
Computer Science Faculty Research Areas
- William H. Allen
- Lecturer of Computer Science.
- M.S. (Computer Science), University of Central Florida, 1995.
- Multimedia systems, distance learning.
- Mostafa A. Bassiouni
- Professor of Computer Science.
- Co-Director, Distributed Computing and Networking Laboratory.
- Ph.D. (Computer Science), Pennsylvania State University, 1982.
- Distributed systems, operating systems, computer networks, databases.
- Robert C. Brigham
- Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Mathematics), New York University, 1970.
- Graph theory, combinatorics.
- Nancy Cosgrove
- Visiting Lecturer of Computer Science.
- MBA and M.S. (Computer Science), Florida Institute of Technology,
1981 and 1982.
- Multimedia, network delivery systems, computer based instruction,
computer based assessment.
- Larry K. Cottrell
- Associate Professor of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Science Education), Purdue University, 1976.
- Computer-based education systems, programming languages.
- Niels
J. da Vitoria Lobo
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of Toronto, 1992.
- Computational vision, active vision and mobile robotics, visual
modeling for graphics.
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Narsingh Deo
- Charles N. Millican Endowed Chair, Professor of Computer Science
- Director, Center for Parallel Computation.
- Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), Northwestern University, 1965.
- Parallel & distributed computing, parallel algorithms and parallel data
structures; cluster computing; distributed databases; network optimization;
combinatorial computing; graph theory; Webdigraph.
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Ronald D. Dutton
- Program Director and Graduate Program Coordinator of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Computer Science), Washington State University, 1972.
- Computational complexity, design and analysis of algorithms,
graph theory.
- Raymond Enger
- Lecturer of Computer Science.
- M.S. (Computer Science), University of Central Florida, 1994.
- Artificial intelligence, databases.
- Oleg Favorov
- Associate Professor of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Physiology), University of North Carolina, 1986.
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Terry J. Frederick
- Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences.
- Ph.D. (Intelligent Systems), University of Wisconsin, 1969.
- Mathematical modeling for intelligent systems, learning systems,
computer science education.
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Erol Gelenbe
- Director of the School of EECS and Associate Dean of Engineering
- Ph.D. Polytechnic University
- Computer-communication networks and distributed systems, computer
performance analysis, artificial neural networks and image processing.
- Homer C. Gerber
- Associate Professor of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Mathematics Education), Florida State University, 1972.
- Computer-assisted instruction, local area networks.
- Fernando Gomez
- Professor of Computer Science.
- Director, Intelligent Systems Laboratory.
- Ph.D. (Computer Science), Ohio State University, 1981.
- Issues in natural language understanding including parsing,
semantic interpretation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation
and problem-solving.
- Ratan Guha
- Professor of Computer Science.
- Co-Director, Distributed Computing and Networking Laboratory.
- Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of Texas, 1970.
- Visualization, distributed simulation, parallel and distributed computing,
performance evaluation, modeling and simulation, Petri nets.
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Kien A. Hua
- Associate Professor of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 1987.
- Databases, multimedia systems, parallel and distributed computing.
- Charles E. Hughes
- Professor of Computer Science.
- Co-Director, Simulation and Graphics Lab.
- Ph.D. (Computer Science), Pennsylvania State University, 1970.
- Distributed interactive simulation, parallel constraint logic
programming, distributed object-oriented programming, computability
theory.
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Sheau-Dong Lang
- Associate Professor of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Mathematics), Pennsylvania State University, 1979.
- Analysis of algorithms,
information storage and retrieval, knowledge-based simulation.
- John Leeson
- Associate Professor of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Mathematics), University of Miami, 1974.
- Computer Forensics.
- Gerald Marin
- Professor of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Mathematics), North Carolina State University, 1970.
- J. Michael Moshell
- Professor of Computer Science.
- Co-Director, Simulation and Graphics Lab.
- Ph.D. (Computer Science), Ohio State University, 1975.
- Computer graphics, networked simulation,
and computer supported cooperative work and learning.
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Amar Mukherjee
- Professor of Computer Science.
- Director, Architecture and VLSI Laboratory.
- Ph.D., University of Calcutta, 1963.
- VLSI design, algorithms and architecture, computer architecture,
computational geometry, visualization, data compression, direct
rapid prototyping.
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Ali Orooji
- Associate Professor of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Computer and
Information Science), Ohio State University, 1984.
- Database systems,
object-oriented systems.
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Rebecca Parsons
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Computer Science), Rice University, 1992.
- Computational biology, programming languages and semantics,
semantics-based program optimization, parallel computation.
- James
Rogers
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Computer and Information Sciences), University of Delaware,
1994.
- Computational linguistics,
formal language theory, mathematical logic, artificial intelligence.
- Jannick P. Rolland
- Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in
Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Optical Sciences), University of Arizona, 1990.
- Optical instrumentation, Virtual environments, optical and medical imaging,
image quality, and assessments
- Mubarak Shah
- Professor of Computer Science.
- Director, Computer Vision Laboratory.
- Ph.D. (Computer Engineering), Wayne
State University, 1986.
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Computer vision, motion-based recognition, human activity and
gesture recognition, visual surveillance and monitoring,
visual tracking, video segmentation, driver alertness, airborne
video registration, MPEG-4, segmentation of interview videos,
face recognition, shape from shading and stereo
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Udaya B. Vemulapati
- Lecturer of Computer Science and Undergraduate Coordinator.
- Ph.D. (Computer Science), Pennsylvania State University, 1990.
- Parallel and distributed computing, distributed simulation,
high-performance computing, operating systems, parallel architectures,
and programming languages.
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David Workman
- Associate Professor of Computer Science.
- Director, Software Engineering Laboratory.
- Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of Iowa, 1973.
- Software architecture specification, software processes for object-oriented
development, and object-oriented software metrics.
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Annie S. Wu
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science.
- Ph.D. (Computer Science & Engineering), University of Michigan, 1995.
- Genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, data visualization, more
specifically, visualization and navigation of GA data, Micro Air Vehicle (MAV)
project: Evolving control rules, biological modelling, computer vision, machine learning.