Research Areas
Big Data and Large-Scale Computing
big data analytics and mining, cloud computing, computational journalism, data exploration, data science,
distributed computing, environmental and tracking data analysis, parallel algorithms, parallel computing, scalable
and distributed graph-processing, scalable memory and storage systems, scientific computing, systems support for big
data, warehouse-scale computing
Associated Faculty: Ashraf Aboulnaga,
Ishfaz Ahmad,
Engin Arslan,
Sharma Chakravarthy,
Gautam Das,
Leonidas Fegaras,
Jean Gao,
Junzhou Huang,
Hong Jiang ,
Song Jiang,
David Levine,
Chengkai Li,
Hui Lu,
Jacob Luber,
Jiayi Meng,
Shirin Nilizadeh,
Habeeb Olufowobi,
Jiayi Rao,
Abhishek Santra,
Dajiang Zhu
Biocomputing and Health Informatics
assistive technologies, bioinformatics, computational neuroscience, computer aided rehabilitation, health
informatics, human computer interaction, medical informatics
Associated Faculty: Negin Fraidouni,
Jean Gao,
Jacob Luber,
Dajiang Zhu,
Yingying Zhu
Computer Networks
anonymity and privacy online, content-centric networking, Internet distributed traffic control, Internet router
interface programming, network function virtualization, next-generation networks, opportunistic networks, pervasive
computing, secure peer-to-peer systems, sensor networks, software-defined networking, wireless networks
Associated Faculty: Engin Arslan,
Hao Che,
Ming Li,
Younghe Liu,
Hui Lu,
Jiayi Meng,
Habeeb Olufowobi,
Debashri Roy, Xiaojun Shang
Computer Vision and Multimedia
endoscopic vision, gesture recognition, human motion analysis, image processing, neural networks, pattern
recognition, robotic vision, sign language recognition, signal processing, video compression, visualization
Associated Faculty: Vassilis Athitsos,
William Beksi,
Christopher Conly,
Alex Dillhoff,
Jean Gao,
Shawn Gieser,
Junzhou Huang,
Jacob Luber, Debashri Roy, Alexandra Stefan,
Cesar Torres, Miao Yin, Yingying Zhu
Database and Information Systems
converting data to knowledge, crowdsourcing and human computation, data modeling and summarization, data
exploration, data reduction, data warehousing, database testing, deep web and social media mining, entity query,
information integration, information retrieval, knowledge discovery, query processing and optimization, real-time
databases, searchable file systems, spatial databases, usability challenges in querying graph data, Web data
management, XML
Associated Faculty: Ashraf Aboulnaga,
Sharma Chakravarthy,
Gautam Das,
Leonidas Fegaras,
Negin Fraidouni,
Chengkai Li,
Abhishek Santra
Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing
cyber-physical systems, data acquisition and control, hybrid systems, instrumentation, Internet of Things, mobile
and pervasive devices and technologies, mobile applications, modeling and simulation, network simulation and test
bedding, real-time systems, reliable and fault tolerant computing, verification and validation, virtual reality,
wireless localization, wireless sensor networks
Associated Faculty: Bill Carroll,
Hao Che,
Mohammad Atiqul Islam,
Ming Li,
Younghe Liu
Jiayi Meng,
Habeeb Olufowobi, Xiaojun Shang,
Cesar Torres
Machine Learning and Data Mining
deep web and social media mining, environmental and tracking data analysis, matrix-based machine learning, neural
networks, pattern recognition, similarity-based indexing, social network, spatio-temporal data analysis and mining,
sparse learning, statistical and combinatorial algorithms, statistical optimization and data analytic, tensors
Associated Faculty: Ishfaz Ahmad,
Vassilis Athitsos,
Sharma Chakravarthy,
Christopher Conly,
Gautam Das,
Alex Dillhoff,
Negin Fraidouni,
Jean Gao,
Vamsikrishna Gopikrishna,
Junzhou Huang,
Mohammad Atiqul Islam,
Farhad Kamangar,
Chengkai Li,
Jacob Luber,
Fillia Makedon,
Shirin Nilizadeh,
Deokgun Park
Debashri Roy,
Abhishek Santra,
Alexandra Stefan,
Carter Tiernan,
Cesar Torres, Miao Yin, Dajiang Zhu, Kenny Zhu,
Yingying Zhu
Robotics and AI
assistive robotics, autonomous robot systems, development of intelligent behavior, endoscopic vision, healthcare
robotics, robotic vision, sensor-driven robotics, surgical robotics
Associated Faculty: Ishfaz Ahmad,
William Beksi,
Manfred Huber,
Fillia Makedon,
Chris McMurrough,
Deokgun Park,
Lynn Peterson,
Carter Tiernan,
Cesar Torres, Miao Yin, Kenny Zhu,
Yingying Zhu
Security and Privacy
anonymity and privacy online, malware analysis, mobile device security, secure peer-to-peer systems, usable
security and privacy
Associated Faculty: Remi Chou,
Christopher Csallner,
Mohammad Atiqul Islam,
David Kung,
Ming Li,
Younghe Liu,
Shirin Nilizadeh,
Habeeb Olufowobi,
Faysal Hossain Shezan
Software Engineering
agile methods, automated software engineering, automated testing, formal methods, mobile software engineering,
object-oriented software engineering, program analysis, program repair, reverse engineering, software cost
estimation, software design patterns, software engineering processes, software methodology, software process,
software security, testing object-oriented software, verification and validation
Associated Faculty: Christopher Csallner,
Bahram Khalili,
David Kung,
Jeff Lei
Sustainable Computing
define standards for power-aware hardware and software, design power efficient architectures, energy-aware
computing resource provisioning, energy-aware routing in sensor networks, evaluate power and performance tradeoff,
green data center architectures, restructure software and applications, spatial indexing for sensor queries
Associated Faculty: Ishfaz Ahmad,
Hao Che,
Gautam Das,
Elizabeth Diaz,
Mohammad Atiqul Islam,
Jiayi Meng,
Jiayi Rao,
Allison Sullivan,
kenny Zhu