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The faculty have a large number of research interest areas. Take a look at some home pages to see what they're up to. Their home pages also often where the syllabi for classes live.

Faculty	Research Interests	Fall 2008 Office Hours
David Ackley FEC 349D	Artificial life models and real artificial life; current research emphases include software evolvability and evolutionary computing, distributed and social systems, robust self-aware computation, and computer security	Sabbatical
Patrick Bridges FEC 301B	Operating systems and networking custom composition. Projects include IMPuLSE: Integrated Monitoring and Profiling for Large-Scale Environments, configurable high performance operating systems and protocols, core-set: shared network services for clusters, K42 research with IBM/Watson as part of the PERCS contract, Cholla, Cactus and CTP	TR 12:30PM - 2:00PM
Jed Crandall FEC 345B	Computer security, architectural support for systems security, behavior-based malware analysis, polymorphic and metamorphic worms and viruses, dynamic information flow tracking, and conceptual modeling and Internet measurement related to government censorship.	M 2:00PM - 4:00PM W 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Stephanie Forrest Department Chairman FEC 155	Biology and computation, including biologically inspired approaches to computer security, computational modeling of biological systems (immunology, cancer, and evolution), computer immunology, and evolutionary computation.	W 10:00AM – 12:00PM
Tom Hayes FEC 342	Randomized algorithms for decision-making in complex systems	T 3:00PM - 4:00PM W 6:00PM - 7PM and by appointment
Wenbo He FEC 349E	Pervasive and ubiquitous computing, cyber trust & security, and disruption tolerant networking.	MW 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Deepak Kapur FEC 339	Automated reasoning, term rewriting, formal methods, programming languages, algebraic and geometric reasoning, and their applications in computer vision and solid modeling, elimination methods, constraint solving, and distributed, concurrent and real time systems.	M 3:00 PM– 5:00 PM R 3:30PM - 5:00PM
Joe Kniss FEC 301G/ECE 218	Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, Pattern Recognition and Classification, Medical Imaging, Parallel and Stream Computing, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis, Decision Making	TR 10:00 AM – 12 noon
Terran Lane FEC 325	Machine learning, including applications to bioinformatics, information security, user and cognitive modeling, and neuroimaging; reinforcement learning, behavior, and control; artificial intelligence in general	Sabbatical
Shuang (Sean) Luan ECE 236B	Computational medicine and biomedical engineering, algorithms design, analysis and implementation, and computational geometry. Current research emphasizes the design and development of efficient and effective computer algorithms and software for radiation oncology.	TR 2:00 – 3:00PM
George F. Luger FEC 153	Artificial intelligence, techniques in stochastic modeling, diagnostic reasoning, cognitive science, computational linguistics	MW 3:30PM - 5:00PM
Arthur (Barney) Maccabe FEC 355E	System software for large scale systems, including: lightweight operating systems, configurable operating systems, high performance communication protocols, and lightweight file systems.
Cris Moore	Phase transitions in NP-complete problems, quantum computation, computational complexity in statistical physics, analog computation, dynamical systems, cellular automata, recurrent neural networks, algebraic circuits, non-associative algebras (quasigroups and loops), glassy systems and slow relaxation, spin systems, potts models, random tilings, social networks, "small worlds," monte carlo algorithms, combinatorial games, etc.	Sabbatical
Melanie Moses FEC 327	I use theory originally developed to explain the scaling properties of biological networks to understand scaling properties of other networks used for transporting materials and communicating information. I focus on multi-agent systems, for example, ant colonies, the adaptive immune system and the Internet, and investigate how the number of agents affects the flow of information and materials through the system.	M 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Rolf Riesen (Visiting Professor)	System software for massively parallel computers. In particular operating and runtime systems as well as low-level message passing mechanisms. Lately also modeling and evaluating the behavior of message passing applications and simulating large scale systems.	TR 11:00AM - 12:00PM and by appointment
Jared Saia FEC 301H	Designing provably good algorithms for practical problems. Theoretical interests include: approximation algorithms for NP-Hard problems, randomized algorithms, graph theory and online algorithms. Designing provably good algorithms for problems in peer-to-peer and distributed systems.	Sabbatical
Darko Stefanovic ECE 236C	Memory management and garbage collection; Java virtual machine run-time systems and compilation; computer security; molecular logic gates and circuits; molecular automata; oligonucleotide libraries; microfluidic mixing; microfluidic molecular computing; molecular cybernetics.	M 2:20PM - 3:00PM T 3:20PM - 4:00PM
Lance R. Williams FEC 349C	Computer vision and graphics, neural computation, digital image processing	M 3:00PM - 5:00PM T 3:00PM - 5:00PM

Lecturers

Name	Office	Fall 2008 Office Hours
Andree Jacobson	Senior Lecturer	M 02:00PM - 5:00PMT R 10:00AM - 1:00 PM
Steve Peralta Tapy 222	Lecturer	M 11:00AM - 1:00PM W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Joel Castellanos FEC 321 Research Interests: Educational Software for the Mathematical Sciences at the Elementary, High School, and University level, Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, and Modeling of Natural and Abstract Systems.	Lecturer	TR 8:00AM - 9:00AM and by appointment

Adjunct Faculty

Lawrence McCartney
Donald McLaughlin - MWF 10:00AM - 11:00AM, MWF 1:00PM - 2:00PM - all by appointment

Emeritus Faculty

Ed Angel
Stoughton Bell
Charles P. Crowley
John Brayer
Edgar Gilbert
Harold Knudsen
Paul Helman
Bernard Moret
Henry D. Shapiro
Brian T. Smith
Patricia Stans
Bob Veroff

Courtesy Appointments

Tom Caudell — University of New Mexico (EECE)
David D. Grisham — University Hospital
Gregory Heileman — University of New Mexico (EECE)
Bruce Hendrickson — Sandia National Laboratory
William McCune — Downers Grove, IL
Ronald Minnich — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rodney Oldehoeft — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Pradeep Sen— University of New Mexico (EECE)
Neil Pundit — Sandia National Laboratory
Akaysha Tang — University of New Mexico (Psychology)

Research Faculty

Tandy Warnow — University of Texas at Austin
(See also: Post Docs)

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