Computer Science and Engineering: Faculty

Faculty

Tenure-track Faculty (24)

	Laxmi N. Bhuyan Professor and Chair Office: 441 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2347 Email:
Research Interests: Multiprocessor architecture; network processors; internet routers; web servers; parallel and distributed computing; performance evaluation.
	Marek Chrobak Professor Office: 406 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-3769 Email:
Research Interests: Design and analysis of algorithms; data structures; theory of computation; combinatorial optimization; computational geometry; automata theory; graph theory; on-line algorithms; graph drawing algorithms; algorithms in discrete tomography.
	Gianfranco Ciardo Professor and Associate Chair Office: 442 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2281 Email:
Research Interests: Tools and techniques for the analysis of complex hardware and software systems; symbolic model checking; logic verification; Markovian and general classes of stochastic Petri nets; performance and reliability evaluation.
	Michalis Faloutsos Associate Professor Office: 332 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2480 Email:
Research Interests: Routing and QoS protocols for the Internet; multicasting; wireless-ad-hoc networks; measurement and modeling of real graphs; internet topology and power-laws.
	Brett Fleisch Associate Professor Office: 422 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-7206 Email:
Research Interests: Distributed computing; operating systems; security; reliability; high availability systems; computing clusters; distributed shared memory; file systems; the Grid.
	Dimitrios Gunopulos Professor Office: 324 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2479 Email:
Research Interests: Data mining and knowledge discovery in databases; geospatial data; database indexing; design and analysis of algorithms; computational geometry.
	Rajiv Gupta Professor Office: 408 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2558 Email:
Research Interests: Compilers and Architectures for Embedded Systems; Software Tools for Profiling, Slicing, and Debugging; Program Analysis: Static, Dynamic, and Profile-based.
	Harry Hsieh Assistant Professor Office: 339 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2030 Email:
Research Interests: Automation of design technology for embedded computing systems; computer-aided formal methods for embedded system design.
	Tao Jiang Professor Office: 336 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2991 Email:
Research Interests: Design and analysis of algorithms; computational molecular biology; bioinformatics; comparative genomics; approximation algorithms; average-case analysis; applications of Kolmogorov complexity.
	Vana Kalogeraki Assistant Professor Office: 325 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2556 Email:
Research Interests: Distributed and real-time systems; peer-to-peer systems; resource management and fault-tolerance; autonomous, self-organizing, and dynamically evolvable systems.
	Eamonn Keogh Associate Professor Office: 318 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2032 Email:
Research Interests: Machine learning and information retrieval; techniques for solving similarity and indexing problems in time-series datasets.
	Srikanth Krishnamurthy Associate Professor Office: 334 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2348 Email:
Research Interests: Wireless networks and systems; broadband networks; network security
	Stefano Lonardi Associate Professor Office: 317 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2203 Email:
Research Interests: Computational molecular biology; data mining; data compression; design and analysis of algorithms.
	Mart Molle Professor Office: 331 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-7354 Email:
Research Interests: Computer networking; performance evaluation; distributed algorithms; fundamental performance limits; applications of analytical modeling techniques to practical problems in computer systems.
	Walid Najjar Professor Office: 421 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-4406 Email:
Research Interests: Computer architecture and parallel computing; compilation and code optimizations for reconfigurable computing systems; novel platforms and programing paradigms for sensor networks; low power computer architectures.
	Iulian Neamtiu Assistant Professor Office: 412 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2993 Email:
Research Interests: Programming languages, operating systems and software engineering. In particular: dynamic software updating, software evolution, static and dynamic approaches to making software safe, available, secure and scalable.
	Thomas Payne Associate Professor Office: 316 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-3119 Email:
Research Interests: Efficient implementation of programming language features related to operating systems, such as concurrency, protection, dynamic binding.
	Teodor Przymusinski Professor Office: 419 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-5015 Email:
Research Interests: Declarative knowledge representation in artificial intelligence; commonsense reasoning;symbolic representation and efficient computer automation of human reasoning.
	Chinya Ravishankar Professor Office: 326 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2451 Email:
Research Interests: Databases; distributed systems; networking; programming languages; practical and theoretical techniques to build large software systems.
	Christian Shelton Assistant Professor Office: 327 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2554 Email:
Research Interests: Automated decision-making in uncertain or unknown environments; learning algorithms; sequential decision making; computational game theory.
	Vassilis Tsotras Professor Office: 335 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2888 Email:
Research Interests: Database management; database indexing and search; query processing; data dissemination; mobile data services; spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal databases; XML and semistructured data.
	Frank Vahid Professor Office: 328 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-4710 Email:
Research Interests: Embedded systems, FPGA-based computing
	Neal Young Associate Professor Office: 423 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-7146 Email:
Research Interests: Approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization; Lagrangian-relaxation; algorithms for networks and caching; dynamic optimization problems; fast algorithms for special classes of linear programs.
	Victor Zordan Assistant Professor Office: 337 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2557 Email:
Research Interests: Graphics modeling and techniques; computer animation programming; image-based and procedural motion synthesis; physically-based modeling and simulation; motion capture editing and hybrid approaches.

