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Faculty Research

Learn more about our faculty: Faculty Directory

GEORGE BEBIS, Associate Professor

Research/outreach areas: Computer vision; stereo vision; perspective geometry; theory of invariants; indexing; object recognition; shape analysis and representation; motion; texture; shading; face recognition; image databases; medical diagnosis; image processing; image compression; classification; learning and generalization properties of neural networks; applications of neural networks; genetic algorithms.

KOSTAS BEKRIS, Assistant Professor

Research/outreach areas: Algorithmic robotics; motion planning; physics-based simulation; probabilistic estimation; multi-agent coordination; wireless localization.

BOBBY BRYANT, Assistant Professor

Research/outreach areas: Artificial intelligence; AI in games and simulators, intelligent agents; multi-agent systems; visibly intelligent behavior; intelligently stochastic behavior; behavioral cloning; sensor-controller systems; artificial neural networks; genetic algorithms; human-biased genetic algorithms; neuroevolution.

SERGIU DASCALU, Associate Professor

Main research interests are in Software Engineering (in particular, requirements specification,
software environments, and software processes) and Human-Computer Interaction (user interface design, visual environments, and simulation environments). Previous work includes real-time systems, database systems, and computer-aided education.

DWIGHT D. EGBERT, Professor

Research/outreach areas: Neural network computing applications: analysis of medical images, search for patterns in massive patient care data bases, imputation of missing data; image processing applications: medical diagnosis using x-rays, thermal and CAT scans to advanced research modeling based on high speed imaging at the cellular level; digital hardware design ranging from single board microprocessor controllers for instrumentation to application specific VLSI integrated circuits; computer vision.

EELKE FOLMER, Assistant Professor

Research/outreach areas: Games; interaction design; software engineering; accessibility / usability of virtual worlds and games; software architecture assessment; game engine design; and component based game development.

MEHMET H. GUNES, Assistant Professor

Research/outreach areas: Networks; communications; internet measurements; network protocols; network security; design verification and testing; complex networks; biological networks.

FREDERICK C. HARRIS, Professor

Research/outreach areas: Parallel computing; operating systems; graph algorithms; optimization; virtual reality with mining applications.

NANCY LATOURRETTE, Lecturer

Research/outreach areas: Programming and problem solving; discrete mathematics; computer science education; systems administration.

SUSHIL LOUIS, Professor

Research/outreach areas: Intelligent systems; decision support systems; design and optimization of engineering and manufacturing systems; World Wide Web and Internet tools; using adaptive algorithms for modeling and optimizing manufacturing systems; robust hybrid algorithms for engineering design; evolutionary methods for designing and optimizing control algorithms.

MIRCEA NICOLESCU, Associate Professor

Research/outreach areas: Computer vision; analysis and interpretation of visual motion; perceptual organization; stereo vision, image and video segmentation; three-dimensional reconstruction; vision-based surveillance and activity recognition; human-computer interaction; panoramic video systems.

MONICA NICOLESCU, Associate Professor

Research/outreach areas: Autonomous robots; robot control; artificial intelligence (AI); robot learning; machine learning; game AI; human-robot interaction and communication; imitation learning; multirobot systems; behavior-based control; social robotics.

YAAKOV L. VAROL, Professor and Chair

Research/outreach areas: Parallel computing; algorithm design and analysis; data fusion; discrete simulation and modeling; programming and problem solving.

MURAT YUKSEL, Assistant Professor

Research/outreach areas: Computer communication networks; wireless routing; mobile ad-hoc networks/systems; network economics; free-space-optical mobile ad-hoc networks (FSO-MANETs); and performance analysis.