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Information provided below: Name, section ID number (Explanation / List, used to distinguish that faculty member's sections of research seminars and topics courses), academic rank (for adjuncts, the affiliate organization is given in parentheses), highest degree and date awarded, short list of research and teaching interests, e-mail address, links to home page, biography, honors, and service information.

 

Stan Ahalt, Professor and Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Ph.D. 1986, Clemson University. Signal, image, and video processing; high-performance scientific and industrial computing; pattern recognition applied to national security problems; high-productivity, domain specific languages.  (ahalt at cs.unc.edu)

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Ron Alterovitz (099), Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2006, California-Berkeley. Medical robotics; motion planning; physically-based simulation; optimization; medical image analysis. (ron at cs.unc.edu)

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James Anderson (062), Professor, Ph.D. 1990, Texas-Austin. Real-time systems; distributed and concurrent algorithms; multicore computing; operating systems. (anderson at cs.unc.edu)

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Stephen Aylward, Adjunct Associate Professor (Chief Medical Scientist at Kitware, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC), Ph.D. 1997, UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Sanjoy K. Baruah (078), Professor, Ph.D. 1993, Texas-Austin. Scheduling theory; real-time and safety-critical system design; computer networks; resource allocation and sharing in distributed computing environments. (baruah at cs.unc.edu)

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Gary Bishop (039), Professor, Ph.D. 1984, UNC-Chapel Hill. Hardware and software for man-machine interaction; assistive technology; tracking technologies; 3D interactive computer graphics; virtual environments; image-based rendering. (gb at cs.unc.edu)

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Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (009), Kenan Professor, Ph.D. 1956, Harvard. 3D interactive computer graphics; human-computer interaction; virtual worlds; computer architecture; the design process. (brooks at cs.unc.edu)

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Peter Calingaert (004), Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. 1955, Harvard. (pc at cs.unc.edu)

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Larry Conrad, Professor of the Practice (Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, UNC-Chapel Hill), M.S., Arizona State.

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Brad Davis, Adjunct Assistant Professor (Research & Development Engineer, Kitware, Inc.), Ph.D. 2008, UNC-Chapel Hill. Image analysis, shape analysis, image processing, statistical methods in nonlinear spaces, medical applications, visualization, software engineering.

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Prasun Dewan (063), Professor, Ph.D. 1986, Wisconsin-Madison. User interfaces; distributed collaboration; software engineering environments; mobile computing; access control. (dewan at cs.unc.edu)

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Nick England (067), Adjunct Research Professor (President, 3rdTech, Inc.), E.E. 1974, N.C. State. Systems architectures for graphics and imaging; scientific visualization; volume rendering; interactive surface modeling. (nick at cs.unc.edu)

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Mark Foskey (118), Adjunct Research Assistant Professor (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology), Ph.D. 1994, UC-San Diego. Medical image analysis, especially in cancer therapy; geometric computation. (mark_foskey at unc.edu)

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Rob Fowler (110), Adjunct Professor (Director, HPC Research, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)), Ph.D. University of Washington. (rjf at renci.org)

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Jan-Michael Frahm (097), Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2005, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany. Structure from motion; camera self-calibration; camera sensor systems; multi-camera systems; multi-view stereo; robust estimation; fast tracking of salient features in images and video; computer vision; active vision for model improvement; markerless augmented reality. (jmf at cs.unc.edu)

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Henry Fuchs (011), Federico Gil Professor, Ph.D. 1975, Utah. Virtual environments; telepresence; future office environments; 3D medical imaging; computer vision and robotics. (fuchs at cs.unc.edu)

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Guido Gerig (075), Adjunct Professor (School of Computing/Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah), Ph.D. 1987, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). Image analysis; shape-based object recognition; 3D object representation and quantitative analysis; medical image processing. (gerig at cs.unc.edu)

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Morgan Giddings (100), Adjunct Associate Professor (Associate Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Biomedical Engineering), Ph.D. 1997, University of Wisconsin. (giddings at unc.edu)

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Shawn Gomez, Adjunct Assistant Professor (Department of Biomedical Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill), Eng.Sc.D., Columbia.  Bioinformatics, computational biology, systems biology.

