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Faculty organized: Alphabetically, Research Areas, Major Awards

Professors

Ashok Agrawala
Professor, CS, UMIACS and ECE
Director, Mind Laboratory
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1970
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~agrawala/
Honors: AAAS, IEEE Fellow
Interests: Design and evaluation of systems, real time systems, networks, Wireless systems, System Integration, Information Dynamics, Location Determination, Synchronization
 
Yiannis Aloimonos
Professor, CS, CfAR, and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1987
Website: http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~yiannis/
Interests: Artificial intelligence, vision, robotics, learning, neuro-informatics
 
Bobby Bhattacharjee
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Affiliate Professor, ECE
Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1999
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bobby/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Sloan Research Fellowship
Interests: Wide-area Networking, Network Protocol Design, Distributed Systems and Algorithms, Operating Systems
 
Rance Cleaveland
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Executive and Scientific Director, Fraunhofer Maryland
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rance/
Honors: ONR Young Investigator Award
Interests: Formal methods, model checking, software testing, software verification and validation.
 
Larry Davis
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1976
Website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~lsd/
Honors: IAPR, IEEE Fellow
Interests: Computer vision, artificial intelligence, high performance computing
 
Leila DeFloriani
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., Universita Delgi Studie de Peruguia, 1977
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~deflo/
Honors: IAPR Fellow
Interests: Geometric and solid modeling, computer graphics, geospatial data processing, scientific visualization
 
Bonnie Dorr
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Affiliate Professor, Linguistics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990
Website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~bonnie/
Honors: NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF)
Sloan Research Fellowship
Univ Maryland Distinguished Young Scientist
Interests: Computational linguistics, machine translation, lexical acquisition
 
Howard Elman
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., Yale University, 1982
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~elman/
Interests: Numerical analysis, scientific computing, numerical linear algebra, numerical PDEs, finite element methods.
 
Bill Gasarch
Professor, CS, and UMIACS
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1985
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/
Interests: Complexity Theory, Concrete Complexity Theory, Combinatorics.
 
Jeff Hollingsworth
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Affiliate Professor, ECE
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1994
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Interests: Environments for parallel programming including performance monitoring and debugging, operating systems, computer networks, distributed systems
 
Samir Khuller
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~samir/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Univ Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Interests: Algorithm design, graph theory, parallel computation, combinatorial optimization
 
Dave Mount
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1983
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/
Interests: Algorithm design, computational geometry
 
Dana Nau
Professor, CS, and ISR
Affiliate Professor, UMIACS and ME
Ph.D., Duke University, 1979
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/
Honors: AAAI Fellow
Interests: AI planning and search techniques, computer-integrated design and manufacturing
 
Dianne O'Leary
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1976
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~oleary/
Honors: ACM Fellow
CMPS Board of Visitors Distinguished Faculty Award
Interests: Numerical analysis, scientific computing, parallel numeric algorithms
 
Don Perlis
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D. (Math), New York University, 1972
Ph.D. (CS), University of Rochester, 1981
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~perlis/
Interests: Artificial intelligence, formal commonsense reasoning, cognitive modeling
 
Adam Porter
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of California at Irvine, 1991
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~aporter/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Interests: Software engineering, software environments, empirically based software analysis methods, software metrics
 
Jim Reggia
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Research Professor, Neurology
M.D., University of Maryland, 1975
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1981
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~reggia/
Interests: Neural computation, artificial life, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence
 
Nick Roussopoulos
Professor, CS, UMIACS and ISR
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1997
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nick/
Honors: ACM Fellow
Interests: Database systems, client server database architecures, interoperable databases, adaptive buffer management and query optimization, network management, database design methodologies, active databases
 
Hanan Samet
Professor, CS, CfAR, and UMIACS
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hjs/
Honors: ACM, IAPR, IEEE Fellow
Interests: Data structures, image processing, computer graphics, databases, geographic information systems, computer vision
 
A. Udaya Shankar
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1982
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~shankar/
Interests: Protocol specification and verification, distributed programs, network routing, queueing
 
Ben Shneiderman
Professor, CS, and UMIACS
Founding director, HCIL
Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1973
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/
Honors: AAAS, ACM Fellow
National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering Member
CMPS Board of Visitors Distinguished Faculty Award
Interests: Human-computer interaction, user interface design, information visualization
 
Aravind Srinivasan
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1993
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~srin/
Honors: IEEE Fellow
Interests: Algorithms, Randomized Computation, and Combinatorial Optimization; Networking and Distributed Algorithms; Social Networks and Epidemiology.
 
