Core Faculty
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
C

Criswell, John
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
- criswell@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1118
- 3405 Wegmans Hall
D

Ding, Chen
- Professor 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
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

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

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

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.)

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
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)
L

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
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
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

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

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
X

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
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