Research
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:
Algorithms
George Heineman
Micha Hofri
Daniel Reichman
Gabor Sarkozy
Artificial Intelligence
Joseph Beck
David Brown
Neil Heffernan
Xiangnan Kong
Dmitry Korkin
Kyumin Lee
Xiaozhong Liu
Rodica Neamtu
Carolina Ruiz
Gillian Smith
Erin Solovey
Jacob Whitehill
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Dmitry Korkin
Jennifer Mortensen
Carolina Ruiz
Cloud Computing
Mohamed Eltabakh
Tian Guo
Elke Rundensteiner
Shubbhi Taneja
Computer Graphics, Vision and Image Processing
Emmanuel Agu
Rodica Neamtu
Jacob Whitehill
Computer Science Education
Matthew Ahrens
Neil Heffernan
Jennifer Mortensen
Charles Roberts
Erin Solovey
Gillian Smith
Database Systems
Mohamed Eltabakh
Elke Rundensteiner
Rodica Neamtu
Shubbhi Taneja
Data Mining
Neil Heffernan
Xiangnan Kong
Dmitry Korkin
Xiaozhong Liu
Kyumin Lee
Rodica Neamtu
Carolina Ruiz
Elke Rundensteiner
Rodica Neamtu
Data Science & Analytics
Emmanuel Agu
Mark Claypool
Mohamed Eltabakh
Lane Harrison
Neil Heffernan
Xiangnan Kong
Kyumin Lee
Yanhua Li
Xiaozhong Liu
Rodica Neamtu
Carolina Ruiz
Elke Rundensteiner
Digital Health
Emmanuel Agu
Rodica Neamtu
Carolina Ruiz
Elke Rundensteiner
Erin Solovey
Human Computation & Crowdsourcing
Lane Harrison
Neil Heffernan
Erin Solovey
Jacob Whitehill
Human-Computer Interaction
Mark Claypool
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
Neil Heffernan
Dmitry Korkin
Kyumin Lee
Yanhua Li
Xiaozhong Liu
Rodica Neamtu
Daniel Reichman
Carolina Ruiz
Elke Rundensteiner
Erin Solovey
Jacob Whitehill
Ali Yousefi
Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing
Emmanuel Agu
Tian Guo
Rodica Neamtu
Natural Language Processing
Neil Heffernan
Elke Rundensteiner
Neuroscience
Dmitry Korkin
Rodica Neamtu
Carolina Ruiz
Erin Solovey
Ali Yousefi
Programming Languages/Compilers
Matthew Ahrens
Rose Bohrer
Daniel Dougherty
Robotics & Cyber-Physical Systems
Rose Bohrer
Berk Calli
Erin Solovey
Security & Privacy
Rose Bohrer
Daniel Dougherty
Craig Shue
Robert Walls
Craig Wills
Software Engineering
George Heineman
Carlo Pinciroli
Wilson Wong
Systems/Networks
Mark Claypool
Tian Guo
Yanhua Li
Craig Shue
Shubbhi Taneja
Robert Walls
Craig Wills
Theory
Daniel Dougherty
Gabor Sarkozy
Rodica Neamtu
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.