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The Department currently has 22 full-time Ph.D. level faculty, augmented by several outstanding visiting faculty and part-time faculty from local industries, who teach a broad range of courses on topics at the forefront of computer science and technology.

Photos taken at CIS Honors Day Luncheon

Richard Albright died Saturday, August 25, 2007


Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Research Faculty
Joint Faculty
Visiting, Adjunct, & Part-Time
Staff
Lists and Aliases
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Current Graduate Students
CIS Graduate Student Association
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Faculty

Name:  
  B David Saunders
Title:  
  Dept. Chair, Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  103A Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-6238
E-mail:  
 saunders@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~saunders
Research Interests:  
Computer algebra. Exact linear algebra, especially sparse or structured integer matrix computations. Vertically integrated: from algorithm design and analysis to development of high performance kernels.
Office Hrs:  
 By Appointment Only
Name:  
  Paul D. Amer
Title:  
  Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  434 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-1944
E-mail:  
 amer@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~amer/
Research Interests:  
multimedia transport protocols and data compression in multimedia; protocol specification, testing, and verification using the Estelle formal description technique
Office Hrs:  
 TR 13:30 - 14:30
Name:  
  M. Sandra Carberry
Title:  
  Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  448 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-1954
E-mail:  
 carberry@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry
Research Interests:  
natural language understanding, response generation, user modelling, dialogue systems, summarization, digital libraries, intelligent interfaces, plan recognition
Office Hrs:  
 R 15:30 - 17:00, W 8:00 - 9:00
Name:  
  John Case
Title:  
  Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  430 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-2714
E-mail:  
 case@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~case/
Research Interests:  
Computability theory, including computational learning theory, machine self-reflection, and complexity theory; machine learning; and lattice-connected computer models of parallel processing
Office Hrs:  
 MW 15:00 - 16:00
Name:  
  John Cavazos
Title:  
  Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  412 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-6052
E-mail:  
 cavazos@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~cavazos
Research Interests:  
compilers, programming languages, run-time systems, virtual machines, machine learning, statistical methods
Office Hrs:  
 TR 11:00 - 12:00
Name:  
  B. F. Caviness
Title:  
  Professor Emeritus, Ph.D.
Office:  
 
Phone:  
 
E-mail:  
 caviness@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~caviness
Research Interests:  
Office Hrs:  
 
