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Faculty Directory   Alphabetic Quick Links: James Arthur Associate Professor Ph.D., Purdue University Office: 3160C Torg Phone: (540) 231-7538 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~arthur/ Office hours: TR: 09:30 to 10:45 Research interests: Software engineering (methods and methodologies supporting software quality assessment and IV&V activities); Parallel computation (shared dataspace models); User support environments; Translator systems Return to top > Godmar Back Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Utah Office: 2211 KWII Phone: (540) 231-3046 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~gback/ Office hours: By appointment only Research interests: Operating systems; Runtime systems and virtual machines; Software reliability; Static analysis; Domain-specific languages Return to top > Osman Balci Professor Ph.D., Syracuse University Office: 3160B Torgersen Phone: (540) 231-4841 Email: Webpage: http://manta.cs.vt.edu/balci/ Office hours: TR: 9:30 to 10:30 or by appointment Research interests: Software engineering; E-systems engineering (e.g., e-business, e-commerce); Modeling and simulation; VV&A, IV&V, certification, and quality assessment of M&S applications and software systems Return to top > N. Dwight Barnette Instructor M.S., Virginia Tech Office: 632 McBryde Phone: (540) 231-7350 Email: Webpage: http://www.cs.vt.edu/~barnette Office hours: MTW: 3:00 to 4:30 Research interests: User-controlled hypermedia/multimedia knowledge bases; Instructional computing; Cognitive learning models of networked information Return to top > Christopher L. Barrett Professor Ph.D., Caltech Office: Research Building XV Phone: (540) 231-1745 Email: Webpage: http://ndssl.vbi.vt.edu/people/cbarrett.html Office hours: By appointment Research interests: Simulation of very large systems; Theoretical foundations of simulation; Interaction-based systems, computing, and dynamical systems; Computational and systems biology; Computational problems in epidemiology; Cognitive science and computationally aided reasoning: Computational economics: Infrastructure simulation Research Group: Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab Return to top > Shawn Bohner Associate Professor Ph.D., George Mason University Office: 3160G Torgersen Phone: (540) 231-1132 Email: Webpage: http://filebox.vt.edu/s/sbohner/ Office hours: 6704: TR: 10:00 to 11:00; 3704: TR 1:00 to 2:00 Research interests: Software engineering; Software architecture; Software evolution and maintenance: Software impact analysis; Software project management; Software metrics Return to top > Doug A. Bowman Associate Professor Ph.D., Georgia Tech Office: 1134 KWII Phone: (540) 231-2058 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/ Office hours: McBryde 637, TR: 12:30 to 2:00 Research interests: Three-dimensional interaction techniques; User interfaces for virtual environments; Experimental analysis of human performance in virtual environments Research Group: 3D Interaction Group Return to top > Ali Butt Assistant Professor Ph.D., Purdue University Office: 2227 KWII Phone: (540) 231-0489 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~butta/ Office hours: McBryde 637, TR: 11:00 to 12:00 Research interests: File and storage systems; Operating systems; Peer-to-peer systems; Distributed systems and grid computing Research Group: Distributed Systems and Storage Laboratory (DSSL) Return to top > Kirk W. Cameron Associate Professor Ph.D., Louisiana State Office: 2212 KWII Phone: (540) 231-4238 Email: Webpage: http://scape.cs.vt.edu/ Office hours: By appointment only Research interests: High-performance and grid computing; Parallel and distributed systems; Computer architecture; Power-aware systems; Performance evaluation and prediction Research Group: Scalable Performance Laboratory (SCAPE) Return to top > Yang Cao Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara Office: 2160D Torgersen Phone: (540) 231-1417 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~ycao/ Office hours: TR: 10:00 to 11:00 Research interests: Stochastic simulation of chemically reacting systems; Modeling and simulation of gene regulation networks; Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis for Large-Scale Differential-Algebraic Equation (DAE) Systems; Error control and condition estimation for computational systems (linear equations, matrix equations and DAE systems); Numerical methods for ODE/DAE systems Return to top > Yong Cao Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Office: 1124 KWII Phone: (540) 231-0415 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~yongcao/ Office hours: McBryde 637, MW: 4:30 to 5:30 Research interests: Computer Graphics; Character Animation: Facial Animation and Full Body Animation; Machine Learning for Motion Synthesis; Search-based Motion Synthesis; Hardware Acceleration with GPU Return to top > Ing-Ray Chen Professor Ph.D., University of Houston Office: 304 Northern Virginia Center Phone: (703) 538-8376 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~irchen/ Research interests: Mobile and