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Stan Ahalt

Stan Ahalt

Professor

Dean, School of Data Science and Society

ahalt@cs.unc.edu | 919-445-9641

(82) Ph.D. 1986, Clemson. Signal, image, and video processing; high-performance scientific and industrial computing; pattern recognition applied to national security problems; high-productivity, domain specific languages.

Jay Aikat

Jay Aikat

Vice Dean, School of Data Science and Society

Research Professor

314 Brooks Building
aikat@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6178

(126) Ph.D. 2010, UNC-Chapel Hill. Experimental methods and models in networking research and education; measurement and modeling of Internet traffic, protocol benchmarking; Internet traffic generation, wireless networks, congestion control and active queue management; data science.

Ron Alterovitz

Ron Alterovitz

Lawrence Grossberg Distinguished Professor

Director of Graduate Admissions

254 Brooks Building
ron@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6068

(99) Ph.D. 2006, UC Berkeley. Medical robotics; motion planning; physically-based simulation; assistive robotics; medical image analysis.

James Anderson

James Anderson

Kenan Distinguished Professor

Department Chair

316 Brooks Building
anderson@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6057

(62) Ph.D. 1990, Texas. Real-time systems; distributed and concurrent algorithms; multicore computing; operating systems.

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Jaime Arguello

Adjunct Associate Professor

McColl Term Associate Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science

jarguell@email.unc.edu

Ph.D. 2011, Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon. Information retrieval, aggregated search systems and evaluation, search behavior, text data mining, machine learning, task-based search, search assistance.

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Stephen Aylward

Adjunct Associate Professor

Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Kitware

stephen.aylward@kitware.com
Mohit Bansal

Mohit Bansal

John R. and Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor

244 Brooks Building
mbansal@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6042

(139) Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2013. Statistical natural language processing and machine learning, with a focus on multimodal, grounded, and embodied semantics (i.e., language with vision and speech, for robotics), human-like language generation and Q&A/dialogue, and interpretable and structured deep learning.

Alexander C. Berg

Research Associate Professor

aberg@cs.unc.edu

(134) Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2005. Computer vision, machine learning, recognition, detection, large-scale learning for computer vision, machine-learning analysis of fmri.

Ben Berg

Benjamin Berg

Assistant Professor

336 Brooks Building
ben@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6012

(178) Ph.D. 2022, Carnegie Mellon. Performance modeling, scheduling, resource allocation, caching.

Tamara Berg

Tamara L. Berg

Adjunct Associate Professor

Research Scientist Manager, Facebook AI

tlberg@cs.unc.edu

(133) Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2007. Computer vision, natural language processing, integrating information from words & pictures, visual recognition & retrieval, visual social media and socio-identity, human-in-the loop recognition, gaze pattern analysis, image description generation, clothing recognition.

Gedas Bertasius

Gedas Bertasius

Assistant Professor

256 Sitterson Hall
gedas@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6058

(170) Ph.D. 2019, Pennsylvania. Video understanding, first-person vision, human behavior modeling, multi-modal deep learning, transfer learning.

Samarjit Chakraborty

Samarjit Chakraborty

William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor

350 Brooks Building
samarjit@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6038

(148) Ph.D. 2003, ETH Zurich. Distributed embedded systems, hardware/software co-design, embedded control systems, low-power systems, energy storage systems, electromobility, and sensor network-based information processing.

Praneeth Chakravarthula

Assistant Professor

205 Sitterson Hall
cpk@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6105

(175) Ph.D. 2021, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computational displays and imaging, holographic/3D displays, augmented and virtual reality, diffractive optics, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction.

Snigdha Chaturvedi

Associate Professor

236 Brooks Building
snigdha@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6068

(158) Ph.D. 2016, Maryland. Natural language understanding, narrative understanding, social NLP, applications of ML and NLP

Tianlong Chen

Tianlong Chen

Assistant Professor

223 Sitterson Hall
tianlong@cs.unc.edu

Ph.D. 2023, Texas-Austin. Machine learning problems: sparsity, robustness, learning to optimize, graph learning, diffusion models; as well as interdisciplinary scientific challenges: bioengineering, quantum computing.

Prasun Dewan

Professor

150 Brooks Building | Virtual Office
dewan@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6123

(63) Ph.D. 1986, Wisconsin. User interfaces; distributed collaboration; software engineering environments; mobile computing; access control.

Parasara Sridhar Duggirala

Assistant Professor

312 Brooks Building
psd@cs.unc.edu | 919-445-6116

(144) Ph.D. Illinois, 2015. Cyber-Physical Systems, Formal Methods, Control Theory, Hybrid Systems, Autonomy, Embedded and Real-Time Systems, Probabilistic Systems.

