Graduate Program Booklet - School of Computing and Information ...

8 Faculty and Research Interests
Malek Adjouadi, Professor (join appointment), Ph.D., University of Florida, 1985. Image
Processing, Computer Vision, and Human Computer Interface.
Walid Akache, Instructor; M.S., Miami, 1984. Computer science.
Toby S. Berk, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Purdue, 1972. Operating systems.
Bogdan Carbunar, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Purdue, 2005. Privacy, data and network security,
applied cryptography and distributed algorithms.
Shu-Ching Chen, Professor; Ph.D., Purdue University 1998. Distributed Multimedia Database
Systems, Databases, Information Retrieval, Multimedia Data Mining, Distributed Computing.
Peter Clarke, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Clemson University, 2003. Software Engineering,
Software Testing, Software Maintenance, and Programming Languages.
Timothy Downey, Senior Instructor; M.S., SUNY Albany, 1986. Computer science.
Xudong He, Professor and Director of Center for Advanced Distributed Systems Engineering;
Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 1989. Software Engineering, Formal Methods.
Sitharama S. Iyengar, Ryder Professor and Director; Ph.D., Mississippi State, 1974.
Computational sensor networks, parallel and distributed algorithms and data structures,
autonomous and distributed systems.
Kip Irvine, Senior Instructor; M.S., University of Miami, 1995. Computer Science.
Radu Jianu, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Brown, 2012. Visualization Graphics and Neuroscience.
Bill Kraynek, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1968. Analysis of algorithms.
Tao Li, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2004. Data mining and machine
Learning, studying both the algorithmic and application issues.
Christine Lisetti, Associate Professor, Ph.D., FIU, 1995. Artificial Intelligence, Affective
Computing, Cognitive Science, Intelligent User Interfaces, Serious Games, Believable Agents
for Health Communication and Health Promotion.
Xiaowen Liu, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Dartmouth University, 2003. Computer networks,
high-performance simulation and modeling, parallel computing.
Masoud Milani, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Central Florida, 1986. Programming language
environments.
Giri Narasimhan, Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies; Ph.D.,
University of Wisconsin, 1989. Design and Analysis of Geometric Algorithms, Experimental
Algorithmics, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology and Biomedical
Engineering, Computational Statistics, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, Graph
Theory and Combinatorics.
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