wireless systems; Multimedia systems; Sensor networks; Fault tolerance; Reliability and performance evaluation; Real-time intelligent systems Return to top > Vicky Choi Assistant Professor Ph.D., Rutgers University Office: 2222 KWII Phone: (540) 231-2919 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~vchoi/ Office hours: On leave Research interests: Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Design, analysis and implementation of algorithms; Computational Geometry; Discrete Mathematics Return to top > Dan Dunlap Research Associate Ph.D., Virginia Tech Office: Phone: Email: Webpage: http://teacherbridge.cs.vt.edu/public/users/dunlapd/Home Office hours: TR: 2:00 to 3:00 Research interests: Computer supported collaboration; The internet in education; Technology studies Return to top > Stephen Edwards Associate Professor Ph.D., The Ohio State University Office: 3160H Torgersen Phone: (540) 231-5723 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~edwards/ Office hours: By appointment only Research interests: Software engineering; Reuse; Component-based development; Automated testing; Formal methods; Programming languages; Information retrieval Research Groups: Web-CAT Grader Group (Edwards) Weekly on Fridays from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. in McBryde 604 Built-in Test Wrappers (Edwards) Weekly on Thursdays from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. in McBryde 655 Power Electronics Building Blocks Group (Edwards) Weekly on Mondays from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. in Whittemore 457 Return to top > Csaba J. Egyhazy Associate Professor Ph.D., Case Western Reserve Office: 306 Northern Virginia Center Phone: (703) 538-8372 Email: Webpage: http://www.cs.vt.edu/info/people/vitae/Egyhazy.html Research interests: Operations research; Management information systems; Data, text, and knowledge processing Return to top > Roger W. Ehrich Professor Ph.D., Northwestern University Office: 1129 KWII Phone: (540) 231-5420 Email: Webpage: http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/ehrich/vita.html Office hours: McBryde 636, MW: 2:30 to 3:45 Research interests: Digital picture processing; Image retrieval; Collaboration and collaborative design Return to top > Wu-Chun Feng Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Office: 2209 KWII Phone: (540) 231-1192 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~feng/ Office hours: McBryde 636, TR: 1:45 to 3:00; 4:45 to 5:15 Research interests: High-performance networking and computing; Computational and data grids; Bioinformatics Human-computer interaction Return to top > Edward A. Fox Professor Ph.D., Cornell Office: 2160G Torgersen Phone: (540) 231-5113, (540) 230-6266 Email: Webpage: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/foxinfo.html Office hours: T: 12:00 to 3:00; W: 4:00 to 5:00 and by appointment Research interests: Multimedia information storage and retrieval; Digital libraries; Hypertext/hypermedia; Electronic publishing and text processing; Educational technology and distance learning; Library automation; Artificial intelligence Research Groups: DLRL (Fox) Weekly on Wednesdays from 10:00 - 11:00 in Torg. 2030 ETANA (Fox) Weekly on Wednesdays from 9:00 - 10:00 in Torg. 2030 Return to top > William B. Frakes Associate Professor Ph.D., Syracuse University Office: 302 Northern Virginia Center Phone: (703) 538-8497 Email: Webpage: http://frakes.cs.vt.edu/ Research interests: Software reusability; Software engineering; Experimental methods; Information storage and retrieval Return to top > Denis Gracanin Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette Office: 1135 KWII Phone: (540) 231-2060 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~gracanin/ Office hours: By appointment only Research interests: Distributed virtual environments; Virtual reality and multimedia applications; Modeling and simulation Return to top > Steve Harrison Research Faculty M.S., University of California, Berkeley Office: 1121 KWII Phone: (540) 231-7783, (540) 231-6075 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~srh/ Office hours: McBryde 636, W: 9:00 - 10:00; F: 8:30 - 9:45 (or by appointment at 1121 KWII) Research interests: Ways in which digital technologies displace time, space, and meaning; Currently focusing on how our experience of space will change when all architectural surfaces are active displays; Continuing interest in supporting design processes, particularly modes of learning; Current work looks at many forms of design review. Return to top > H. Rex Hartson Professor Emeritus Ph.D., The Ohio State University Office: 1114 KWII Phone: (540) 231-4857 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~hartson/ Office hours: McBryde 618: TR, 1:00 to 1:45 Research interests: Human-computer interaction; Usability engineering; Usability development processes; Usability engineering support tools; Usability problem analysis and diagnosis Return to top > Lenwood S. Heath Professor Ph.D., University of North Carolina Office: 2160J Torgersen Phone: (540) 231-4352 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~heath/ Office hours: TR: 9:30 to 11:00 Research interests: Algorithms; Graph theory; Bioinformatics; Computational biology; Symbolic computation; Computational geometry; Theoretical computer science; Combinatorics; Topology Return to top > Deborah Hix Senior Research Scientist Ph.D., Virginia Tech Office: 1152 KWII Phone: (540) 231-6199 Email: Webpage: http://www.cs.vt.edu/site_archive/info/people/vitae/Hix.html Office hours: By appointment Research interests: Usability engineering of complex interactive systems; Usability evaluation; Design of usable virtual reality, augmented reality, and bioinformatics applications Return to top > Dennis G. Kafura Professor and Department Head Ph.D., Purdue University Office: 1107 KWII Phone: (540) 231-8452 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~kafura/ Office hours: By appointment only Research interests: Security; Grid computing; Object-oriented programming; Concurrency; Distributed object systems; Operating systems; Software engineering Return to top > Andrea Kavanaugh Senior Research Scientist; Associate Director, Center for Human Computer Interaction Ph.D., Virginia Tech Office: 1137 KWII Phone: (540) 231-1806 Email: Webpage: http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/users/kavan/ Research interests: Human computer interaction; Communication behavior and effects; Development communication Return to top > Gregory Kulczycki Assistant Professor Ph.D., Clemson University Office: 312B Northern Virginia Center Phone: (703) 538-3758 Email: Webpage: http://www.nvc.vt.edu/gregwk/ Office hours: By appointment Research interests: Component-based software development; Language design; Formal methods Return to top > Chang-Tien Lu Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Office: 310 Northern Virginia Center Phone: (703) 538-8373 Email: Webpage: http://europa.nvc.cs.vt.edu/~ctlu/ Research interests: Spatial databases; Data mining; Data warehousing; Geographic information systems; Transportation data visualization Return to top > Madhav Marathe Professor Ph.D., SUNY, Albany Office: 1800 Pratt Dr., Bldg, XV Phone: (540) 231-8832 Email: Webpage: http://ndssl.vbi.vt.edu/people/mmarathe.html Office hours: By appointment Research interests: Theoretical computer science; Combinatorial optimization; Complex networks; Interaction-based modeling of biological and socio-technical systems Research Group: Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab Return to top > Scott McCrickard Associate Professor Ph. D., Georgia Tech Office: 1118 KWII Phone: (540) 231-6698 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~mccricks/ Office hours: By appointment only Research interests: Notification systems; Human-computer interaction; Reuse and knowledge management in HCI; Peripheral displays; Ubiquitous computing Research Group: Notification Systems Seminar (McCrickard) Twice weekly on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30-5:30 in McBryde 104 Return to top > William McQuain Instructor M.S., Virginia Tech Office: 634 McBryde Phone: (540) 231-5605 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~mcquain/ Office hours: MWF, 10:00 to 11:00; TR, 2:00 to 4:00 Research interests: Numerical analysis; Mathematical software Return to top > T. M. Murali Assistant Professor Ph.D., Brown University Office: 2160B Torgersen Phone: (540) 231-8534 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~murali/ Office hours: MW: 10:00 to 12:00 Research interests: Bioinformatics; Computational and systems biology; Computational geometry and data visualization; Design and analysis of algorithms Return to top > Dimitris Nikolopoulos Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Patras Office: 2217 KWII Phone: (540) 231-0491 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~dsn Office hours: By appointment only Research interests: Parallel computer architecture (hardware/software interface); Multicore/multithreaded processors; Adaptive memory hierarchies; System software and runtime environments; Embedded and power-aware multiprocessors Return to top > Chris North Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park Office: 1142 KWII Phone: (540) 231-2458 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~north Office hours: TR: 2:00 to 3:00 Research interests: Human-computer interaction; Information visualization; User interface software Return to top > Alexey Onufriev Assistant Professor Ph.D., Brown University Office: 2160C Torgersen Phone: (540) 231-4237 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~onufriev/ Office hours: M: 2:30 to 4:30 Research interests: Computational/theoretical biophysics and chemistry; Structural bioinformatics; Numerical methods; Scientific programming Return to top > Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones Associate Professor D.Sc., The George Washington University Office: 1125 KWII Phone: (540) 231-2646 Email: Webpage: http://perez.cs.vt.edu/ Office hours: By appointment only Research interests: Human-computer interaction; Multi-platform user interfaces; User interface software; Educational uses of computers Research Group: Dialogue Research Group Return to