People

Faculty

Professors:

Adali, Sibel Ph.D., Associate Professor

Homepage
Multimedia database systems; information integration; query optimization; semantic web.

Anshelevich, Elliot Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Homepage
Design and analysis of algorithms, especially for large decentralized networks. Strategic agents in networks and algorithmic game theory; approximation algorithms.

Berman, Francince Ph.D., Professor and Vice President for Research

Cyberinfrastructure, data preservation and access, e-science, and grid computing.

Carothers, Christopher Ph.D., Associate Professor

Homepage
Parallel and distributed systems; simulation; networking and real-time systems.

Cutler, Barbara Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Homepage
Computer graphics; geometry processing; algorithms; and design tools for architecture.

Das, Sanmay Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Homepage
Machine learning; computational finance and economics; multi-agent systems; social networks; information retrieval and biomedical informatics. (Not accepting graduate students for 2010-2011 academic year.)

Drineas, Petros Ph.D., Associate Professor

Homepage
Design and analysis of algorithms, in particular randomized and approximation algorithms; linear algebra algorithms and their applications in data mining.

Goldberg, Mark Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Experimental design and analysis of algorithms; combinatorics and graph theory; applications to social networks.

Hardwick, Martin Ph.D., Professor and Acting Department Head

Data management systems for engineering and manufacturing applications.

Hendler, Jim Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Information Technology, Tetherless World Constellation Chair

Homepage
Artificial intelligence, semantic web, web science, agent-based computing and high performance processing.

Krishnamoorthy, Mukkai Ph.D., Associate Professor

Homepage
Programming environments; design and analysis of combinatorial algorithms; performance issues in internet; analysis of web documents; network visualization.

Magdon-Ismail, Malik Ph.D., Associate Professor

Homepage
Theory, algorithms and applications of computational learning systems; computational finance; bioinformatics, social and communication network analysis.

McGuinness, Deborah L. Ph.D., Professor, Tetherless World Constellation Chair

Semantic web, explanation of intelligent systems, semantically-enabled informatics, semantic eScience.

Milanova, Ana Ph.D., Associate Professor

Homepage
Software engineering, programming languages, compilers, program analysis, software testing, verification, reliable software systems.

Spooner, David Ph.D., Professor and Acting Dean of Science

Homepage
Information security, computer science and information technology education. (Not accepting graduate students for 2010-2011 academic year.)

Stewart, Charles Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Computer vision; medical applications.

Szymanski, Boleslaw Ph.D., IEEE Fellow, Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking

Homepage
Computer and sensor networks; distributed and parallel computing; distributed simulation; social networks.

Trinkle, Jeff Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Robotics, manufacturing automation, physics engines, human-machine interaction.

Varela, Carlos Ph.D., Associate Professor

Homepage
Internet computing, middleware, concurrent and distributed systems, programming languages, coordination models, computational science.

Yener, Bülent Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Computer networks; biological networks, bioinformatics, security, combinatorial optimization.

Zaki, Mohammed Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Data mining; machine learning; bioinformatics; complex graphs and networks; data science; high performance computing.

Research and Affiliated Faculty:

Bennett, Kristin Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Mathematical programming, optimization, machine learning, data mining, support vector machines, and applications of data mining to bioinformatics, cheminformatics, finance, science and engineering. (Joint appointment with Mathematical Sciences.)

Bringsjord, Selmer Ph.D., Professor and Director of Rensselaer AI and Reasoning Laboratory

Homepage
Artificial intelligence, specifically including: logical, mathematical and philosophical foundations of AI; AI and creativity; reasoning-based systems for homeland defense/intelligence analysis; automated reasoning; automatic story generation and narrative control; intelligent tutoring systems (for teaching logic and logic-based programming) (Joint appointment with Cognitive Science.)

Bystroff, Christopher Ph.D., Associate Professor

Homepage
Bioinformatics; Markov models; protein structure prediction and design; molecular simulations. (Joint appointment with Biology.)

Fox, Peter Ph.D., Professor, Tetherless World Constellation Chair

Homepage
Semantic web, Semantic e-science, data intensive science, virtual observatories, virtual organizations, data grids, high performance computing, collaborative science, sensor web, solar-terrestrial physics, solar variability. (Joint appointment with Earth and Environmental Science.)

