Research Areas
Algorithms
- Parallel algorithms
- Combinatorial optimization
- On-line algorithms
- Graph algorithms
- Computational geometry and database/external memory algorithms
- Applied game theory and information theory
- Algorithms for mobile computing
- Graph theory and combinatorics
- Randomized algorithms
Associated Faculty
Bioinformatics
- Comparative Genomics
- Functional Genomics
- Microarray Data Analysis
- Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics
- Protein/DNA Structure Discovery
Associated Faculty
Gautam Das , Chris Ding , Ramez Elmasri , Heng Huang , Junzhou Huang , Vangelis Karkaletsis , Fillia Makedon , Vangelis Metsis , Feiping Nie , Stavros Perantonis , Dick Schoech , Dimitrios Zikos
Computer Vision
- Detection and Tracking of Deformable and Articulated Objects
- Gesture and Activity Recognition
- Image and Video Databases
- Motion Estimation
- Multi-View Video Object Tracking
- Object Detection
- Object Recognition
- Segmentation
- Shape from Motion
- Stereo Matching
Associated Faculty
Database and Information technology
- Data Warehousing/information integration
- Mining/Knowledge Discovery: Graph, Text, Association Rules
- XML Streaming Data, XML Querying and Indexing
- Stream and Sensor Network Data Processing
- Large network-centric Information Management
- Object-Oriented, Temporal & Heterogeneous databases.
- Multimedia Databases (Image, Video, and Text)
- Prediction of Event Patterns/Sequences
- Information Security
- Stream/Email filtering/classification
- Concept-based Information Access
Associated Faculty
Sharma Chakravarthy , Gautam Das , Ramez Elmasri , Leonidas Fegaras , David Levine , Chengkai Li , Alexandra Stefan , Dimitrios Zikos
Embedded Systems
- Transportation
- Robotics
- Real-time embedded systems
- Remote Interfaces via the web
- Network processors
Associated Faculty
Eric Becker , Hao Che , Farhad Kamangar , David Kung , Donggang Liu , Roger Walker
High Performance Computing
- Software tools for parallel systems
- Distributed real-time systems
- Clustered and global computing
- Grid computing
- Resource management
- Middleware support
- Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
- Interconnection networks
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Homeland Security
- Pervasively Secured Infrastructures
- Monitoring and detection using ubiquitous computing
- Audio/Visual collaboration for law enforcement
- Weapon detection
- Learning patterns in terrorist groups and threats
- Anomaly detection for computer security
Associated Faculty
Intelligent Systems
- Smart home technologies (MavHome)
- Data mining / Knowledge discovery
- Machine learning
- Multi-agent systems
- Planning
- Parallel AI algorithm design
- Robotics
- Computer Vision
Associated Faculty
Vassilis Athitsos , Gautam Das , Manfred Huber , Farhad Kamangar , Gian Luca Mariottini , Lynn Peterson
Information Security
- Privacy-preserving data mining
- Sensor network security
- Internet privacy
- Wireless security
- Intrusion detection
- Security for and privacy for pervasive computing
- Worm detection and prevention
- Secure peer-to-peer systems
Associated Faculty
Multimedia and Video Processing
- Pervasive audio/video collaboration
- Weapon detection
- Digital video compression
- Video over wireless devices
- Scene recognition
- Animation authoring tools
- Computer vision, Pattern recognition
- Content-based access to images and video
Associated Faculty
Ishfaq Ahmad , Jean Gao , Heng Huang , Junzhou Huang , Feiping Nie , Alexandra Stefan
Mobile and Pervasive Computing
- Homeland Security
- QoS and resource management
- Security and Privacy
- Community formation and interactions
- Ad hoc networks
- Mobile networks
- Middleware, Service Discovery
- Applications in telemedicine, military, work places, etc.
Associated Faculty
Ishfaq Ahmad , Eric Becker , Sajal Das , Mario Di Francesco , Ramez Elmasri , Giacomo Ghidini , Farhad Kamangar , Mohan Kumar , David Levine , Donggang Liu , Fillia Makedon , Vangelis Metsis , Matthew Wright , Gergely Zaruba
Networking
- Wireless cellular networks - architectures and protocols
- Mobile computing
- Mobility and Resource management
- Security and Privacy
- Sensor and ad hoc networks
- Wireless LANs
- Wireless multimedia and QoS provisioning
- High speed networking
- Optical networks
- RFID
- Network algorithms
Associated Faculty
Eric Becker , Hao Che , Sajal Das , Mario Di Francesco , Ramez Elmasri , Giacomo Ghidini , Mohan Kumar , Yonghe Liu , Matthew Wright , Gergely Zaruba
Software Engineering
- Object-Oriented Testing and Maintenance Environment
- Software Process Modeling and Re-engineering
- Concurrent Software Engineering for Cycle Time Reduction
- Testing and Verification of Concurrent Software Systems
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