Our faculty have diverse research interests. Here is a table of interests and faculty doing work in those areas:
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
Algorithms
George Heineman
Micha Hofri
Gabor Sarkozy
Artificial Intelligence
Joseph Beck
David Brown
Loris Fichera
Michael Gennert
Neil Heffernan
Xiangnan Kong
Dmitry Korkin
Kyumin Lee
Carlo Pinciroli
Carolina Ruiz
Gillian Smith
Erin Solovey
Jacob Whitehill
Candace Sidner
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Dmitry Korkin
Carolina Ruiz
Therese Smith
Cloud Computing
Mohamed Eltabakh
Tian Guo
Elke Rundensteiner
Computer Graphics, Vision and Image Processing
Emmanuel Agu
Berk Calli
Michael Gennert
Jacob Whitehill
Computer Science Education
Neil Heffernan
Charles Roberts
Erin Solovey
Gillian Smith
Therese Smith
Suzanne Mello-Stark
Database Systems
Mohamed Eltabakh
Elke Rundensteiner
Rodica Neamtu
Data Mining
Neil Heffernan
Xiangnan Kong
Dmitry Korkin
Kyumin Lee
Carolina Ruiz
Elke Rundensteiner
Rodica Neamtu
Data Science & Analytics
Emmanuel Agu
Mohamed Eltabakh
Lane Harrison
Neil Heffernan
Xiangnan Kong
Kyumin Lee
Yanhua Li
Carolina Ruiz
Elke Rundensteiner
Digital Health
Emmanuel Agu
Carolina Ruiz
Elke Rundensteiner
Erin Solovey
Krishna Venkatasubramanian
Human Computation & Crowdsourcing
Lane Harrison
Neil Heffernan
Erin Solovey
Jacob Whitehill
Human-Computer Interaction
Lane Harrison
Carlo Pinciroli
Charles Roberts
Gillian Smith
Erin Solovey
Jacob Whitehill
Candace Sidner
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
Berk Calli
Loris Fichera
Neil Heffernan
Dmitry Korkin
Kyumin Lee
Yanhua Li
Carolina Ruiz
Elke Rundensteiner
Erin Solovey
Jacob Whitehill
Krishna Venkatasubramanian
Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing
Emmanuel Agu
Tian Guo
Natural Language Processing
Neil Heffernan
Elke Rundensteiner
Candace Sidner
Programming Languages/Compilers
Lorenzo De Carli
Daniel Dougherty
Loris Fichera
Carlo Pinciroli
Robotics & Cyber-Physical Systems
Berk Calli
Loris Fichera
Michael Gennert
Carlo Pinciroli
Erin Solovey
Jing Xiao
Krishna Venkatasubramanian
Candace Sidner
Security & Privacy
Lorenzo De Carli
Daniel Dougherty
Craig Shue
Robert Walls
Craig Wills
Krishna Venkatasubramanian
Suzanne Mello-Stark
Software Engineering
George Heineman
Carlo Pinciroli
Therese Smith
Wilson Wong
Systems/Networks
Mark Claypool
Lorenzo De Carli
Tian Guo
Yanhua Li
Carlo Pinciroli
Craig Shue
Robert Walls
Craig Wills
Krishna Venkatasubramanian
Theory
Daniel Dougherty
Gabor Sarkozy
Rodica Neamtu
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.