Faculty
Stan Ahalt
Professor
Director, 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
Chief Operating Officer, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
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, UC Berkeley. Medical robotics; motion planning; physically-based simulation; assistive robotics; medical image analysis.
James Anderson
Kenan Professor
(62) Ph.D. 1990, Texas. Real-time systems; distributed and concurrent algorithms; multicore computing; operating systems.
Mohit Bansal
John R. and Louise S. Parker Associate Professor
246 Brooks Building
919-590-6042 (phone)
919-590-6105 (fax)
mbansal (at) cs.unc.edu
(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 (at) 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.
Samarjit Chakraborty
William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor
samarjit (at) cs.unc.edu
(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.
Snigdha Chaturvedi
Assistant Professor
snigdha (at) cs.unc.edu
(158) Ph.D. 2016, Maryland. Natural language understanding, narrative understanding, social NLP, applications of ML and NLP.
Prasun Dewan
Professor
dewan (at) cs.unc.edu
(63) Ph.D. 1986, Wisconsin. User interfaces; distributed collaboration; software engineering environments; mobile computing; access control.
Parasara Sridhar Duggirala
Assistant Professor
psd (at) cs.unc.edu
(144) Ph.D. Illinois, 2015. Cyber-Physical Systems, Formal Methods, Control Theory, Hybrid Systems, Autonomy, Embedded and Real-Time Systems, Probabilistic Systems.
Michael J. Fern
Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship
Associate Chair for Finance & Administration
(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 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 (RENCI)
239 Sitterson Hall
919-590-6019 (phone)
919-590-6105 (fax)
ashok (at) renci.org
(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
250 Brooks Building
919-590-6003 (phone)
919-590-6105 (fax)
dluebke (at) nvidia.com
Ph.D. 1998, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computer graphics, display technology, ray tracing, virtual and augmented reality.
John Majikes
Teaching Assistant Professor
jmajikes (at) cs.unc.edu
(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.
Dinesh Manocha
Research Professor
Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor Emeritus Home Page
Ketan Mayer-Patel
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
kmp (at) cs.unc.edu
(80) Ph.D. 1999, UC 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.
Brent Munsell
Teaching Assistant Professor
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
114 Brooks Building
919-590-6103 (phone)
919-590-6105 (fax)
munsell (at) cs.unc.edu
(159) Ph.D. 2009, University of South Carolina. Medical image analysis, shape modeling, brain connectivity, machine learning, and computational medicine.
Marc Niethammer
Professor
Associate Chair for Academic Affairs
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
(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.
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
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.
Ph.D. 2016, Columbia. Machine learning techniques, especially semi-supervised, unsupervised, and transfer learning methods for learning from limited labeled data.
M.A. 1988, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computer graphics.
Michael K. Reiter
Research Professor
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
Shashank Srivastava
Assistant Professor
ssrivastava (at) 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
919-590-6018 (phone)
919-590-6105 (fax)
natalies (at) cs.unc.edu
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 (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
Associate Professor and Peter Thacher Grauer Scholar
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.
Jeff Terrell
Professor of the Practice
terrell (at) cs.unc.edu
(145) Ph.D. 2009, UNC-Chapel Hill. Software development, web application development, mobile application development, programming, functional programming.
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.