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Zhen Bai

Bai, Zhen

Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science, Goergen Institute for Data Science

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3007 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7758
Web Address
Website

Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Augmented Reality; Tangible User Interfaces; Embodied Conversational Agent; Technology-Enhanced Learning; Computer-Supported Collaborative Work; Assistive Technology; Machine Learning for HCI

Abigail Burton

Burton, Abigail

Department Coordinator

Office Location
2601 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5671

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Mujdat Cetin

Cetin, Mujdat

Robin and Tim Wentworth Director, Goergen Institute for Data Science

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor of Computer Science

Director, New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science

Office Location
1211 Wegmans Hall and 719 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 276-5061

Interests: computational sensing and imaging as applied to radar and biomedical imaging; probabilistic methods for image and video analysis as applied to biomedical image analysis, microscopic neuroimaging, and computer vision; signal processing and machine learning for brain-computer/machine interfaces, with applications for alternative communication and rehabilitation for patients and monitoring of cognitive states

Dave Costello

Costello, Dave

Manager Computing Systems, Resources and Technologies | Operations Systems Analyst/Programmer Lead

Office Location
3311 Wegmans Hall
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John Criswell

Criswell, John

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3405 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1118
Web Address
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Interests: Computer Security; Automatic compiler transformations; Secure Virtual Architecture

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Chen Ding

Ding, Chen

Professor of Computer Science

Chair, Department of Computer Science

Office Location
3407 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1373
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Interests: Locality theory and optimization; Compilers and run-time systems to improve locality and parallelism; Memory management; Parallel programming; High-performance computing

Zhiyao Duan

Duan, Zhiyao

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science

Office Location
720 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-5302
Web Address
Website

Interests: Computer Audition; Audio Signal Processing; Machine Learning; Music Information Retrieval

Sandhya Dwarkadas

Dwarkadas, Sandhya

Visiting Research Professor of Computer Science

Web Address
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Interests: Parallel and distributed computing; Computer architecture and networks; Interaction and interface between the compiler, runtime system, and underlying architecture; Software distributed shared memory; Integrated compiler and runtime support for parallelism; Simulation methodology; Uniprocessor and multiprocessor architectures; Parallel applications development; Performance evaluation

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George Ferguson

Ferguson, George

Professor of Computer Science (Instruction) Co-Director Computer Science Undergraduate Program

Office Location
2103 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Artificial intelligence; Intelligent agents; Agent communication languages; Agent architectures; User interfaces: speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue, conversational agents; Temporal reasoning: representation, planning, scheduling; Semantic web: ontologies, knowledge-based systems

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Tony Geng

Geng, Tong (Tony)

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science

Office Location
723 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-1735
Web Address
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Interests: Computer architecture; Graph learning; Machine learning; Accelerators for AI; High-performance computing

Daniel Gildea

Gildea, Daniel

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3019 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7230
Web Address
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Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing

Yanan Guo

Guo, Yanan

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3403 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Microarchitectural side channels; Software security; Machine learning security; GPU systems and architectures; Memory systems

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Ralf Haefner

Haefner, Ralf

Associate Professor

Office Location
313 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-7453
Web Address
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Interests: perceptual decision-making; probabilistic inference; selective attention; neural population encoding and decoding; depth perception/processing of binocular disparity

Hangfeng He

He, Hangfeng

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

Office Location
3009 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8848
Web Address
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Interests: Machine learning; Natural language processing; Reasoning

Jana Head

Head, Jana

Undergraduate Program Coordinator

Advises 1st and 2nd year, prospective, and transfer students

Office Location
2515 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4505
Wendi Heinzelman

Heinzelman, Wendi

Professor

Dean, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Office Location
309 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 273-3958
Web Address
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Interests: Wireless sensor networks; Mobile ad hoc networks; Multimedia communication; Heterogeneous networking; Cloud computing

Lane A. Hemaspaandra

Hemaspaandra, Lane A.

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
2317 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Computational social choice (elections, preference aggregation, power indices, etc.); Computational complexity theory (counting-based computation, probabilistic computation, unambiguous computation, the importance of query order when accessing databases, the study of efficient algorithms for complex sets, complexity-theoretic aspects of security, fault-tolerance, and data compression, etc.)

Ehsan Hoque

Hoque, Ehsan

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3013 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1351
Web Address
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Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills

Kaave Hosseini

Hosseini, Kaave

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
2507 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Theoretical computer science; Additive combinatorics; Pseudorandomness; Discrete Fourier analysis

Thomas M. Howard

Howard, Thomas M.

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office Location
732 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-3755

Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction

Michael Huang

Huang, Michael

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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science

Office Location
414 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-2111
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Interests: High-performance and energy-efficient computer microarchitecture; non-von Neumann computing; Ising machines

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Robert Jacobs

Jacobs, Robert A.

Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science

Office Location
306 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-0753
Web Address
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Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation

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Anson Kahng

Kahng, Anson

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

Office Location
2401 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Computational social choice; Democracy and computer science; Economics and computation; Artificial intelligence; Theoretical computer science; Algorithmic game theory

Christopher Kanan

Kanan, Christopher

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3017 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Deep Learning; Computer Vision; Cognitive Science; Applied Machine Learning (e.g. Medical Computer Vision)

Jian Kang

Kang, Jian

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3011 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Data mining; Computational social science; Uncertainty quantification; Algorithmic fairness; Trustworthy AI; Machine learning

Kristi Kongmany

Kongmany, Kristi

Grants and Contracts Administrator

Office Location
3509 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5478

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Joseph Loporcaro

Loporcaro, Joseph

Assistant Professor of Digital Media Studies and Computer Science (Instruction)

Office Location
206B Morey Hall

Interests: Video game design, development, theory, and culture; digital media theory and production; mass media and pop culture; technology/media ethics; design thinking, research writing; social media studies; web design and development

Jiebo Luo

Luo, Jiebo

Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3101 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-5784
Web Address
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Interests: Computer Vision; Machine learning; Data Mining; Social Media; Biomedical Informatics; Human Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing

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Gonzalo Mateos

Mateos, Gonzalo

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Asaro Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science

Office Location
726 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-5930
Web Address
Website

Interests: Statistical Signal Processing; Networks; Machine Learning; Decentralized Optimization; Graph Signal Processing

Mary Méndez-Rizzo

Méndez-Rizzo, Mary

Ph.D Program Coordinator

Office Location
3505 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7737
Sarah Mills

Mills, Sarah

Undergraduate Program Coordinator

Advises juniors, seniors, E5, and T5 students

Office Location
2513 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-5903

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Fatemeh Nargesian

Nargesian, Fatemeh

James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3015 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Data management ; Data science ; Data discovery and integration

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Nelson, Randal C.

Professor in Memoriam

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Interests: Machine vision and robotics; Object recognition and learning representations at the interface between feature-based and appearance-based approaches; Vision for manipulation and hand-eye coordination; Motion recognition and analysis, and visual navigation

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Sreepathi Pai

Pai, Sreepathi

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3409 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-2391
Web Address
Website

Interests: Compilers; Heterogeneous Architectures; GPU algorithms; Performance Modeling

Monika Polak

Polak, Monika

Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)

Office Location
2201 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Cryptography; Quantum-Resistant Cryptography; Algebraic Graph Theory; Extremal Graph Theory; Pseudorandomness; Coding Theory

Adam Purtee

Purtee, Adam

Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)

Office Location
2109 Wegmans Hall
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Interests: Natural language understanding ; Knowledge representation ; Commonsense reasoning ; Machine Learning ; Numerical programming

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Nick Quattrociocchi

Quattrociocchi, Nick

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Masters Program Coordinator

Office Location
3303 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8349

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Lenhart K. Schubert

Schubert, Lenhart K.

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3003 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8845
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Interests: Language and dialogue ; Knowledge representation and inference; Schema learning and schema-based behavior ; Self-motivated agents

Michael L. Scott

Scott, Michael L.

Arthur Gould Yates Professor of Engineering

Professor of Computer Science

Former Chair, Department of Computer Science

Office Location
3401 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Systems software for parallel and distributed computing; Programming languages; Operating systems; Synchronization; Transactional memory; Persistent memory

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Sefkow, Adam

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Office Location
205 Hopeman
Telephone
(585) 276-4130
Web Address
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Interests: Inertial confinement fusion; magneto-inertial fusion; high energy density physics; laser-plasma interaction; computational physics; magnetohydrodynamics; particle-in-cell simulations

Gaurav Sharma

Sharma, Gaurav

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor of Computer Science

Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology

Office Location
725 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-7313
Web Address
Website

Interests: Data Analytics; Cyber Physical Systems; Signal and Image Processing; Computer Vision; Media Security; Communications

Daniel Stefankovic

Stefankovic, Daniel

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
2315 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
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Interests: Theoretical computer science: graph theory, combinatorics, Fourier transform, Markov chains/counting, learning theory, phylogeny, game theory, graph equations, routing

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White, Aaron

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Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of FACTS.lab

Office Location
511A Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics

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Yukang Yan

Yan, Yukang

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3103 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Human Behavior Modeling; Virtual/Augmented Reality

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Yuhao Zhu

Zhu, Yuhao

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3501 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Computer Systems and Architecture; Computer Imaging and Graphics; Augmented/Virtual Reality; Human (Visual) Perception and Cognition; Computational Art, Art History, and Aesthetics

Shelley Zoeke

Zoeke, Shelley

Academic Finance and Operations Manager

Office Location
3507 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9478