Faculty
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Allen, James F.
- Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning
B

Bai, Zhen
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- zbai@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7758
- 3007 Wegmans Hall
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
- brown@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7852
- 3303 Wegmans Hall
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
- mujdat.cetin@rochester.edu | (585) 276-5061
- 1211 Wegmans Hall and 719 Computer Studies Building
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
- criswell@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1118
- 3405 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Computer Security; Automatic compiler transformations; Secure Virtual Architecture
D

Ding, Chen
- Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science
- chen.ding@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1373
- 3407 Wegmans Hall
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
- zhiyao.duan@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5302
- 720 Computer Studies Building
Interests: Computer Audition; Audio Signal Processing; Machine Learning; Music Information Retrieval

Dwarkadas, Sandhya
- Visiting Research Professor of Computer Science
- sandhya@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5647
- 3403 Wegmans Hall
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
- ferguson@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5766
- 2103 Wegmans Hall
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
- tong.geng@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1735
- 723 Computer Studies Building
Interests: Computer architecture; Graph learning; Machine learning; Accelerators for AI; High-performance computing

Ghoshal, Gourab
- Professor of Physics and Associate Professor of Computer Science
- gghoshal@pas.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7748
- 464 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics and data science

Gildea, Daniel
- Professor of Computer Science
- gildea@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7852
- 3019 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing
H

Haefner, Ralf
- Associate Professor
- rhaefne2@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7453
- 313 Meliora Hall
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
- hhe15@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8848
- 3009 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Machine learning; Natural language processing; Reasoning

Heinzelman, Wendi
- Professor
- Dean, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- wendi.heinzelman@rochester.edu | (585) 273-3958
- 309 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Wireless sensor networks; Mobile ad hoc networks; Multimedia communication; Heterogeneous networking; Cloud computing

Hemaspaandra, Lane A.
- Professor of Computer Science
- lane "at" cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1203
- 2317 Wegmans Hall
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
- gregory.heyworth@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2548
- 408 Morey Hall

Hoque, Ehsan
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
- mehoque@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1351
- 3013 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills

Hosseini, Kaave
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- shossei2@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7968
- 2507 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Theoretical computer science; Additive combinatorics; Pseudorandomness; Discrete Fourier analysis

Howard, Thomas M.
- Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- thoward@ece.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3755
- 732 Computer Studies Building
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction

Huang, Michael
he/him/his
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science
- michael.huang@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2111
- 414 Computer Studies Building
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
- Rjacobs@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0753
- 306 Meliora Hall
Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation
K

Kahng, Anson
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
- akahng2@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1328
- 2401 Wegmans Hall
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
- ckanan@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1355
- 3017 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Deep Learning; Computer Vision; Cognitive Science; Applied Machine Learning (e.g. Medical Computer Vision)

Kang, Jian
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- jian.kang@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7263
- 3011 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Data mining; Computational social science; Uncertainty quantification; Algorithmic fairness; Trustworthy AI; Machine learning

Kautz, Henry
- Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Interests: Artificial intelligence; Pervasive computing; Data science
L

Liang, Jiaming
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
- jliang31@cs.rochester.edu
- 2403 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Optimization; Sampling

Loporcaro, Joseph
- Assistant Professor of Digital Media Studies and Computer Science (Instruction)
- j.loporcaro@rochester.edu
- 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
- jluo@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 276-5784
- 3101 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Computer Vision; Machine learning; Data Mining; Social Media; Biomedical Informatics; Human Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
M

Mateos, Gonzalo
- Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Asaro Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science
- gmateosb@ece.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5930
- 726 Computer Studies Building
Interests: Statistical Signal Processing; Networks; Machine Learning; Decentralized Optimization; Graph Signal Processing
N

Nargesian, Fatemeh
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- f.nargesian@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5638
- 3015 Wegmans Hall
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
P

Pai, Sreepathi
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- sree@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 276-2391
- 3409 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Compilers; Heterogeneous Architectures; GPU algorithms; Performance Modeling

Pawlicki, Thaddeus E.
- Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- pawlicki@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4198
- 2101 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Undergraduate eduction; Robotics; Computer vision; Artificial intelligence

Polak, Monika
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- mpolak@cs.rochester.edu
- 2201 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Cryptography; Quantum-Resistant Cryptography; Algebraic Graph Theory; Extremal Graph Theory; Pseudorandomness; Coding Theory

Purtee, Adam
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- apurtee@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5414
- 2109 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Natural language understanding ; Knowledge representation ; Commonsense reasoning ; Machine Learning ; Numerical programming
R

Read-McFarland, Andrew
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- areadmcf@cs.rochester.edu
- 2105 Wegmans Hall

S

Schubert, Lenhart K.
- Professor of Computer Science
- schubert@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8845
- 3003 Wegmans Hall
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
- scott@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7745
- 3401 Wegmans Hall
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)
- asef@lle.rochester.edu | (585) 276-4130
- 205 Hopeman
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
- joel@cs.rochester.edu
- 3303 Wegmans Hall
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
- gaurav.sharma@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7313
- 725 Computer Studies Building
Interests: Data Analytics; Cyber Physical Systems; Signal and Image Processing; Computer Vision; Media Security; Communications

Stefankovic, Daniel
- Professor of Computer Science
- daniel.stefankovic@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5492
- 2315 Wegmans Hall
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
- muthuv@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7968
- 2313 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Cryptography; Complexity Theory
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White, Aaron
he/him/his
- Associate Professor of Linguistics
- Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics
Director of FACTS.lab
- aaron.white@rochester.edu
- 511A Lattimore Hall
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics
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Xu, Chenliang
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
- chenliang.xu@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5426
- 3005 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Computer Vision; Video Analysis; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Multimodal Modeling
Y

Yan, Yukang
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- yyan37@cs.rochester.edu
- 2505 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Human Behavior Modeling; Virtual/Augmented Reality
Z

Zhu, Yuhao
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- yzhu@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1192
- 3501 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Computer architecture; Augmented/Virtual Reality; Autonomous Machines; Visualization; Cultural Heritage Conservation

Zhupa, Eustrat
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- ezhupa@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9499
- 2107 Wegmans Hall