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  Graduate School–New Brunswick 2010–2012 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Computer Science 198  

Computer Science 198

Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor William Steiger, Hill 417, Busch Campus
(732-445-2001, ext. 2083)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Eric Allender, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Complexity theory; parallel and probabilistic computation

Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Computer architecture; high-performance domains to large-scale data centers

Ricardo Bianchini, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Rochester
Parallel and distributed systems; operating systems and architecture

Alexander Borgida, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Toronto
Artificial intelligence in the design of information systems

Kristen Dana, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Columbia
Computer vision; computer graphics; surface modeling; texture analysis

Douglas DeCarlo, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Computer graphics; computer vision; human-computer interaction

Ahmed Elgammal, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Maryland
Computer vision; multimedia

Tina Eliassi-Rad, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Network science; data mining; knowledge discovery

Martin Farach-Colton, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; M.D., Johns Hopkins; Ph.D., Maryland
Computational biology; design and analysis of algorithms

Michael L. Fredman, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Data structures and algorithms; computational complexity

Vinod Ganapathy, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Computer system security and reliability                   

Apostolos Gerasoulis, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Parallel processing; algorithms; numerical analysis

Michael D. Grigoriadis, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Mathematical programming; algorithms; structured and network optimization

Marco O. Gruteser, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Colorado
Mobile computing; sensor networks; privacy and security

Haym Hirsh, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Artificial intelligence; machine learning

Liviu Iftode, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Distributed and parallel systems; operating systems; mobile computing

Tomasz Imielinski, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences
Mobile wireless computing; data mining

Jeffry Kahn, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Ohio State
Combinatorics

Bahman Kalantari, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Mathematical programming; matrix scaling; duality theory; approximation algorithms; approximation of s; polynomial root-finding

Paul Kantor, Professor of Communication, Information and Library Studies, SCILS; Ph.D., Princeton
Informational retrieval

Janos Komlos, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Eötvös Lorand (Hungary)
Combinatorics; probability; theoretical computer science

Ulrich Kremer, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Rice
Compilers for parallel machines; compiler-directed power and energy management

Casimir Kulikowski, Board of Governors Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Hawaii
Artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; imaging; biomedical applications

Michael Littman, Chair and Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
Machine learning; planning; artificial intelligence

Amelie Marian, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Databases; query processing; XML query optimization; XML

Richard Martin, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
High-performance network design and evaluation; parallel architecture and languages; high throughput I/O systems

L. Thorne McCarty, Professor of Computer Science and Law, SAS/SL-N; J.D., Harvard
Artificial intelligence; knowledge representation; logic programming; legal reasoning

Peter Meer, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; D.Sc., Technion (Israel)
Computer vision; image processing; pattern recognition

Dimitris Metaxas, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Toronto
Physics-based modeling; computer graphics and animation; computational vision; medical imaging

Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Syracuse
Visual pattern recognition; neural networks; neural computing

Naftaly H. Minsky, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Hebrew (Israel)
Distributed computing; electronic commerce; security; software engineering

S. Muthukrishnan, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Algorithm design; databases; data compression; computational biology

Mor Naaman, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SCILS; Ph.D., Stanford
Human-centered approaches to the study of social media and mobile information systems

Badri Nath, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Mobile wireless computing; network services; sensor networks

Andrew Nealen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Technische Universität Berlin
Computer graphics and geometric modeling

Thu Nguyen, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Washington
Pervasive, highly available, and secure distributed computing; networking

Manish Parashar, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Syracuse
Parallel and distributed computing; software engineering

Vladimir Pavlovic, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Illinois
Bioinformatics; machine learning; neural computation; computer vision

Michael Pazzani, Professor of Computer Science, SAS, and Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Machine learning and artificial intelligence

Gerard R. Richter, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Numerical solutions of differential and integral equations

Fred S. Roberts, Professor of Mathematics, SAS, and Director of DIMACS; Ph.D., Stanford
Discrete mathematical models; graph theory; decision making; measurement theory

Michael Saks, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Combinatorics; complexity theory; algorithms

Alexander Schliep, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Cologne (Germany)
Bioinformatics and machine learning; gene regulation

Chung-chieh Shan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Linguistics; programming languages; randomized algorithms 

Eduardo Sontag, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Florida                         
Nonlinear control; neural networks

William L. Steiger, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Australian National
Algorithms; discrete and computational geometry; probability

Louis Steinberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Artificial intelligence; knowledge-based design; VLSI; machine learning

Matthew Stone, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Natural language generation; conversational dialogue agents; knowledge representation and logic programming

Mario Szegedy, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Complexity theory; PCP theory, combinatorics, geometry, algebra

Endre Szemerédi, State of New Jersey Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Sc.D., Moscow
Number theory; extremal graphs; theoretical computer science

Wade Trappe, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Maryland
Communications and networking; network security and cryptography

Robert Vichnevetsky, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Brussels

Rebecca Wright, Professor of Computer Science, SAS, Director, DIMACS; Ph.D., Yale
Security; privacy; cryptography; fault-tolerant distributed computing

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Charles L. Hedrick, Director, New Brunswick Computing Services; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
Networking; distributed computing environments

Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Wireless systems and pervasive computing

Donald E. Smith, Associate Research Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Object-oriented languages; AI for design optimization; intelligent tutoring systems

 
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