Faculty
Tenure-track Faculty (23)
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Laxmi N. Bhuyan Distinguished Professor and Chair Office: 351 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2244 Email: |
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Research Interests: Multiprocessor architecture; network processors; internet routers; web servers; parallel and distributed computing; performance evaluation. |
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Philip Brisk Assistant Professor Office: 339 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2030 Email: |
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Research Interests: Reconfigurable computing; application-specific and customizable processors; computer architecture; compilers |
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Zizhong Chen Assistant Professor Office: 422 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2403 Email: |
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Research Interests: High performance computing, parallel and distributed systems, fault tolerance and checkpointing, power-aware algorithms and software, grid and cloud computing, numerical algorithms and software, and large scale computer simulations. |
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Marek Chrobak Professor Office: 406 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-3769 Email: |
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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. |
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Gianfranco Ciardo Professor Office: 442 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2281 Email: |
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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. |
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Rajiv Gupta Professor Office: 408 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2558 Email: |
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Research Interests: Compilers and Architectures for High-Performance Systems; Software Tools for Profiling, Slicing, and Debugging; Dynamic Program Analysis. |
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Vagelis Hristidis (Evangelos Christidis) Associate Professor Office: 317 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2478 Email: |
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Research Interests: Databases; Information Retrieval; Web search; Database search; Healthcare data; Semi-structured data. |
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Tao Jiang Professor and Graduate Admissions Officer Office: 336 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2991 Email: |
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Research Interests: Design and analysis of algorithms; computational molecular biology; bioinformatics; comparative genomics; approximation algorithms; average-case analysis; applications of Kolmogorov complexity. |
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Eamonn Keogh Professor Office: 318 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2032 Email: |
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Research Interests: Machine learning and information retrieval; techniques for solving similarity and indexing problems in time-series datasets. |
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Srikanth Krishnamurthy Professor Office: 334 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2348 Email: |
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Research Interests: Wireless networks and systems; broadband networks; network security |
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Stefano Lonardi Professor and Associate Chair Office: 325 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2203 Email: |
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Research Interests: Computational molecular biology; data mining; data compression; design and analysis of algorithms. |
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Harsha Madhyastha Assistant Professor Office: 324 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2479 Email: |
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Research Interests: Interests span all facets of networked systems. Specifically his work has focused on distributed applications spread across the wide-area Internet or across machines within data centers. |
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Mart Molle Professor Office: 331 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-7354 Email: |
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Research Interests: Computer networking; performance evaluation; distributed algorithms; fundamental performance limits; applications of analytical modeling techniques to practical problems in computer systems. |
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Walid Najjar Professor Office: 421 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-4406 Email: |
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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. |
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Iulian Neamtiu Assistant Professor Office: 412 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2993 Email: |
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Research Interests: Programming languages, software engineering, and the smartphone side of systems/security. |
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Michael Pazzani Professor and Vice Chancellor for Research Office: 0200 University Office Building Phone: (951) 827-5535 Email: |
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Research Interests: Investigation and analysis of learning methods that make use of prior knowledge to guide the learning process. |
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Chinya Ravishankar Professor Office: 326, 446 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2451 Email: |
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Research Interests: Databases; security; distributed systems; networking; programming languages; practical and theoretical techniques to build large software systems. |
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Christian Shelton Associate Professor Office: 327 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2554 Email: |
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Research Interests: Automated decision-making in uncertain or unknown environments; learning algorithms; sequential decision making. |
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Tamar Shinar Amrik Singh Poonian Assistant Professor Office: 419 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-5015 Email: |
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Research Interests: Scientific computing, computational fluid mechanics, computational biology, computer graphics. |
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Vassilis Tsotras Professor and Graduate Advisor Office: 335 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2888 Email: |
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Research Interests: Database management; database indexing and search; query processing; data dissemination; mobile data services; spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal databases; XML and semistructured data. |
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Frank Vahid Professor Office: 328 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-4710 Email: |
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Research Interests: Embedded systems, FPGA-based computing |
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Neal Young Professor Office: 423 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-7146 Email: |
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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. |
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Victor Zordan Associate Professor Office: 337 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2557 Email: |
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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. |
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Adjunct Faculty
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Michalis Faloutsos Professor Office: 332 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2480 Email: |
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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. |
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Cooperating Faculty
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Bir Bhanu Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering Office: 216 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-3954 Email: |
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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. |
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Ilya Dumer Professor of Electrical Engineering Office: 427 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2924 Email: |
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Research Interests: Error Correcting Codes for Reliable Transmission and Storage. Decoding Algorithms, Complexity, Code Design. Recursive Decoding; Nonbinary codes; Near-Optimum Decoding. |
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Thomas Girke Associate Professor of Bioinformatics Office: 1207F Genomics Building Phone: (951)-905-5232 Email: |
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Research Interests: Development of novel tools and algorithms for comparative genomics, data mining, cellular network analysis, quanitative systems modeling and drug discovery. |
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Roger Lake Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering Office: 437 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2122 Email: |
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Michel Lapidus Professor of Mathematics Office: 231 Surge Building Phone: (951) 827-5910 Email: |
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Research Interests: Mathematical Physics |
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Erik Rolland Cooperating Faculty Member Office: 225 Anderson Hall Phone: (951) 827-3694 Email: |
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Research Interests: Information Systems and Technology (IS/T), IS/T Strategy, Telecommunications, Meta-Heuristics, Decision Modeling, Healthcare Management |
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Amit Roy-Chowdhury Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Office: 322 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-7886 Email: |
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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 |
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Thomas Stahovich Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering Office: 349 Bourns Hall A Phone: (951) 827-7719 Email: |
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Research Interests: Sketch Understanding, Capturing and Reusing Design Procedures, Managing Design Changes, Computing Design Documentation, Cyrosurgical Planning, Code Checking, Feature action |
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Sheldon Tan Professor of Electrical Engineering Office: 424 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-5143 Email: |
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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 |
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Qi Zhu Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Office: 322 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-7701 Email: |
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Research Interests: Embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, computer-aided design for circuits. |
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Emeritus Professors
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Thomas Payne Office: 409 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-3119 Email: |
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Research Interests: Efficient implementation of programming language features related to operating systems, such as concurrency, protection, dynamic binding. |
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Teodor Przymusinski Office: 419 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-5015 Email: |
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Research Interests: Declarative knowledge representation in artificial intelligence; commonsense reasoning;symbolic representation and efficient computer automation of human reasoning. |
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