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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING Interim Leadership for Fall 2018 Reda Ammar, Ph.D. Alexander Russell, Ph.D. Interim Department Head Interim Associate Department Head CSE Welcomes New Faculty Derek Aguiar, Ph.D. Qian Yang, Ph.D. Ahmad Jbara, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor in Residence Ph.D., Brown University, 2014 Ph.D., Stanford University, 2018 Ph.D., The Hebrew University [email protected] [email protected] of Jerusalem, 2016 Probabilistic Modelling Machine Learning for [email protected] Computational Biology Physical Science Program Comprehension, Machine Learning Computational Math Code Complexity Metrics Algorithms Applied Algorithms Software Engineering Systems Engineering, Object-Process Methodology Secure Usability The Department of Computer Science & for the first time in our history. Since the start of Engineering (CSE) recently celebrated the 30th the millennium, the department has experienced anniversary of our establishment as an academic significant qualitative evolution, complementing department at the University of Connecticut. our rigorous educational curricula with Yet the history of computer science at the comprehensive research programs in several University actually begins over half a century areas. Our department has excellent and diverse ago with the introduction of our first computing faculty with research and education expertise in courses in the 1960’s. The first defense of a the traditional and emerging fields of computer Ph.D. in Computer Science was held in 1967. The science and engineering. We continue to attract Computer Science curriculum was established talented young faculty, with twelve of our in 1970, and the program was accredited in 1972 faculty winning the prestigious National Science among the very first undergraduate programs in Foundation Career Awards since the turn of the field of Computer Science. As we enter our the century. Our presence remains strong in the next epoch, Computer Science & Engineering community as we fulfill our mission of research, A NOTE encompasses broad areas of intellectual education, industrial and public outreach, and discourse in informatics spanning a plethora service to the profession. I invite you to browse FROM THE of educational and research activities ranging our website at www.cse.uconn.edu where you DEPARTMENT from the very foundations of computability will find detailed information on our academic HEAD to the challenges of building dependable and programs at the undergraduate and graduate secure computer and cyber-physical systems levels, research and teaching profiles of our that underlie much of the modern society faculty, and student societies. I am confident you endeavors. The department is ever-growing; will find a topic that sparks your interest. As you our undergraduate enrollment has doubled in get to know us better do not hesitate to contact the last four years and the number of doctoral us. We will be happy to answer your questions. students exceeds one hundred for the first time. Our faculty now Sincerely, includes more than thirty Alexander A. Schwarzmann full-time members Department Head REDA A. AMMAR BENJAMIN FULLER Professor and Director of Engineering Assistant Professor Global Programs Ph.D., Boston University, 2015 Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1983 [email protected] [email protected] • Cryptography • Performance Engineering • Security • Underwater Computer Systems • Information-Theory • Big Data Analytics • Complexity • Real-time Distributed Systems MUKUL S. BANSAL SWAPNA S. GOKHALE Assistant Professor Associate Professor CSE FACULTY Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2009 Ph.D., Duke University, 1998 [email protected] [email protected] • Computational Biology and Bioinformatics • Social Media • Computational Molecular Evolution • Software Engineering • Combinatorial Optimization • Performance and Dependability Analysis • Algorithms KEITH BARKER SONG HAN Professor Assistant Professor University Teaching Fellow Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2012 Ph.D., Sheeld University, 1966 [email protected] [email protected] • Cyber-Physical Systems • Computer Science Education • Real-Time and Embedded Systems • Curriculum and Technology Development • Large-Scale Real-Time Data Management • Instructional Design • Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing JINBO BI Associate Professor AMIR HERZBERG Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2003 Professor and Comcast Chair [email protected] for Security Innovation D.Sc., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1991 • Machine Learning [email protected] • Statistical Data Mining • Large Scale Optimization • Security and Privacy for Internet and beyond • Biomedical Informatics • Applied Cryptography • Secure Usability and Human-Computer