Faculty, listed alphabetically
Faculty organized by: Position, Research Areas, Major Awards
| Ashok Agrawala | ||
| Professor, CS, UMIACS and ECE Director, Mind Laboratory |
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| Ph.D., Harvard University, 1970 | ||
| Honors: | AAAS, IEEE Fellow | |
| Interests: | Design and evaluation of systems, real time systems, networks, Wireless systems, System Integration, Information Dynamics, Location Determination, Synchronization | |
| Yiannis Aloimonos | ||
| Professor, CS, CfAR, and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1987 | ||
| Interests: | Artificial intelligence, vision, robotics, learning, neuro-informatics | |
| William Arbaugh | ||
| Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999 | ||
| Interests: | Information System Security, Embedded Systems, Operating Systems, and Networking | |
| John Baras | ||
| Affiliate Professor, CS Professor, ECE and ISR Director, CSHCN |
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| Ph.D., Harvard University, 1973 | ||
| Interests: | Satellite and hybrid communication systems, stochastic systems, real-time parallel architectures for nonlinear signal processing | |
| Alexander Barg | ||
| Affiliate Professor, CS and AMSC Professor, ECE and ISR |
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| Ph.D., Russian Academy of Sciences, 1987 | ||
| Interests: | Coding theory, cryptography, combinatorics, information theory | |
| Rajeev Barua | ||
| Affiliate Associate Professor, CS Associate Professor, ECE |
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| Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award Finalist, Inventor of the Year Award, 2004 |
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| Interests: | Compilers, Computer Architecture, Computer Security and Reliability, and Multimedia computation. | |
| Vic Basili | ||
| Professor Emeritus, CS and UMIACS Former Executive Director, Fraunhofer Maryland |
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| Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1970 | ||
| Honors: | ACM, IEEE Fellow | |
| Interests: | Software engineering, empirical studies, model building | |
| Ben Bederson | ||
| Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., New York University, 1992 | ||
| Interests: | Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics | |
| Bobby Bhattacharjee | ||
| Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS Affiliate Professor, ECE |
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| Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1999 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award Sloan Fellowship |
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| Interests: | Wide-area Networking, Network Protocol Design, Distributed Systems and Algorithms, Operating Systems | |
| Shuvra Bhattacharyya | ||
| Affiliate Professor, CS Professor, ECE and UMIACS |
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| Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1994 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | VLSI signal processing, embedded software, hardware/software co-design. | |
| Rama Chellappa | ||
| Affiliate Professor, CS Minta Martin Professor of Engineering, Professor, ECE Director, CfAR Permanent member, UMIACS |
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| Ph.D., Purdue University, 1981 | ||
| Honors: | IAPR, IEEE Fellow University of Maryland Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher |
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| Interests: | Image sequence analysis, face and gait analysis, hyperspectral processing, human activity modeling and recognition and human movement analysis. | |
| Rance Cleaveland | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS Executive and Scientific Director, Fraunhofer Maryland |
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| Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987 | ||
| Interests: | Formal methods, model checking, software testing, software verification and validation. | |
| Michel Cukier | ||
| Affiliate Assistant Professor, CS, ECE and ISR Assistant Professor, ME |
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| Ph.D., National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (France), 1996 | ||
| Interests: | Security evaluation, intrusion tolerance, distributed system validation, fault injection, and software testing. | |
| Michael Cummings | ||
| Affiliate Associate Professor, CS Associate Professor, Biology and UMIACS |
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| Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992 | ||
| Interests: | Molecular evolution, computational biology, bioinformatics, Grid computing. | |
| Larry Davis | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1976 | ||
| Honors: | IAPR, IEEE Fellow | |
| Interests: | Computer vision, artificial intelligence, high performance computing | |
| Leila DeFloriani | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Universita Delgi Studie de Peruguia, 1977 | ||
| Honors: | IAPR Fellow | |
| Interests: | Geometric and solid modeling, computer graphics, geospatial data processing, scientific visualization | |
| Amol Deshpande | ||
| Assistant Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of California at Berkely, 2004 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Database systems, Sensor networks, Probabilistic modeling. | |
| Bonnie Dorr | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS Affiliate Professor, Linguistics |
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| Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) Sloan Fellowship |
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| Interests: | Computational linguistics, machine translation, lexical acquisition | |
| Allison Druin | ||
