Faculty
Stan Ahalt
Professor
Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
ahalt (at) cs.unc.edu
(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
Research Associate Professor
aikat (at) cs.unc.edu
(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.
Ron Alterovitz
Professor
Director of Graduate Admissions
ron (at) cs.unc.edu
(99) Ph.D. 2006, California-Berkeley. Medical robotics; motion planning; physically-based simulation; assistive robotics; medical image analysis.
James Anderson
Kenan Professor
(62) Ph.D. 1990, Texas-Austin. Real-time systems; distributed and concurrent algorithms; multicore computing; operating systems.
Mohit Bansal
Assistant Professor
246 Brooks Building
919-590-6042 (phone)
919-590-6105 (fax)
mbansal (at) cs.unc.edu
(139) Ph.D., U.C. 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
Associate Professor
aberg (at) cs.unc.edu
(134) Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 2005. computer vision, machine learning, recognition, detection, large-scale learning for computer vision, machine-learning analysis of fmri.
Tamara L. Berg
Associate Professor
tlberg (at) 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.
Gary Bishop
Professor
Associate Chair for Academic Affairs
gb (at) cs.unc.edu
Prasun Dewan
Professor
dewan (at) cs.unc.edu
(63) Ph.D. 1986, Wisconsin-Madison. User interfaces; distributed collaboration; software engineering environments; mobile computing; access control.
Michael J. Fern
Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship
Associate Chair for Business Affairs
(135) Ph.D. 2005, Strategic Management, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC – Chapel Hill. Leadership, strategy, customer value creation, innovation & entrepreneurship, business development
Jan-Michael Frahm
Professor
jmf (at) 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
Federico Gil Distinguished Professor
fuchs (at) cs.unc.edu
(11) Ph.D. 1975, Utah. Virtual environments; telepresence; future office environments; 3D medical imaging; computer vision and robotics.
Kevin Jeffay
Gillian Cell Distinguished Professor and Department Chair
Kris Jordan
Teaching Assistant Professor
kris (at) cs.unc.edu
(140) M.S. 2008, Brown. Computer science education, educational technology, internet systems, entrepreneurship.
Tessa Joseph-Nicholas
Teaching Associate Professor
nicholas (at) cs.unc.edu
(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 (at) cs.unc.edu
(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
239 Sitterson Hall
919-590-6019 (phone)
919-590-6105 (fax)
ashok (at) renci.org
Ph.D.1983, University of 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.
Ming C. Lin
Research Professor
John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor Emeritus
lin (at) cs.unc.edu
(72) Ph.D. 1993, California-Berkeley. Physically based and geometric modeling; applied computational geometry; robotics; distributed interactive simulation; virtual environments; algorithm analysis; many-core computing.
Dinesh Manocha
Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor
dm (at) cs.unc.edu
Ketan Mayer-Patel
Associate Professor
kmp (at) cs.unc.edu
(80) Ph.D. 1999, California-Berkeley. Multimedia systems; networking; multicast applications.
Leonard McMillan
Associate Professor
mcmillan (at) cs.unc.edu
(87) Ph.D. 1997, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computational biology; genetics; genomics; bioinformatics; information visualization; data-driven modeling; image processing; imaging technologies; computer graphics.
Fabian Monrose
Kenan Professor
fabian (at) cs.unc.edu
(91) Ph.D., 1999, New York University. Computer and communications security and privacy; computer forensics; network security; operating system security; user authentication; data provenance; secure virtual enclaves.
Marc Niethammer
Professor
mn (at) cs.unc.edu
Shahriar Nirjon
Assistant Professor
nirjon (at) cs.unc.edu
(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 (at) cs.unc.edu
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.
Stephen M. Pizer
Kenan Professor
pizer (at) cs.unc.edu
(6) Ph.D. 1967, Harvard. Image display and analysis; medical imaging; human and computer vision; graphics.
David A. Plaisted
Professor
plaisted (at) cs.unc.edu
(28) Ph.D. 1976, Stanford. Mechanical theorem proving; term rewriting systems; logic programming; algorithms.
Donald Porter
Associate Professor
319 Sitterson Hall
919-590-6044 (phone)
919-590-6105 (fax)
porter (at) cs.unc.edu
(138) Ph.D. 2010, Texas. Operating systems; virtualization; file systems; security; concurrent programming.
Diane Pozefsky
Research Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
pozefsky (at) 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.
Jan F. Prins
Professor
prins (at) cs.unc.edu
(33) Ph.D. 1987, Cornell. High performance computing: parallel algorithms, programming languages, compilers, and architectures; scientific computing with focus on computational biology and bioinformatics.
Michael K. Reiter
Lawrence M. Slifkin Distinguished Professor
Associate Chair for Diversity and Inclusion
reiter (at) cs.unc.edu
(95) Ph.D. 1993, Cornell. Computer and network security; distributed systems; applied cryptography.
Montek Singh
Associate Professor
montek (at) cs.unc.edu
(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 (at) cs.unc.edu
(42) Ph.D. 1978, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computer networks; operating systems; distributed systems; multimedia.
Jack Snoeyink
Professor
snoeyink (at) cs.unc.edu
David Stotts
Professor
stotts (at) cs.unc.edu
(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
Assistant Professor and Peter Thacher Grauer Fellow
csturton (at) cs.unc.edu
(132) Ph.D. 2013, UC, Berkeley. Computer and hardware security; applied formal methods for software security.
Martin Styner
Research Associate Professor (Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry)
styner (at) cs.unc.edu
(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.
Mary C. Whitton
Research Professor
whitton (at) 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.