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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.

Graduate Faculty (Advisors)
 
*Email extension is @cse.psu.edu unless otherwise noted
 

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@)

Smith, Adam D., assistant professor.  Cryptography, database privacy, information theory, quantum computing.  (863-0076; asmith@)
 
Urgaonkar, Bhuvan, assistant professor.  Distributed systems, operating systems, computer networks.  (865-9506; bhuvan@)
 
Wang, James Z., (IST), associate professor.  Visual database search and retrieval, biomedical informatics, computer vision, art, multimedia.  (865-7889; wang@ist.psu.edu)
 
Xie, Yuan, associate professor.  VLSI design, computer architecture, electronics design automation, embedded system design.  (865-4551; yuanxie@)
 
Yen, John, (IST), University Professor.  Intelligent agents, artificial intelligence, soft computing, bioinformatics.  (865-6174; jyen@ist.psu.edu)
 
Zhu, Sencun, assistant professor.  Network and system security, software security, wireless security, Internet privacy.  (865-0995; szhu@)
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