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<center> <h1>  Faculty and Associates </h1> </center>

<h2> Core UMBC Faculty </h2>

<ul>

<h4> <li> <a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ebert"> David Ebert</a>,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
</h4>, PhD, Ohio State.  Computer graphics and animation; realistic
image generation; interactive scientific, medical, and information
visualization; procedural modeling and animation; modeling natural
phenomena (gases, clouds, water, and fire); advanced rendering and
animation techniques; volumetric rendering; accuracy of medical
visualization techniques; and volumetric displays.


<h4><li>   <a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~finin/">Timothy Finin</a>,
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering</h4>
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Artificial
intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge and
database systems, natural language processing, agent-based systems.

<h4> <li> <a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jklabrou/"> Yannis Labrou
</a>, Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering </h4>, Ph.D. in COmputer Science, Universityu of Maryland
Baltimore County.  Software agents, AI, Electronic COmmerce.

<h4><li> <a
href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~mayfield/personal-info.html">Jim
Mayfield </a>, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering</h4> Ph.D. in Computer Science, Berkeley.  Dr.  Mayfield's
research interests lie in natural language processing, information
extraction, and hypertext..

<h4><li>  <a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~elm/"> Ethan Miller </a>,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering</h4>

Ph.D. in Computer Science Berkeley. Dr. Miller's main
research interest is in storage systems, including tertiary storage
systems (tapes, optical disks) and highly parallel disk systems. He is
also interested in parallel and distributed processing, computer
architecture, and operating systems. .

<h4><li>  <a
href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~nicholas/charles_nicholas.html">Charles
Nicholas </a>, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering</h4>

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Ohio State.
Electronic document processing, software engineering, and database
management.  Dr. Nicholas' recent research projects include a study
of the document interchange standards SGML and ODA, simulation of
distributed hypertext systems, and the use of AI techniques in
hypertext query languages. .

<h4> <li> <a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~sherman"> Alan
T. Sherman</a>, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering </h4>

PhD, MIT. Discrete algorithms, cryptology, VLSI
layout algorithms.




<h4><li>  <a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ypeng/">Yun Peng</a>, Associate
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering</h4>

Ph.D. in Computer Science Maryland College Park.  Artificial
intelligence and expert diagnostic systems.  He is also interested in
graph-theoretic optimization problems and scheduling problems, neural
network learning, and computer simulations of aspects of the origin of
life..


</ul>

<h2> Associated faculty and researchers </h2>

<ul>

<h4><li>  <a href="http://research.umbc.edu/~canfield/"> Kip Canfield</a>,
Associate Professor of Information Systems</h4>

Ph.D. in Medical Informatics, University of Utah.  Healthcare
Informatics, clinical information systems, database modeling,
computer-supported collaborative work, decision support systems, and
network architecture.  computational lexicography, discourse analysis,
and textbase environments.

<h4><li>  <a href="http://research.umbc.edu/~emurian/"> Henry
H. Emurian</a>, Associate Professor of Information Systems</h4>
Ph.D. in Psychology, The American University.  User Interfaces,
intelligent agents, human factors.

<h4><li> <a href="mailto:foresman@research.umbc.edu"> Timothy Foresman
</a>, Assistant Professor of Geography</h4>

Ph.D. in Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara.
Geographic Information Systems.

<h4><li> <a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~kalpakis/"> Kostas Kalpakis
</a>, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering</h4> Ph.D. in Computer Science, UMBC.  Electronic
commerce, databases, algorithms.


<h4><li>  <a href="http://vfl.paramax.com/~mckay/"> Donald P. McKay</a>,
Lockheed-Martin</h4>

Indiana University, SUNY-Buffalo. Knowledge representation and
reasoning, artificial intelligence, database management systems,
software engineering, application of advanced information technology
to education.

<h4><li> <a href="http://research.umbc.edu/~norcio/"> Anthony
F. Norcio, Professor and Chair, Information Systems</a></h4> Ph.D. in
Psychology, Catholic University.  Intelligent human-computer
interfaces, software design, user modeling, adaptive interfaces.

<h4><li>  <a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~soffer/"> Aya Soffer</a> ,
Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering. </h4>

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Maryland College Park. Research interests
include: pictorial information systems, document analysis and
recognition, digital libraries, geographic information systems and
non-traditional database systems.



<h4><li> <a href="http://research.umbc.edu/~venkatar/"> Ramesh
Venkataraman</a> , Assistant Professor of Information Systems.</h4>

Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, University of Arizona.
Dr. Venkataraman's primary research interests are in the areas of
heterogeneous databases, database modeling, software engineering, and
the use of group support systems in education.


<h4><li>  <a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/www/faculty/yeyesha/">Yelena
Yesha</a>, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering</h4>

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Ohio State.  Distributed systems, database
systems, performance modeling.  Dr. Yesha is currently working on
designing tools for optimizing availability in replicated database
systems, designing efficient and highly fault tolerant mutual
exclusion algorithms and developing analytical performance models for
distributed and parallel systems.


<h4> <li> <a href="mailto:zhou@cs.umbc.edu"> Dr. Zonglin Zhou</a>,
Visiting scholar, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.</h4>

Ph.D. in Mathematics, Beijing Normal University of China . He is
currently a research scientist at the Institute of Computing
Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zonglin has specialized
in in statistical mechanics and is also interested in genetic
algorithms and cellular automata.


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