Faculty
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Allen, James F.
- Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning
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Bai, Zhen
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3007 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7758
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Artificial intelligence; Computer vision; Robotics
C
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
- Telephone
- (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
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Criswell, John
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3405 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1118
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computer Security; Automatic compiler transformations; Secure Virtual Architecture
D
Ding, Chen
- Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3407 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1373
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Office Location
- 720 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5302
- Fax
- (585) 27-5207
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computer Audition; Audio Signal Processing; Machine Learning; Music Information Retrieval
Dwarkadas, Sandhya
- Visiting Research Professor of Computer Science
- Web Address
- Website
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
F
Ferguson, George
- Professor of Computer Science (Instruction) Co-Director Computer Science Undergraduate Program
- Office Location
- 2103 Wegmans Hall
- Fax
- (585) 273-4556
- Web Address
- Website
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
G
Geng, Tong (Tony)
- Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
- Office Location
- 723 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1735
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computer architecture; Graph learning; Machine learning; Accelerators for AI; High-performance computing
Ghoshal, Gourab
- Professor of Physics
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 464 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7748
- Fax
- (585) 273-3237
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics and data science
- Professor of Physics
Gildea, Daniel
- Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3019 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7230
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing
H
Haefner, Ralf
- Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 313 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7453
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Office Location
- 3009 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8848
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Machine learning; Natural language processing; Reasoning
Heinzelman, Wendi
- Professor
- Dean, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Office Location
- 309 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3958
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Wireless sensor networks; Mobile ad hoc networks; Multimedia communication; Heterogeneous networking; Cloud computing
Hemaspaandra, Lane A.
- Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 2317 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2548
Hoque, Ehsan
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3013 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1351
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills
Hosseini, Kaave
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 2507 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3755
- Fax
- (585) 273-4919
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction
Huang, Michael
he/him/his
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 414 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2111
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: High-performance and energy-efficient computer microarchitecture; non-von Neumann computing; Ising machines
J
Jacobs, Robert A.
- Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 306 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0753
- Fax
- (585) 442-9216
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation
K
Kahng, Anson
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
- Office Location
- 2401 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Office Location
- 3017 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Deep Learning; Computer Vision; Cognitive Science; Applied Machine Learning (e.g. Medical Computer Vision)
Kang, Jian
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3011 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Data mining; Computational social science; Uncertainty quantification; Algorithmic fairness; Trustworthy AI; Machine learning
Kautz, Henry
- Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5784
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computer Vision; Machine learning; Data Mining; Social Media; Biomedical Informatics; Human Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
- Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering
M
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
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5930
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Statistical Signal Processing; Networks; Machine Learning; Decentralized Optimization; Graph Signal Processing
- Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Nargesian, Fatemeh
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3015 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Data management ; Data science ; Data discovery and integration
Narváez, David
- Postdoctoral Associate
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
P
Pai, Sreepathi
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3409 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-2391
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Compilers; Heterogeneous Architectures; GPU algorithms; Performance Modeling
Pawlicki, Thaddeus E.
- Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- Office Location
- 2101 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Undergraduate eduction; Robotics; Computer vision; Artificial intelligence
Polak, Monika
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- Office Location
- 2201 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Cryptography; Quantum-Resistant Cryptography; Algebraic Graph Theory; Extremal Graph Theory; Pseudorandomness; Coding Theory
Purtee, Adam
- Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- Office Location
- 2109 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Natural language understanding ; Knowledge representation ; Commonsense reasoning ; Machine Learning ; Numerical programming
R
Read-McFarland, Andrew
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- Office Location
- 2105 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Roolfs, Arthur
- Adjunct Instructor
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Schubert, Lenhart K.
- Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3003 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8845
- Web Address
- Website
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 - Chair, Department of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3401 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Systems software for parallel and distributed computing; Programming languages; Operating systems; Synchronization; Transactional memory; Persistent memory
- Arthur Gould Yates Professor of Engineering
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
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4130
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Inertial confinement fusion; magneto-inertial fusion; high energy density physics; laser-plasma interaction; computational physics; magnetohydrodynamics; particle-in-cell simulations
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Seiferas, Joel I.
- Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Data Analytics; Cyber Physical Systems; Signal and Image Processing; Computer Vision; Media Security; Communications
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stefankovic, Daniel
- Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 2315 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Theoretical computer science: graph theory, combinatorics, Fourier transform, Markov chains/counting, learning theory, phylogeny, game theory, graph equations, routing
V
Venkitasubramaniam, Muthuramakrishnan
- Visiting Research Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Cryptography; Complexity Theory
W
White, Aaron
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Linguistics
- Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics
Director of FACTS.lab
- Office Location
- 511A Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics
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Xu, Chenliang
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3005 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computer Vision; Video Analysis; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Multimodal Modeling
Y
Yan, Yukang
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 2505 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Human Behavior Modeling; Virtual/Augmented Reality
Z
Zhu, Yuhao
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3501 Wegmans Hall
- yzhu@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Augmented/Virtual Reality; Human Perception and Cognition; Computational Photography/Imaging; Computational Heritage/Humanities; Computer architecture
Zhupa, Eustrat
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- Office Location
- 2107 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9499
- Web Address
- Website