Computer Science faculty members conduct research in numerous areas. Below is a list of areas of interest to each departmental faculty member. For more information about individual faculty members and specific research projects, please visit the linked home pages.
James D. Arthur
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University
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- Software engineering, verification, and validation (methods and methodologies supporting software quality assessment and IV&V activities)
- Parallel and distributed computation (shared dataspace models)
- User support environments
- Translator systems
- Requirements engineering
Godmar Back
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Utah
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- Operating systems
- Runtime systems and virtual machines
- Software reliability
- Static analysis
- Domain-specific languages
Osman Balci
Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University
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- Software engineering
- Network-centric software engineering
- E-Systems engineering (e.g., e-solutions, e-business, e-commerce)
- Software independent verification and validation (IV&V)
- Modeling and simulation
- Modeling methodology
- Verification, validation, testing, certification, accreditation, credibility assessment, and quality assessment of models and simulations
Christopher L. Barrett
Professor
Ph.D., Caltech
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- 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
N. Dwight Barnette
Instructor
M.S., Virginia Tech
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- User-controlled hypermedia/multimedia knowledge bases;
- Instructional computing
- Cognitive learning models of networked information
Shawn Bohner
Associate Professor
Ph.D., George Mason University
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- Software engineering
- Software architecture
- Software evolution and maintenance
- Software impact analysis
- Software project management
- Process and metrics
Athman Bouguettaya
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
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- Internet/Web databases
- Mobile computing and databases
- Workflows
- Electronic commerce
Doug A. Bowman
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Georgia Tech
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- Three-dimensional interaction techniques
- User interfaces for virtual environments
- Experimental analysis of human performance in virtual environments
- Virtual environments
- Usability evaluation
- Human-computer interaction
- Computer graphics
Ali Butt
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University
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Kirk W. Cameron
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Louisiana State
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- High-performance and grid computing;
- Parallel and distributed systems;
- Computer architecture;
- Power-aware systems;
- Performance evaluation and prediction
Yang Cao
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California
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- 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)
Yong Cao
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
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Computer Graphics
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Computer Animation and Full Body Animation
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Machine Learning for Motion Synthesis
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Hardware Acceleration with GPU
Professor and Northern Virginia Center Program Director
Ph.D., University of Houston
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- Mobile and wireless systems
- Multimedia systems
- Sensor networks
- Fault tolerance
- Performance and reliability modeling
- Reliability and performance evaluation
- Real-time intelligent systems
Vicky Choi
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers University
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- Bioinformatics
- Computational biology
- Design, analysis and implementation of algorithms
- Computational geometry
- Discrete mathematics
Dan Dunlap
Research Associate
Ph.D., Virginia Tech
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- Computer supported collaboration
- The internet in education
- Technology studies
Stephen Edwards
Associate Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
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- Software engineering
- Reuse
- Component-based development
- Automated testing
- Computer science education
- Formal methods
- Object-oriented programming
- Programming languages
- Information retrieval
Csaba J. Egyhazy
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve
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- Operations research
- Management information systems
- Data, text, and knowledge processing
- Intelligent agents
- Medical informatics
- Software architecture
Roger W. Ehrich
Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
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- Digital picture processing
- Image retrieval
- Collaboration and collaborative design
- Data compression
- Human-computer interface design and evaluation
- Image analysis
Wu-Chun Feng
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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- High-performance networking and computing
- Computational and data grids
- Bioinformatics, Human-Computer Interaction
Edward A. Fox
Professor
Ph.D., Cornell
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- Multimedia information storage and retrieval
- Digital libraries
- Educational technology
- Distance learning
- Electronic publishing and text processing
- Hypertext/hypermedia
- Library automation
- Artificial intelligence
- Network/WWW information and modeling
William B. Frakes
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University
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- Software reusability
- Software engineering
- Experimental methods
- Information storage and retrieval
Denis Gracanin
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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- Distributed virtual environments
- Virtual reality and multimedia applications
- Modeling and simulation
Steven Harrison
Research Scientist
M.S., University of California, Berkeley
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- Ways in which digital technologies displace time, space, and meaning
- How our experience of space will change when all architectural surfaces are active displays
- Computer-supported cooperative work
- Communicative surfaces (architecture-scale presence
- Design processes, particularly modes of learning
- Design review
- Design studies
- Human-computer interaction
- Media space
- New interactive genres
- Studies of engineering practice
H. Rex Hartson
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Ohio State University
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Human-Computer Interaction
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Usability Engineering
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Usability development processes
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Usability engineering support tools
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Usability problem analysis and diagnosis
Lenwood S. Heath
Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
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- Computational biology and bioinformatics
- Microarray experimentation (Expresso)
- Experimental data analysis and mining
- Experimental design
- Statistical methods
- Regulatory motifs in eukaryotes
- Sequence analysis
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Algorithms
- Combinatorics
- Computational algebra
- Computational geometry
- Graph theory and algorithms
- Topology
Deborah Hix
Senior Research Scientist
Ph.D., Virginia Tech
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- Usability engineering of complex interactive systems
- Usability evaluation
- Design of usable virtual reality and augmented reality applications
Dennis G. Kafura
Professor and Department Head
Ph.D., Purdue University
