People
Core Faculty
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Bai, Zhen
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- zbai@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7747
- 3007 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Augmented Reality; Tangible User Interfaces; Embodied Conversational Agent; Technology-Enhanced Learning; Computer-Supported Collaborative Work; Assistive Technology
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

Dwarkadas, Sandhya
- Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 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
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Ferguson, George
- Associate Professor (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 | (585) 275-7230
- 3019 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing
H

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

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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

Kautz, Henry
- Professor of Computer Science
- Division Director for Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) at the National Science Foundation
Founding director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science
Interests: Artificial intelligence; Pervasive computing; Data science
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Luo, Jiebo
- 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
Interests: Data management ; Data science ; Data discovery and integration
P

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

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

Purtee, Adam
- Instructor
- apurtee@cs.rochester.edu
- 2109 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Natural language understanding ; Knowledge representation ; Commonsense reasoning ; Machine Learning ; Numerical programming
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Schubert, Lenhart K.
- Professor of Computer Science
- schubert@cs.rochester.edu
- 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 and Chair of Computer Science
- scott@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7745
- 3401 WH
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
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Xu, Chenliang
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- chenliang.xu@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5426
- 3005 Wegmans
Interests: Computer Vision; Video Analysis; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Multimodal Modeling
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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