Adjunct Faculty

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Cooperating Faculty

	Alexander Balandin Professor Office: 227 Bourns Hall A Phone: (951) 827-2351 Email:
Research Interests: Semiconductor materials and devices with particular emphasis on nanostructures. Specific research topics include phonon - electron transport in nanostructures, thermal management of nanoelectronic devices, noise phenomena, GaN-related materials and devices, thermoelectric materials, spintronics and quantum computing.
	Matthew Barth Professor Office: 221 Bourns Hall A Phone: (951) 827-2992 Email:
Research Interests: Intelligent transportation systems, telematics, transportation/emissions modeling, vehicle activity analysis, electric vehicle technology, robotics, computer vision, and advanced sensing and control.
	Bir Bhanu Professor Office: 219 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-3954 Email:
Research Interests: Dr. Bhanu's current research interests are Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Image and Video Databases, Artificial Intelligence, Graphics, Visualization, Robotics and Image Processing. (Expected to become cooperating faculty in Fall 2007)
	Ilya Dumer Professor Office: 257 Bourns Hall A Phone: (951) 827-2924 Email:
Research Interests: Error Correcting Codes for Reliable Transmission and Storage. Decoding Algorithms, Complexity, Code Design. Recursive Decoding; Nonbinary codes; Near-Optimum Decoding.
	Lawrence Harper Cooperating Faculty Member Office: 245 Surge Building Phone: (951) 827-4384 Email:
Research Interests: Combinatorics (Expected to become cooperating faculty in Fall 2007)
	Michel Lapidus Cooperating Faculty Member Office: 231 Surge Phone: (951) 827-5910 Email:
Research Interests: Mathematical Physics
	Erik Rolland Cooperating Faculty Member Office: 225 Anderson Hall Phone: (951) 827-3694 Email:
Research Interests: Information Systems and Technology (IS/T), IS/T Strategy, Telecommunications, Meta-Heuristics, Decision Modeling, Healthcare Management
	Amit Roy-Chowdhury Assistant Professor Office: 322 Engineering BU2 Phone: 951-827-7886 Email:
Research Interests: Computer Vision and Image Processing, Statistical Methods in Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Video Communication, Imaging/Non-imaging Sensor Networks, and Biological Image Processing
	Tom Stahovich Associate Professor Office: 349 Bourns Hall A Phone: (951) 827-7719 Email:
Research Interests: Sketch Understanding, Capturing and Reusing Design Procedures, Managing Design Changes, Computing Design Documentation, Cyrosurgical Planning, Code Checking, Feature action (Expected to become cooperating faculty in Fall 2007)
	V. Sundararajan Assistant Professor Office: 317 Bourns Hall A Phone: (951) 827-2446 Email:
Research Interests: Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Systems. (Expected to become cooperating faculty in Fall 2007)
	Sheldon Tan Associate Professor Office: 223 Bourns Hall A Phone: (951) 827-5143 Email:
Research Interests: Design and verification methodologies for high-performance power distribution networks, Software/hardware co-design for embedded system based FPGA platforms, Circuit Simulation and synthesis (optimization and sizing) for mixed-signal/RF/analog circuits
	Zhengyuan Xu Associate Professor Office: 225 Bourns Hall A Phone: (951) 827-2986 Email:
Research Interests: Multiuser detection for code-division multiple access (CDMA) wireless systems, blind equalization/identification of wireless channels, multi-carrier/OFDM multi-rate communications, ultra-wideband (UWB) communications wireless sensor networks