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John H. Halton (026), Professor Emeritus, D.Phil. 1960, Oxford, Sc.D. 2008, Cambridge. (halton at cs.unc.edu)

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Chris Healey (105), Adjunct Associate Professor (Associate Professor of Computer Science, N.C. State), Ph.D. 1996, University of British Columbia. Computer graphics, scientific visualization, perception and cognitive vision, color, texture, databases, and computational geometry. (healey at csc.ncsu.edu)

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Kye S. Hedlund (022), Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1982, Purdue. Software engineering: CAD tools. (hedlund at cs.unc.edu)

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Kevin Jeffay (040), Gillian Cell Distinguished Professor, Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Ph.D. 1989, Washington. Computer networking; operating systems; real-time systems; multimedia networking; performance evaluation. (jeffay at cs.unc.edu)

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M. Gail Jones, Adjunct Professor (Professor of Science Education, N.C. State), Ph.D. 1987, North Carolina State University. Science education, gender and science, high-stakes assessment nanotechnology education, haptics and learning. (gail_jones at ncsu.edu)

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Sarang Joshi, Adjunct Associate Professor (Associate Professor of Bioengineering, University of Utah), D.Sc. Washington University in St. Louis.
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Jasleen Kaur (088), Associate Professor, Ph.D. 2002, Texas-Austin. Design and analysis of networks and operating systems; specifically, resource management for providing service guarantees, Internet measurements, transport protocols, and congestion control. (jasleen at cs.unc.edu)

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Hye-Chung Kum (103), Adjunct Assistant Professor (Research Assistant Professor, School of Social Work), Ph.D. 2004, UNC-Chapel Hill. Program evaluation; management of human services agencies; social welfare policy and program analysis using KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Databases); technology on Social welfare administrative data; research methods. (kum at email.unc.edu)

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Anselmo A. Lastra (052), Professor and Chair, Ph.D. 1988, Duke. Interactive 3D computer graphics; hardware architectures for computer graphics. (lastra at cs.unc.edu)

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Svetlana Lazebnik (096), Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2006, Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Object recognition & scene interpretation; internet photo collections; reconstruction of 3D objects from photos/video; machine learning techniques for visual recognition problems; clustering & vector quantization; nonlinear dimensionality reduction and manifold learning. (lazebnik at cs.unc.edu)

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Ming C. Lin (072), Beverly W. Long Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. 1993, California-Berkeley. Physically based and geometric modeling; applied computational geometry; robotics; distributed interactive simulation; virtual environments; algorithm analysis; many-core computing. (lin at cs.unc.edu)

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Gyula A. Mago (002), Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. 1970, Cambridge. (mago at cs.unc.edu)

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Dinesh Manocha (058), Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. 1992, California-Berkeley. Interactive computer graphics; geometric and solid modeling; robotics motion planning; many-core algorithms. (dm at cs.unc.edu)

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J. Stephen Marron (114), Adjunct Professor (Amos Hawley Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research), Ph.D. 1982, UC-Los Angeles. Smoothing methods for curve estimation. (marron at email.unc.edu)

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Ketan Mayer-Patel (080), Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions, Ph.D. 1999, California-Berkeley. Multimedia systems; networking; multicast applications. (kmp at cs.unc.edu)

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Leonard McMillan (087), Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1997, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computational biology; genetics; genomics; bioinformatics; information visualization; data-driven modeling; image porcessing; imaging technologies; computer graphics. (mcmillan at cs.unc.edu)

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Steven E. Molnar (054), Adjunct Associate Professor (3D Architect, NVIDIA Corp.), Ph.D. 1991, UNC-Chapel Hill. Architectures for real-time computer graphics; VLSI-based system design; parallel rendering algorithms. (molnar at cs.unc.edu)
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Fabian Monrose (091), Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1999, New York University. Computer and network security, biometrics and user authentication. (fabian at cs.unc.edu)
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Frank Mueller, Adjunct Associate Professor (Associate Professor, NC State; Research Associate, RENCI), Ph.D. 1994, Florida State.

