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    Faculty

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    Stan Ahalt
    Professor and Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
    127 Sitterson Hall
    work919-445-9641 (phone)
    (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 Assistant Professor
    314 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6178 (phone)
    (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
    Assistant Professor
    223 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6068 (phone)
    (99) Ph.D. 2006, California-Berkeley. Medical robotics; motion planning; physically-based simulation; assistive robotics; medical image analysis.
    James Anderson
    Kenan Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions
    112 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6057 (phone)
    (62) Ph.D. 1990, Texas-Austin. Real-time systems; distributed and concurrent algorithms; multicore computing; operating systems.
    Sanjoy Baruah
    Professor
    134 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6105 (phone)
    (78) Ph.D. 1993, Texas-Austin. Scheduling theory; real-time and safety-critical system design; computer networks; resource allocation and sharing in distributed computing environments.
    Gary Bishop
    Professor
    255 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6186 (phone)
    (39) 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.
    Frederick Brooks, Jr.
    Kenan Professor
    214 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6231 (phone)
    (9) Ph.D. 1956, Harvard. 3D interactive computer graphics; human-computer interaction; virtual worlds; computer architecture; the design process.
    Ph.D. 1955, Harvard.
    Larry Conrad
    Professor of the Practice (Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, UNC-Chapel Hill)
    work919-962-3444 (phone)
    M.S., Arizona State.
    Prasun Dewan
    Professor
    150 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6123 (phone)
    (63) Ph.D. 1986, Wisconsin-Madison. User interfaces; distributed collaboration; software engineering environments; mobile computing; access control.
    Enrique Dunn
    Research Assistant Professor
    244 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6219 (phone)
    (131) Ph.D. 2006, CICESE, México. Computer vision; evolutionary computation.
    Michael Fern
    Associate Chairman for Administration, Finance and Entrepreneurship
    104 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6077 (phone)
    Jan-Michael Frahm
    Assistant Professor
    246 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6003 (phone)
    (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
    216 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6211 (phone)
    (11) Ph.D. 1975, Utah. Virtual environments; telepresence; future office environments; 3D medical imaging; computer vision and robotics.
    D.Phil. 1960, Oxford, Sc.D. 2008, Cambridge.
    Kevin Jeffay
    Gillian Cell Distinguished Professor, Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, and Director of Undergraduate Studies
    316 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6238 (phone)
    (40) Ph.D. 1989, Washington. Computer networking; operating systems; real-time systems; multimedia networking; performance evaluation.
    Vladimir Jojic
    Assistant Professor
    319 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6116 (phone)
    (124) Ph.D. 2007, University of Toronto. Bioinformatics, computational biology, machine learning.
    Tessa Joseph-Nicholas
    Lecturer
    114 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6230 (phone)
    (86) Ph.D. 2008, UNC-Chapel Hill. New media arts and poetics, digital communities, and digital-age ethics.
    Jasleen Kaur
    Associate Professor
    136 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6066 (phone)
    (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.
    Anselmo Lastra
    Professor and Chair
    116 and 212 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6058 (phone)
    (52) Ph.D. 1988, Duke. Interactive 3D computer graphics; hardware architectures for computer graphics.
    Ming Lin
    John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor
    254 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6074 (phone)
    (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.
    Gyula Mago
    Professor Emeritus
    Ph.D. 1970, Cambridge.
    Dinesh Manocha
    Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor
    250 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6049 (phone)
    (58) Ph.D. 1992, California-Berkeley. Interactive computer graphics; geometric and solid modeling; robotics motion planning; many-core algorithms.
    Ketan Mayer-Patel
    Associate Professor
    154 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6009 (phone)
    (80) Ph.D. 1999, California-Berkeley. Multimedia systems; networking; multicast applications.
    Leonard McMillan
    Associate Professor
    311 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6078 (phone)
    (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
    Professor
    336 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6063 (phone)
    (91) Ph.D., 1999, New York University. Computer and network security, biometrics and user authentication.
    Marc Niethammer
    Assistant Professor
    219 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6149 (phone)
    (98) Ph.D. 2004, Georgia Institute of Technology. Medical image analysis; shape analysis, image segmentation, deformable registration, image-based estimation methods.
    Stephen Pizer
    Kenan Professor
    222 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6085 (phone)
    (6) Ph.D. 1967, Harvard. Image display and analysis; medical imaging; human and computer vision; graphics.
    David Plaisted
    Professor
    352 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6051 (phone)
    (28) Ph.D. 1976, Stanford. Mechanical theorem proving; term rewriting systems; logic programming; algorithms.
    Marc Pollefeys
    Research Professor (Professor, Computer Vision and Geometry Lab, Institute of Visual Computing, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich)
    (89) Ph.D. 1999, K.U. Leuven, Belgium. Computer vision; image-based modeling and rendering; image and video analysis; multi-view geometry.
    Diane Pozefsky
    Research Professor
    146 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6117 (phone)
    (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 Prins
    Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
    334 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6213 (phone)
    (33) Ph.D. 1987, Cornell. High performance computing: parallel algorithms, programming languages, compilers, and architectures; scientific computing with focus on computational biology and bioinformatics.
    Timothy Quigg
    Associate Chair Emeritus for Administration, Finance and Entrepreneurship
    (83) MPA with concentration in research and program analysis, 1979, N.C. State. Management and organization dynamics in research-intensive organizations, Intellectual Property rights and creative methods for capturing and commercializing university technology.
    Michael Reiter
    Lawrence M. Slifkin Distinguished Professor
    350 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6136 (phone)
    (95) Ph.D. 1993, Cornell. Computer and network security; distributed systems; applied cryptography.
    Montek Singh
    Associate Professor
    234 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6132 (phone)
    (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
    312 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6184 (phone)
    (42) Ph.D. 1978, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computer networks; operating systems; distributed systems; multimedia.
    Ph.D. 1970, UNC-Chapel Hill. Web-based systems; WWW architecture and programming; radically simplifying the design and development of J2EE systems.
    Jack Snoeyink
    Professor
    329 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6069 (phone)
    (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.
    Ph.D. 1966, Michigan.
    David Stotts
    Professor
    144 Brooks Building
    work919-590-6133 (phone)
    (59) Ph.D. 1985, Virginia. Computer-supported cooperative work, especially collaborative user interfaces; software engineering, design patterns, and formal methods; hypermedia and web technology.
    Martin Styner
    Research Assistant Professor (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry)
    225 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6209 (phone)
    (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.
    Russell Taylor II
    Research Professor (joint with Physics and Astronomy, and the Curriculum on Applied Sciences and Engineering)
    258 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6001 (phone)
    (69) Ph.D. 1994, UNC-Chapel Hill. 3D interactive computer graphics; virtual worlds; distributed computing; scientific visualization; human-computer interaction.
    Leandra Vicci
    Lecturer and Director of the Applied Engineering Laboratory
    254 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6042 (phone)
    (35) 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.
    Ph.D. 1970, Cornell. Information storage and retrieval; natural language processing; communications and distributed systems; computer-supported cooperative work.
    Gregory Welch
    Research Professor (Research Professor, University of Central Florida)
    236 Brooks Building
    work919-962-1819 (phone)
    (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 Whitton
    Research Associate Professor
    256 Sitterson Hall
    work919-590-6150 (phone)
    (81) M.S. 1984, N.C. State. Developing and evaluating technology for virtual and augmented reality systems; virtual locomotion; tools for serious games.
    William Wright
    Research Professor Emeritus
    Ph.D. 1972, UNC-Chapel Hill.
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