Research Areas in Computer Science and Engineering

Research Areas

Our faculty conduct research in eight general areas: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Data Science, Bioinformatics and Health Informatics, Computer and Network Systems, Human-Centered Computing, Security and Privacy, Software Engineering, and Theory. Each general area is divided into more specific focus areas.

Artificial Intelligence

Nicholas Gans, Prasanna Gowda, Sihong He, Manfred Huber, Jeff (Yu) Lei, Yonghe Liu, Ozair Mughal, Francklin Rivas, Peiran Yu, Kenny Zhu

Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, Image and Video Processing

Vassilis Athitsos, William Beksi, Alex Dillhoff, Farnaz Farahanipad, Marnim Galib, Nicholas Gans, Vamsikrishna Gopikrishna, Junzhou Huang, Jacob Luber, Chris McMurrough, Jiayi Meng, Diego Patino, Debashri Roy, Chenxi Wang, Meng Ye, Dajiang Zhu

Natural Language Processing

Chengkai Li, Shirin Nilizadeh, Kenny Zhu

Machine Learning, Data Mining

Ashraf Aboulnaga, Jude Agujiobi, Ishfaq Ahmad, Vassilis Athitsos, William Beksi, Yoon Chae, Sharma Chakravarthy, Gautam Das, Elizabeth Diaz, Alex Dillhoff, Bo Fang, Farnaz Farahanipad, Negin Fraidouni, Marnim Galib, Soumaya Gharsallaoui, Vamsikrishna Gopikrishna, Prasanna Gowda, Nadra Guizani, Sihong He, Junzhou Huang, Manfred Huber, Bhanu Jain, Farhad Kamangar, Chengkai Li, Jacob Luber, Nomaan Mufti, Ozair Mughal, Habeeb Olufowobi, Diego Patino, Francklin Rivas, Debashri Roy, Harry Shomer, Chenxi Wang, Jiandong Wang, Meng Ye, Peiran Yu, Rozsa Zaruba, Kenny Zhu

Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles and Systems, Automation

Ishfaq Ahmad, William Beksi, Nicholas Gans, Vamsikrishna Gopikrishna, Prasanna Gowda, Sihong He, Manfred Huber, Fillia Makedon, Chris McMurrough, Diego Patino

Big Data and Data Science

Jude Agujiobi, Soumaya Gharsallaoui, Vamsikrishna Gopikrishna, Prasanna Gowda, Ozair Mughal, Shirin Nilizadeh, Harry Shomer

Big Data Modeling, Analysis, Optimization, Scalability

Ashraf Aboulnaga, Ishfaq Ahmad , Engin Arslan, Gautam Das, Leonidas Fegaras, Sihong He, Junzhou Huang, David Levine, Jacob Luber, Zaman Noor, Abhishek Santra

Databases

Ashraf Aboulnaga, Sharma Chakravarthy, Gautam Das, Leonidas Fegaras, Negin Fraidouni, Soumaya Gharsallaoui, Bhanu Jain, Song Jiang, Chengkai Li, Abhishek Santra

Information System

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Information Retrieval

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Knowledge Management

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Bioinformatics and Health Informatics

Marika Apostolova, Negin Fraidouni, Nadra Guizani, Junzhou Huang, Jacob Luber, Francklin Rivas, Jiandong Wang, Dajiang Zhu

Computer and Network Systems

Yoon Chae, Dianqi Han, Hong Jiang, Song Jiang, Yonghe Liu, Hui Lu, Ozair Mughal, Jia Rao, Muhammad Rashed, Zhijun Wang

Computer Networks

Engin Arslan, Yoon Chae, Hao Che, Jiayi Meng, Nomaan Mufti, Habeeb Olufowobi, Debashri Roy, Xiaojun Shang, Zhijun Wang, Binbin Xie, Mohammad Atiqul Islam

Computer Systems

Mohammad Atiqul Islam

High Performance Computing, Cloud Computing

Ashraf Aboulnaga, Bo Fang, Leonidas Fegaras, Mohammad Atiqul Islam, Yuede Ji, Hong Jiang, Hui Lu, Jia Rao, Muhammad Rashed

Internet of Things, Embedded Systems, Mobile Computing

Bill Carroll, Yoon Chae, Hao Che, Dianqi Han, Mohammad Atiqul Islam, Hong Jiang, Ming Li, Chris McMurrough, Jiayi Meng, Habeeb Olufowobi, Xiaojun Shang, Muhammad Rashed, Cesar Torres, Chenxi Wang, Binbin Xie

Design Automation

Muhammad Rashed

Sustainable Computing

Ishfaq Ahmad , Hao Che, Gautam Das, Mohammad Atiqul Islam, Hong Jiang, Jiayi Meng, Jia Rao, Muhammad Rashed

Human-Centered Computing

Shawn Gieser, Manfred Huber, Fillia Makedon, Shirin Nilizadeh, Allison Sullivan, Cesar Torres

Assistive Technologies, Pervasive Computing

Farnaz Farahanipad, Shawn Gieser

Human-Computer Interaction, Human Robot Interaction

Shawn Gieser, Manfred Huber, Cesar Torres

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Shawn Gieser

Security and Privacy

Remi Chou, Dianqi Han, Yuede Ji, David Levine, Chengkai Li, Ming Li, Shirin Nilizadeh, Habeeb Olufowobi, Faysal Hossain Shezan

Systems and Network Security

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Software Security

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Privacy Technologies

Remi Chou, Faysal Hossain Shezan

AI/ML Security

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Human, Policy, and Societal Security

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Software Engineering

Jimmie Davis, Elizabeth Diaz, Bahram Khalili, David Kung, Jeff (Yu) Lei, Chenxi Wang

Agile Methods and Software Project Management

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Software Design

Marika Apostolova, Elizabeth Diaz

Software Testing and Program Analysis

Christoph Csallner, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Allison Sullivan

Automated Software Engineering

Christoph Csallner

Theory

Program Languages

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Formal Methods

Allison Sullivan

Quantum Engineering

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