Computer and Information Sciences EDUCATION RESEARCH

CIS Department Profile 23 tenure track, 8 research, 2 teaching faculty 110 graduate students 7 PhD, 30 MS graduated per year 3 MS majors: Computer Science, Software Engineering, Bioinformatics 250 undergraduate students 3 undergraduate majors (BS Computer Science, BA Computer Science, BS Information Systems) 7 UD Excellence in Teaching Awards 2

3 Six primary research areas networking protocols (Amer) management (Sethi) wireless (Shen) theory (Lloyd) natural language processing, information retrieval, AI NL generation, assistive technology (McCoy) NL understanding (Carberry) NL processing: parsing, text-mining (Shanker) multi-agent systems (Decker) knowledge representation (Chester) information retrieval (Carterette)

4 Six primary research areas bioinformatics computational biology (Wu) functional and comparative genomics (Liao) computational biology, medical informatics (Shatkay) applications of computational learning theory (Case) developing bioinformatics tools and databases for integrating, mining, analyzing and modeling biological data to help basic understanding of biology and facilitate drug discovery, disease diagnosis, energy and environment studies

5 Six primary research areas vision visualization, protein docking (Kambhamettu) mobile robotics (Rasmussen) graphics, medical imaging, optics (Yu) software engineering compiler optimization, software testing (Pollock) analysis and verification (Siegel) program analysis, debugging (Clause)

6 Six primary research areas high performance computing systems, scientific applications (Taufer) compilers, languages, run-time systems, (Cavazos) computer algebra and systems (Saunders)

A few faculty research projects Kathy McCoy - applying natural language processing to communication issues for people with disabilities Technologies and tools for speeding communication rates for someone who cannot speak and must communicate by typing Funded by NIDRR - The US Department of Education National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research 7

A few faculty research projects Chandra Kambhamettu - computer vision, visualization Novel 3D image analysis techniques are being used to extract ground glass opacity (GGO) lung tumors Funded by NIH; Collaboration with UD DBI, and Christiana Care 8 

A few faculty research projects Chien-Chung Shen - optimization in wireless and ad-hoc networking Efficient and Robust Routing for Converge-cast in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Inspired by Slime Mold! Funded by NSF and the US Army 9

A few faculty research projects Lori Pollock - program analysis and transformation for code optimization & software tools, targeted to software engineering and high performance architectures analysis and testing of web-based software systems Funded by NSF and the US Army Research Laboratory 10

A few faculty research projects Christopher Rasmussen - outdoor mobile robotics for autonomous navigation & scene understanding Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition – “Warthog” placed 1 st and 3rd Funded by NSF (Career Award); Equipment donations from Segway & Novatel 11