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Tessa Joseph Nicholas, Lecturer, Ph.D. 2008, UNC-Chapel Hill. New media arts and poetics, digital communities, and digital-age ethics. (nicholas at cs.unc.edu)

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Marc Niethammer (098), Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2004, Georgia Institute of Technology. Quantitative image analysis; shape analysis; diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; cellular imaging; visual tracking and estimation theory; structural health monitoring. (mn at cs.unc.edu)

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Andrew B. Nobel (107), Adjunct Professor (Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research), Ph.D. 1992, Stanford. Statistical analysis of microarrays, analysis of internet traffic, non-parametric inference, pattern recognition: clustering and classification. (nobel at email.unc.edu)

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Lars S. Nyland (117), Adjunct Research Associate Professor (Senior Architect, NVIDIA Corp.), Ph.D. 1991, Duke. High-performance computing; hardware systems; computer graphics and image analysis; geometric modeling and computation; parallel algorithms; parallel computer architecture; programming languages; program transformation and optimization techniques; scientific computing; real-time systems; distributed systems. (nyland at cs.unc.edu)

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Stephen M. Pizer (006), Kenan Professor, Ph.D. 1967, Harvard. Image display and analysis; medical imaging; human and computer vision; graphics. (pizer at cs.unc.edu)

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David A. Plaisted (028), Professor, Ph.D. 1976, Stanford. Mechanical theorem proving; term rewriting systems; logic programming; algorithms. (plaisted at cs.unc.edu)

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Marc Pollefeys (089), Research Professor, Ph.D. 1999, K.U. Leuven, Belgium. Computer vision; image-based modeling and rendering; image and video analysis; multi-view geometry. (marc at cs.unc.edu)

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John Poulton (032), Adjunct Research Professor (Senior Technical Staff, NVIDIA Corp.), Ph.D. 1980, UNC-Chapel Hill. Graphics architectures; VLSI-based system design; design tools; rapid system prototyping. (jp at cs.unc.edu)

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Diane Pozefsky (093), Research Professor, Ph.D. 1979, UNC-Chapel Hill. Software engineering and environments; computer education; serious games design and development; social, legal, and ethical issues concerning information technology. (pozefsky at cs.unc.edu)

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Jan F. Prins (033), Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Ph.D. 1987, Cornell. High performance computing: parallel algorithms, programming languages, compilers, and architectures; scientific computing with focus on computational biology and bioinformatics; high level programming languages and problem solving environments. (prins at cs.unc.edu)

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Timothy L. Quigg (083), Lecturer and Associate Chairman for Administration and Finance, MPA 1979, N.C. State. Intellectual property rights; industrial relations; contract management; research administration. (quigg at cs.unc.edu)

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Michael K. Reiter (095), Lawrence M. Slifkin Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. 1993, Cornell. Computer and network security; distributed systems; applied cryptography. (reiter at cs.unc.edu)

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Julian Rosenman (112), Adjunct Professor (Professor, Radiation Oncology), M.D. 1977, Southwestern; Ph.D. 1971, Texas-Austin. Computer graphics for treatment of cancer patients; contrast enhancement of poor quality X-rays. (rosenman at cs.unc.edu)

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Dinggang Shen, Adjunct Associate Professor (Associate Professor of Radiology and Director for Image Analysis Core in BRIC and Medical Image Analysis Lab), Ph.D. 1995, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Montek Singh (084), Associate Professor, Ph.D. 2002, Columbia. High-performance and low-power digital systems; asynchronous circuits and systems; VLSI CAD; graphics hardware. (montek at cs.unc.edu)

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F. Donelson (Don) Smith (042), Research Professor, Ph.D. 1978, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computer networks; operating systems; distributed systems; multimedia. (smithfd at cs.unc.edu)