Saba Eskandarian

Saba Eskandarian

Assistant Professor

346 Brooks Building
saba@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6001

(171) Ph.D. 2021, Stanford. Applied cryptography, security, privacy.

Jan-Michael Frahm

Jan-Michael Frahm

Research Professor

jmf@cs.unc.edu

(97) 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.

Henry Fuchs in his office in Brooks Building

Henry Fuchs

Federico Gil Distinguished Professor

216 Brooks Building
fuchs@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6211

(11) Ph.D. 1975, Utah. Virtual environments; telepresence; future office environments; 3D medical imaging; computer vision and robotics.

Neil Gaikwad

Snehalkumar “Neil” Gaikwad

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, School of Data Science and Society

gaikwad@unc.edu

Ph.D. 2024, MIT. Human-AI alignment, policy, and societal decision-making.

Sayeed Ghani

Sayeed Ghani

Teaching Associate Professor

144 Brooks Building
sghani@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6036

(179) Ph.D. 1990, Columbia. Applications of AI and deep learning in health/IoT and wireless sensor networks.

Prairie Rose Goodwin

Prairie Rose Goodwin

Teaching Assistant Professor

150 Sitterson Hall
prairie@cs.unc.edu

Ph.D. 2017, N.C. State. Data modeling, real-time analytics, human-computer interaction.

David Gotz

David Gotz

Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science

gotz@unc.edu

(151) Ph.D. 2005, UNC-Chapel Hill. Visualization and visual analytics, data analysis, data science, health informatics, machine learning.

Isabella Hinks

Isabella “Izzi” Hinks

Teaching Assistant Professor

149 Sitterson Hall
ihinks@cs.unc.edu

Ph.D. 2024, N.C. State.

Kevin Jeffay

Kevin Jeffay

Gillian Cell Distinguished Professor

326 Sitterson Hall
jeffay@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6238

(40) Ph.D. 1989, Washington. Computer networking; operating systems; real-time systems; multimedia networking; performance evaluation.

Kris Jordan

Professor of the Practice

134 Brooks Building
kris@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6041

(140) M.S. 2008, Brown. Computer science education, educational technology, internet systems, entrepreneurship.

Tessa Joseph-Nicholas

Tessa Joseph-Nicholas

Teaching Professor

146 Brooks Building
nicholas@cs.unc.edu

(86) Ph.D. 2008, UNC-Chapel Hill. Internet cultures, technology ethics, digital arts and poetics.

Jasleen Kaur

Associate Professor

334 Brooks Building
jasleen@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6066

(88) Ph.D. 2002, Texas-Austin. Design and analysis of networks and distributed systems; high-speed congestion-control, resource management, Internet measurements, and transport protocols.

Ashok Krishnamurthy

Research Professor

Deputy Director, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)

ashok@renci.org | 919-590-6019

(137) Ph.D.1983, Florida. Data analytics with applications in healthcare and social science, high-end computing for modeling and simulation, advanced computational tools to improve industrial productivity through virtual product and process development, digital processing to extract information from images, audio and other signals.

Andrew Kwong

Andrew Kwong

Assistant Professor

340 Brooks Building
andrew@cs.unc.edu

Ph.D. 2023, Michigan. Security and applied cryptography.

Harlin Lee

Harlin Lee

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, School of Data Science and Society

harlin@unc.edu

Ph.D. 2021, Carnegie Mellon. Data science, machine learning, signal processing.

David Luebke

Research Professor

Vice President of Research, NVIDIA

dluebke@nvidia.com

(156) Ph.D. 1998, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computer graphics, display technology, ray tracing, virtual and augmented reality.

Alyssa Byrnes

Alyssa Lytle

Teaching Assistant Professor

136 Brooks Building
abyrnes1@cs.unc.edu

(182) Ph.D. 2022, UNC-Chapel Hill. Formal methods, human-robot interaction.

Dinesh Manocha

Dinesh Manocha

Research Professor

dm@cs.unc.edu

Ph.D. 1992, California-Berkeley.

Richard Marks

Richard Marks

Professor of the Practice

Professor, School of Data Science and Society

219 Sitterson Hall
rlmarks@unc.edu | 919-445-0806

Ph.D 1996, Stanford. Augmented and virtual reality, computer vision, signal processing, machine learning.

