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: Ishfaq Ahmad, Sharma Chakravarthy, Gautam Das, Leonidas Fegaras, Jean Gao, Junzhou Huang, Jacob Luber, Mohammad Atiqul Islam, Hong Jiang, Song Jiang, David Levine, Chengkai Li, Shirin Nilizadeh, Habeeb Olufowobi, Jia Rao, 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, Junzhou Huang, 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: Hao Che,
Ming Li, Habeeb Olufowobi, Yonghe Liu
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, Vamsikrishna Gopikrishna, Junzhou Huang, Jacob Luber, Chris McMurrough, Alexandra Stefan, Cesar Torres
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: Sharma Chakravarthy, Gautam Das, Leonidas Fegaras, Negin Fraidouni, Hong Jiang, Chengkai Li
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: William Beksi, Bill Carroll,
Hao Che, Mohammad Atiqul Islam,
Hong Jiang, Ming Li, Yonghe Liu,
Chris McMurrough, VP Nguyen, Habeeb Olufowobi,
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: Ishfaq Ahmad, Vassilis Athitsos, Gautam Das, Alex Dillhoff, Negin Fraidouni, Jean Gao, Vamsikrishna Gopikrishna, Junzhou Huang, Farhad Kamangar, Chengkai Li, Jacob Luber, Fillia Makedon, Shirin Nilizadeh, Deokgun Park, Alexandra Stefan, Carter Tiernan, Cesar Torres, Dajiang 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: Ishfaq Ahmad, William Beksi, Vamsikrishna Gopikrishna, Manfred Huber, Fillia Makedon, Chris McMurrough, Deokgun Park, Lynn Peterson, Carter Tiernan, Cesar Torres, 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: Christoph Csallner, Mohammad Atiqul Islam, David Kung, Ming Li, Yonghe Liu, Shirin Nilizadeh
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: Christoph Csallner,
Mohammad Atiqul Islam, David Kung, Yu Lei, Ming Li, Yonghe Liu, Shirin Nilizadeh, Allison Sullivan
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: Ishfaq Ahmad, Christoph Csallner, Mohammad Atiqul Islam, David Kung, Ming Li, Yonghe Liu, Shirin Nilizadeh