UNM Computer Science

Faculty



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 2009
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.

M 4:00pm-5:00pm
W 11:00AM-3:00PM

Dorian Arnold
FEC 301F
Large scale parallel and distributed systems. System reliability and fault-tolerance.

TR 11:00AM-12:00PM
and by appointment

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

TWR 2:00PM-3:00PM

Jed Crandall
FEC 335

Jed Crandall
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 3:00PM-4:00PM
R 3:00PM-5:00PM

Stephanie Forrest
Department Chairman
FEC 107
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 149

Randomized algorithms for decision-making in complex systems

M 2:00PM-2:50PM
W 5:00PM-5:50PM
and by appointment

Wenbo He
FEC 123
Pervasive and ubiquitous computing, cyber trust & security, and disruption tolerant networking.

TR 10:00AM-11:30AM

Deepak Kapur
FEC 339
Deepak Kapur

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.

TF 4:00PM-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 2:00PM-4:00PM

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

TR 12:15PM-1:00PM
W 9:00AM-11:00AM

Shuang (Sean) Luan
FEC 151
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 2:00PM-3:00PM

George F. Luger
Associate Chair
FEC 107
Artificial intelligence, techniques in stochastic modeling, diagnostic reasoning, cognitive science, computational linguistics

TR 1:30PM-3:30PM
and by appointment

Cris Moore
FEC 155
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.

 

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.

R 1:00PM-3:00PM

Jared Saia
FEC 301H
Jared's broad research interests are in theory and algorithms with specific interests in probability, randomized and distributed algorithms, graph theory, and spectral methods. A strong current interest is designing randomized algorithms that are provably robust against a computationally unbounded adversary.

MW 11:00AM-12:00pm

Darko Stefanovic
FEC 345C
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.

T 10:00AM-11:00AM
R 12:15PM-1:15PM

Lance R. Williams
FEC 349C
Computer vision and graphics, neural computation, digital image processing

M 3:00PM-5:00PM
R 10:00AM-12:00PM

Lecturers

Name Office Fall 2009
Office Hours
Andree Jacobson
FEC 319
Senior Lecturer M 2:30PM-5:00PM
TR 3:30PM-5:00PM
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 11:00AM-12:30PM
and by appointment

 

 

Steve Peralta
CENT 2080
Lecturer M 10:30AM-12:30PM
W 2:00PM-4:00PM

Adjunct Faculty

Lawrence McCartney Office Hours: TR 8:00PM-9:00PM
Donald McLaughlin - FEC 117 - Office Hours:  MWF 10:00AM - 11:00AM and MWF 1:00PM - 2:00PM

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) — Research Interests: computer graphics, computer vision
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)