Steve Marron

Steve Marron

Adjunct Professor

Amos Hawley Distinguished Professor, Statistics and Operational Research

marron@email.unc.edu

Ketan Mayer-Patel

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

154 Brooks Building
kmp@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6009

(80) Ph.D. 1999, UC Berkeley. Multimedia systems; networking; multicast applications.

Connor "Cece" McMahon

Connor “Cece” McMahon

Teaching Assistant Professor

152 Sitterson Hall
mcmahon@cs.unc.edu

M.S. 2022, Berkeley. Computer science education.

Leonard McMillan

Leonard McMillan

Associate Professor

316 Sitterson Hall
mcmillan@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6078

(87) Ph.D. 1997, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computational biology; genetics; genomics; bioinformatics; information visualization; data-driven modeling; image processing; imaging technologies; computer graphics.

Brent Munsell

Teaching Associate Professor

Associate Chair for Student Experience

112 Brooks Building
munsell@cs.unc.edu

(159) Ph.D. 2009, South Carolina. Medical image analysis, shape modeling, brain connectivity, machine learning, and computational medicine.

Marc Niethammer

Marc Niethammer

Professor

250 Brooks Building
mn@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6149

(98) Ph.D. 2004, Georgia Tech. Medical image analysis; shape analysis, image segmentation, deformable registration, image-based estimation methods.

Shahriar Nirjon

Shahriar Nirjon

Associate Professor

212 Brooks Building
nirjon@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6039

(136) Ph.D. 2014, Virginia. Mobile Computing (OS, Services and Applications); Embedded Sensor Systems (Hardware-Software Co-Design, Wearables); Wireless Networks (Mobile, WSN, and other RF); Data Analytics for Mobile Systems (Mobile Health, IoT, and Cloud).

Junier Oliva

Junier Oliva

Associate Professor

258 Sitterson Hall
joliva@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6158

(142) Ph.D. 2018, Carnegie Mellon. Machine learning, artificial intelligence, nonparametric statistics, deep learning, statistical data mining, signal processing, graphical models, generative models, kernel methods, scalability, complex datasets, optimization, density estimation.

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Beatriz Paniagua

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Director of Medical Computing, Kitware

beatriz_paniagu@med.unc.edu
Stephen M. Pizer

Stephen M. Pizer

Kenan Distinguished Professor

222 Sitterson Hall
pizer (at) cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6085

(6) Ph.D. 1967, Harvard. Image display and analysis; medical imaging; human and computer vision; graphics.

David A. Plaisted

Research Professor

351 Sitterson Hall
plaisted@cs.unc.edu

(28) Ph.D. 1976, Stanford. Mechanical theorem proving; term rewriting systems; logic programming; algorithms.

Don Porter

Donald Porter

Professor

344 Brooks Building
porter@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6044

(138) Ph.D. 2010, Texas. Operating systems; virtualization; file systems; security; concurrent programming.

Diane Pozefsky

Diane Pozefsky

Research Professor

pozefsky@cs.unc.edu

(93) 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.

Mike Reed

Mike Reed

Professor of the Practice

Engineering Director, Google Chapel Hill

mreed@cs.unc.edu

(143) M.A. 1988, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computer graphics.

Michael Reiter

Michael K. Reiter

Research Professor

reiter@cs.unc.edu

(95) Ph.D. 1993, Cornell. Computer and network security; distributed systems; applied cryptography.

Julian Rosenman

Julian Rosenman

Adjunct Professor

Professor, Radiation Oncology

rosenman@cs.unc.edu | 919-445-5438
Roni Sengupta

Roni Sengupta

Assistant Professor

255 Sitterson Hall
ronisen@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6030

(177) Ph.D. 2019, Maryland. Computer vision & graphics, computational photography, 3D vision, inverse graphics, inverse rendering, democratizing VFX, next-gen video communication & content creation.

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Dinggang Shen

Adjunct Professor

Professor and Dean, School of BME, ShanghaiTech University

dinggang.shen@gmail.com

(104)

Richard "Rick" Shreve

Rick Shreve

Associate Chair for Finance and Administration

159 Sitterson Hall
rshreve@cs.unc.edu
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Jorge Silva

Teaching Assistant Professor

jsilva@cs.unc.edu
Montek Singh

Montek Singh

Associate Professor

Associate Chair for Academic Affairs

234 Brooks Building
montek@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6132

(84) Ph.D. 2002, Columbia. High-performance and low-power digital systems; asynchronous and mixed-timing circuits and systems; VLSI CAD tools; energy-efficient graphics hardware; applications to computer security; and emerging computing technologies

F. Don Smith

Research Professor

smithfd@cs.unc.edu

(42) Ph.D. 1978, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computer networks; operating systems; distributed systems; multimedia.