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- Security in distributed systems
- Grid computing
- Concurrency
- Distributed object systems
- Object-oriented programming
- Operating systems
- Software engineering
Andrea Kavanaugh
Senior Research Scientist
Associate Director, Center for Human Computer Interaction
Ph.D., Virginia Tech
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- Human computer interaction
- Communication behavior and effects
- Development communication
Gregory Kulczycki
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Clemson University
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- Component-based software development
- Language design
- Formal methods
Chang-Tien Lu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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- Spatial databases
- Spatial data mining
- Data warehousing
- Geographic information systems
- Transportation data visualization
Madhav Marathe
Professor
Ph.D., SUNY, Albany
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- Theoretical computer science
- Combinatorial optimization
- Complex networks
- Interaction-based modeling of biological and socio-technical systems
Scott McCrickard
Assistant Professor
Ph. D., Georgia Tech
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- Notification systems
- Human-computer interaction
- Reuse and knowledge management in HCI
- Information visualization
- Peripheral displays
- Peripheral interfaces
- Usability evaluation
- User interfaces
- Ubiquitous computing
David McPherson
Instructor
M.S., Virginia Tech; M.S., Radford University
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- Educational uses of computers
- Software engineering
William McQuain
Instructor
M.S., Virginia Tech
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- Numerical analysis
- Mathematical software
T. M. Murali
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
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- Bioinformatics
- Computational systems biology
- Computational geometry and data visualization
- Design and analysis of algorithms
Dimitris Nikolopoulos
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Patras
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- Parallel computer architecture
- Multicore-multithreaded processors
- Adaptive memory hierarchies
- System software and runtime environments
- Embedded and power-aware multiprocessors
Christopher North
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
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- Bioinformatics
- Human-computer interaction
- Information visualization
- User interface software
Alexey Onufriev
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
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- Computational/theoretical biophysics and chemistry
- Structural bioinformatics
- Dynamics of large biomolecular systems
- Numerical methods
- Scientific programming
- Solvation effects in biological system modeling
Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones
Assistant Professor
D.Sc., The George Washington University
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- Human-computer interaction
- Multi-platform user interfaces
- User interface software
- Discourse and pragmatics in interactive systems
- Educational uses of computers
- Social/cultural issues in computing
Francis Quek
Professor
Director, Center for Human Computer Interaction
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Computational multimodal language analysis
- Computer vision (dynamic vision, color, object recognition)
- Human computer interaction (HCI)
- Medical imaging and visualization
- Video analysis for multi-media database access
- Robot navigation
Naren Ramakrishnan
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University
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- Data mining
- Information personalization
- Recommender systems
- Software problem-solving environments
Calvin J. Ribbens
Associate Professor and Associate Department Head
Ph.D., Purdue University
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- Parallel and high performance computing
- Problem solving environments
- Numerical methods for linear algebra and PDEs
- Mathematical software
- Numerical analysis
- Scientific computing
- Grid computing
Adrian Sandu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa
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- Atmospheric modeling
- Computational biology
- Computational science;
- Data assimilation
- Multi-step methods for biomolecular modeling
- Numerical methods
- Parallel computing
- Scientific and engineering applications
Eunice Santos
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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- Parallel and distributed processing
- Scientific computing
- Computational biology
- Algorithms
- Complexity
- Computational science and genetic algorithms
- Parallel algorithm design and complexity
- Parallel numerical linear algebra
- Parallel tools and environments
Joao Carlos Setubal
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington
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- Algorithms
- Bioinformatics
- Computational biology
- Genomics
- Design and analysis of algorithms
- Combinatorial optimization
Clifford A. Shaffer
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland
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- Problem-solving environments
- Bioinformatics
- Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW)
- Component architectures
- Computer-aided education
- Data visualization
- Computer graphics
- User interface design
- Visualization
- Hierarchical data structures
- Algorithm design and analysis
- Data structures
Elisa D. Sotelino
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Brown University
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- Parallel and distributed computing
- Computational structural analysis (finite element analysis)
- Algorithms
- Numerical analysis
- Solid mechanics
Deborah Tatar
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University
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- Real-world technology projects that promote equity and excellence in K-12 math & science classrooms and university engineering education
- Human-computer interaction
- Computer-supported collaborative learning/cooperative work
- Handheld, tablet, and large-screen computing
- New classroom learning genres
- Psycholinguistic approaches to understanding sociotechnical systems
- Social attention and technology
Eli Tilevich
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Georgia Tech
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- Systems and Programming languages end of software engineering
- Software tools for distributed computing
- Middleware
- Novel programming paradigms
Srinidhi Varadarajan
Associate Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
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- Quality of service guarantees
- Congestion control
- Distributed network simulation
- Network traffic characterization
Anil Vullikanti
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science
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- Randomized and approximation algorithms
- Combinatorial optimization
- Distributed and Mobile computing
- Algorithmic game theory
- Modeling and simulation of social and infrastructure systems
- Bioinformatics
Layne T. Watson
Professor, Computer Science and Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Michigan
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- Numerical analysis
- Nonlinear programming
- Mathematical software
- Fluid mechanics
- Solid mechanics
- Image processing
- Parallel computation
- Computational biology & bioinformatics
Yingen (Eugene) Xiong
Research Scientist, Center for Human Computer Interaction
Ph.D., Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Computational multimodal communication
- Computer vision
- Image and signal processing
- Intelligent manufacturing systems
- Medical image processing and reconstruction
- Vision- and speech-based human-computer interaction
Liqing Zhang
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
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- Computational biology
- Comparative evolutionary genomics
- Functional genomics
- Molecular evolution
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