Faculty members, undergraduates, and graduate students are integral to cutting-edge research under way not only in core computer science, but also in interdisciplinary areas.  Our groundbreaking research is supported by agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Army, Office of Naval Research, National Security Agency, IBM, and Google.  See the latest Department SIGBITS issue for recent research happenings by faculty and students.

Faculty Research Interests

Our faculty have diverse research interests.  Here is a table of interests and faculty doing work in those areas:

 
 

Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Dmitry Korkin
Carolina Ruiz
Therese Smith

 

Computer Graphics, Vision and Image Processing
Emmanuel Agu
Jacob Whitehill

 
 

Digital Health
Emmanuel Agu
Carolina Ruiz
Elke Rundensteiner
Erin Solovey

Human Computation & Crowdsourcing
Lane Harrison
Neil Heffernan
Erin Solovey
Jacob Whitehill

Human-Computer Interaction
Lane Harrison
Charles Roberts
Gillian Smith
Erin Solovey
Jacob Whitehill

Interactive Media & Game Development
Mark Claypool
Charles Roberts
Gillian Smith

Learning Sciences
Joseph Beck
Neil Heffernan
Erin Solovey
Gillian Smith
Jacob Whitehill

Machine Learning
Emmanuel Agu
Joseph Beck

Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing
Emmanuel Agu
Tian Guo

Natural Language Processing
Neil Heffernan
Elke Rundensteiner

Neuroscience

 
Programming Languages/Compilers
Brandon Bohrer

Lorenzo De Carli
Daniel Dougherty

Robotics & Cyber-Physical Systems
Brandon Bohrer
 
Security & Privacy
Brandon Bohrer

Lorenzo De Carli
Daniel Dougherty
Craig Shue
Robert Walls
Craig Wills

Software Engineering
George Heineman
Carlo Pinciroli
Therese Smith
Wilson Wong

 

Daniel Reichman

Visualization
Lane Harrison
Elke Rundensteiner
Gillian Smith

Research Groups

Many research groups exist within the department.  These groups hold regular meetings of faculty, grad students and undergraduate students to discuss current research topics and results.  Departmental research groups include Applied Logic and Security (ALAS), Database Systems Research Group (DSRG), Performance Evaluation and Distributed Systems (PEDS) and the Tutor Research Group (TRG).  Visit faculty member profiles to learn more about the research groups that individual faculty are involved in as well as when these research groups meet.

Making Sense of Data Streams in Real Time

Elke Rundensteiner, professor of computer science, is developing novel techniques for extracting information from large-scale distributed databases in real time. Her work makes it possible to find meaning in enormous volumes of constantly changing data. 

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