G.W. (Pete) Stewart
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1968
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~stewart/
Honors: National Academy of Engineering Member
Univ Maryland Distinguished University Professor
Interests: Numerical linear algebra, parallel computing, perturbation theory, statistical computations
 
VS Subrahmanian
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1989
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~vs/
Honors: AAAI, AAAS Fellow
Interests: Opinion mining from text, ontology management and extraction from text, heterogeneous/multimedia/probabilistic databases, data and software interoperability, reasoning about cultures.
 
Alan Sussman
Professor, CS
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1991
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~als/
Interests: Compilers and runtime systems for Grid and parallel computing, high performance database systems, medical informatics, software component technologies, object-oriented programming systems, parallel and distributed scientific applications.
 
Amitabh Varshney
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Director, UMIACS
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~varshney/
Honors: NSF Career Award
IEEE Fellow
Interests: Scientific visualization, interactive computer graphics, visual informatics, molecular graphics, geometric algorithms
 

Associate Professors

 
Ben Bederson
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., New York University, 1992
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson
Honors: ACM CHI Academy
ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award
ACM Distinguished Scientist
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction
 
Amol Deshpande
Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of California at Berkely, 2004
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~amol/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Interests: Database systems, Sensor networks, Probabilistic modeling.
 
Ramani Duraiswami
Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS
Director, PIRL
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1991
Website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/ramani/
Interests: Perceptual User Interfaces, Spatial Audio, Scientific Computing, Fast Multipole Methods, Computer Vision
 
Jeff Foster
Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2002
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jfoster/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Interests: Programming languages, software engineering, program analysis, type systems
 
Lise Getoor
Associate Professor, CS
Ph.D., Stanford, 2001
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~getoor/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Interests: Machine learning, reasoning under uncertainty, artificial intelligence, databases, link mining, and social network analysis.
 
Mohammad Hajiaghayi
Associate Professor CS
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hajiagha/
Honors: Google Faculty Research, NSF Career, ONR Young Investigator Award
Interests: Design and Analysis of Algorithm, Auction Design and Algorithmic Game Theory, Algorithmic Graph Theory, Approximation Algorithms, Fixed-Parameter Tractable Algorithms, Networking and Wireless Network Design, Embeddings and Its Algorithmic Aspect, Random Structures and Algorithms
 
Michael Hicks
Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS
Affiliate Associate Professor, ECE
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2001
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mwh/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Interests: Programming language design and implementation, Security, Adaptive and Reconfigurable Architectures, Networked and Distributed Systems.
 
David Jacobs
Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~djacobs/
Interests: Computer and human vision, and its relations to memory, learning and computer graphics
 
Jonathan Katz
Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2002
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Interests: Cryptography, Computer and Network Security, and Theoretical Computer Science
 
Pete Keleher
Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS
Affiliate Professor, ECE
Ph.D., Rice University, 1995
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~keleher/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Interests: Distributed file systems, peer-to-peer systems and operating systems.
 
Clyde Kruskal
Associate Professor, CS
Ph.D., New York University, 1981
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~kruskal/
Interests: Parallel architectures, models, and algorithms
 
Atif Memon
Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2001
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~atif/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Interests: Software Testing, User Interface Testing, Planning
 
Mihai Pop
Associate Professor, CS, CBCB and UMIACS
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2000
Website: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/~mpop/
Interests: Bioinformatics, genomics, computational geometry, and computer graphics
 
Jim Purtilo
Associate Professor, CS
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana, 1986
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~purtilo/
Interests: Software engineering, distributed computing, applied languages, operating systems
 
Neil Spring
Associate Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2004
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nspring/
Interests: Networks and operating systems
 
Chau-Wen Tseng
Associate Professor, CS
Ph.D., Rice University, 1993
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~tseng/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Interests: Computational biology, bioinformatics, high performance computing, programming languages and compilers.
 

