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Faculty: Department

Computer Science & Engineering (CSE)
Ahmed Arif

Ahmed Arif

Assistant Professor

asarif@ucmerced.edu

  • Smarter solutions for text entry, error correction, and editing on various devices
  • Mobile interaction, tangible user interfaces, child-computer interaction, usable security, and scientific data visualization

Stefano Carpin

  • Robotics
  • Motion planning
  • Cooperative multi-robot systems
  • Urban search and rescue & service robotics
  • High fidelity robot simulation
  • Artificial intelligence

Miguel Carreira-Perpinan

Professor Carreira-Perpiñán's basic research interests are in machine learning — the estimation of models and representations from data. Most recently, he has been working on topics in the intersection of optimization and machine learning, in particular in learning algorithms for deep neural nets and for nonlinear embeddings. Other topics of interest are dimensionality reduction/manifold learning, clustering, denoising and other unsupervised learning problems, and mean-shift algorithms. He often gets inspiration from problems in speech processing (e.g. articulatory inversion and model adaptation), computer vision (e.g. segmentation, articulated pose tracking, image registration), sensor networks, robotics (e.g. inverse kinematics) and other application areas. In the past, he has also worked on computational neuroscience, specifically on dimension reduction models of the maps of the visual cortex.

Alberto

Alberto Cerpa

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Chair (EECS)

acerpa@ucmerced.edu

Lab Site

SE2 221

Professor Cerpa's broad interests lie broadly in the computer networking and distributed systems areas. His recent focus has been systems research in wireless sensor networks, with emphasis in wireless radio channel measurement and modeling, link quality estimation, routing algorithms, topology control, and programming models. Professor Cerpa is also interested in Internet protocols and operating systems issues. In the past, he has been involved in active networking, mobile IP, and protocol design and verification research.

His research group develops and deploys sensor networks that address some of the grand challenges in science and engineering, mostly in the energy, health and instruments for scientific discovery domains. Some of his projects include developing instruments for solar radiation mapping, energy and occupancy monitoring in smart buildings and exercise physiology monitoring and modeling.

Santosh Chandrasekhar

Santosh Chandrasekhar

Assistant Teaching Professor

schandrasekhar@ucmerced.edu

SE2 273

  • Development of effective teaching strategies for undergraduate computer science courses
  • Development of a security education program for undergraduate students

Wan Du Portrait

Wan Du

Assistant Professor

wdu3@ucmerced.edu

Lab Site

SE2 208

  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Wireless Networking and Sensing
  • Edge Computing
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Data Analytics

Hua Huang

Hua Huang

Assistant Professor

hhuang80@ucmerced.edu

Lab Site

SE2 275

  • Sensor Systems
  • Wireless Networks
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • Smart Healthcare

Sungjin Im

Sungjin Im

Associate Professor

sim3@ucmerced.edu

Lab Site

SE2 214

  • Design and analysis of algorithms and their applications
  • Approximation algorithms
  • Online algorithms
  • Combinatorial optimization
  • Scheduling algorithms
  • Game theory

Hyeran Jeon

Hyeran Jeon

Assistant Professor

hjeon7@ucmerced.edu

Lab Site

SE2 272

  • Computer Architecture and Systems Design
  • Emerging Workloads Acceleration
  • Smart Edge-base Systems Design
  • Energy-efficient Data Center Design

Angelo Kyrilov

Angelo Kyrilov

Assistant Teaching Professor

akyrilov@ucmerced.edu

CO1 370

Dong Li

Dong Li

Associate Professor

dli35@ucmerced.edu

Lab Site

SE2 211

  • High performance computing
  • Fault tolerance/resilience in large-scale parallel and distributed systems
  • Power-aware computing
  • Performance modeling and optimization

Xiaoyi Lu

Xiaoyi Lu

Assistant Professor

xiaoyi.lu@ucmerced.edu

Lab Site

SE2 277

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Systems for HPC, Big Data, AI, and others
  • Virtualization and Cloud Computing
  • High-Performance Communication and I/O
  • Performance, Scalability, Fault tolerance, QoS, and others

Shawn Newsam

  • Image processing
  • Computer vision
  • Pattern recognition
  • Machine learning
  • Content-based information retrieval
  • Digital libraries, data mining and knowledge discovery in spatio-temporal, multimedia and scientific datasets

Shijia Pan

Shijia Pan

Assistant Professor

span24@ucmerced.edu

Lab Site

SE2-274

  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Internet-of-Things
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • Multimodal signal processing for IoT applications
  • Vibration/acoustic signal processing

Florin

Florin Rusu

Professor and Department Chair (CSE)

frusu@ucmerced.edu

Lab Site

SE2 210

  • Large scale data management
  • Database systems design and implementation
  • Data aggregation methods
  • Approximation and randomized algorithms

Pengfei Su

Assistant Professor

psu9@ucmerced.edu

Lab Site

  • Programming Languages
  • Static and Dynamic Program Analysis
  • High-performance/Parallel Computing
  • Software Engineering

Meng Tang

Assistant Professor

mtang4@ucmerced.edu

Lab Site

SE2 279

  • computer vision
  • machine learning
  • discrete optimization
  • augmented and virtual reality

Ming-Hsuan Yang

  • Computer vision
  • Pattern recognition
  • Machine learning