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KSU Computer Science Department

Research Overview

Fall 2008

Computer Science Department

Profile & Research Interests

KSU CS Research Interests

Parallel

& Distributed

Systems

Computational

Science &

Visualization

Networking

& Net-Centric

Systems

Fall 2008




Parallel

& Distributed

SystemsModels &

Algorithms

Computational

Science &

Visualization

Image

ProcessingBiocomputing

& Bioinformatics

Networks &

Architectures

Visualization

& Steering

Cluster & Grid

Computing

Networking

& Net-Centric

SystemsRouting

Space

Networks

Web-Based

EducationWireless Sensor

Networks

Databases &

Data Mining

SW

Engr.

Fall 2008



Kenneth E. Batcher Professor

1964 Ph.D., University of

Illinois

Research interests include…

parallel algorithms, parallel

processors, parallelizing

compilers, interconnection

networks, and sorting

networks

Fall 2008



Johnnie W. Baker Professor


Texas at Austin


parallel computing, parallel

computational models,

parallel algorithms,

associative SIMD and multi-

SIMD computing, massively

parallel architectures, SIMD

real-time air traffic control,

molecular similarity

analysis, and structure-

activity visualization in

computational chemistry

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Fall 2008



Robert A. Walker

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Professor & Director of

Digital Sciences

1988 Ph.D., Carnegie

Mellon University


novel architectures for

embedded systems, in

particular pipelined and

multithreaded associative

SIMD processing arrays on

FPGAs, and

hardware/software support to

improve instruction cache

performance for dedicated

applications

Fall 2008




Parallel

& Distributed

SystemsModels &

Algorithms

Computational

Science &

Visualization

Image


& Bioinformatics

Networks &

Architectures

Visualization

& Steering

Cluster & Grid

Computing

Networking

& Net-Centric

SystemsRouting

Space

Networks

Web-Based


Networks

Databases &

Data Mining

SW

Engr.

Fall 2008



Mikhail Nesterenko Professor

1998 Ph.D., Kansas State

University


distributed algorithms,

distributed systems, and

computer networks

Fall 2008




Parallel

& Distributed

SystemsModels &

Algorithms

Computational

Science &

Visualization

Image


& Bioinformatics

Networks &

Architectures

Visualization

& Steering

Cluster & Grid

Computing

Networking

& Net-Centric

SystemsRouting

Space

Networks

Web-Based


Networks

Databases &

Data Mining

SW

Engr.

Fall 2008



Hassan Peyravi Professor


Oklahoma


multiple access protocols

for wireless and satellite

communications, traffic

management and

congestion control,

interconnection networks,

and systems modeling and

performance evaluationsINTERNET

Fall 2008



Javed I. Khan Professor


Hawaii at Moana


networks, network based

complex systems, space

networking, peer-to-peer

computing, high

performance computation

and communication,

multimedia communication,

image database, perceptual

video, and associative

information retrieval

Fall 2008



Feodor F. Dragan Professor

1990 Ph.D., Belorussian

Academy of Sciences


design and analysis of

geometric, network and

graph algorithms,

algorithmics of wireless ad

hoc networks,

computational geometry

and biology, combinatorial

optimization, geometry of

discrete metric spaces,

operations research, and

data analysis

Fall 2008



Michael Rothstein Associate Professor


Wisconsin


algorithms and systems for

symbolic and algebraic

computation, and

information security

specializing in access

control theoryComputer

Algebra

POSET

Theory

Cryptology

Access

Control

Theory

Information Security

(Tech Level)

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Fall 2008



Paul S. Wang Professor

1971 Ph.D.,

Massachusetts Institute

of Technology


symbolic computation,

polynomial algorithms,

distributed / parallel

computation, problem

solving environments,

internet-accessible

mathematical computation,

and Web-based

mathematics education

Fall 2008




Parallel

& Distributed

SystemsModels &

Algorithms

Computational

Science &

Visualization

Image


& Bioinformatics

Networks &

Architectures

Visualization

& Steering

Cluster & Grid

Computing

Networking

& Net-Centric

SystemsRouting

Space

Networks

Web-Based


Networks

Databases &

Data Mining

SW

Engr.

