02Teaching

Md Kamrul Hasan

Research Focus: Non-invasive Point-of-Care Tools, Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics, and Health Data Analysis
02Teaching

Graham Hemingway

Research Focus: model integrated computing, software integrated systems
02Teaching

Julie Johnson

Research Focus: Graph algorithms, CS Education Research
02Teaching

Diego Mesa

02Teaching

Dominique Piot

Research Focus: Computer science education
02Teaching

Gerald Roth

Research Focus: compiler construction, computer science education
02Teaching

Vikash Singh

02Teaching

Edward Stringfellow

02Teaching

Robert Tairas

Research Focus: Program analysis and understanding, software evolution and maintenance, empirical software engineering
02Teaching

Peter Volgyesi

02Teaching

Peng (Dana) Zhang

Research Focus: Distributed ledger technologies; healthcare interoperability; data science education
02Teaching

Waseem Abbas

03Research

J. Michael Fitzpatrick

Research Focus: Medical imaging, image processing, image registration, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
03Research

Robert Laddaga

Research Focus: model integrated computing, software integrated systems 
03Research

Miklos Maroti

Research Focus: Mathematics, universal algebra, logic, computational complexity, constraint programming, embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, domain specific modeling
03Research

Gayathri Narasimham

03Research

Himanshu Neema

Research Focus: Heterogeneous simulation integration, modeling and simulation, cloud computing, model-integrated computing, design-space exploration, artificial intelligence, planning and scheduling
03Research

Mudassir Shabbir

Research Focus: Graph Theoretic Methods in Cyber Physical Systems, Graph Machine Learning, Robustness and Resilience in CPS
03Research

Julie Adams

04Adjunct/Adjoint

Daniel Balasubramanian

Research Focus: Symbolic execution, code analysis
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Yogesh Barve

04Adjunct/Adjoint

Amy Kauppila

Research Focus: radiation effects on integrated circuits, computers and ethics 
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Ilwoo Lyu

Research Focus: Computer vision, surface registration, computational neuroanatomy, shape analysis
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Amit Misra

04Adjunct/Adjoint

Derek Riley

04Adjunct/Adjoint

Jesse Spencer-Smith

04Adjunct/Adjoint

Yu Sun

04Adjunct/Adjoint

Hamilton Turner

04Adjunct/Adjoint

Eugene Vorobeychik

Research Focus: Adversarial machine learning and data mining, data-driven agent-based modeling, economics of data sharing, game theoretic modeling of security and privacy, cyber-physical system security.
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Jie Ying Yin

04Adjunct/Adjoint

Shilo Anders

Research Focus: Human factors engineering, cognitive systems engineering and human-system interaction, healthcare informatics
05Affiliated

Hiba Baroud

Research Focus: critical infrastructure systems modeling, risk analysis, statistical modeling, risk-informed decision analysis, resilience monitoring
05Affiliated

Corey Brady

05Affiliated

Gretchen Burnett

05Affiliated

Tony Capra

Research Focus: Addressing problems in genetics, evolution, and biomedicine.
05Affiliated

Catie Chang

Research Focus: Functional neuroimaging techniques and applications; signal processing and computational analysis
05Affiliated

You Chen

05Affiliated

Benoit Dawant

Research Focus: Medical image processing and analysis, image registration, image segmentation, image-guided surgery.
05Affiliated

Daniel Fabbri

05Affiliated

Ivelin Georgiev

05Affiliated

Jay Hass

05Affiliated

Bennett Landman

Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging & statistical analysis with emphasis on medical imaging.
05Affiliated

Thomas Lasko

05Affiliated

Janell Lees

05Affiliated

Chris Maguire

05Affiliated

Bradley Malin

Research Focus: Biomedical informatics, data science, big data, machine learning, data privacy and security
05Affiliated

Jack Noble

Research Focus: Medical image processing including image segmentation as well as other techniques related to computer-aided surgery.
05Affiliated

Mikail Rubinov

Research Focus: Integrative statistical models of big neuroscience networks, evolutionary principles of brain network organization, information transfer in neural systems, neuropsychiatric connectivity phenotypes
05Affiliated

Nilanjan Sarkar

Research Focus: analysis, design, and development of intelligent and autonomous systems that can work with people in a versatile and natural way
05Affiliated

Nabil Simaan

Research Focus: Robotic systems for surgical assistance, theoretical kinematics of mechanisms, synthesis and optimization of robots and mechanisms, design of flexure mechanisms and flexible robots, parallel robots, actuation redundancy and kinematic redundancy
05Affiliated

Keivan Stassun

Research Focus: Data visualization; data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence; small satellites; neurodiversity inspired science and engineering
05Affiliated

Wei-Qi Wei

05Affiliated

Thilo Womelsdorf

05Affiliated

Daniel Work

Research Focus: transportation cyber physical systems, transportation data analytics, traffic estimation & control, connected & autonomous vehicles, mathematical models of traffic, inverse modeling, mobile sensing
05Affiliated

Zhijun Yin

Research Focus: Data mining and machine learning techniques for modeling, analyzing, and predicting health-related behaviors and outcomes; data processing systems and social computing
05Affiliated

Maizie (Xin) Zhou

Research Focus: Computational Genomics; Bioinformatics; Algorithms for reconstructing personal and cancer genomes; Computational Neuroscience; Dynamic behavior of neural circuits; Machine learning; Artificial Intelligence
05Affiliated

Charlotte Fischer

Research Focus: Atomic structure calculations
06Emeritus

J. Michael Fitzpatrick

Research Focus: Medical imaging, image processing, image registration, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
06Emeritus

Stephen Schach

Research Focus: Object-oriented software engineering
06Emeritus

Jeremy Spinrad

Research Focus: graph algorithms
06Emeritus