Graduate Faculty
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 (CSE), professor and head. Bioinformatics, genomic signal processing, data mining, netcentric computing, information fusion. (865-9505; acharya@)
Barlow, Jesse (CSE), professor. Numerical linear algebra, scientific computing, linear algebra in signal and image processing. (863-1705; barlow@)
Berman, Piotr (CSE), associate professor. Computational complexity, approximation algorithms, theory of distributed systems, computational molecular biology. (865-1611; berman@)
Cai, Guoray, (IST/CSE), associate professor. Geographical information systems, geocollaboration, human-computer interaction, information retrieval, and spoken-dialogue systems. (865-4448; cai@ist.psu.edu)
Cao, Guohong (CSE), professor. Wireless networks, mobile computing, wireless network security, vehicular ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, data access and dissemination. (863-1241; gcao@)
Choi, Kyusun (CSE), 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. (CSE), 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. (CSE/EE), associate professor, director of academic affairs. Digital systems, field programmable gate arrays, microprocessor systems, computer architecture. (865-1265; coraor@)
Das, Chita R. (CSE/EE), 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@)
Fonseca, Frederico Torres, (IST/CSE), associate professor. Ontologies, environment, integration. (863-3450; ffonseca@ist.psu.edu)
Fürer, Martin (CSE), professor. Efficient discrete and algebraic algorithms, approximation algorithms, computational complexity, the graph isomorphism problem. (863-1857; furer@)
Giles, C. Lee (IST/CSE), professor. Intelligent information processing systems, business and economic models for search and search engines, large scale knowledge and information management and extraction, information and data mining, machine learning, digital libraries and web databases, web services and social networks. (865-7884; giles@ist.psu.edu)
Hallgren, Sean (CSE), associate professor. Theoretical computer science, quantum computing. (863-1265; hallgren@)
Hannan, John J. (CSE), associate professor. Programming language semantics and implementation, program analysis and verification, logic and computation, type theory, functional programming. (863-0702; hannan@)
Higgins, William (EE/CSE), 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 (CSE/EE), 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 (CSE), associate professor. Computer security, operating systems, security policies, source code analysis. (865-1042; tjaeger@)
Kandemir, Mahmut (CSE), professor. Optimizing compilers, chip multiprocessing, programming languages, high performance I/O, parallel file systems. (863-4888; kandemir@)
Kesidis, George (CSE/EE), professor. Modeling and performance evaluation of communication/computer networking mechanisms, scheduling and routing, Internet security, network economics and games, machine learning applied to Internet packet traffic, social networks, and biomedical data. (865-9190; kesidis@)
Kifer, Daniel (CSE), assistant professor. Private data analysis, text models, data mining, machine learning. (863-1187; dkifer@)
Kumara, Soundar R.T. (IE/CSE), professor. Intelligent systems, sensor data fusion, process data monitoring and diagnostics, Applied Chaos Theory, logistics. (863-2359; skumara@psu.edu)
La Porta, Thomas F. (CSE/EE), 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/CSE), associate professor. Conventional database research agendas, XML data model and schema/query languages, web search, web services and semantic web, metadata, information retrieval, digital library, citation analysis, bibliometrics. (865-0687; dongwon@psu.edu)
Lee, Wang-Chien (CSE), 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, (STAT/CSE), professor. Data mining, statistical learning, stochastic modeling, image annotation, image retrieval, computational biology, data compression. (863-3074; jiali@stat.psu.edu)
Liu, Peng, (IST/CSE), professor. Survivable systems, systems security, data and application security, network security, privacy, cloud computing, cyber infrastructures, electronic health. (863-0641; pliu@ist.psu.edu)
Liu, Yanxi (CSE/EE), associate professor. Computational regularity, group theory and applications, machine learning (particularly discriminative subspace learning from multimedia data), computer-aided diagnosis, computer vision and computer graphics (textures, urban scenes, dance, taiji), biomedical image analysis/indexing/retrieval, robotics. (865-7495; yanxi@)
Madduri, Kamesh (CSE), assistant professor. Combinatorial scientific computing; scalable scientific data analysis and management; parallel graph algorithms, with applications to computational biology and social network analysis. (865-0883)
McDaniel, Patrick D. (CSE), professor. Systems and network security, security policy, networking, distributed systems, public policy, network management, applied cryptography, privacy. (863-3599; mcdaniel@)
Medvedev, Paul (CSE/BMB), assistant professor. Computational genomics, cancer genomics, theoretical computer science, algorithm design and analysis, graph theory. (865-0193; pashadag@)
Metzner, John J. (EE/CSE), 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., (BIOL/CSE), professor. Algorithms and software for molecular biology. (865-4551; webb@bio.cse.psu.edu)
Mitra, Prasenjit, (IST/CSE), associate professor. Database systems, digital libraries, visual analytics, data mining, semantic web, information retrieval. (865-4454; pmitra@ist.psu.edu)
Narayanan, Vijaykrishnan (CSE/EE), professor. Reconfigurable and embedded systems, brain-inspired architectures, ultra-low power devices and systems, computer architecture. (863-0392; vijay@)
Raghavan, Padma (CSE/IST), distinguished professor. Scientific computing, parallel sparse computations, energy-aware high-performance computing, computational modeling and simulation. (865-9233; raghavan@)
Raskhodnikova, Sofya (CSE), associate professor. Sublinear time algorithms, randomized and approximation algorithms, computational complexity, private data analysis. (863-0608; sofya@)
Ritter, Frank E., (IST/CSE), professor. Cognitive modeling, cognitive architectures, human-computer interaction, learning. (865-4453; ritter@ist.psu.edu)
Sivasubramaniam, Anand (CSE), professor. Operating systems, computer architecture, databases, mobile computing, performance evaluation. (865-1406; anand@)
