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Allen, James F.
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
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Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning
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Bai, Zhen
Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science, Goergen Institute for Data Science
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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- 3007 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 275-7758
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Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Augmented Reality; Tangible User Interfaces; Embodied Conversational Agent; Technology-Enhanced Learning; Computer-Supported Collaborative Work; Assistive Technology; Machine Learning for HCI
Brown, Christopher M.
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
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Interests: Artificial intelligence; Computer vision; Robotics
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Cetin, Mujdat
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Robin and Tim Wentworth Director, Goergen Institute for Data Science
Director, New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science
- Office Location
- 1211 Wegmans Hall and 719 Computer Studies Building
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- (585) 276-5061
Interests: computational sensing and imaging as applied to radar and biomedical imaging; probabilistic methods for image and video analysis as applied to biomedical image analysis, microscopic neuroimaging, and computer vision; signal processing and machine learning for brain-computer/machine interfaces, with applications for alternative communication and rehabilitation for patients and monitoring of cognitive states
Criswell, John
Associate Professor of Computer Science
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- 3405 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 275-1118
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Interests: Computer Security; Automatic compiler transformations; Secure Virtual Architecture
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Ding, Chen
Professor of Computer Science
Chair, Department of Computer Science
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- 3407 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 275-1373
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Interests: Locality theory and optimization; Compilers and run-time systems to improve locality and parallelism; Memory management; Parallel programming; High-performance computing
Duan, Zhiyao
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science
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- 720 Computer Studies Building
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- (585) 275-5302
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Interests: Computer Audition; Audio Signal Processing; Machine Learning; Music Information Retrieval
Dwarkadas, Sandhya
Visiting Research Professor of Computer Science
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Interests: Parallel and distributed computing; Computer architecture and networks; Interaction and interface between the compiler, runtime system, and underlying architecture; Software distributed shared memory; Integrated compiler and runtime support for parallelism; Simulation methodology; Uniprocessor and multiprocessor architectures; Parallel applications development; Performance evaluation
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Ferguson, George
Professor of Computer Science (Instruction) Co-Director Computer Science Undergraduate Program
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- 2103 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Artificial intelligence; Intelligent agents; Agent communication languages; Agent architectures; User interfaces: speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue, conversational agents; Temporal reasoning: representation, planning, scheduling; Semantic web: ontologies, knowledge-based systems
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Geng, Tong (Tony)
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
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- 723 Computer Studies Building
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- (585) 275-1735
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Interests: Computer architecture; Graph learning; Machine learning; Accelerators for AI; High-performance computing
Ghoshal, Gourab
Professor of Physics
Professor of Computer Science
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- 464 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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- (585) 276-7748
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Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics and data science
Gildea, Daniel
Professor of Computer Science
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- 3019 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 275-7230
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Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing
Guo, Yanan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3403 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Microarchitectural side channels; Software security; Machine learning security; GPU systems and architectures; Memory systems
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Haefner, Ralf
Associate Professor
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- 313 Meliora Hall
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- (585) 276-7453
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Interests: perceptual decision-making; probabilistic inference; selective attention; neural population encoding and decoding; depth perception/processing of binocular disparity
He, Hangfeng
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
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- 3009 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 275-8848
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Interests: Machine learning; Natural language processing; Reasoning
Heinzelman, Wendi
Professor
Dean, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Office Location
- 309 Lattimore Hall
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- (585) 273-3958
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Interests: Wireless sensor networks; Mobile ad hoc networks; Multimedia communication; Heterogeneous networking; Cloud computing
Hemaspaandra, Lane A.
Professor of Computer Science
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- 2317 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Computational social choice (elections, preference aggregation, power indices, etc.); Computational complexity theory (counting-based computation, probabilistic computation, unambiguous computation, the importance of query order when accessing databases, the study of efficient algorithms for complex sets, complexity-theoretic aspects of security, fault-tolerance, and data compression, etc.)
Heyworth, Gregory
Associate Professor of English
Director, Lazarus Project
- Office Location
- 408 Morey Hall
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- (585) 275-2548
Hoque, Ehsan
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3013 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 275-1351
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Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills
Hosseini, Kaave
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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- 2507 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Theoretical computer science; Additive combinatorics; Pseudorandomness; Discrete Fourier analysis
Howard, Thomas M.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 732 Computer Studies Building
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- (585) 275-3755
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction
Huang, Michael
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science
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- 414 Computer Studies Building
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- (585) 275-2111
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Interests: High-performance and energy-efficient computer microarchitecture; non-von Neumann computing; Ising machines
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Jacobs, Robert A.