| Affiliate Associate Professor, CS Associate Professor, CLIS and UMIACS Director of HCIL |
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| Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1997 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award Appointed to the National Commission on Library and Information Science by President Bush |
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| Interests: | Human-Computer Interaction, educational applications for children, ubiquitous computing | |
| Ramani Duraiswami | ||
| Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS Director, PIRL |
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| Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1991 | ||
| Interests: | Perceptual User Interfaces, Spatial Audio, Scientific Computing, Fast Multipole Methods, Computer Vision | |
| Howard Elman | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Yale University, 1982 | ||
| Interests: | Numerical analysis, scientific computing, numerical linear algebra, numerical PDEs, finite element methods. | |
| Fawzi Emad | ||
| Lecturer, CS | ||
| M.A., University of Maryland, 1997 | ||
| Interests: | Mathematical logic (model theory), computer science education. | |
| Jeff Foster | ||
| Assistant Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2002 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Programming languages, software engineering, program analysis, type systems | |
| Manoj Franklin | ||
| Affiliate Associate Professor, CS Associate Professor, ECE |
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| Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Computer architecture: high performance processors, instruction-level parallelism (ILP), ILP compilation, and memory system design | |
| William Gasarch | ||
| Professor, CS, and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Harvard University, 1985 | ||
| Interests: | Complexity Theory, Concrete Complexity Theory, Combinatorics. | |
| Lise Getoor | ||
| Associate Professor, CS | ||
| Ph.D., Stanford, 2001 | ||
| Interests: | Machine learning, reasoning under uncertainty, artificial intelligence, databases, link mining, and social network analysis. | |
| Jennifer Golbeck | ||
| Affiliate Assistant Professor CS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2005 | ||
| Evan Golub | ||
| Lecturer, CS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1999 | ||
| Interests: | Human-Computer Interaction, ubiquitous computing, computer science education, information technology and non-majors, application of non-constructive proofs. | |
| John Grant | ||
| Adjunct Professor CS | ||
| Ph.D., New York University, 1970 | ||
| Interests: | Applied logic, artificial intelligence, databases | |
| Francois Guimbretiere | ||
| Associate Professor, CS | ||
| Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Human-computer interactions, information visualization | |
| Mary Harper | ||
| Affiliate Research Professor | ||
| Ph.D. (CS), Brown University, 1990 | ||
| Interests: | text, speech, and multimodal processing | |
| James Hendler | ||
| Adjunct Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Brown University, 1985 | ||
| Honors: | AAAI Fellow | |
| Interests: | Semantic Web, AI planning systems, privacy protection on the web. | |
| Larry Herman | ||
| Lecturer, CS | ||
| M.S., University of Maryland, 1990 | ||
| Interests: | Software engineering, formal specifications, and computer science education | |
| Michael Hicks | ||
| Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS Affiliate Associate Professor, ECE |
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| Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2001 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Programming language design and implementation, Security, Adaptive and Reconfigurable Architectures, Networked and Distributed Systems. | |
| Jeff Hollingsworth | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS Affiliate Professor, ECE |
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| Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1994 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Environments for parallel programming including performance monitoring and debugging, operating systems, computer networks, distributed systems | |
| John Horty | ||
| Affiliate Professor, CS Professor, Philosophy and UMIACS |
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| Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1986 | ||
| Interests: | Logic, decision theory, artificial intelligence and law | |
| Michelle Hugue | ||
| Lecturer, CS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1989 | ||
| Interests: | Dependable computing, fault tolerance, software engineering | |
| Jeffrey Huskamp | ||
| Affiliate Research Professor, CS Vice President and CIO, OIT |
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| David Jacobs | ||
| Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992 | ||
| Interests: | Computer and human vision, and its relations to memory, learning and computer graphics | |
| Joseph Ja'Ja' | ||
| Affiliate Professor, CS Professor, ECE, ISR, and UMIACS |
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| Ph.D., Harvard University, 1977 | ||
| Honors: | ACM, IEEE Fellow | |
| Interests: | Parallel algorithms, high performance computing, scientific visualization, and long term digital preservation. | |
| Laveen Kanal | ||
| Professor Emeritus, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1960 | ||
| Honors: | IAPR King-Sun Fu Award AAAI, AAAS, IAPR, IEEE Fellow |
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| Interests: | Machine intelligence, search, pattern recognition, computer vision, artificial neural systems | |
| Jonathan Katz | ||
| Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Columbia University, 2002 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Cryptography, Computer and Network Security, and Theoretical Computer Science | |
| Pete Keleher | ||
| Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS Affiliate Professor, ECE |
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| Ph.D., Rice University, 1995 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Distributed file systems, peer-to-peer systems and operating systems. | |
| Samir Khuller | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher |
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| Interests: | Algorithm design, graph theory, parallel computation, combinatorial optimization | |
| Carl Kingsford | ||
| Assistant Professor, CS, CBCB and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Princeton University, 2005 | ||
| Interests: | Bioinformatics; algorithms for analysis of protein structures, genomes, biological networks, and evolution | |
| Clyde Kruskal | ||
| Associate Professor, CS | ||
| Ph.D., New York University, 1981 | ||
| Interests: | Parallel architectures, models, and algorithms | |
| Jimmy Lin | ||
| Affiliate Assistant Professor CS and UMIACS Assistant Professor CLIS |
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| Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004 | ||
| Interests: | Natural language processing, information retrieval. | |
| Mikael Lindvall | ||
| Adjunct Professor CS | ||
| Ph.D, Linkoping University, Sweden, 1997 | ||
| Vladimir Lumelsky | ||
| Adjunct Professor CS | ||
| Atif Memon | ||
| Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2001 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Software Testing, User Interface Testing, Planning | |
| Raymond Miller | ||
| Professor Emeritus, CS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1957 | ||
| Honors: | AAAS, ACM, CSAB, IEEE Fellow | |
| Interests: | Communication protocols, networks, distributed systems, parallel computation, theory | |
| Jack Minker | ||
| Professor Emeritus, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1959 | ||
| Honors: | The Allen Newell Award AAAI, AAAS, ACM, IEEE Fellow University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher University of Maryland Presidential Medal |
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| Interests: | Artificial intelligence, Deductive databases, logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning | |
| Dave Mount | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Purdue University, 1983 | ||
| Interests: | Algorithm design, computational geometry | |
| Dana Nau | ||
| Professor, CS, and ISR Affiliate Professor, UMIACS and ME |
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| Ph.D., Duke University, 1979 | ||
| Honors: | AAAI Fellow | |
| Interests: | AI planning and search techniques, computer-integrated design and manufacturing | |
| Douglas Oard | ||
| Affiliate Associate Professor | ||
| Dianne O'Leary | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Stanford University, 1976 | ||
| Honors: | ACM Fellow ACM Distinguished Scientist |
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| Interests: | Numerical analysis, scientific computing, parallel numeric algorithms | |
| Nelson Padua-Perez | ||
| Lecturer, CS | ||
| M.S., University of Maryland, 1996 | ||
| Interests: | Software Engineering, Databases, Computer Science in Education | |
| Zhi Jian (ED) Pan | ||
| Research Associate CS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2007 | ||
| Don Perlis | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D. (Math), New York University, 1972 Ph.D. (CS), University of Rochester, 1981 |
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| Interests: | Artificial intelligence, formal commonsense reasoning, cognitive modeling | |
| Jan Plane | ||
| Senior Lecturer, CS | ||
| M.S., University of Wisconsin, 1989 | ||
| Interests: | Computer science education especially in underdeveloped countries and with underrepresented populations. | |
| Mihai Pop | ||
| Assistant Professor, CS, CBCB and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2000 | ||
| Interests: | Bioinformatics, genomics, computational geometry, and computer graphics | |
| Adam Porter | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of California at Irvine, 1991 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Software engineering, software environments, empirically based software analysis methods, software metrics | |
| Bill Pugh | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Cornell University, 1988 | ||
| Honors: | Packard Fellow | |
| Interests: | Supercomputer compilers, programming languages, practical algorithms | |
| Jim Purtilo | ||
| Associate Professor, CS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana, 1986 | ||
| Interests: | Software engineering, distributed computing, applied languages, operating systems | |
| William Rand | ||
| Affiliate Assistant Professor CS | ||
| Ph.D, University of Michigan, 2005 | ||
| Louiqa Raschid | ||
| Affiliate Professor, CS Professor, Smith School of Business and UMIACS |
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| Ph.D., University of Florida, 1987 | ||
| Interests: | Database management systems | |
| Aran Ray | ||
| Adjunct Assistant Professor CS | ||
| James Reggia | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS Research Professor, Neurology |
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| M.D., University of Maryland, 1975 Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1981 |
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| Interests: | Neural computation, artificial life, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence | |
| Charles Reiger III | ||
| Adjunct Professor, CS | ||
| Philip Resnik | ||
| Affiliate Associate Professor, CS Associate Professor, Linguistics and UMIACS |
