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    Faculty

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    Stan Ahalt
    Professor and Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
    127 Sitterson Hall
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    (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
    work919-962-1878 (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
    233 Sitterson Hall
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    (99) Ph.D. 2006, California-Berkeley. Medical robotics; motion planning; physically-based simulation; assistive robotics; medical image analysis.
    James Anderson
    Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions
    112 Brooks Building
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    (62) Ph.D. 1990, Texas-Austin. Real-time systems; distributed and concurrent algorithms; multicore computing; operating systems.
    Sanjoy Baruah
    Professor
    134 Brooks Building
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (131) Ph.D. 2006, CICESE, México. Computer vision; evolutionary computation.
    Jan-Michael Frahm
    Assistant Professor
    246 Brooks Building
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    (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
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    (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.
    Kye Hedlund
    Associate Professor
    305 Sitterson Hall
    work919-962-1756 (phone)
    (22) Ph.D. 1982, Purdue. Software engineering: CAD tools.
    Kevin Jeffay
    Gillian Cell Distinguished Professor, Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, and Director of Undergraduate Studies
    316 Brooks Building
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    (40) Ph.D. 1989, Washington. Computer networking; operating systems; real-time systems; multimedia networking; performance evaluation.
    Vladimir Jojic
    Assistant Professor
    319 Sitterson Hall
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    (124) Ph.D. 2007, University of Toronto. Bioinformatics, computational biology, machine learning.
    Tessa Joseph-Nicholas
    Lecturer
    114 Brooks Building
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
    work919-962-1749 (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
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    (80) Ph.D. 1999, California-Berkeley. Multimedia systems; networking; multicast applications.
    Leonard McMillan
    Associate Professor
    311 Sitterson Hall
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    (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
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    (91) Ph.D., 1999, New York University. Computer and network security, biometrics and user authentication.
    Marc Niethammer
    Assistant Professor
    219 Sitterson Hall
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    (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
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    (6) Ph.D. 1967, Harvard. Image display and analysis; medical imaging; human and computer vision; graphics.
    David Plaisted
    Professor
    352 Sitterson Hall
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    (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)
    240 Brooks Building
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
    Lecturer and Associate Chairman for Administration, Finance and Entrepreneurship
    104 Sitterson Hall
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    (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
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    (95) Ph.D. 1993, Cornell. Computer and network security; distributed systems; applied cryptography.
    Montek Singh
    Associate Professor
    234 Brooks Building
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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
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    (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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