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Faculty

Professors:

Adali, Sibel Ph.D., Associate Professor

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Social networking; trust; multimedia database systems; information integration; semantic web.

Anshelevich, Elliot Ph.D., Associate Professor

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

Berman, Francine Ph.D., Professor

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Big data and data cyberinfrastructure, preservation and access; e-science; grid, parallel, and high performance computing.

Carothers, Christopher Ph.D., Professor

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Massively parallel computing; parallel discrete-event simulation; systems simulations.

Cutler, Barbara Ph.D., Associate Professor

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Computer graphics; visualization; geometry processing; algorithms; design tools for architecture.

Drineas, Petros Ph.D., Associate Professor

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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

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

Hardwick, Martin Ph.D., Professor

Data management systems for engineering and manufacturing applications.

Hendler, Jim Ph.D., Department Head and Tetherless World Constellation Chair

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Artificial intelligence, semantic web, web science, agent-based computing, open government data and high performance processing.

Krishnamoorthy, Mukkai Ph.D., Associate Professor

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Programming environments; design and analysis of combinatorial algorithms; open source software development issues; performance issues in internet; analysis of web documents; network visualization.

Magdon-Ismail, Malik Ph.D., Professor

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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

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

Spooner, David Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean of Science for Undergraduate Education and Administration

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Information security, computer science and information technology education.

Stewart, Charles Ph.D., Professor

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Computer vision; biological and environmental applications.

Szymanski, Boleslaw Ph.D., IEEE Fellow, Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for Network Science and Engineering

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Social networks; computer and sensor networks; distributed and parallel computing; distributed simulation.

Trinkle, Jeff Ph.D., Professor

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

Varela, Carlos Ph.D., Associate Professor

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Concurrent programming models and languages, adaptive scalable distributed computing, computational science and engineering.

Yener, Bülent Ph.D., Professor and Director of Data Science Research Center

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

Zaki, Mohammed Ph.D., Professor

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

Research and Affiliated Faculty:

Bennett, Kristin Ph.D., Professor

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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

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Artificial intelligence, specifically including: logical, mathematical and philosophical foundations of AI; AI and creativity; AI and economics/finance/business; 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

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Bioinformatics; protein folding, engineering and design; molecular simulations. (Joint appointment with Biology.)

Eglash, Ron Ph.D., Professor

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Computational models of cultural designs; Broadening Participation; K-12 STEM education; Self-organization. (Joint Appointment with Science and Technology Studies.)

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

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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

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

Gerhardt, Lester Ph.D., Professor

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

Gray, Wayne Ph.D., Professor

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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

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

Luciano, Joanne Ph.D., Research Associate Professor

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Artificial intelligence, machine learning, semantic web, web science, semantically-enabled informatics, semantic eScience, collaborative science, ontology evaluation, health and life science, biomedical informatics, modeling and simulation in the life sciences.

McLaughlin, Harry Ph.D., Professor

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

Newberg, Lee Ph.D., Research Associate Professor

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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.(Not accepting new graduate students.)

Shephard, Mark Ph.D., Professor

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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

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

Instructors:

Goldschmidt, David E. Ph.D., Executive Officer

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Operating systems; network programming; programming languages; software engineering.

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

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Advanced routing and switching protocols; network security; CCIE.

Myers, James Ph.D., Director of Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovation

Petascale e-Science and e-Engineering, advanced manufacturing, data-intensive science, provenance, data curation, science-as-a-service.

Emeritus Professors:

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

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

Glinert, Ephraim Ph.D.

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

McNaughton, Robert Ph.D.

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Automata theory; formal languages; combinatorics on words.

Musser, David Ph.D.

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

Rogers, Edwin H. Ph.D.

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Collaborative computing; group operating systems; modeling paradigms.