Research

With over $15 million in active research projects supported by organizations such as NSF, AFOSR, DOE, DHS, DARPA, and NIH, our highly qualified faculty enjoy teaching and research in a broad range of research specialization areas. Below is a list of our research areas with the faculty participating in each area. At the bottom of the page you will find a list of links to specific research groups and projects.

Research Areas and Participating Faculty

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Genetic and evolutionary algorithms, reinforcement learning, neural networks, planning and evaluation, machine learning.

Participating Faculty: Darrell Whitley, Charles Anderson, Asa Ben-Hur, Adele Howe, Ross Beveridge, Bruce Draper

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: Requirements analysis, software architecture and design, process evaluation, software testing and reliability, sotware evolution, program comprehension, object-oriented techniques, modeling all aspects of software development.

Participating Faculty: James Bieman, Robert France, Yashwant Malaiya, Sudipto Ghosh, Indrakshi Ray

COMPUTER NETWORKS: Trusted/secure computing and network modeling, distributed systems and protocols, network security and measurements, immersive systems, fault tolerance.

Participating Faculty: Daniel Massey, Christos Papadopoulos, Indrajit Ray, Indrakshi Ray

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTATION: Static and dynamic program analysis and optimization, parallel computing, distributed systems, compilers and specialized high-level languages, for programming FPGAs.

Participating Faculty: Wim Bohm, Sanjay Rajopadhye, Michelle Strout, Shrideep Pallickara

DATA SECURITY AND PRIVACY: Data privacy and anonymity, secure data streams, secure clouds, access control, trust models and trust management, information flow models, security protocols, security analysis, human factors in security, attack modeling, security risk management, vulnerabilities, quantitative methods.

Participating Faculty: Indrajit Ray, Indrakshi Ray, Yashwant Malaiya

BIOINFORMATICS: Protein bioinformatics: prediction of protein function and interactions, alternative splicing, applications of kernel methods in bioinformatics. Algorithms for computational problems in genomics and transcriptomics, genome sequencing and resequencing, detection of transcription regulatory elements.

Participating Faculty: Asa Ben-Hur, Christina Boucher

COMPUTER VISION AND GRAPHICS: Semantic object recognition, modeling the human expert recognition pathway, embedded real-time computer vision, 3D model-based object recognition and adaptive object recognition.

Participating Faculty: Ross Beveridge, Bruce Draper

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: Cloud computing, real-time stream processing, virtualization, content dissemination systems, MapReduce, large-scale topologies, and scalable storage systems.

Participating Faculty: Shrideep Pallickara, Sangmi Pallickara

BIG DATA: Analytics, high-throughput storage and retrieval, time-series data, metadata, provenance, and visualization.

Participating Faculty: Sangmi Pallickara

HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI): Leveraging human perception and performance to support end-user interaction, alternative interaction techniques for mobile interaction.

Participating Faculty: Jaime Ruiz

ALGORITHMS: Graph-theoretic algorithms, combinatorial algorithms, text algorithms, certificates of correctness, combinatorial optimization.

Participating Faculty: Ross McConnell

Publications and Technical Reports

Department Technical Reports

Research Groups and Projects

• Artificial Intelligence Group
  • Reinforcement Learning and Control
  • EEG Pattern Analysis for Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Intelligent Agents for Protecting Users in Cyberspace
  • Exploiting Problem Structures in Scheduling
  • Evolutionary Algorithms & Search
• Computer Vision Group
  • Evaluation of Face Recognition Algorithms
  • Biomemetic Vision
• Software Engineering Group
  • Middleware Transparent Software Development
  • Software Assurance Laboratory
  • Testing UML Designs
  • Testing, Reliability & Security (Malaiya and Jayasumana)
• Computer Networks and Security Group
  • Current Network and Network Security Projects
  • Addressing Security Challenges in Pervasive Computing Applications
  • Trustworthy Systems from Untrustworthy Actors
  • Secure and Survivable Transaction Processing
  • Defense Against and Recovery from Cyber Attacks
  • Specification, Analysis, Integration and Evolution of Security Policies
  • Intelligent Agents for Protecting Users in Cyberspace
• High Performance Computation Group
  • High Level High Performance Embedded Computing Systems
  • The Granules Runtime for Cloud Computing
  • PIES: Parallelization using Inspector/Executor Strategies
  • SAXS: Data Analysis for Small Angle X-ray Scattering
  • SAIMI: Separating Algorithm and Implementation via Programming Model Injection
  • Cameron
  • OpenAnalysis