Franklin, Wm. Randolph Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Computational cartography; computational geometry; computer graphics; geographic information science. (Joint appointment with Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering.)

Gerhardt, Lester Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Digital voice and image processing; communication systems; integrated inspection; sensing technologies, personnel verification and identification using biometrics. (Joint appointment with Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering.)

Gray, Wayne Ph.D., Professor and Acting Dean of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Homepage
Integrated cognitive systems, computational cognitive modeling, cognitive social science, cognitive engineering. Interested in basic and applied research that leads to understanding the interplay of natural interaction in routine human-human, human-machine, and human-information interactive behavior. (Joint appointment with Cognitive Science.)

Isaacson, David Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Mathematical and computational problems arising in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease and breast cancer. (Joint appointment with Mathematical Sciences.)

Jansen, Kenneth E. Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Large scale, parallel scientific computing with emphasis on fluid dynamics. Topics include cardiovascular system modeling, turbulence modeling, level set methods, finite element formulations, error estimation, design of software frameworks, and parallel computing. (Joint appointment with Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering)

Kalyanaraman, Shivkumar Ph.D., Associate Professor

Homepage
Research interests are in the area of computer networking, concentrated around the theme of traffic management and high performance wireless networking. In particular, work on topics of congestion control architectures, connectionless traffic engineering, quality of service (QoS), last-mile community wireless networks, low-cost free-space-optical networks, disruption-tolerant opportunistic networks, automated network management using online simulation, multicast, multimedia networking (including peer-to-peer multimedia systems), and large-scale network performance analysis. Special interest lies in developing the interdisciplinary areas between traffic management, control theory, economics, scalable simulation technologies, video compression and optoelectronics. (Joint appointment with Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering.)

McLaughlin, Harry Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Applied geometry; computational geometry, complex systems. (Joint appointment with Mathematical Sciences.)

Newberg, Lee Ph.D., Research Associate Professor

Homepage
Algorithmic, statistical, and combinatorical approaches to molecular biology; currently including multiple sequence alignment, ancestral reconstruction of sequences, estimation of statistical significance, and computation of credibility / Bayesian confidence limits.

Shephard, Mark Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Scientific computation; mesh generation;adaptive and parallel finite elements and multiscale methods. (Joint appointment with Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering.)

Wozny, Michael Ph.D., Professor

Homepage
Computer graphics; computer-aided geometric design; information systems in engineering design and manufacturing. (Joint appointment with Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering.)

Research Staff

Akella, Srinivas Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist

Homepage
Robotics and automation; robotic manipulation and motion planning; geometric algorithms and computer graphics; digital microfluidics and bioinformatics.

Bao, Jie Ph.D., Post-doctoral Research Associate

Homepage
Semantic web; description logics; data integration; data mining.

Ding, Li Ph.D., Research Scientist

Homepage
Semantic web, information integration, social network and trust, intelligent agent systems.

Yang, Shuhui Ph.D., Post-doctoral Research Associate

Homepage
Distributed systems, wireless networking, cyber security.

Visitors:

de la Rosa Esteva, Josep Lluis Ph.D., Visiting Scientist

Homepage
Intelligent agents; information and referral systems; citation auctions; and bank of wits.

Instructors:

Bush, Stephen Ph.D.

Homepage
Quantum computation and networking; nanoscale networking.

Ingalls, Robert Ph.D., Executive Officer

Homepage
Operating systems, network programming, computer science education.

Kotfila, David A. M. Div., Director of Cisco Networking Academy

Homepage
Advanced routing and switching protocols; network security; CCIE.

Emeritus Professors:

Flaherty, Joseph Ph.D., Amos Eaton Professor Emeritus

Homepage
Scientific computation; adaptive and parallel solution techniques; numerical analysis.

Glinert, Ephraim Ph.D.

Homepage
Assistive technology, universal access; human-computer interaction, multimedia information visualization.

McNaughton, Robert Ph.D.

Homepage
Automata theory; formal languages; combinatorics on words.

Musser, David Ph.D.

Homepage
Programming methodology; generic software libraries; formal methods of specification and verification.

Rogers, Edwin H. Ph.D.

Homepage
Collaborative computing; group operating systems; modeling paradigms.