Research in Computer Science
The University of Maryland has a broad education and research program in computer science that has been consistently ranked in the top 15 programs in the nation. Currently, there are 2,000 undergraduate students and 250 graduate students enrolled in the Department of Computer Science. Core computer science research programs are conducted primarily through the Department while the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) focuses on interdisciplinary computer science research. In addition to outstanding national research reputation, the faculty is committed to the educational components of the program with a particular emphasis on project-oriented courses and teamwork for many of the senior level courses. The following list provides a brief introduction to the main research programs at Maryland.
Databases
Ranked 4th by the latest US News & World Report after Wisconsin, Stanford, and Berkeley. Research areas include client-server architectures, data warehousing, semi-structured and XML databases, integration of heterogeneous databases, performance and scalability of web databases, mobile databases, Geographic Information Systems, Knowledge based systems, and information mediation.
Contact: Prof. Nick Roussopoulos (nick@cs.umd.edu, phone: 301-405-2687)
Artificial Intelligence
Ranked among the top 10 programs in the nation, AI at Maryland includes logical foundations of AI, intelligent agents, search and planning, cognitive AI, and neural networks.
Contact: Prof. Dana Nau (nau@cs.umd.edu, phone: 301-405--2684)
Software Engineering
The focus of this group, ranked 6th in the nation, is on empirical methodologies for evaluating and improving the software process, including quantitative techniques, and aspects of the Quality Improvement Paradigm that allows the building of descriptive models of software processes and products.
Contact: Prof. Vic Basili (basili@cs.umd.edu, phone: 301-405-2668)
Computer Vision and Graphics
One of the best research centers in the nation whose work includes the modeling of humans in action, time-varying image analysis, three-dimensional scene analysis, automatic target recognition, purposive vision, rendering and animation, and scientific visualization.
Contact: Prof. Larry Davis (lsd@umiacs.umd.edu, phone: 301-405-6718)
Human-Computer Interactions
One of the nation’s top five groups focusing on information visualization, interface design, educational technologies, zooming technologies, single display groupware, and evaluation techniques.
Contact: Prof. Ben Bederson (bederson@cs.umd.edu, phone: 301-405-2764)
Computational Linguistics and Machine Translation
This area involves computer science and linguistics faculty and conducts major research programs in machine translation, multi-lingual information retrieval, natural
language processing and understanding.
Contact: Prof. Bonnie Dorr (bonnie@umiacs.umd.edu, phone: 301-405-6768)
Parallel and Distributed Computing
One of the strongest groups in the nation that conducts a broad spectrum of research programs ranging from tools and compiler optimization to parallel algorithms and parallel programming. These faculty are involved in major national initiatives such as the NSF-funded National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the NASA-funded Earth Science Information Partnership (ESIP).
Contact: Prof. Pete Keleher (keleher@cs.umd.edu, phone: 301-405-0345)
Information System Security
This group is currently focusing on the security and privacy implications of the proliferation of embedded systems in our daily life and the security management of large scale distributed systems.
Contact: Prof. Jeff Hollingsworth (hollings@cs.umd.edu, phone: 301-405-2708)
Networks
The research program involves the design and analysis of scalable and configurable wide-area networks, design, analysis, and verification of network protocols, routing algorithms, network and information security.
Contact: Prof. Bobby Bhattacharjee (bobby@cs.umd.edu, phone: 301-405-1658)
Algorithms and Theory
Research includes combinatorial optimization, graph algorithms, scheduling and resource allocation, parallel combinatorial techniques, computational geometry, computational complexity, and learning theory.
Contact: Prof. Samir Khuller (samir@umiacs.umd.edu, phone: 301-405-6765)
Scientific Computing
This strong group conducts research in numerical linear algebra, non-linear optimization, partial differential equations, and computational fluid dynamics.
Contact: Prof. Dianne O’Leary (oleary@cs.umd.edu, phone: 301-405-2678)
Bioinformatics
A new program involving faculty from computer science, biochemistry, molecular biology, and mathematics that will address fundamental issues at the interface between biological and computational sciences. Current areas of emphasis include visualization, analysis and management of large-scale data, and algorithms.
Contact: Prof. V.S. Subrahmanian (vs@umiacs.umd.edu, phone: 301-405-6722
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