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The School of Computing

Research Areas

Faculty Research Areas

Faculty in the School of Computing are engaged in research in a number of areas related to computing and technology. The research listed on this page is not meant to be an exhaustive list. Information
about other faculty work can be found also on the faculty profile pages.

 

Artificial Intelligence

Robin Burke
Case-based reasoning, recommender systems, social computing.

Peter Hastings
Intelligent tutoring systems, serious games, natural language processing.

Steve Lytinen
Natural language processing; intelligent information retrieval; agent-based modeling.

Bamshad Mobasher
Data mining; web mining and web analytics; intelligent agents; web information retrieval.

Raffaella Settimi
Bayesian analysis; probabilistic learning; graphical modeling; information retrieval.

Noriko Tomuro
Natural language processing; machine learning; information retrieval.

 

Computational Finance

Massimo DiPierro
Large scale numerical computations applied to physical; biological and financial systems.

 

Data Mining

Robin Burke
Case-based reasoning, recommender systems, social computing.

Jane Huang
Software and Systems traceability, Software Architecture, Application of data mining and machine learning to Software and Requirements Engineering. For more information please visit http://re.cs.depaul.edu.

Bamshad Mobasher
Web mining; web analytics and predictive modeling; recommender systems; information retrieval.

Daniela Raicu
Medical imaging; content-based multimedia retrieval; machine learning; computer vision; data mining.

Raffaella Settimi
Bayesian analysis; probabilistic learning; graphical modeling; information retrieval.

DePaul Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Center​​

Electronic Commerce

Susy Chan
Mobile commerce usability; e-business strategies and transformation; is and e-commerce curriculum research.

Xiaowen Fang
Mobile commerce; usability; user-centered design; enjoyment of computer game play; personality of computer game players.

 

Game Studies and Entertainment Computing

Amber Settle
Information technology education; cellular automata; distributed algorithms; reasoning about knowledge in distributed systems; computational thinking; information retrieval.

Noriko Tomuro
Natural language processing; machine learning; information retrieval.

Jose Zagal
Videogame ethics; platform studies; game analysis.

 

Graphics / Animation

Joshua Jones
3d and stop motion animation in narrative and experimental styles; sound production and recording; music production and recording.

Stephen Luecking
Solid object applications in sculpture.

John McDonald
Graphics, animation.

Alexander Stewart
Analog & digital animation techniques; digital imaging; experimental filmmaking.

Rosalee Wolfe
Communication between deaf and hearing communities; graphics pedagogy.

 

High Performance and Scientific Computing

Massimo DiPierro
Large scale numerical computations applied to physical; biological and financial systems.

 

Human-Computer Interaction

Craig Miller
Cognitive science; computational models of human behavior; machine learning.

Adam Steele
Speech recognition

Xiaowen Fang
Mobile commerce; usability; user-centered design; enjoyment of computer game play; personality of computer game players.

 

Information Systems

Olayele Adelakun
Dr. Adelakun focuses his research on IT Education, outsourcing, global IT management, and IT quality.

Susy Chan
Dr. Chan's research interests are in mobile commerce usability, e-business strategies and transformation, IS and e-commerce curriculum research.

Xiaowen Fang
Dr. Fang is the director of the Mobile Commerce Research group. He focuses his research in mobile commerce, user-centered design of mobile applications, user-centered design of e-commerce applications, and hedonic information systems.

Linda Knight
Dr. Knight is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology Education. In addition to IT education, her research interests include virtual project risk, healthcare systems, project management, and IT Strategy formulation and implementation.

Daniel Mittleman
Dr. Mittleman's research interests are in groupware, virtual teaming, and social media.

Janine Spears
Dr. Spears focuses her research in information security risk management.

Terry Steinbach
Dr. Steinbach's research interests are in IT Education and IT in Project Management.

Norma Sutcliffe
Dr. Sutcliffe's research interests are in IT leadership behavior, IT mandated change management, IT skills management, and online consumer behavior.

 

Programming Languages and Systems

Radha Jagadeesan
Programming Languages and systems; foundations of concurrency; language based secuirty; games; types and linear logic.

Corin Pitcher
Programming languages; security; software engineering; and distributed systems.

James Riely
Programming languages; distributed systems; security; software engineering.

 

Security

Radha Jagadeesan
Programming Languages and systems; foundations of concurrency; language based security; games; types and linear logic.

Jean-Philippe Labruyere
Security; Telecommunication.

Corin Pitcher
Programming languages; security; software engineering; and distributed systems.

James Riely
Programming languages; distributed systems; security; software engineering.

 

Software Engineering

Radha Jagadeesan
Programming Languages and systems; foundations of concurrency; language based security; games; types and linear logic.

Xiaoping Jia
Object-oriented architecture; design and framework; model-driven architecture and development; formal methods.

Jane Huang
Software and Systems traceability, Software Architecture, Application of data mining and machine learning to Software and Requirements Engineering. For more information please visit http://re.cs.depaul.edu.

Corin Pitcher
Programming languages; security; software engineering; and distributed systems.

James Riely
Programming languages; distributed systems; security; software engineering.

Harold Streeter
Object-oriented analysis and design software architecture software engineering for pervasive computing.

 

Technology Education

Gian Mario Besana
Applications of algebraic geometry to computer vision; computer science education.

Lucia Dettori
Scientific computing; medical image processing; computer science education.

Linda Knight
Teaching and learning IT subject matter; curriculum development; women and minorities in computing.

Will Marrero
Formal methods; computer security; network modeling; computer science education.

Craig Miller
Cognitive science; computational models of human behavior; human learning; human-computer interaction.

Ljubomir Perkovic
Distributed and wireless computing; computational geometry; graph theory and algorithms; probabilistic analysis of algorithms; computational thinking.

Amber Settle
Information technology education; cellular automata; distributed algorithms; reasoning about knowledge in distributed systems; information retrieval; computational thinking.

Terry Steinbach
Information systems; information technology education.

Find out more about research in Technology Education at http://itec.cdm.depaul.edu.

 

Telecommunication and Networking

Gregory Brewster
Internet QOS protocols; end-to-end performance measurement methods.

Anthony Chung
Formal methods in protocol development; network security.

James Yu
LAN; WAN; protocols; integrated services; information technology; softswitch; VoIP.

 

Theory

Andre Berthiaume
Classical and quantum algorithms; quantum information theory; classical and quantum cryptography; distributed systems and information technology education.

Iyad Kanj
Parameterized complexity and algorithms; graph algorithms; combinatorial optimization; computational geometry; wireless and distributed computing.

Ljubomir Perkovic
Distributed and wireless computing; computational geometry; graph theory and algorithms; probabilistic analysis of algorithms; computational thinking.

John Rogers
Technology and community-based organizations.

Marcus Schaefer
Graph theory; combinatorics; complexity theory; computability theory.

Eric Schwabe
Teaching: discrete mathematics; algorithms (sequential and parallel); programming research: parallel algorithms; disk arrays.

Eric Sedgwick
Computational topology; 3-manifold topology.

Amber Settle
Cellular automata; distributed algorithms; reasoning about knowledge in distributed systems; information retrieval; computational thinking; information technology education.

 

Visual Computing

Gian Mario Besana
Applications of algebraic geometry to computer vision; computer science education.

Lucia Dettori
Scientific computing; medical image processing; computer science education.

Jacob Furst
Medical imaging; image processing and computer vision; information systems security.

Daniela Raicu
Medical imaging; content-based multimedia retrieval; machine learning; computer vision; data mining and knowledge discovery.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Intelligent Multimedia Processing Laboratory​​