Research Areas of Faculty Members

Faculty	Research Areas
Dr. Cory Butz	Artificial Intelligence; Bayesian Networks; Database Systems; Information Retrieval
Dr. Lisa Fan	Rough Set Applications; Computer Education; Software Engineering
Dr. David Gerhard	Major research areas: Computer Music and Audio; Speech Recognition; Signal Processing; Secondary research areas: Human-Computer Interaction; Information Retrieval Natural Language Processing; Analysis and (re)synthesis; Auditory Scene Analysis; Multimedia
Dr. Howard Hamilton	Databases: knowledge discovery in databases; data mining; Artificial Intelligence: machine discovery; machine learning; natural-language processing; Computer Animation: animation software design
Dr. Daryl Hepting	Human-Computer Interaction; Scientific ; Visualization; Computer Graphics
Dr. Orland Hoeber	Information Visualization; Visual Analytics; Geovisual Analytics; Web/Image Search; Mobile Computing
Dr. Bob Hilderman	Knowledge discovery and data mining; Parallel and distributed computing; Software engineering; Human-computer interaction
Dr. R.B. Maguire	The application of technology assisted learning with an emphasis on the use of multimedia and on-line learning in education, training and continuing education of professionals for the information technology community.
Dr. Malek Mouhoub	Knowledge Representation; Constraint Programming; Temporal Reasoning Scheduling and Planning; Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering
Dr. Samira Sadaoui	Software Reuse; Formal Methods: algebraic specifications and process algebra; Agent-oriented Software Engineering; Assistance in the Development of Formal Specifications; Constraint Solving & Programming; Knowledge Compilation in Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Larry Saxton	Database theory as it applies to the design of ordered databases, such as Web services, and data warehousing.
Dr. Boting Yang	Design and analysis of algorithms; Computational geometry; Graph theory; Combinatorial optimization
Dr. Xue Dong Yang	Computer Graphics; Scientific Visualization Medical Imaging; Simulation
Dr. JingTao Yao	Data mining;Soft computing; Web intelligence systems
Dr. Yiyu Yao	Intelligent Information Systems: Information retrieval; data mining and data analysis; retrieval models; retrieval techniques; system evaluation Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence: Uncertain reasoning; uncertainty measures; uncertainty management; non-classical logics; fuzzy sets; rough sets; interval computation and reasoning; granular computing; applications of measurement theory and decision theory
Dr. Sandra Zilles	Computational learning theory (interactive learning, query learning, inductive inference); Artificial intelligence (machine learning, search and planning); Formal languages (pattern languages, learning regular languages)