| Faculty | Research Areas | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mokhtar Aboelaze Associate Professor |
Computer Networks, Computer Architecture. | Computer Networks, Mobile Networks, Performance of ATM networks, Computer Architecture and Special Purpose Architecture for Image Processing. |
| Amirali Amirsoleimani
Assistant Professor |
Computing Hardware Design, Bio-inspired Computing, In-memory Computing by Emerging Technologies | Integrated Circuits for AI Hardware Accelerator Design, Neuromorphic Hardware & Architecture, Security Hardware, Non-volatile Memory Technology Circuits using RRAM, Memristors, 3D Xpoint, STT-MRAM, PCM, CBRAM, etc. |
| Robert Allison Associate Professor |
Computer Vision. | Machine vision, Measurement & Analysis of Eye Movements and Measurement and Perception of Human Motion |
| Aijun An Professor |
Data Mining, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing. | Pattern mining, data stream mining, parallel and distributed deep learning, affect detection from text, text classification and regression, text generation, data-driven recommendation, graph analytics. |
| Melanie Baljko Associate Professor |
Human-Computer Interaction. | Computational Linguistics and Human-Computer Interaction, specifically: computational models of human-human multimodal communicative processes; computer–mediated human–human communication; augmentative and alternative communication (AAC); computational devices for individuals with communication disorders. |
| Alvine Boaye Belle
Assistant Professor |
Software engineering, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | System assurance, assessment of confidence in assurance arguments, assessment of uncertainty in assurance arguments, knowledge representation, cultural awareness in information systems, requirement debt, architectural technical debt (ATD), artificial intelligence, machine learning. |
| Franck van Breugel Professor |
Concurrency and Verification | Model checking techniques and tools for software systems with randomization; Model checking of Java code; Developing benchmarks for probabilistic model checkers. |
| Michael S. Brown Professor |
Computer Vision, Image Processing, Computer Graphics | Computer Vision, Image Processing, Computer Graphics |
| Marcus Brubaker Assistant Professor |
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Bayesian Statistics, Computational Biology | Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Bayesian Statistics, Computational Biology |
| Gene Cheung Associate Professor |
Computer Vision, Signal Processing | Graph Signal Processing, 3D Imaging. |
| Suprakash Datta Assistant Professor |
Bioinformatics, Computer Networks. | Parallel and distributed computation, performance evaluation, network modeling, and simulation, bioinformatics. |
| Konstantinos Derpanis
Associate Professor |
Computer Vision | Computer vision (both high- and low-level tasks) and its intersection with machine learning and image/video processing |
| Patrick W. Dymond Professor |
Theory. | Complexity theory, parallel algorithms and architectures. |
| Andrew Eckford Associate Professor |
Communications networks, Information Theory. | Communications networks, sensor networks, error–control coding for wireless and other difficult channels, analysis of iterative decoding algorithms. |
| Jeff Edmonds Professor |
Theory. | Complexity, lower bounds, algorithms, combinatorics, probability theory, scheduling. |
| James Elder Professor |
Computer Vision. | Computer vision, biological vision. |
| Petros Faloutsos Associate Professor |
Digital Media, Computer Graphics, Computer Animation. | Virtual Humans, Crowd Simulation, Game Technologies, Serious Games, Interactive Medical Applications and Rehabilitation. |
| Hany Farag Assistant Professor |
Power Distribution Systems. | Plug-in electric vehicles, smart grid technologies, distributed and renewable power generation in distribution systems. |
| Ingo Freund Assistant Professor |
Computational Neuroscience, Computer Vision, | Computational Neuroscience, Computer Vision, |
| Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh Assistant Professor |
Biologically Inspired Sensor and Actuator (BioSA) technologies. | Biologically Inspired Sensor and Actuator (BioSA) technologies. In this direction, we examine novel BioSA methods by mimicking the biological micro–environments using Integrated Microelectronic Circuit, Micro–electromechanical System and Microfluidic techniques. |
| Parke Godfrey Associate Professor |
Database systems. | Database systems. |
| Gerd Grau Assistant Professor |
Microfabrication, Semiconductor devices, Printed electronics, Additive manufacturing | Microfabrication, Semiconductor devices, Printed electronics, Additive manufacturing |
| Jarek Gryz Professor |
Database systems. | Database systems. |
| Ali Hooshyar Assistant Professor |
Power system protection, Control of renewable energy systems and smart grids. | Power system protection, Control of renewable energy systems and smart grids. |
| Richard Hornsey Professor |