Interaction PHILLIP BRADFORD Associate Professor in-Residence CHUN-HSI HUANG Director of Computer Science, Associate Professor Stamford Regional Campus Ph.D., State University of New York at Bu¥alo, 2001 Ph.D., Indiana University, 1995 [email protected] [email protected] • Graph Algorithms • Applied Algorithms, Optimization and • Parallel Computing Machine Learning • Cluster/Grid Computing • Security, Programming Languages, Data Analytics • Bioinformatics • Computational Finance, Auctions, Bitcoin/Blockchain JOSEPH JOHNSON Associate Professor in-Residence C. AUGUSTO CASAS Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs Associate Professor in-Residence in Computing Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University, 2002 Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2016 [email protected] [email protected] • Computational Finance • Computational Semantics • Financial Planning Informatics • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning • Legal Informatics • Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning STEVEN A. DEMURJIAN MOHAMMAD MAIFI HASAN KHAN Professor Assistant Professor Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1987 Ph.D., University of Illinois, [email protected] Urbana-Champaign, 2011 maifi[email protected] • Role-based, Discretionary, and Mandatory Access Control • Performance Analysis of Large Scale Systems • Mobile and Cloud Computing with Access Control • Design of Dynamic Data Driven • Secure Software Engineering Application Systems • Software Architectures for Biomedical Informatics • Human-Machine Interaction PARASARA SRIDHAR DUGGIRALA WALTER O. KRAWEC Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2015 Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology, 2015 [email protected] [email protected] • Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems • Quantum Cryptography and Communication • Formal Methods and Verification • Computer Security • Control Theory • Information Theory • Software Verification ION MANDOIU ALEXANDER C. RUSSELL Professor Professor and Director of the Graduate Program Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000 Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute [email protected] of Technology, 1996 [email protected] • Approximation Algorithms • Combinatorial Optimization • Computational Complexity • Bioinformatics • Cryptography • Computational Genomics • Distributed Computing ROBERT MCCARTNEY DONALD SHEEHY Associate Professor and Director of Assistant Professor Undergraduate Computing Education Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2011 Ph.D., Brown University, 1988 [email protected] [email protected] • Computational Geometry • Computing Education • Mesh Generation • Informal and Self-directed Learning • Topological Data Analysis • Commonsense Computing • Artificial Intelligence ZHIJIE “JERRY” SHI Associate Professor JEFFREY A. MEUNIER Ph.D., Princeton University, 2004 Lecturer and Coordinator of [email protected] Freshman Computing Education M.S., University of Connecticut, 1999 • Computer Security je¥[email protected] • Sensor Networks • Computer Architecture • Computer Science Education • Embedded Systems • Microcontrollers, Automation, Robotics • Programming Languages and Abstract Machines DONG-GUK SHIN FEI MIAO Professor Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1985 Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2016 [email protected] [email protected] • Bioinformatics • Cyber-Physical Systems • Visual User Interfaces • Autonomous Transportation Systems • Biomedical Big Data Analysis • Optimization and Control • Intelligent Software Agents • Database Interoperation LAURENT MICHEL Professor and Associate Department Head Ph.D., Brown University, 1999 ALEXANDER A. SCHWARZMANN [email protected] Professor and Department Head Ph.D., Brown University, 1992 • Combinatorial Optimization [email protected] • Constraint Programming/Local Search • Security/Voting • Distributed Computing and Fault Tolerance • Programming Languages • Electronic Voting Systems and Security • Artificial Intelligence • Parallel and Distributed Algorithms • Formal Specification and Modeling SHEIDA NABAVI Assistant Professor Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2008 BING WANG [email protected] Professor Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2005 • Statistical Machine Learning [email protected] • Computational Genomics • Signal/Image Processing • Computer Networks • Translational Bioinformatics • Multimedia • Distributed Systems TOM PETERS Professor Ph.D., Wesleyan University, 1982 WEI WEI [email protected] Assistant Professor in-Residence Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2006 • Computational Topology [email protected] • Computer Aided Geometric Design • Computational Geometry • Computer Networks • Design Theory • Social Networks • Performance Evaluation SANGUTHEVAR RAJASEKARAN