Assistant Professors

Hector Corrada Bravo
Assistant Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D, University of Wisconsin, 2008
Website: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/~hcorrada/
Interests: Computational Genomics, Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Computational Statistics, Numerical Optimization
 
Hal Daumé III
Assistant Professor, CS and UMIACS
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Ph.D, University of Southern California, 2006
Website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal/
Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning, Bayesian statistics, computational linguistics
 
Jon Froehlich
Assistant Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D, University of Washington, 2011
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jonf/
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Persuasive Design, Sustainability, Quantified Self/Personal Informatics, Health and wellness
 
Elaine Shi
Assistant Professor, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2008
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~elaine
 

Professors Emeriti

William Arbaugh
Associate Professor Emeritus, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/
Interests: Information System Security, Embedded Systems, Operating Systems, and Networking
 
Vic Basili
Professor Emeritus, CS and UMIACS
Research Professor CS
Former Executive Director, Fraunhofer Maryland
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1970
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~basili/
Honors: ACM, IEEE Fellow
Interests: Software engineering, empirical studies, model building
 
Laveen Kanal
Professor Emeritus, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1960
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~kanal/
Honors: IAPR King-Sun Fu Award
AAAI, AAAS, IAPR, IEEE Fellow
Interests: Machine intelligence, search, pattern recognition, computer vision, artificial neural systems
 
Raymond Miller
Professor Emeritus, CS
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1957
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~miller/
Honors: AAAS, ACM, CSAB, IEEE Fellow
Interests: Communication protocols, networks, distributed systems, parallel computation, theory
 
Jack Minker
Professor Emeritus, CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1959
Website: http://prism.cs.umd.edu/people/minker.html
Honors: The Allen Newell Award
AAAI, AAAS, ACM, IEEE Fellow
Univ Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Univ Maryland Presidential Medal
Interests: Artificial intelligence, Deductive databases, logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning
 
Bill Pugh
Professor Emeritus CS and UMIACS
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1988
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/
Honors: Packard Fellow
Interests: Supercomputer compilers, programming languages, practical algorithms
 

Research Professors

Marv Zelkowitz
Professor Emeritus, CS and UMIACS
Research Professor CS
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1971
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mvz/
Honors: IEEE Fellow
Interests: Software engineering, environment design, program complexity and measurement, experimentation and empirical studies.
 

Lecturers

Emad Emad
Lecturer, CS
M.A., University of Maryland, 1997
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~fpe/
Interests: Mathematical logic (model theory), computer science education.
 
Evan Golub
Lecturer, CS
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1999
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~egolub/
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, ubiquitous computing, computer science education, information technology and non-majors, application of non-constructive proofs.
 
Larry Herman
Lecturer, CS
M.S., University of Maryland, 1990
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~larry/
Interests: Software engineering, formal specifications, and computer science education
 
Michelle Hugue
Lecturer, CS
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1989
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~meesh/
Interests: Dependable computing, fault tolerance, software engineering
 
Nelson Padua-Perez
Lecturer, CS
M.S., University of Maryland, 1996
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nelson/
Interests: Software Engineering, Databases, Computer Science in Education
 
Jan Plane
Senior Lecturer, CS
M.S., University of Wisconsin, 1989
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jplane/
Interests: Computer science education especially in underdeveloped countries and with underrepresented populations.
 

Research Associates

Bert Huang
Faculty Research Assistant
 
Derek Monner
Research Associate CS
 
Hong-Sheng Zhou
Research Associate CS
 
Vasileios Zikas
Research Associate CS
 

Faculty Research Assistants

Ray Chen
Faculty Research Assistant CS
 
Dharmalingam Ganesan
Faculty Research Assistant CS
 
John Strange
Faculty Research Assistant
 

Affiliate Professors

Alexander Barg
Affiliate Professor, CS and AMSC
Professor, ECE and ISR
Ph.D., Russian Academy of Sciences, 1987
Website: http://www.enee.umd.edu/~abarg/
Interests: Coding theory, cryptography, combinatorics, information theory
 
Rajeev Barua
Affiliate Associate Professor, CS
Associate Professor, ECE
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000
Website: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~barua/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Finalist, Inventor of the Year Award, 2004
Interests: Compilers, Computer Architecture, Computer Security and Reliability, and Multimedia computation.
 
Rama Chellappa
Affiliate Professor, CS
Minta Martin Professor of Engineering, Professor, ECE
Director, CfAR
Permanent member, UMIACS
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1981
Website: http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~rama/
Honors: IAPR, IEEE Fellow
Univ Maryland Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow
Univ Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Interests: Image sequence analysis, face and gait analysis, hyperspectral processing, human activity modeling and recognition and human movement analysis.
 
Michel Cukier
Affiliate Associate Professor, CS, ECE and ISR
Associate Professor, ME
Ph.D., National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (France), 1996
Website: http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~mcukier/
Interests: Security evaluation, intrusion tolerance, distributed system validation, fault injection, and software testing.
 
Michael Cummings
Affiliate Associate Professor, CS
Associate Professor, Biology and UMIACS
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992
Website: http://serine.umiacs.umd.edu/
Interests: Molecular evolution, computational biology, bioinformatics, Grid computing.
 
Allison Druin
Affiliate Professor, CS
Associate Professor, CLIS and UMIACS
Director of HCIL
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1997
Website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~allisond/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Appointed to the National Commission on Library and Information Science by President Bush
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, educational applications for children, ubiquitous computing
 
Jennifer Golbeck
Affiliate Assistant Professor CS
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2005
 
Sridhar Hannenhalli
Affiliate Associate Professor, CS
 
Bruce Jacobs
Affiliate Professor, CS
 
Joseph Ja'Ja'
Affiliate Professor, CS
Professor, ECE, ISR, and UMIACS
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1977
Website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~joseph/
Honors: ACM, IEEE Fellow
Interests: Parallel algorithms, high performance computing, scientific visualization, and long term digital preservation.
 
Jimmy Lin
Affiliate Associate Professor CS and UMIACS
Associate Professor CLIS
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
Website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/
Interests: Natural language processing, information retrieval.
 
Douglas Oard
Affiliate Professor, CS
Website: http://www.ee.umd.edu/~oard/
 
William Rand
Affiliate Assistant Professor CS
Ph.D, University of Michigan, 2005
Website: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/marketing/faculty/rand.aspx
 
Louiqa Raschid
Affiliate Professor, CS
Professor, Smith School of Business and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1987
Website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~louiqa/
Honors: ACM Distinguished Scientist
Interests: Database management systems
 
Philip Resnik
Affiliate Professor, CS
Professor, Linguistics and UMIACS
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993
Website: http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/
Interests: Computational linguistics, lexical semantics, cognitive science, psycholinguistics
 
Andre Tits
Affiliate Professor, CS
Professor, ECE and ISR
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981
Website: http://www.ee.umd.edu/~andre/
Honors: IEEE Fellow
Interests: Linear, convex, and nonlinear programming; numerical methods in control; robust control
 
Uzi Vishkin
Affiliate Professor, CS
Professor, ECE and UMIACS
D.Sc., Technion, Haifa (Israel), 1981
Website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~vishkin/
Honors: ACM Fellow
Interests: Parallel computing and how to make it ubiquitous in the new multi-core era, the UMD PRAM-On-Chip project, parallel algorithms and architectures, design and analysis of algorithms, theory of computing.
 
Don Yeung
Affiliate Associate Professor, CS
Associate Professor, ECE and UMIACS
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997
Website: http://www.ece.umd.edu/~yeung/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Interests: Computer architecture; performance evaluations of computer systems; applications for driving research in high-performance architectures.
 

Affiliate Research Professors

Jordan Boyd-Graber
Affiliate Assistant Professor, CS
Website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg
 
David Doermann
Affiliate Senior Research Scientist
 

Adjunct Professors

John Grant
Adjunct Professor CS
Ph.D., New York University, 1970
Interests: Applied logic, artificial intelligence, databases
 
Francois Guimbretiere
Adjunct Associate Professor, CS
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002
Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~francois/
Honors: NSF Career Award
Interests: Human-computer interactions, information visualization
 
Mikael Lindvall
Adjunct Professor CS
Ph.D., Linkoping University, Sweden, 1997
 
Arnab Ray
Adjunct Assistant Professor CS
Ph.D., University of New York, Stonybrook, 2004
Website: http://arnabray.googlepages.com
 
Forrest Shull
Adjunct Associate Professor CS
 

Visiting Professors

R Devanarayanan
Visiting Senior Research Scientist CS
Interests: Pattern regognition, image, video and digital signal processing, information theory, data compression, human visual preception, computer/robotic vision. AI, neural networks, machine learning, genetic algorithms, steganography/watermarking, biometrics, data mining, information fusion, fuzzy systems and systems theory.
 
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