Electronic Sensors. | Integrated electronic sensors, biologically inspired image sensors, low vision enhancement systems, sensors for space applications. |
| Jimmy Huang Professor |
Information retrieval. | Information retrieval, web/text mining, health and medical informatics, natural language processing, bioinformatics, computational linguistics and digital library. |
| Manar Jammal Assistant Professor |
Cloud computing, Networking, and Machine Learning | Machine learning modeling and optimization; cloud management; self-organizing networks; network automation; network function virtualization and software-defined network orchestration; performance-aware modeling for cloud, networking, ORAN, and IoT systems. |
| Michael R. M. Jenkin Professor |
Robotics. | Mobile robotics. Computer vision. Virtual Reality. |
| Hui Jiang Professor |
Speech recognition, language processing, bioinformatics. | Speech recognition; language processing; multimedia communications; bioinformatics. |
| Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang Assistant Professor |
Software Engineering, Computer Systems. | Software performance engineering, mining software repositories, debugging and monitoring of distributed systems, source code analysis, software architectural recovery and software visualizations. |
| Hossein Kassiri Assistant Professor |
Micro/Nanoelectronics, Medical Devices. | Analog and Mixed Signal Integrated Circuit (IC) Design, Low Power Implantable/Wearable Systems-on-Chip (SoC), VLSI Signal Processing, Wirelessly-Powered Medical Sensory Systems |
| Hamzeh Khazaei Assistant Professor |
Software Engineering | Cloud computing, performance modeling, big data management, and intelligent systems. |
| Henry M. Kim Associate Professor |
Blockchain Research. | Blockchain Research. |
| Matthew J. Kyan Associate Professor |
Big Data, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Vision, Data Science, Information Systems | Biologically inspired models for learning & pattern recognition; Multimedia signal processing; Rich-media search, summarization & retrieval; Knowledge-assisted visualization; Immersive environments and mixed reality; |
| John Lam Assistant Professor |
Power Electronics and Energy Systems. | High frequency power conversion for sustainable energy systems, power converter topologies, control techniques for power converters. |
| Arash Habibi Lashkari
Associate Professor |
Cybersecurity | Network Security, Internet Traffic Analysis, Malware Analysis, Threat Modeling and Detection, Risk Assessment, Risk Analysis, Risk Mitigation, AI and ML for Cybersecurity, Pattern Recognition, User and Asset Profiling, Dataset Generation |
| Regina S. K. Lee Associate Professor |
Nanosatellite Technologies. | Nanosatellite Technologies. |
| Yves Lesperance Associate Professor |
Artificial Intelligence. | Intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, intelligent agents. |
| Peter Lian Professor |
Biomedical sensors, Biomedical instruments and Biomedical circuits. | Zero-power wearable wireless biomedical sensors, miniaturized biomedical instrumentations, ultra low power biomedical circuits and systems, and signal processing. |
| Sotirios Liaskos Associate Professor |
Information Systems Engineering. | Information Systems Engineering. |
| Marin Litoiu Associate Professor |
Software Engineering. | Performance modeling and evaluation, capacity planning, software engineering, adaptive and autonomous systems, web services, Internet technologies. |
| Burton Ma Assistant Professor |
Medical Devices. | |
| Ozzy Mermut Assistant Professor |
Biophotonics, Biomedical and biophysical optical engineering. | Applied photonic techniques for the study of age-related biosensory diseases, Photonic treatment and dosimetry of vision, neurological and aging disorders, Cancer biomarker diagnostics. |
| Scott MacKenzie Associate Professor |
Human-Computer Interaction. | Input devices and interactive techniques for advanced and mobile computing; human performance measurement, prediction, and modeling. |
| Sebastian Magierowski Associate Professor |
Electronics. | Semiconductor devices, integrated circuits, and VLSI for communications and embedded systems. |
| Maleknaz Nayebi Associate Professor |
Software Engineering. | Empirical software engineering, release planning and engineering, platform mediated software engineering, open innovation, requirements engineering, machine learning, mobile app engineering, software in society |
| Richard F. Murray Associate Professor |
Visual Perception. | Visual Perception. |
| Uyen Trang Nguyen Associate Professor |
Computer Networks, Wireless Networking, Information Security. | Mobile ad-hoc networks and wireless mesh networks: routing, multirate-aware routing, multicasting, medium access control, quality of service support, video transmission, security, transport issues, applications. Wireless sensor networks: routing, localization, medium access control, security, applications. Network security: authentication, key management, online social networking. Video and multimedia applications. |
| Jonathan S. Ostroff Professor |
