TENURE-TRACK FACULTY

Tulay Adali
Ph.D., North Carolina State, 1992. Adaptive signal processing; neural computation; estimation theory.

Gary M. Carter
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975. Optoelectronics; diode lasers; nonlinear optics; optical communications.

Chein-I Chang
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 1986. Information theory and coding; signal detection and estimation; remote sensing image processing.

Richard Chang
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1991. Computational complexity theory; structural complexity; analysis of algorithms.

Yung-Jui Chen
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1976. Integrated optics and optoelectronics; WDM optical networking systems.

Fow-Sen Choa
Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo, 1988. MOCVD Growth; optoelectronic integrated circuits; photonic switches and routers; WDM networks.

Marie desJardins
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1992. Artificial intelligence; machine learning; planning; multi-agent systems; interactive AI.

Tim Finin
Ph.D., Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1980. Artificial intelligence; knowledge representation and reasoning; knowledge and database systems.

Anthony Johnson
Ph.D., City College of New York, 1981. ultrafast photophysics and nonlinear optical properties of bulk, nanostructured, and quantum well semiconductor structures, ultrashort pulse propagation in fibers and high-speed lightwave systems.

Curtis R. Menyuk
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1981. Lightwave communications; optical fibers; optical networks; nonlinear phenomena.

Joel M. Morris
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University; Communication theory, detection and estimation, and information and coding theory; deterministic and statistical signal processing.


Charles Nicholas
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1988. Electronic document processing; software engineering; intelligent information systems.

Sergei Nirenburg
Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1980. Natural language processing; artificial intelligence; knowledge-based systems; machine translation; ontological semantics; computational linguistics.

Tim Oates
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts. Artificial intelligence; machine learning; robotics; natural language processing.

Marc Olano
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1998. Interactive procedural shading.

Yun Peng Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 1985. Artificial intelligence; neural networks; medical applications; artificial life.

Dhananjay Phatak
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1994. Mobile and high performance computer networks; computer arithmetic algorithms; VLSI implementations; signal processing; neural networks; digital and analog VLSI design and CAD.

John Pinkston
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967. Information Assurance, Computer Security, Coding Theory, Information Theory, Antennas.

Penny Rheingans
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993. Interactive computer graphics; scientific, medical and information visualization.

Janet Rutledge
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology. Modeling and compensating for the effects of sensorineural hearing loss and other communication disorders.

Zary Segall
D.Sc., Technion, Israel, 1979. Validation and testing of networks quality of service; mobile wireless computing.

Alan T. Sherman
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. Security of voting systems, cryptology, information assurance, discrete algorithms.

Deepinder Sidhu
Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1979. Computer networks; distributed systems; distributed and heterogeneous databases.

Krishna Sivalingam
Ph.D., State University of New York, 1994. Wireless & mobile networks, sensor networks, optical networking and network security.

Brooke Stephens
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 1969. Numerical analysis; computational fluid dynamics; resource allocation problems relating to distributed systems.

Li Yan
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 1989. Ultrashort pulse solid-state lasers; hybrid lasers; optical communications and networking technologies.

Yaacov Yesha
Ph.D., Weizmann University, Israel, 1979. Parallel computing; computational complexity; algorithms; source coding; speech and image compression.

Yelena Yesha
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1989. Distributed systems; database systems; digital libraries; electronic commerce; performance modeling.

Mohamed Younis
Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1997. Distributed real-time systems; fault tolerant computing; wireless networks; embedded computer systems; compiler-based analysis; operating systems.

INSTRUCTORS

Gary Burt
M.S., Bowie State University, 1997. Design, development, and support of communications; electronic warfare and intelligence systems; unix systems administration.

Sue Evans
M.S., University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1997. Information retrieval; internet; intelligent agents.

Dennis Frey
M.E.S. Loyola college, 1998. Real-time communication and transaction processing; proprietary database design; relation databases; 4GL GUIs; peripheral applications; workflow distribution client/server application using three tier architecture.

E.F. Charles LaBerge

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2002

M.S., Engineering, John Hopkins University, 1975

B.S., Engineering Sciences, John Hopkins University, 1974

Susan M. Mitchell
M.S., Johns Hopkins University, 1983. Software engineering and programming.

Chintan Patel
Ph.D., UMBC, 2004. VLSI design and testing.

ADJUNCT FACULTY

Stephen Beale
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University. Natural language processing; constraint satisfaction; solution synthesis; semantics; machine translation.

R. Scott Cost
Ph.D., UMBC, 1999. Software agents and multi-agent systems; information retrieval and electronic commerce.

Matthew E. Gaston
Ph.D., UMBC, 2005. Network dynamics, multi-agent systems, machine learning.

Milton Halem
Ph.D. Ney York University, 1968. High performance computing and communication, large-scale simulations, climate and environmental modeling.

Henry Mark
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1956. Psychophysics of mental disorders: Human, animal, and computer processes in evolution of language and knowledge networks as reflected in processes common to chess.

Marjorie McShane
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1998. Computational linguistics; natural language processing; machine translation.

Cynthia Parr
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1997. Biodiversity, visualization, semantic web.

Filip Perich
Ph.D., UMBC, 2004. Mobile computing, distributed systems, sensor networks, and artificial intelligence.

Jon Squire

Ph.D., LAU, 2006. Simulation, modeling, computer architecture, numerical computation and graphics.