People | Faculty

James Allen
Professor
585 275 7263
CSB721
Natural language understanding, discourse, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning, and planning.
Jeffrey Bigham
585 275 5671
CSB720
Human Computer Interaction, Access Technology, Human Computation, Social Media, Intelligent User Interfaces, Web Accessibility
Chris Brown
Professor
585 275-7852
CSB609
Artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning.
Chen Ding
Professor
585 275 1373
CSB710
Computer programming, locality optimization, memory hierarchy management, suggestion-based program parallelization and optimization.
Sandhya Dwarkadas
Professor
585 275 5647
CSB717
Parallel and distributed computing, computer architecture, and networks, and in the 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, and performance evaluation.
George Ferguson
Research Scientist
585 275 5766
CSB731
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.
Daniel Gildea
585 275 7230
gildea@cs
CSB730
Statistical approaches to natural language processing, machine translation, and language understanding.
Philip Guo
pg@cs
http://www.pgbovine.net/
Human Computer Interaction, Online Education, Software Engineering
Lane A. Hemaspaandra
Professor
CSB618
Computational social choice (elections, preference aggregation, power indices, etc.), counting-based computation, probabilistic computation, unambiguous computation, the importance of query order when accessing databases, the study of efficient algorithms for complex sets, computational complexity theory, and complexity-theoretic aspects of security, fault-tolerance, and data compression.
M. Ehsan Hoque
Human nonverbal behaviors, multimodal interaction,  applications of machine learning to gain further insights into human communication, and inventing new applications of emotion technology focusing on health and assistive technology. 
Engin Ipek
585 275 5671
CSB711
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~ipek
Computer architecture, with an emphasis on multicore architectures, hardware-software interaction, and the application of machine learning to computer systems.
Henry Kautz
585 275 3772
CSB708
Affiliate Professor, University of Washington
Artificial intelligence, assistive technology, statistical-relational reasoning, logic and satisfiability testing, language and social networks.
Jiebo Luo
(585)2765784
CSB 611
IEEE, ACM, SPIE, IAPR
Computer Vision, Machine learning, Data Mining, Social Media, Biomedical Informatics, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
Randal Nelson
585 275 8848
CSB719
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.
Chris Pal
Adjunct Professor
Polytechnique Montréal
Image processing, computer vision.
Ted Pawlicki
585 275 4198
CSB722
Undergraduate eduction, robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence.
Len Schubert
Professor
CSB733
Center for Language Sciences
Language, knowledge representation, inference, and planning.
Michael Scott
Professor
585 275 7745
CSB715
Systems software for parallel and distributed computing, programming languages, operating systems, synchronization, transactional memory.
Joel Seiferas
Professor
585 275 7898
CSB622
Theoretical computer science, computational complexity, algorithms, automata.
Kai Shen
585 275 5426
CSB714
Operating systems, distributed systems, and parallel computing.
Daniel Štefankovič
585 275 5492
CSB620
Theoretical Computer Science: graph theory, combinatorics, Fourier transform, Markov chains/counting, learning theory, phylogeny, game theory, graph equations, routing.
Mary Swift
Research Scientist
585 275 5288
CSB732
Natural language processing, linguistics.
Muthu Venkitasubramaniam