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| Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993 | ||
| Interests: | Computational linguistics, lexical semantics, cognitive science, psycholinguistics | |
| Nick Roussopoulos | ||
| Professor, CS, UMIACS and ISR | ||
| Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1997 | ||
| Honors: | ACM Fellow | |
| Interests: | Database systems, client server database architecures, interoperable databases, adaptive buffer management and query optimization, network management, database design methodologies, active databases | |
| Steven Salzberg | ||
| Horvitz Professor, CS and UMIACS Director, CBCB Affiliate Professor, CBMG |
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| Ph.D., Harvard University, 1989 | ||
| Honors: | AAAS Fellow | |
| Interests: | Bioinformatics, genomics, gene finding, genome assembly | |
| Hanan Samet | ||
| Professor, CS, CfAR, and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975 | ||
| Honors: | ACM, IAPR, IEEE Fellow | |
| Interests: | Data structures, image processing, computer graphics, databases, geographic information systems, computer vision | |
| Vibha Sazawal | ||
| Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor,CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Washington, 2005 | ||
| Interests: | Software design, software engineering, human-computer interaction | |
| A. Udaya Shankar | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1982 | ||
| Interests: | Protocol specification and verification, distributed programs, network routing, queueing | |
| Ben Shneiderman | ||
| Professor, CS, and UMIACS Founding director, HCIL |
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| Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1973 | ||
| Honors: | AAAS, ACM Fellow CMPS Board of Visitors Distinguished Faculty Award |
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| Interests: | Human-computer interaction, user interface design, information visualization | |
| Forrest Shull | ||
| Adjunct Associate Professor CS | ||
| Neil Spring | ||
| Assistant Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Washington, 2004 | ||
| Interests: | Networks and operating systems | |
| Aravind Srinivasan | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., Cornell University, 1993 | ||
| Interests: | Algorithms, Randomized Computation, and Combinatorial Optimization; Networking and Distributed Algorithms; Social Networks and Epidemiology. | |
| Pete Stewart | ||
| Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1968 | ||
| Honors: | National Academy of Engineering Member University of Maryland Distinguished University Professor |
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| Interests: | Numerical linear algebra, parallel computing, perturbation theory, statistical computations | |
| V.S. Subrahmanian | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS Director, UMIACS |
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| Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1989 | ||
| Interests: | Opinion mining from text, ontology management and extraction from text, heterogeneous/multimedia/probabilistic databases, data and software interoperability, reasoning about cultures. | |
| Alan Sussman | ||
| Associate Professor, CS | ||
| Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1991 | ||
| Interests: | Compilers and runtime systems for Grid and parallel computing, high performance database systems, medical informatics, software component technologies, object-oriented programming systems, parallel and distributed scientific applications. | |
| Andre Tits | ||
| Affiliate Professor, CS Professor, ECE and ISR |
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| Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981 | ||
| Honors: | IEEE Fellow | |
| Interests: | Linear, convex, and nonlinear programming; numerical methods in control; robust control | |
| Chau-Wen Tseng | ||
| Associate Professor, CS | ||
| Ph.D., Rice University, 1993 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Computational biology, bioinformatics, high performance computing, programming languages and compilers. | |
| Amitabh Varshney | ||
| Professor, CS and UMIACS | ||
| Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Scientific visualization, interactive computer graphics, visual informatics, molecular graphics, geometric algorithms | |
| Uzi Vishkin | ||
| Affiliate Professor, CS Professor, ECE and UMIACS |
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| D.Sc., Technion, Haifa (Israel), 1981 | ||
| Honors: | ACM Fellow | |
| Interests: | Parallel computing and how to make it ubiquitous in the new multi-core era, the UMD PRAM-On-Chip project, parallel algorithms and architectures, design and analysis of algorithms, theory of computing. | |
| Amy Weinberg | ||
| Affiliate Associate Professor, CS Associate Professor, Linguistics and UMIACS |
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| Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988 | ||
| Interests: | Computational linguistics, syntax, cognitive science, psycholinguistics | |
| Don Yeung | ||
| Affiliate Associate Professor, CS Associate Professor, ECE and UMIACS |
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| Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997 | ||
| Honors: | NSF Career Award | |
| Interests: | Computer architecture; performance evaluations of computer systems; applications for driving research in high-performance architectures. | |
| Marvin Zelkowitz | ||
| Professor Emeritus, CS and UMIACS Chief Scientist, Fraunhofer Maryland |
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| Ph.D., Cornell University, 1971 | ||
| Honors: | IEEE Fellow | |
| Interests: | Software engineering, environment design, program complexity and measurement, experimentation and empirical studies. | |