Jack Snoeyink

Jack Snoeyink

Professor

Professor, School of Data Science and Society

329 Sitterson Hall
snoeyink@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6069

(79) 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.

Shashank Srivastava

Shashank Srivastava

Assistant Professor

235 Sitterson Hall
ssrivastava@cs.unc.edu

(157) Ph.D. 2018, Carnegie Mellon. Topics in Natural Language Processing, AI, Machine Learning and their applications; focus on Language Grounding and pragmatics, Neuro-symbolic methods, Text analysis, Latent Variable Models

Natalie Stanley

Natalie Stanley

Assistant Professor

305 Sitterson Hall
natalies@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6018

(166) Ph.D. 2018, UNC-Chapel Hill. Single-cell bioinformatics; computational and systems immunology; developing algorithms for representing and understanding graph-based data.

David Stotts

Professor

324 Sitterson Hall
stotts@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6133

(59) Ph.D. 1985, Virginia. Computer-supported cooperative work, especially collaborative user interfaces; software engineering, design patterns, and formal methods; hypermedia and web technology.

Cynthia Sturton

Cynthia Sturton

Associate Professor and Peter Thacher Grauer Scholar

354 Brooks Building
csturton@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6020

(132) Ph.D. 2013, UC Berkeley. Computer and hardware security; applied formal methods for software security.

Martin Styner

Martin Styner

Research Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Psychiatry

225 Sitterson Hall
styner@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6209

(94) 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.

Kevin Sun

Kevin Sun

Teaching Assistant Professor

132 Brooks Building
ksun@cs.unc.edu

Ph.D. Duke, 2022. Online algorithms, combinatorial optimization, computer science education.

Dan Szafir

Daniel Szafir

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

209 Sitterson Hall
dszafir@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6049

(172) Ph.D. 2015, Wisconsin. Human-robot interaction (HRI); human-computer interaction (HCI); virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR); user-centered design; human-centered computing (HCC); aerial robotics; robotic technologies for space exploration; human-robot coordination and collaboration; educational technologies; robotic technologies for manufacturing.

Danielle Szafir

Danielle Szafir

Associate Professor

246 Brooks Building
danielle.szafir@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6074

(173) Ph.D. 2015, Wisconsin. Visualization, data analytics, computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality.

Russell M. Taylor II

Russell M. Taylor II

Adjunct Research Professor

taylorr@cs.unc.edu

(69) Ph.D. 1994, UNC-Chapel Hill. 3D interactive computer graphics; virtual worlds; distributed computing; scientific visualization; human-computer interaction.

P.S. Thiagarajan

P.S. Thiagarajan

Research Professor

362 Sitterson Hall
psthiagu@cs.unc.edu

Ph.D. 1973, Rice.

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Quoc Tran-Dinh

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Operational Reasoning

quoctd@email.unc.edu

Ph.D. 2012, Engineering, KU Leuven. Numerical optimization: theory and algorithms for convex optimization and non-convex continuous optimization.

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Alexander Tropsha

Adjunct Professor

K.H. Lee Distinguished Professor and Chair, Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, School of Pharmacy

alex_tropsha@unc.edu

(111) Ph.D. 1986, Moscow State University, Russia.

Gregory F. Welch

Adjunct Professor

Florida Hospital Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation, University of Central Florida

welch@cs.unc.edu

(71) Ph.D. 1996, UNC-Chapel Hill. Human motion tracking systems; 3D telepresence; projector-based graphics; computer vision and view synthesis; medical applications of computers.

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Turner Whitted

Adjunct Professor

jtw@twilab.com

Mary C. Whitton

Research Professor

whitton@cs.unc.edu

(81) M.S. 1984, N.C. State. Developing and evaluating technology for virtual and augmented reality systems; virtual locomotion; tools for serious games.

Guorong Wu

Guorong Wu

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

guorong_wu@med.unc.edu

(167) Ph.D. 2007, Shanghai Jiao Tong.

Huaxiu Yao

Huaxiu Yao

Assistant Professor

254 Sitterson Hall
huaxiu@cs.unc.edu

Ph.D. 2021, Penn State.

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Pew-Thian Yap

Adjunct Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Department of Radiology

ptyap@med.unc.edu

(164) Ph.D. University of Malaya (Malaysia).

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Hongtu Zhu

Adjunct Professor

Professor, Department of Biostatistics

htzhu@email.unc.edu

Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.