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
work919-445-9641 (phone)
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
Kenan Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions
112 Brooks Building
work919-590-6057 (phone)
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
work919-590-6219 (phone)
CS login: dunn
(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)
CS Login: mjfern
(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)
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.
Kevin Jeffay
Gillian Cell Distinguished Professor, Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, and Director of Undergraduate Studies
316 Brooks Building
work919-590-6238 (phone)
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
work919-590-6058 (phone)
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
work919-590-6074 (phone)
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
work919-590-6049 (phone)
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)
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
work919-590-6213 (phone)
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
Associate Chair Emeritus for Administration, Finance and Entrepreneurship
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
work919-590-6136 (phone)
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
work919-590-6209 (phone)
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
work919-590-6001 (phone)
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
work919-590-6042 (phone)
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
work919-962-1819 (phone)
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
work919-590-6150 (phone)
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.