Software Engineering. | Design of real–time software for reactive systems such as safety critical medical systems, nuclear plants, communication systems and robots. The use of formal methods for modeling, specification and automated verification of complex systems. CASE tools for formal methods. Software engineering. |
| Manos Papagelis Assistant Professor |
Big data, Data Sciences, Knowledge Representation | Graph & Information Network Mining; (Big) Data Mining & Analysis; Databases & Knowledge Discovery; Recommendation Algorithms, Trust & Personalization; City Science/ Urban Informatics |
| Simone Pisana Associate Professor |
Nanoelectronics, nanoscale materials, magnetic materials, heat transport. | Electron and heat transport in nanoscale materials and electronic devices. Hard magnets for magnetic recording. Optical pump-probe techniques for heat transport and materials characterization. |
| Enamul Hoque Prince Assistant Professor |
Information visualization, natural language processing, human-computer interaction. | Natural language interactions with visualizations, visual text analytics, question answering, summarization. |
| Afshin Rezaei-Zare Associate Professor |
Power and Renewable Energy Systems. | Electromagnetic Transients in Power Systems and Equipment; Power System Resilience to Geomagnetic Disturbance (Solar Storm); Real-Time Power System Simulators Based on Wide-Area Monitoring; Power Quality and Harmonics; Microgrids and Renewable Energy Systems; Transportation Electrification |
| Eric Ruppert Associate Professor |
Theory. | Design and analysis of algorithms and data structures for multi-process systems, in which processes communicate via shared memory, message passing or other means. Complexity lower bounds and impossibility results for such systems. |
| Ali Sadeghi-Naini Assistant Professor |
Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering. | Quantitative Imaging and Biomarkers; AI and Machine Learning for Precision Medicine; Radiomics and Theranostics; Image-Guided Therapeutics; Computational Biomedical Modeling |
| Amir Sodagar Associate Professor |
Biomedical Engineering, Micro/nanotechnology. | Implantable Microsystems; Biomedical Signals, Circuits, and Systems; Integrated Circuits (ICs). |
| Yan Shvartzshnaider
Assistant Professor |
Usable privacy; Sociotechnical systems; Information Technology Policy | Designing usable privacy methodologies and tool; Analysis of Sociotechnical systems and networks; Building privacy-preserving systems |
| Pirathayini Srikantha Assistant Professor |
Power Systems Engineering. | Game theory, large-scale optimization and distributed control for enabling adaptive, sustainable and resilient power grid operations. |
| Zbigniew Stachniak Associate Professor |
Computational logic and Knowledge Representation., History of Computing. | Computational logic and Knowledge Representation: methodology of automated reasoning and theorem proving systems, computer science and applied logics. Logic Programming. |
| Hina Tabassum Assistant Professor |
Networks. | 5G/B5G wireless communications; Massive MIMO; mm-wave, Visible light Communication, Free Space Optics; Stochastic geometry, Geometric Probability; Smart grid, Energy harvesting systems; Ultra-reliable, low latency communication. |
| George Tourlakis Professor |
Theory. | Logic (classical, calculational, modal), Computability theory (computation with partial function oracles, arithmetical forcing), Complexity theory. |
| Nikolaus Troje Associate Professor |
Computer Vision. | Visual Perception, Biological Motion, Gait Analysis, People Perception, Sensory Neuroscience, Multi-Sensory Integration, Space Perception, Virtual Reality, Embodied Cognition. |
| John K. Tsotsos Professor |
Computer Vision. | Computational Vision with a current major focus being the modelling of visual attention. |
| Vassilios Tzerpos Associate Professor |
Software Engineering. | Software engineering, in particular, software maintenance, reverse engineering and software clustering. |
| Ruth Urner Assistant Professor |
Machine Learning, Big Data. | Machine Learning, Big Data. |
| Natalija Vlajic Associate Professor |
Information Security, Mobile/Wireless Communications | Mobile/Wireless Communications, Pattern Recognition, Optimization and Game Theory. |
| Graham Wakefield Assistant Professor |
Interactive Information Visualization. | Interactive Information Visualization. |
| Ping Wang Associate Professor |
Networks. | Wireless communications and networking. |
| Song Wang Assistant Professor |
Software Engineering, Machine Learning. | Machine learning in data process, knowledge representation, classification, NLP. |
| Richard Wildes Associate Professor |
Computer Vision. | Computational vision and allied areas of image processing, robotics and artificial intelligence. |
| Jia Xu Associate Professor |
Real-time systems | Real–time systems, including real–time operating systems, real–time database systems, real–time communication systems, real–time embedded systems. |
| Xiaohui Yu Associate Professor |
Database systems. | Database systems. |
| Joel Zylberberg Assistant Professor |
Computational Neuroscience | Deep learning, Information theory. |
