Faculty Mentors in the CS department.
Several faculty at the Computer Science Department love to involve students in research projects. Several of these projects are funded by the National Science Foundation in the form of Research Experiences for Undergraduates. Below you will find a list of faculty, along with their areas of interest and a short snippet of their proposed project. If you are interested, please contact them.
| Faculty Name | Interest | Project | New Hires |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amarda Shehu | computational structural biology, bioinformatics | NSF REU project in protein modeling | Yes |
| Craig Yu | virtual reality, games, computer graphics | virtual reality, game design, computational design, user interfaces, human-computer interaction, computer graphics | Yes |
| Jana Kosecka | computer vision, robotics | 3D modeling of indoors scenes for AR, object instance recognition. | Yes |
| Jessica Lin | data mining | NSF project on frequent pattern mining and anomaly detection in time series data | Yes |
| Jyh-Ming Lien | geometry processing, robotics | computational origami folding (NSF REU), tracking and following using unmanned vehicles , point-cloud data processing (NSF REU) | Yes |
| Sean Luke | robotics, evolutionary computation | NSF REU | |
| Thomas LaToza |
software engineering, human-computer interaction, crowdsourcing
|
interacting with constraints, programming strategies, live debugging
|
Yes |
| Yotam Gingold | computer graphics, crowdsourcing, creativity, games | crowd creativity, 3D modeling, gamification | Yes |