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  • Zhen Bai

    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

  • Christopher M. Brown

    Brown, Christopher M.

    Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
    Web Address
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    Interests: Artificial intelligence; Computer vision; Robotics

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  • Mujdat Cetin

    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

  • John Criswell

    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

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  • Chen Ding

    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

  • Zhiyao Duan

    Duan, Zhiyao

    Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science
    Office Location
    720 Computer Studies Building
    Telephone
    (585) 275-5302
    Web Address
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    Interests: Computer Audition; Audio Signal Processing; Machine Learning; Music Information Retrieval

  • Sandhya Dwarkadas

    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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  • George Ferguson

    Ferguson, George

    Professor of Computer Science (Instruction) Co-Director Computer Science Undergraduate Program
    Office Location
    2103 Wegmans Hall
    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

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  • Tony Geng

    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

  • Gourab Ghoshal

    Ghoshal, Gourab

    Professor of Physics
    Associate Professor of Computer Science
    Office Location
    464 Bausch & Lomb Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 276-7748
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics and data science

  • Daniel Gildea

    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

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  • Ralf Haefner

    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

  • Hangfeng He

    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

  • Wendi Heinzelman

    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

  • Lane A. Hemaspaandra

    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.)

  • Gregory Heyworth

    Heyworth, Gregory

    Associate Professor of English
    Director, Lazarus Project
    Office Location
    408 Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-2548
  • Ehsan Hoque

    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

  • Kaave Hosseini

    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

  • Thomas M. Howard

    Howard, Thomas M.

    Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Office Location
    732 Computer Studies Building
    Telephone
    (585) 275-3755

    Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction

  • Michael Huang

    Huang, Michael

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    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

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  • Robert Jacobs

    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
    Web Address
    Website

    Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation

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  • Anson Kahng

    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

  • Christopher Kanan

    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)

  • Jian Kang

    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

  • Henry Kautz

    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

  • Joseph Loporcaro

    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

  • Jiebo Luo

    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

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  • Gonzalo Mateos

    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

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  • Fatemeh Nargesian

    Nargesian, Fatemeh

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science
    Office Location
    3015 Wegmans Hall
    Web Address
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    Interests: Data management ; Data science ; Data discovery and integration

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    Nelson, Randal C.

    Professor in Memoriam
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    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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  • Sreepathi Pai

    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

  • Thaddeus E. Pawlicki

    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

  • Monika Polak

    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

  • Adam Purtee

    Purtee, Adam

    Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
    Office Location
    2109 Wegmans Hall
    Web Address
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    Interests: Natural language understanding ; Knowledge representation ; Commonsense reasoning ; Machine Learning ; Numerical programming

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  • Lenhart K. Schubert

    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

  • Michael L. Scott

    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

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    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

  • Joel I. Seiferas

    Seiferas, Joel I.

    Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
    Web Address
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    Interests: Theoretical computer science; Computational complexity; Algorithms; Automata

  • Gaurav Sharma

    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

  • Daniel Stefankovic

    Stefankovic, Daniel

    Professor of Computer Science
    Office Location
    2315 Wegmans Hall
    Web Address
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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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    White, Aaron

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    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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  • Yukang Yan

    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

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