Name:  
  Daniel L. Chester
Title:  
  Associate Professor, Ph.D., Associate Chair
Office:  
  101E Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-1955
E-mail:  
 chester@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~chester
Research Interests:  
knowledge representation, knowledge-based systems, vision, parsing
Office Hrs:  
 MR 15:15 - 16:15
Name:  
  Keith S. Decker
Title:  
  Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  444 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-1959
E-mail:  
 decker@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~decker
Research Interests:  
multi-agent systems, parallel and distributed planning and scheduling, distributed information gathering and retrieval, bioinformatics
Office Hrs:  
 TR 13:00 - 14:00
Name:  
  Chandra Kambhamettu
Title:  
  Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  420 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-8235
E-mail:  
 chandra@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~chandra
Research Interests:  
computer vision, visualization, protein docking
Office Hrs:  
 W 14:00 - 16:00
Name:  
  Terry Harvey
Title:  
  Assistant Professor
Office:  
  408 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-8234
E-mail:  
 harvey@eecis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~harvey
Research Interests:  
Office Hrs:  
 T 10:00 - 11:30, R 10:00 - 11:00, W 13:45 - 16:30
Name:  
  Li Liao
Title:  
  Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  424 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-3500
E-mail:  
 lliao@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lliao
Research Interests:  
bioinformatics, functional and comparative genomics, gene networks and pathways, machine learning
Office Hrs:  
 W 15:00 - 17:00
Name:  
  Errol L. Lloyd
Title:  
  Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  416 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-1958
E-mail:  
 elloyd@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~elloyd
Research Interests:  
design and analysis of algorithms, approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems, optimization problems in ad-hoc networks
Office Hrs:  
 R 11:00 - 12:00, T 12:30 - 13:30
Name:  
  Kathleen F. McCoy
Title:  
  Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  201 77 East Delaware Ave.
Phone:  
  302-831-1956
E-mail:  
 mccoy@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~mccoy
Research Interests:  
rehabilitation engineering, intelligent tutoring systems,natural language processing, text generation, discourse phenomena, sentence generation, computer-aided language learning
Office Hrs:  
 R 8:00 - 9:15, T 11:00 - 12:45
Name:  
  Foster McGeary
Title:  
  Assistant Professor
Office:  
  415 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-0072
E-mail:  
 fmcgeary@udel.edu
Webpage:  
Research Interests:  
Office Hrs:  
 MW 16:00 - 18:00
Name:  
  Lori Pollock
Title:  
  Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  436 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-1953
E-mail:  
 pollock@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~pollock
Research Interests:  
compiler optimization, software testing, program analysis for software tool automation, parallel computing
Office Hrs:  
 R 9:30 - 10:30, T 12:00 - 13:00
Name:  
  Christopher Rasmussen
Title:  
  Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  446 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-2783
E-mail:  
 cer@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~cer/
Research Interests:  
computer vision, mobile robotics, artificial intelligence
Office Hrs:  
 F 11:00 - 12:00, M 15:30 - 16:30
Name:  
  Adarshpal S. Sethi
Title:  
  Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  422 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-1945
E-mail:  
 sethi@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~sethi
Research Interests:  
architectures and protocols for network management, fault management, quality-of-service and resource management, management of wireless networks
Office Hrs:  
 W 9:00 - 11:00
Name:  
  Vijay Shanker
Title:  
  Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  Rm. 442, Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-1952
E-mail:  
 vijay@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~vijay
Research Interests:  
Data mining/extraction, machine learning, natural language processing, parsing, grammatical formalisms, sentence generation
Office Hrs:  
 R 12:00 - 13:00, W 13:30 - 14:30
Name:  
  Chien-Chung Shen
Title:  
  Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  450 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-1951
E-mail:  
 cshen@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~cshen
Research Interests:  
mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mesh networks, control and management of broadband networks, distributed object and peer-to-peer computing, simulation
Office Hrs:  
 W 10:00 - 11:00, M 8:45 - 9:45
Name:  
  Stephen Siegel
Title:  
  Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  432 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-0083
E-mail:  
 siegel@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~siegel
Research Interests:  
analysis and verification of concurrent and distributed software systems, model checking, scientific computing, parallel computation
Office Hrs:  
 T 17:00 - 18:00, R 11:00 - 12:00
Name:  
  Martin Swany
Title:  
  Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  438 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-2324
E-mail:  
 swany@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~swany
Research Interests:  
Office Hrs:  
 MW 10:15 - 11:30
Name:  
  Michela Taufer
Title:  
  Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  406 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-0071
E-mail:  
 taufer@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~taufer
Research Interests:  
Distributed and parallel systems; adaptive and distributed scientific applications; Grid and volunteer computing; Distributed databases; Workload characterization and performance prediction in HPC systems and applications.
Office Hrs:  
 TR 15:30 - 17:00
Name:  
  Jingyi Yu
Title:  
  Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Office:  
  410 Smith Hall
Phone:  
  302-831-0345
E-mail:  
 yu@cis.udel.edu
Webpage:  
 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~yu
Research Interests:  
computer graphics, computer vision, medical imaging, optics and camera design, multimedia, image processing, human-computer interface, 3D displays
Office Hrs:  
 W 11:00 - 12:15


Research Faculty


Joint Faculty
Visiting, Temporary, Adjunct, & Part-Time Faculty
Secondary Appointment
Staff
  • Cherry, Vicki W. C., Office Coordinator
  • Davis, Michael, Director EE/CIS Research Laboratory
  • Fowle, Samantha, Senior Secretary
  • Magner, Linda, Assistant to the Chair
  • Miller, Ben, Assistant Director EE/CIS Research Laboratory
  • Proctor, Krystal, Senior Secretary
  • Roosen, Andrew R., CITA III

Aliases (all are @cis.udel.edu)
chair Department business to the Chair (a copy goes to Vicki Cherry)
ugradpgrm to the Undergraduate program coordinator
gradpgrm to the contact person for general information about our graduate program
csfacsch to faculty recruiting committee chair
cis-gsa to the officers of the CIS Graduate Student Association

Lists (all are @udel.edu)
cis-faculty-voting Caution: to all CIS tenure track and CNTT faculty members
cis-faculty-other Caution: to all CIS adjuncts, S-contract, post-docs, and visitors
cis-staff Caution: to all CIS office and EECIS staff
cis-grads Caution: to all CIS graduate students
cis-all Caution: to all CIS faculty members, part-time faculty, and staff, but not grads
cis-seminar For notification about CIS events



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