Research Areas and Groups

Faculty Research Areas

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bioinformatics
• Databases
• Education
• Electronic Commerce
• Graphics / Animation
• High Performance and Scientific Computing
• Human Computer Interaction
• Information Systems
• Multimedia
• Operating Systems
• Programming Languages
• Security
• Software Engineering
• Telecommunication & Networking
• Theory
• Visual Computing (VC)

Artificial Intelligence

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• Jacek Brzezinski Business Intelligence for E-commerce systems, Computer Games and AI
• Robin Burke Case-based reasoning, Electronic commerce, Recommender systems, Digital libraries
• Evelyn Lulis
• Steven Lytinen
• Bamshad Mobasher Data Mining, Web Mining and Web Analytics, Intelligent Agents, Web Information Retrieval.
• Joseph Phillips Computational Scientific Discovery, Computer Languages, Machine Learning
• Raffaella Settimi Bayesian analysis, probabilistic learning, graphical modelling, information retrieval.
• Noriko Tomuro Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval
• Peter Wiemer-Hastings Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Vector Space Language Models

Bioinformatics

• David Angulo 1. Grid Computing (Computer Intensive Distributed Computing); 2. BioInformatics (proteomics: mass spectrometry, proteomics: protein folding); 3. Web Programming (portals, portlets, web services, XML)

Databases

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• Robert Fisher
• Ashley Morris Fuzzy Databases, GIS, Neuro-fuzzy systems
• Lu Zhang Deductive Databases, Databases with Indefinite Information.

Education

• Amber Settle Cellular automata, distributed algorithms, reasoning about knowledge in distributed systems, information retrieval, and information technology education
• Theresa Steinbach

Electronic Commerce

• Susy Chan Mobile Commerce Usability, e-business stragegies and transformation, IS and e-commerce curriculum research

Graphics / Animation

• Joshua Jones 3D and stop motion animation in narative and experimental styles, Sound production and recording, Music production and recording
• Stephen Luecking Solid object applications in sculpture
• 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 (see for example www.fermiqcd.net )

Human-Computer Interaction

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• Xiaowen Fang
• Craig Miller Cognitive science, computational models of human behavior, machine learning
• Adam Steele Speech Recognition

Information Systems

• Alan Burns
• Linda Knight IT strategy development and implementation
• Daniel Mittleman Groupware, Virtual Teaming, Project Management, Systems Analysis, eLearning Systems, Content Management Systems, Collaboration Engineering, Design of Smart Classrooms
• Thomas Muscarello
• Theresa Steinbach
• Norma Sutcliffe IT Skills Management, MS IS Curriculum Design organizational transformation efforts through business process change theory of constraints and project management

Multimedia

• Ehab Al-Shaer IPTV, interactive multimedia for distance learning
• Joseph Linhoff
• Paul Sisul Involved in integration of computer technology with astronomy (robotic telescoping) and also electronic music.
• David Stone How sound manipulation communicates ideas. Working with student projects, empowering their storytelling with sonic skills. History of motion picture sound craftsmanship.

Operating Systems

• Jami Montgomery General area of interest is computer systems as it relates to operating system, distributed computing, process control and security

Programming Languages

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• James Riely Programming Languages, Distributed Systems, Security, Software Engineering

Security

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• Ehab Al-Shaer firewalls, security configuration and evaluation, intrusion detection/prevention
• Jean-Philippe Labruyere Security, Telecommunication

Software Engineering

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• Radha Jagadeesan
• Xiaoping Jia Object-Oriented Architecture, Design and Framework, Model-Driven Architecture and Development, Formal Methods.
• Jane Huang Requirements Engineering and Traceability, Software Architecture, Software Development Processes. For further information please see DePaul Center for Applied Requirements Engineering.
• Corin Pitcher
• Harold Streeter Object-oriented analysis and design Software architecture Software engineering for pervasive computing

Telecommunication & Networking

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• Ehab Al-Shaer Multimdia and QoS networking, network security, multicast communication
• Gregory Brewster Internet QOS Protocols, End-to-End Performance Measurement methods.
• Anthony Chung Formal methods in protocol development.
• Khaled El-Zayyat
• Charles Wilcox
• James Yu LAN, WAN, Protocols, Integrated Services, Information Technology, softswitch, VoIP

Theory

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• Andre Berthiaume Classical and quantum algorithms, Quantum information theory, Classical and quantum cryptography, distributed systems and information technology education
• Louis Ibarra Dynamic graph algorithms, parallel algorithms, and computational biology
• Iyad Kanj
• Ljubomir Perkovic
• John Rogers Technology and community-based organizations
• Marcus Schaefer Complexity theory, computability theory, combinatorics, graph theory.
• Eric Schwabe Teaching: Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms (Sequential and Paralle), Programming Research: Parallel Algorithms, Disk Arrays
• Eric Sedgwick
• Amber Settle Cellular automata, distributed algorithms, reasoning about knowledge in distributed systems, information retrieval, and information technology education

Visual Computing (VC)

• 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
• Gerald Gordon
• Steve Jost
• Daniela Raicu Medical Imaging,Content-based Multimedia Retrieval, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery