Faculty Research Interests

 

Faculty
Summary of Research Interests
James H. Andrews software engineering, testing and verification, "log file" analysis, programming languages
John L. Barron measurement and interpretation of optical flow, analysis of Doppler radar imagery
Michael A. Bauer distributed systems, systems and application management, resource management in distributed and grid systems, software engineering
Steven Beauchemin computer vision, applied mathematics, robotics, image processing
Yuri Boykov computer vision, medical imaging, algorithms
Mark Daley natural computing, computational and mathematical modelling of biological systems, theoretical computer science, high performance computing for biology and mathematics, molecular evolution, algorithmics of music and the visual arts
Mahmoud El-Sakka image compression and encoding, digital image enhancement, medical imaging, image security, clustering and pattern recognition, digital authentication, computer aided diagnostic
Irene Gargantini representation of data for visualization, modelling techniques, volume rendering, hierarchical representation of data, foveal visualization
Lucian Ilie strings (combinatorics, mathematical properties), string algorithms, bioinformatics
Helmut Jügensen formal languages, automata, codes and information transmission systems
Lila Kari theory of computation, formal languages, DNA computing, discrete mathematics
Mike Katchabaw computing environment design and implementation, distributed systems, networking, operating systems and software engineering
Charles Ling machine learning, cognitive modeling, data mining
Hanan Lutfiyya software engineering, distributed systems, fault tolerance
Bin Ma bioinformatics, algorithm design
Nazim Madhavji requirements engineering, software architectures, software quality, software evolution and feedback, software processes, empirical studies
Marc Moreno Maza computer algebra, efficient algorithms and complexity, algebraic geometry, programming languages, distributed computing, applications of computer algebra, software engineering
Robert E. Mercer artificial intelligence, expert systems, natural language, information retrieval, computer animation, artifical neural networks
Areski Nait Abdallah reasoning within contexts
Sylvia Osborn role based models in database security, data models and query langauges for object-oriented databases
Mark Perry interrelationship between law, policy and computer technologies, intellectual property rights
Eric Schost computer algebra, polynomial system solving, polynomial and power series arithmetic
Kamran Sedig design of mindtools, interactive cognitive tools, human-computer interaction design, visualization tools, learning and knowledge technologies
Roberto Solis-Oba efficient algorithms for combinatorial optimization, sequential vs. parallel algorithms, randomization
Olga Veksler computer vision
Stephen M. Watt computer algebra, programming languages and compilers, pen-based computing and handwriting recognition
Robert E. Webber voxel representations for moving objects, computer graphics efficiency, visual programming languages, virtual reality, lexical semantics, aesthetic-knowledge representation, field-programmable gate arrays
Sheng Yu automata and formal language theory, object-oriented languages, parallel processing, cellular automata, DNA computing
Kaizhong Zhang parallel and sequential algorithms, computational molecular biology, databases, image processing

 

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