Computer Science Faculty Research Areas

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ali Orooji
  • Associate Professor of Computer Science.
  • Ph.D. (Computer and Information Science), Ohio State University, 1984.
  • Database systems, object-oriented systems.
• 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.
  • 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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