top > Francis Quek Professor; Director, Center for Human Computer Interaction Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Office: 1130 KWII Phone: (540) 231-8453 Email: Webpage: http://www.hci.vt.edu/ Office hours: MW: 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Research interests: Computer vision (dynamic vision, color, object recognition); Computational multimodal language analysis; Human computer interaction (HCI); Medical imaging and visualization; Video analysis for multi-media database access; Robot navigation Return to top > Naren Ramakrishnan Associate Professor Ph.D., Purdue University Office: 2160L Torg Phone: 231-8451 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~ramakris/ Office hours: By appointment only Research interests: Software problem solving environments; Recommender systems; Data mining; Personalization Research Group: Cell Cycle Modeling (Ramakrishnan, Shaffer, Watson), Weekly, Thursdays 2:00 to 3:30 in Derring 2095. Return to top > Calvin J. Ribbens Associate Professor and Associate Department Head Ph.D., Purdue University Office: 1108 KWII Phone: (540) 231-6262 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~ribbens/ Office hours: Torg 2050: TR: 9:00 to 10:30; KWII 1108: MW: 2:00 to 3:00 Research interests: Parallel and high performance computing; Problem solving environments; Numerical methods for linear algebra and PDEs; Mathematical software; Grid computing Return to top > Adrian Sandu Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Iowa Office: 2224 KWII Phone: (540) 231-2193 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~asandu/ Office hours: M, 12:15 to 1:15 Research interests: Computational science; Numerical methods; Parallel computing; Scientific and engineering applications Return to top > Eunice Santos Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Office: 2239 KWII Phone: (540) 231-5368 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~santos/ Office hours: By appointment only Research interests: Parallel and distributed processing; Scientific computing; Computational biology; Algorithms; Complexity Return to top > João Carlos Setubal Associate Professor; Deputy Director, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Ph.D., University of Washington Office: 211D VBI Building Phone: (540) 231-9464 Email: Webpage: https://www.vbi.vt.edu/article/view/147 Office hours: By appointment Research interests: Bioinformatics; Computational biology; Genomics; Design and analysis of algorithms; Combinatorial optimization Return to top > Clifford A. Shaffer Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Maryland Office: 2000A Torgersen Phone: (540) 231-4354 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer/ Office hours: TR, 2:00 to 3:00 Research interests: Problem Solving Environments; Bioinformatics; Computer-supported cooperative work; Component architectures; Computer-aided education; Visualization; Hierarchical data structures; Algorithm design and analysis; Data structures Research Groups: Cell Cycle Modeling (Shaffer, Watson), Weekly on Mondays from 2:00 - 3:30 in Derring 2095 Algorithm Visualization Research Group Return to top > Elisa D. Sotelino Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Professor, Computer Science Ph.D., Brown University Office: 214 Patton Phone: (540) 231-3174 Email: Webpage: http://www.cee.vt.edu/people/elisa.html Office hours: By appointment only Research interests: Parallel and distributed computing; Computational structural analysis (finite element analysis); Algorithms; Numerical analysis; Solid mechanics Return to top > Deborah Tatar Associate Professor Ph.D., Stanford University Office: 1123 KWII Phone: (540) 231-8457 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/dtatar/ Office hours: McBryde 636, T: 12:30 to 1:30 or by appointment Research interests: Real-world technology projects that promote equity and excellence in K-12 math & science classrooms and university engineering education; Human-computer interaction; CSCW; Handheld, tablet, and large-screen computing; Social attention and technology Research Group: Pragmatics of Educational Technology (POET) (Tatar) Wednesdays from 2:00 to 3:30 in Torg. 3180 Return to top > Eli Tilevich Assistant Professor Ph.D., Georgia Tech Office: 2213 KWII Phone: (540) 231-3475 Email: Webpage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~tilevich/ Office hours: McBryde 636, M: 7:00 to 8:00; W: 4:00 to 5:00 Research interests: Systems and programming languages end of software engineering; Software tools for distributed computing; Middleware; Novel programming paradigms Return to top > Srinidhi Varadarajan Associate Professor Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook Office: 2214 KWII Phone: (540) 231-5275 Email: Webpage: http://www.csrl.cs.vt.edu/~srinidhi/ Office hours: On leave Research interests: Parallel simulation; Runtime systens Compositional systems; Parallel fault tolerance; Network routing algorithms Return to top > Anil Vullikanti Assistant Professor Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science Office: RB XV, 1880 Pratt Dr., VBI Phone: (540) 231-3968 Email: