Faculty
Core Faculty Members
Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian Networks, Computational Learning Theory, Data Mining, Information Integration, Intelligent Agents and Multiagent Systems, Knowledge Representation and Inference, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Semantic Web, Applications in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Environmental Informatics, Neuroinformatics, Medical Informatics, and Security Informatics, Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, e-Business, e-Government, and e-Science.
Professor, Dept. of Statistics
Professor, Dept. of Mathematics
Research interests: Probability Theory and its applications in science, engineering, social and biological sciences.
Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: Combinatorial algorithms, with emphasis on sensitivity analysis of optimization problems and evolutionary tree construction.
Professor, Departments of Biomedical Sciences and
Health and Human Performance
Research interests: Neural mechanisms of motor control and motor learning, computational neuroscience
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: Robotics, tactile shape recognition and reconstruction, geometric algorithms for curves and surfaces, parts localization, robot sensing, optimization, nonlinear control and observability for robot dexterity.
Assistant Professor , Statistics
Research interests: Unsupervised learning (clustering, mixture models, latent class models) and supervised learning (classification) problems.
Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: Computational Complexity, Theory of Computation, Computational Learning Theory.
Associate Professor , Statistics
Research interests: Bayesian Machine Learning; Multilevel Modeling; Small Area Estimation; Biostatistics.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents and Multiagent Systems, Machine Learning and Data Mining, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: Theory of Computation, Algorithms, Game Theory
Alexander Stoytchev 
Adj Associate Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: Robotics
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: Multimedia databases, medical image and video processing and mining, network and operating system support of multimedia.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: Bayesian networks, probabilistic reasoning, causal reasoning and learning
Affliliate Faculty Members
Professor, Statistics and Psychology
Research interests: Computational statistics, Stochastic models of human memory, Experimental design, Optimal sample size determination, & Robust statistical methods
Associate Professor, Dept. of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Research interests: Data mining and machine learning in
bioinformatics, with emphasis on prediction and analysis of protein
sequence/structure/function relationships; computational structural
biology, with emphasis on protein structure prediction using
threading.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Research interests: Neural/retinal cell fate determination, data mining of proteomic data, machine learning to facilitate pattern
discovery.
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Biophysics, & Molecular Biology
Research interests: Theoretical studies on the structures
of proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules,
Applications of theoretical studies to develop molecular models and to select new drugs.
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Scientific data mining techniques to materials science and engineering
Professor, Dept. of Economics
Research interests: Agent-based computational economics (the computational study of economies modelled as dynamic systems of interacting agents with learning capabilities); Testing the economic reliability of market designs for restructured U.S. wholesale power markets; Labor institutions and market performance; Formation of economic networks; Coordination capabilities of decentralized market economies; Agent-oriented programming
Assistant Professor, MIS
Research interests: Knowledge management in corporate environments (large corporations that are distributed geographically); Expertise location via digital knowledge networks, reputation systems that facilitate its use, and IT-driven incentives to overcome the "cold start"
problem; Global software development in organizations in the US, Russia, India, and Ireland.
Professor, Dept. of Animal Science
Research interests: Understanding the mechanisms that control gene expression during vertebrate development; Spatial information that controls specification of body regions, understanding: gene transfer into mice, transcriptional profiling in both mice and pigs, genome mapping and analysis; and developing new gene transfer and analysis methods to understand global patterns of gene expression.
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research interests: Estimation and detection problems in signal, image and video processing, computer vision and in biomedical image analysis. Some of her ongoing projects are: (i) Change Detection and Changed Parameter Estimation using Particle Filters, (ii) Landmark Shape Dynamical Models and Activity Recognition and (iii) Particle Filtering for Tracking Moving and Deforming Objects. She has also worked on subspace methods for image and video classification.
Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Performance Evaluation, Communication Protocols, Concurrency Control and Recovery, Object-Oriented Databases, Network and Database Security, Intrusion Detection Systems, Multimedia Systems, Multi-Agent Systems and Medical Imaging Systems.
Associate Professor,
Logistics, Operations and MIS (LOMIS)
Research interests: Intelligent Systems, Knowledge Sharing and Management, Cognition and Learning