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science
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- 306 Meliora Hall
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- (585) 275-0753
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Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation
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Kahng, Anson
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
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- 2401 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Computational social choice; Democracy and computer science; Economics and computation; Artificial intelligence; Theoretical computer science; Algorithmic game theory
Kanan, Christopher
Associate Professor of Computer Science
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- 3017 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Deep Learning; Computer Vision; Cognitive Science; Applied Machine Learning (e.g. Medical Computer Vision)
Kang, Jian
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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- 3011 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Data mining; Computational social science; Uncertainty quantification; Algorithmic fairness; Trustworthy AI; Machine learning
Kautz, Henry
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
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Interests: Artificial intelligence; Pervasive computing; Data science
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Liang, Jiaming
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
- Office Location
- 2403 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Optimization; Sampling
Loporcaro, Joseph
Assistant Professor of Digital Media Studies and Computer Science (Instruction)
- Office Location
- 206B Morey Hall
Interests: Video game design, development, theory, and culture; digital media theory and production; mass media and pop culture; technology/media ethics; design thinking, research writing; social media studies; web design and development
Luo, Jiebo
Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3101 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 276-5784
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Interests: Computer Vision; Machine learning; Data Mining; Social Media; Biomedical Informatics; Human Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
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Mateos, Gonzalo
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Asaro Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science
- Office Location
- 726 Computer Studies Building
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- (585) 275-5930
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Interests: Statistical Signal Processing; Networks; Machine Learning; Decentralized Optimization; Graph Signal Processing
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Nargesian, Fatemeh
James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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- 3015 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Data management ; Data science ; Data discovery and integration
Nelson, Randal C.
Professor in Memoriam
Interests: Machine vision and robotics; Object recognition and learning representations at the interface between feature-based and appearance-based approaches; Vision for manipulation and hand-eye coordination; Motion recognition and analysis, and visual navigation
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Pai, Sreepathi
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3409 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 276-2391
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Interests: Compilers; Heterogeneous Architectures; GPU algorithms; Performance Modeling
Pawlicki, Thaddeus E.
Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
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- 2101 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Undergraduate eduction; Robotics; Computer vision; Artificial intelligence
Polak, Monika
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
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- 2201 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Cryptography; Quantum-Resistant Cryptography; Algebraic Graph Theory; Extremal Graph Theory; Pseudorandomness; Coding Theory
Purtee, Adam
Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
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- 2109 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Natural language understanding ; Knowledge representation ; Commonsense reasoning ; Machine Learning ; Numerical programming
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Read-McFarland, Andrew
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- Office Location
- 2105 Wegmans Hall
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Roolfs, Arthur
Adjunct Instructor
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Schubert, Lenhart K.
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3003 Wegmans Hall
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- (585) 275-8845
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Interests: Language and dialogue ; Knowledge representation and inference; Schema learning and schema-based behavior ; Self-motivated agents
Scott, Michael L.
Arthur Gould Yates Professor of Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Former Chair, Department of Computer Science
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- 3401 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Systems software for parallel and distributed computing; Programming languages; Operating systems; Synchronization; Transactional memory; Persistent memory
Sefkow, Adam
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 205 Hopeman
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- (585) 276-4130
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Interests: Inertial confinement fusion; magneto-inertial fusion; high energy density physics; laser-plasma interaction; computational physics; magnetohydrodynamics; particle-in-cell simulations
Seiferas, Joel I.
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
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Interests: Theoretical computer science; Computational complexity; Algorithms; Automata
Sharma, Gaurav
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
- Office Location
- 725 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7313
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Interests: Data Analytics; Cyber Physical Systems; Signal and Image Processing; Computer Vision; Media Security; Communications
Stefankovic, Daniel
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 2315 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Theoretical computer science: graph theory, combinatorics, Fourier transform, Markov chains/counting, learning theory, phylogeny, game theory, graph equations, routing
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Venkitasubramaniam, Muthuramakrishnan
Visiting Research Associate Professor of Computer Science
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Interests: Cryptography; Complexity Theory
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White, Aaron
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Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of FACTS.lab
- Office Location
- 511A Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics
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Xu, Chenliang
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3005 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Computer Vision; Video Analysis; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Multimodal Modeling
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Yan, Yukang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3103 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Human Behavior Modeling; Virtual/Augmented Reality
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Zhu, Yuhao
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3501 Wegmans Hall
- yzhu@rochester.edu
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Interests: Computer Systems and Architecture; Computer Imaging and Graphics; Augmented/Virtual Reality; Human (Visual) Perception and Cognition; Computational Art, Art History, and Aesthetics
Zhupa, Eustrat
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- Office Location
- 2107 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9499
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