People

Stan Ahalt
Dean, School of Data Science and Society
Professor
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
Senior Associate Dean, School of Data Science and Society
Research Professor
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
Professor
Director of Graduate Admissions
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
Kenan Distinguished Professor
anderson@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6057(62) Ph.D. 1990, Texas. Real-time systems; distributed and concurrent algorithms; multicore computing; operating systems.

Jaime Arguello
Adjunct Associate Professor
McColl Term Associate Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science
jarguell@email.unc.eduPh.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.

Stephen Aylward
Adjunct Associate Professor
Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Kitware
stephen.aylward@kitware.com
Mohit Bansal
John R. and Louise S. Parker Professor
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 | 919-590-6022(134) Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2005. Computer vision, machine learning, recognition, detection, large-scale learning for computer vision, machine-learning analysis of fmri.

Benjamin Berg
Assistant Professor
ben@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6012(178) Ph.D. 2022, Carnegie Mellon. Performance modeling, scheduling, resource allocation, caching.

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
Assistant Professor
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.

Alyssa Byrnes
Teaching Assistant Professor
abyrnes1@cs.unc.edu(182) Ph.D. 2022, UNC-Chapel Hill. Formal methods, human-robot interaction.

Samarjit Chakraborty
William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor
Department Chair
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
Research Assistant Professor
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
Assistant Professor
snigdha@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6068(158) Ph.D. 2016, Maryland. Natural language understanding, narrative understanding, social NLP, applications of ML and NLP

Prasun Dewan
Professor
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
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
Assistant Professor
saba@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6001(171) Ph.D. 2021, Stanford. Applied cryptography, security, privacy.

Jan-Michael Frahm
Research Professor
jmf@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6003(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
Federico Gil Distinguished Professor
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.

Sayeed Ghani
Teaching Associate Professor
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.

David Gotz
Adjunct Associate Professor
Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science
gotz@unc.edu(151) Ph.D. 2005, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Visualization and visual analytics, data analysis, data science, health informatics, machine learning.

Kevin Jeffay
Gillian Cell Distinguished Professor
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
kris@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6041(140) M.S. 2008, Brown. Computer science education, educational technology, internet systems, entrepreneurship.

Tessa Joseph-Nicholas
Teaching Professor
nicholas@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6230(86) Ph.D. 2008, UNC-Chapel Hill. New media arts and poetics, digital communities, and digital-age ethics.

Jasleen Kaur
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
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.

David Luebke
Research Professor
Vice President of Research, NVIDIA
dluebke@nvidia.com | 919-590-6003(156) Ph.D. 1998, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computer graphics, display technology, ray tracing, virtual and augmented reality.

John Majikes
Teaching Assistant Professor
jmajikes@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6093(147) Ph.D. 2017, N.C. State. Computational and Design Techniques for a Semi-Autonomous Computerized Dog-Training System with Timing and Accuracy Performance Comparable to a Professional Dog Trainer.


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
kmp@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6009(80) Ph.D. 1999, UC Berkeley. Multimedia systems; networking; multicast applications.

Leonard McMillan
Associate Professor
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.

Latasha Mingo
Associate Chair for Finance & Administration
mingo@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6077M.B.A. 2012, Missouri S&T.

Brent Munsell
Teaching Assistant Professor
Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
munsell@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6103(159) Ph.D. 2009, South Carolina. Medical image analysis, shape modeling, brain connectivity, machine learning, and computational medicine.

Marc Niethammer
Professor
Associate Chair for Academic Affairs
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
Associate Professor
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
Assistant Professor
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.

Beatriz Paniagua
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Director of Medical Computing, Kitware
beatriz_paniagu@med.unc.edu
Stephen M. Pizer
Kenan Distinguished Professor
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
plaisted@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6051(28) Ph.D. 1976, Stanford. Mechanical theorem proving; term rewriting systems; logic programming; algorithms.

Donald Porter
Professor
porter@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6044(138) Ph.D. 2010, Texas. Operating systems; virtualization; file systems; security; concurrent programming.

Diane Pozefsky
Research Professor
pozefsky@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6117(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.

Colin Raffel
Assistant Professor
craffel@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6002(101) Ph.D. 2016, Columbia. Machine learning techniques, especially semi-supervised, unsupervised, and transfer learning methods for learning from limited labeled data.

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 K. Reiter
Research Professor
reiter@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6136(95) Ph.D. 1993, Cornell. Computer and network security; distributed systems; applied cryptography.


Soumyadip “Roni” Sengupta
Assistant Professor
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.

Dinggang Shen
Adjunct Professor
Professor and Dean, School of BME, ShanghaiTech University
dinggang.shen@gmail.com(104)


Montek Singh
Associate Professor
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

Aaron Smith
Teaching Assistant Professor
onsmith@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6147(174) Ph.D. 2021, UNC-Chapel Hill. Data compression, information theory, video adaptation, computer science education, entrepreneurship, cloud computing services, software engineering.

F. Don Smith
Research Professor
smithfd@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6184(42) Ph.D. 1978, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computer networks; operating systems; distributed systems; multimedia.

Jack Snoeyink
Professor
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
Assistant Professor
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
Assistant Professor
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
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
Associate Professor and Peter Thacher Grauer Scholar
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
Research Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
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.

Daniel Szafir
Assistant Professor
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
Assistant Professor
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
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.

Quoc Tran-Dinh
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Operational Reasoning
quoctd@email.unc.eduPh.D. 2012, Engineering, KU Leuven. Numerical optimization: theory and algorithms for convex optimization and non-convex continuous optimization.

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.


Mary C. Whitton
Research Professor
whitton@cs.unc.edu | 919-590-6150(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
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
guorong_wu@med.unc.edu(167) Ph.D. 2007, Shanghai Jiao Tong.

Pew-Thian Yap
Adjunct Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
ptyap@med.unc.edu(164) Ph.D. University of Malaya (Malaysia).

Hongtu Zhu
Adjunct Professor
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
htzhu@email.unc.eduPh.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.