Faculty
To email members of the Department of Computer Science, use their CS login followed by @cs.unc.edu.
Stan Ahalt
Professor and Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
127 Sitterson Hall
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CS login: ahalt
(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.
(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.
(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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CS login: anderson
(62) Ph.D. 1990, Texas-Austin. Real-time systems; distributed and concurrent algorithms; multicore computing; operating systems.
(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.
(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.
(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)
larry_conrad at unc.edu
M.S., Arizona State.
(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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CS login: dunn
(131) Ph.D. 2006, CICESE, México. Computer vision; evolutionary computation.
(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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CS login: fuchs
(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.
(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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CS login: jeffay
(40) Ph.D. 1989, Washington. Computer networking; operating systems; real-time systems; multimedia networking; performance evaluation.
(124) Ph.D. 2007, University of Toronto. Bioinformatics, computational biology, machine learning.
(86) Ph.D. 2008, UNC-Chapel Hill. New media arts and poetics, digital communities, and digital-age ethics.
(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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CS login: lastra
(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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CS login: lin
(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.
Ph.D. 1970, Cambridge.
Dinesh Manocha
Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor
250 Brooks Building
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CS login: dm
(58) Ph.D. 1992, California-Berkeley. Interactive computer graphics; geometric and solid modeling; robotics motion planning; many-core algorithms.
(80) Ph.D. 1999, California-Berkeley. Multimedia systems; networking; multicast applications.
(87) Ph.D. 1997, UNC-Chapel Hill. Computational biology; genetics; genomics; bioinformatics; information visualization; data-driven modeling; image processing; imaging technologies; computer graphics.
(91) Ph.D., 1999, New York University. Computer and network security, biometrics and user authentication.
(98) Ph.D. 2004, Georgia Institute of Technology. Medical image analysis; shape analysis, image segmentation, deformable registration, image-based estimation methods.
(6) Ph.D. 1967, Harvard. Image display and analysis; medical imaging; human and computer vision; graphics.
(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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marc at cs.unc.edu
(89) Ph.D. 1999, K.U. Leuven, Belgium. Computer vision; image-based modeling and rendering; image and video analysis; multi-view geometry.
(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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CS login: prins
(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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CS login: quigg
(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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CS login: reiter
(95) Ph.D. 1993, Cornell. Computer and network security; distributed systems; applied cryptography.
(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
(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.
(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.
(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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CS login: styner
(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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CS login: taylorr
(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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CS login: vicci
(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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CS login: welch
(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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CS login: whitton
(81) M.S. 1984, N.C. State. Developing and evaluating technology for virtual and augmented reality systems; virtual locomotion; tools for serious games.
Ph.D. 1972, UNC-Chapel Hill.

