Graduate Faculty (Advisors)
A brief description of the background and the major areas of interest of the graduate faculty in computer science and engineering follows. The Research section gives a more detailed description.
Acharya, Raj, professor and department head. Bioinformatics, data mining, netcentric computing, information fusion. (865-9505; acharya@)
Barlow, Jesse, professor. Numerical linear algebra, scientific computing, linear algebra in signal and image processing. (863-1705; barlow@)
Berman, Piotr, associate professor. Computational complexity, approximation algorithms, theory of distributed systems, computational molecular biology. (865-1611; berman@)
Cai, Guoray, (IST), associate professor. Geographical information systems, spatial databases, digital libraries, human-computer dialogues, Geocollaborative crisis management. (865-4448; cai@ist.psu.edu)
Cao, Guohong, professor. Mobile computing, wireless networks, sensor networks, wireless network security. (863-1241; gcao@)
Chaudhuri, Swarat, assistant professor. Program analysis, formal methods in software engineering, and applications of logic, automata, and concurrency theory. (865-0883; swarat@)
Choi, Kyusun, assistant professor. Mixed-signal VLSI circuit design, RF ASICs, DSP architecture for RF signal, 4G wireless wrist PDA, embedded microcomputer. (863-1268; kyusun@)
Collins, Robert T., associate professor. Computer vision, with current emphasis on video scene understanding, automated surveillance, human activity modeling, and real-time tracking. (863-1944; rcollins@)
Coraor, Lee D., associate professor. Digital systems, field programmable gate arrays, microprocessor systems, computer architecture. (865-1265; coraor@)
Das, Chita, distinguished professor. Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, cluster systems, network-on-chip (NoC) architectures, Internet QoS, mobile computing, performance evaluation, fault-tolerant computing, multimedia systems. (865-0194; das@)
Dunn, Dennis F., associate professor and director of academic affairs. Medical imaging, image processing, texture analysis, document image analysis, human-vision modeling, robotics. (863-7323; dunn@)
Fonseca, Frederico Torres, (IST), assistant professor. Geographic information systems, information integration, knowledge representation. (865-6460; ffonseca@ist.psu.edu)
Fürer, Martin, professor. Efficient discrete algorithms, approximation algorithms, computational complexity, the graph isomorphism problem. (863-1857; furer@)
Giles, C. Lee, professor. Information retrieval and search engines, information and knowledge extraction, basic and applied Internet and Web research, data mining, cyberinfrastructure, artificial intelligence and machine learning, digital libraries. (865-3528; giles@ist.psu.edu)
Hallgren, Sean, assistant professor. Theoretical computer science, quantum computing. (863-1265; hallgren@)
Hannan, John J., associate professor. Programming language semantics and implementation, program analysis and verification, logic and computation, type theory, functional programming. (863-0702; hannan@)
Higgins, William, (EE), distinguished professor. Image processing, computer vision, scientific visualization, virtual endoscopy, applications to 3D medical imaging, radiology, 3D cardiopulmonary imaging. (865-0186; weh2@psu.edu)
Irwin, Mary Jane, Evan Pugh Professor, A. Robert Noll Chair of Engineering. Computer architecture, embedded and mobile computing systems design, power aware design, emerging technologies in computing systems. (865-1802; mji@)
Jaeger, Trent, associate professor. Computer security, operating systems, security policies, source code analysis. (865-1042; tjaeger@)
Kandemir, Mahmut, professor and graduate officer. Embedded systems, programming languages, compilers, power-aware computing, dependable computing, input/output systems. (863-4888; kandemir@)
Kesidis, George, professor. Modeling and performance evaluation of communication/computer networking mechanisms, scheduling and routing, Internet security, network economics and games. (865-9190; kesidis@)
Kifer, Daniel, assistant professor. Privacy, data mining, machine learning with background knowledge, and management of uncertain data. (863-1187; dkifer@)
Kumara, Soundar R.T., (IE), Allen E. Pearce/Allen M. Pearce Professor. Distributed sensor data fusion, complex networks, intelligent agents, inter operability and Web services, and service informatics; applications to supply chain logistics, manufacturing and healthcare enterprises. (863-2359; skumara@psu.edu)
La Porta, Thomas F., distinguished professor. Mobility management, mobile data systems including networks, protocols, and applications, signaling and control for telecommunication networks, security for wireless networks. (865-6725; tlp@)
Lee, Dongwon, (IST), assistant professor. Database, XML, world-wide web, semantic web services, web search and analysis, digital library, information retrieval, bibliometrics. (865-0687; dongwon@psu.edu)
Lee, Wang-Chien, associate professor. Database systems, pervasive and mobile computing, location-based services, peer-to-peer networks, wireless sensor networks, security, and Internet technologies. (865-1053; wlee@)
Li, Jia, (Statistics), associate professor. Statistical learning, data mining, information theory, signal/image processing, bioinformatics. (863-3074; jiali@stat.psu.edu)
Liu, Peng, (IST), associate professor. Systems security and survivability, network security, information security, privacy. (863-0641; pliu@ist.psu.edu)
Liu, Yanxi, associate professor. Computational symmetry group theory and applications, machine learning (particularly low-dimensional subspace learning from very large, multi-modality feature set), computer-aided diagnosis, computer vision, computer graphics, biomedical image analysis/indexing/retrieval, robotics. (865-7495; yanxi@)
McDaniel, Patrick D., associate professor. Systems and network security, security policy, networking, distributed systems, public policy, network management, applied cryptography, privacy. (863-3599; mcdaniel@)
Metzner, John J., professor. Reliable data communications including multicasting, error-correcting codes, multi-access wireless network protocols, efficient replicated file comparison, information theory. (863-1264; metzner@)
Miller, Webb C., (Biology), professor. Algorithms and software for molecular biology. (865-4551; webb@bio.cse.psu.edu)
Mitra, Prasenjit, (IST), assistant professor. Data mining, database systems, information retrieval, digital libraries, semantic Web, database security. (865-4454; pmitra@ist.psu.edu)
Narayanan, Vijaykrishnan, professor. Energy-aware and reliable systems, embedded systems, nano/VLSI systems, computer architecture. (863-0392; vijay@)
Raghavan, Padma, professor. Scientific computing, parallel sparse computations, energy-aware high-performance computing, computational modeling and simulation. (865-9233; raghavan@)
Raskhodnikova, Sofya, assistant professor. Randomized algorithms, computational complexity, private data analysis. (863-0608; sofya@)
Ritter, Frank E., (IST), professor. Cognitive modeling, cognitive architectures, human-computer interaction, learning. (865-4453; ritter@ist.psu.edu)
Shontz, Suzanne, assistant professor. Parallel scientific computing, mesh generation, numerical optimization, computational materials science, computational medicine. (865-0193; shontz@)
Sivasubramaniam, Anand, professor. Operating systems, computer architecture, databases, mobile computing, performance evaluation. (865-1406; anand@)
