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 
 
 
Computer Graphics, Vision and Image Processing
Emmanuel Agu

Jacob Whitehill

Computer Science Education
Matthew Ahrens
 

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

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

 
Programming Languages/Compilers
Matthew Ahrens
 
Robotics & Cyber-Physical Systems
Rose Bohrer
 
 

Software Engineering
George Heineman
Carlo Pinciroli
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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