UMBC LAIT

Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore Maryland 21250 USA

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Core UMBC Faculty

David Ebert, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

, 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.

Timothy Finin, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge and database systems, natural language processing, agent-based systems.

Yannis Labrou , Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

, Ph.D. in COmputer Science, Universityu of Maryland Baltimore County. Software agents, AI, Electronic COmmerce.

Jim Mayfield , Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Berkeley. Dr. Mayfield's research interests lie in natural language processing, information extraction, and hypertext..

Ethan Miller , Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

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. .

Charles Nicholas , Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

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. .

Alan T. Sherman, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

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

Yun Peng, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

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..

Associated faculty and researchers

Kip Canfield, Associate Professor of Information Systems

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.

Henry H. Emurian, Associate Professor of Information Systems

Ph.D. in Psychology, The American University. User Interfaces, intelligent agents, human factors.

Timothy Foresman , Assistant Professor of Geography

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

Kostas Kalpakis , Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Ph.D. in Computer Science, UMBC. Electronic commerce, databases, algorithms.

Donald P. McKay, Lockheed-Martin

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

Anthony F. Norcio, Professor and Chair, Information Systems

Ph.D. in Psychology, Catholic University. Intelligent human-computer interfaces, software design, user modeling, adaptive interfaces.

Aya Soffer , Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

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.

Ramesh Venkataraman , Assistant Professor of Information Systems.

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.

Yelena Yesha, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

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.

Dr. Zonglin Zhou, Visiting scholar, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

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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