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John B. Smith (025), Professor, Ph.D. 1970, UNC-Chapel Hill. Web-based systems; WWW architecture and programming; radically simplifying the design and development of J2EE systems. (jbs at cs.unc.edu)

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Jack S. Snoeyink (079), Professor, Ph.D. 1990, Stanford. Computational geometry; algorithms for geographical information systems and structural biology; geometric modeling and computation; algorithms and data structures; theory of computation. (snoeyink at cs.unc.edu)

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Diane H. Sonnenwald (106), Adjunct Professor (Professor, The Swedish School of Information & Library Science, Göteborg University & University College of Borås, Sweden), Ph.D. 1993, Rutgers. Collaboration among multi-disciplinary, cross-organizational teams; collaboration across distances; collaboration technology; human information behavior; digital libraries. (dhs at ils.unc.edu)

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Donald F. Stanat (003), Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. 1966, Michigan. (stanat at cs.unc.edu)

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David Stotts (059), Professor, Ph.D. 1985, Virginia. Computer-supported cooperative work, especially collaborative user interfaces; software engineering, design patterns, and formal methods; hypermedia and web technology. (stotts at cs.unc.edu)

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Martin Styner (094), Research Assistant Professor (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry), Ph.D. 2001, UNC-Chapel Hill. Medical image processing and analysis including anatomical structure and tissue segmentation, morphometry using shape analysis, modeling and atlas building, as well as intra and inter-modality registration. (styner at cs.unc.edu)

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Richard Superfine (115), Adjunct Professor (Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor, Physics and Astronomy), Ph.D. 1991, Berkeley. Condensed matter physics; biophysics; microscopy. (rsuper at physics.unc.edu)

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Russell M. Taylor II (069), Research Professor (joint with Physics and Astronomy, and the Curriculum on Applied Sciences and Engineering), Ph.D. 1994, UNC-Chapel Hill. 3D interactive computer graphics; virtual worlds; distributed computing; scientific visualization; human-computer interaction. (taylorr at cs.unc.edu)

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Alexander Tropsha, Adjunct Professor ( K.H. Lee Distinguished Professor and Chair, Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, School of Pharmacy), Ph.D. 1986, Moscow State University, Russia.
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Leandra Vicci (035), Lecturer and Director of the Applied Engineering Laboratory, B.S. 1964, Antioch. Information processing hardware: theory, practice, systems, and applications; computer-integrated magnetic force systems; wave optics, tracking, and imaging; electricity and magnetism; low Reynolds number fluid dynamics; biophysical models of mitotic spindles; quantum theory. (vicci at cs.unc.edu)

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Jeannie M. Walsh (056), Lecturer Emeritus, M.S. 1984, Oklahoma State. Computer education; social, legal, and ethical issues concerning information technology. (walsh at cs.unc.edu)

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Wei Wang (090), Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1999, UCLA. Bioinformatics; data mining; database systems. (weiwang at cs.unc.edu)

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Sean Washburn (116), Adjunct Professor (Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Physics, Professor of Applied Sciences), Ph.D. 1982, Duke. Condensed matter physics, materials science. (sean at physics.unc.edu)
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Stephen F. Weiss (010), Professor, Ph.D. 1970, Cornell.  Information storage and retrieval; natural language processing; communications and distributed systems; computer-supported cooperative work. (weiss at cs.unc.edu)

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Gregory F. Welch (071), Research Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1997, UNC-Chapel Hill. Human motion tracking systems; 3D telepresence; projector-based graphics; computer vision and view synthesis; medical applications of computers. (welch at cs.unc.edu)

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Mary C. Whitton (081), Research Associate Professor, M.S. 1984, N.C. State. Developing and evaluating technology for virtual and augmented reality systems; virtual locomotion; tools for serious games. (whitton at cs.unc.edu)

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William V. Wright (014), Research Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. 1972, UNC-Chapel Hill. (wright at cs.unc.edu)

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