CIS Research Areas

CIS Research Areas

The Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CS) excels in innovative research, education, and technology transfer. Our research missions transcend the public and private sectors and advance the future of software, hardware and computing. Specific areas of research and associated faculties and labs are noted below.

  • Thaier Hayajneh
    University Professor
    Degree: PhD, University of Pittsburgh

    Research Area(s):

    • Applied Cryptography
    • Network Security and Privacy

    Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiuan
    Assistant Professor
    Degree: PhD, Central South University, China

    Research Area(s):

    • Dependability
    • Cyber Security
    • Big Data
    • Cloud Computing
    • Internet of Things

    Mohamed Rahouti
    Assistant Professor
    Degree: PhD, University of South Florida

    Research Area(s):

    • Computer Networking and Networking Security
    • Secure and Resilient Software Defined Networking-Enabled Applications for Smart Cities
    • Networked Emergency Response Systems

    Juntao Chen
    Assistant Professor
    Degree: PhD, New York University

    Research Area(s):

    • Game and Decision Theory for Cybersecurity
    • Secure and Resilient Socio-Cyber-Physical Systems
    • Optimization and Machine Learning for Complex Networked Systems

  • David S. L. Wei
    Professor
    Degree: PhD, University of Pennsylvania

    Research Area(s):

    • Parallel and Distributed Computing 
    • Mobile Computing 
    • Networking

    Xiaolan Zhang
    Chair & Associate Professor
    Degree: PhD, University of Massachusetts, 2007

    Research Area(s):

    • Computer Networks and Distributed Systems

    Ying Mao
    Assistant Professor
    Degree: PhD, University of Massachusetts Boston

    • Cloud Computing
    • Virtualization
    • Data-Intensive Systems
    • High Performance Computing
    • Resource Management for Machine Learning Algorithms

  • Damian Lyons
    Professor and Director of Computer Science PhD Program
    Degree: PhD, University of Massachusetts
    Research Area(s):

    • Computer vision for Virtual and Augmented Reality Interfaces
    • Target Tracking and Behavior Recognition in Automated Video Surveillance and in Camera-based User Interfaces
    • Formal Analysis of Behavior for Robotic Systems Operating in Unstructured Environments
    • Integration of Planning and Reaction in Robotic Systems

    Gary Weiss
    Professor and Program Director of M.S. Computer Science (MSCS)
    Degree: PhD, Rutgers University
    Research Area(s):

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Machine Learning
    • Data Mining

    Yanjun Li
    Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies (Rose Hill)
    Degree: PhD, Wright State University
    Research Area(s):

    • Text Mining
    • Ontology
    • Information Retrieval
    • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
    • Parallel and Distributed Computing
    • Bioinformatics Analysis

    Yijun Zhao
    Assistant Professor and Program Director of M.S. Data Analytics (MSDA)
    Degree: PhD, Tufts University
    Research Area(s):

    • Machine Learning
    • Data Mining
    • Statistical Pattern Recognition
    • Algorithms

  • Frank Hsu
    Clavius Distinguished Professor of Sciences and Professor of Computer and Information Science
    Degree: PhD, University of Michigan
    Research Area(s):

    • Information Fusion
    • Graph Theory and Combinatorial Problems
    • Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
    • Interconnection Networks for Massively Parallel Computer Systems
    • Communication Networks and VLSI Designs
    • Telecommunication Network Design and Optimization

    Ruhul Amin
    Assistant Professor
    Degree: PhD, Stony Brook University
    Research Area(s):

    • Data Science
    • Interpretibility in Machine Learning
    • NLP for Low-Resource Lanugages
    • Human Computer Interaction
    • Bioinformatics

  • Sanchuan Chen
    Assistant Professor
    Degree: PhD, The Ohio State University
    Research Area(s):

    • Software Security
    • Programming Lanugages
    • Binary Analysis
    • Trusted Execution Environment

  • Arthur G. Werschulz
    Professor Emeritus
    Degree: PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University
    Research Area(s):

    • Information-Based Complexity (the complexity of partial differential equations and integral equations)

    Tadeusz Strzemecki
    Assistant Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies LC
    Degree: PhD, Stevens Institute of Technology
    Research Area(s):

    • Design and Analysis of Algorithms
    • Computational Complexity
    • Theory of Computation

  • Daniel Leeds
    Associate Professor and Director of Integrative Neuroscience Program
    Degree: PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University
    Research Area(s):

    • Computational Principles of Perception
    • Statistical Analysis of Brain Data
    • Computer Vision
    • Machine Learning

    Ruhul Amin
    Assistant Professor
    Degree: PhD, Stony Brook University
    Research Area(s):

    • Sequence Alignment Algorithms
    • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
    • Health Informatics
    • Pandemic Modeling

  • David T. K. Chen
    Associate Professor
    Degree: Ph.D., Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)
    Research Area(s): Database systems, object-oriented design, software engineering (software reuse), software reliability, quality and security.

    Frank Hsu
    Clavius Distinguished Professor of Science and Professor of Computer and Information Science
    Degree: Ph.D., University of Michigan
    Research Area(s): Interconnection networks for massively parallel computer systems, communication networks and VLSI designs, parallel algorithms and architectures, telecommunication network design and optimization, graph theory and combinatorial problems.

    Daniel Leeds
    Assistant Professor 
    Degree: Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
    Research Area(s): Computational principles of perception, statistical analysis of brain data, computer vision, machine learning

    Yanjun Li
    Associate Professor
    Degree: Ph.D., Wright State University
    Research Area(s): My research interests include Text Mining, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Ontology, Information Retrieval, Bioinformatics Analysis, Parallel and Distributed Computing.

    Damian Lyons
    Professor
    Degree: Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
    Research Area(s): Target tracking and behavior recognition in Automated Video Surveillance and in Camera-based User Interfaces. Computer vision for Virtual and Augmented Reality Interfaces. Formal analysis of behavior for robotic systems operating in unstructured environments. Integration of planning and reaction in robotic systems.

    Robert K. Moniot
    Associate Professor
    Degree: Ph.D. (Physics), University of California, Berkeley; MS (Computer Science), New York University
    Research Area(s): Accelerator-based mass spectrometry of radioisotopes, applied to archeology, geophysics and meteoritics. Scale-space and equation-error minimization approaches to problems in image reconstruction and solution of partial differential equations. Analysis of computer ethics issues.

    Tadeusz Strzemecki
    Assistant Professor
    Degree: Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology
    Research Area(s): Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Complexity of Algorithms, Theory of Computation.

    David S. L. Wei
    Professor
    Degree: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
    Research Area(s): Parallel and Distributed Computing, Mobile Computing, and Networking.

    Gary M. Weiss
    Associate Professor and Director of the MS Program in Computer Science
    Degree: Ph.D., Rutgers University
    Research Area(s): My primary research focus are in the area of machine learning and data mining. More generally, I am interested in all areas of artificial intelligence. Currently I am working on methods for improving data mining methods by better handling real-world considerations (e.g., highly skewed class distributions). In the past I have done research on expert systems and object-oriented programming.

    Arthur G. Werschulz
    Professor Emeritus
    Degree: Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University
    Research Area(s): My research area is information-based complexity, which deals with the complexity of problems for which the available information is partial, possibly contaminated by error, and priced. I am especially interested in the complexity of partial differential equations and integral equations.

    Xiaolan Zhang
    Associate Professor
    Degree: Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2007
    Research Area(s): My primary research focus is in the area of computer networks and distributed systems. In particular, I am interested in studying challenged networks such as Disruption Tolerant Networks from the aspects of performance modeling of epidemic style routing, and modeling studies of real mobility traces.