Faculty Research

Sean Barker

• Smart buildings
  • data analytics
• Sustainability
  • greening homes and IT equipment
• Distributed systems
• Cloud computing
  • resource management in big data systems

David Byrd

• Machine Learning in Financial Markets
• Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
• Securely learning from distributed training data
• Simulation of Complex Systems
• Geographically-distributed mobile devices
• Electronic financial markets
• Responsible Machine Learning (e.g. learning not to spoof a financial market)

Jeová Farias

• Statistical Learning and Spectral Techniques for Image Processing.
• Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Learning
• Discrete Optimization
• New Interpretable Models for Deep Learning
• Applications in Biomedical and SAR imagery.

Cibele Freire

• Resilience problem in databases
• Inconsistent databases
• Computational complexity, with special interest for dichotomy results

Sarah Harmon

• Computational Creativity
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Narrative Intelligence

Mohammad Irfan

• Interdisciplinary areas that combine artificial intelligence with:
  • sociology (e.g, influence in social networks)
  • economics (e.g., microfinance markets)
  • arts (e.g., authentication of Jackson Pollock's paintings)
• Computational geometry and graph drawing

Bobak Kiani

• Quantum computation
• Quantum algorithms
• Machine learning theory

Jeff Knockel

• Security and privacy
• Censorship measurement
• Surveillance measurement
• Internet freedom

Christopher Martin

• Computer Science Education
  • Making Computer Science more approachable and explorative
  • Developing new mindful curriculum and interactive/personalizable assignments
• Education Technology (EdTech)
  • Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  • Visualizations and Gamification
  • Integrating tools into the classroom
• Machine Learning
• Computer Science Ethics

Laura Toma