Fall 2008



Yuri Breitbart OBR Distinguished

Professor

1973 D.Sc., Israel

Technological Institute

(Technion)


replicated and distributed

databases, network

management including

network monitoring, network

topology, data warehousing

and multidatabases, data

mining, and application of

database and data mining

technologies to medicine

Fall 2008



Ruoming Jin Associate Professor

2005 Ph.D., Ohio State

University


system support and

algorithm design for

scalable data mining, data

stream processing, massive

graph mining, approximate

query processing,

bioinformatics, information

integration for biological

databases, and high

performance computing

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Fall 2008




Parallel

& Distributed

SystemsModels &

Algorithms

Computational

Science &

Visualization

Image


& Bioinformatics

Networks &

Architectures

Visualization

& Steering

Cluster & Grid

Computing

Networking

& Net-Centric

SystemsRouting

Space

Networks

Web-Based


Networks

Databases &

Data Mining

SW

Engr.

Fall 2008



L. Gwenn Volkert Associate Professor

2001 Ph.D., Wayne State

University


computational intelligence

and machine learning

approaches to problems in

bioinformatics and

computational biology,

extending collective

automata theory, and

biological modeling and

simulation; projects are

interdisciplinary with life

sciences research both

locally and internationally

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class 2

Fall 2008



Arvind K. Bansal Professor

1988 Ph.D., Case Western

Reserve University


multimedia and Internet

based computing languages

and environments, human

computer interaction, digital

human system, image

understanding systems,

knowledge based systems,

fault tolerant intelligent

agents, bio-inspired

intelligent computing,

genomics and proteomics

Fall 2008



Angela Guercio Assistant Professor

(Stark Campus)

2004 Ph.D., Kent State

University

Research interests include… programming languages,

multimedia computing, and

web programming with

particular attention to

languages that support the

design and development of

reactive distributed multimedia

applications

Multimedia

stream

Active

Repository

Source*

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stream

Transformer*

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Sink*

Content-Based

Analysis

Feature

Comparison

Communicating

with the trigger

Signal Presence

Testing

Storing Data

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File

Transformer1p

Streamn

Transformer11

Rendering

Fall 2008




Parallel

& Distributed

SystemsModels &

Algorithms

Computational

Science &

Visualization

Image


& Bioinformatics

Networks &

Architectures

Visualization

& Steering

Cluster & Grid

Computing

Networking

& Net-Centric

SystemsRouting

Space

Networks

Web-Based


Networks

Databases &

Data Mining

SW

Engr.

Fall 2008



Arden Ruttan Professor

1977 Ph.D., Kent State

University


computational science, bio-

computing, liquid crystal

modeling, visualization,

parallel computing,

numerical analysis,

computational steering,

cluster computing, highly ill-

conditioned mathematical

computations, and the

parallel implementations of

such problems

Fall 2008



Cheng-Chang Lu Professor

1988 Ph.D., Southern

Methodist University


data compression, image

processing, computer

vision, medical image

registration and

segmentation, visual

communications, visual

information transmission,

and multimedia database

and mining

Fall 2008



Ye Zhao Assistant Professor

2006 Ph.D., Stony Brook

University


computer graphics and

scientific visualization,

natural phenomena

modeling, physically based

simulation and visualization,

volume visualization, and

general purpose

computation using graphics

hardware (GPGPU)

Fall 2008




Parallel

& Distributed

SystemsModels &

Algorithms

Computational

Science &

Visualization

Image


& Bioinformatics

Networks &

Architectures

Visualization

& Steering

Cluster & Grid

Computing

Networking

& Net-Centric

SystemsRouting

Space

Networks

Web-Based


Networks

Databases &

Data Mining

SW

Engr.

Fall 2008



Paul A. Farrell Professor

1983 Ph.D., Trinity College


parallel and distributed

computation, cluster and

grid computing,

computational steering,

scientific visualization, high

speed networking,

numerical solution of

singularly perturbed

differential equations, and

computational methods for

liquid crystal problems,

fluids and biology

Fall 2008




Parallel

& Distributed

SystemsModels &

Algorithms

Computational

Science &

Visualization

Image


& Bioinformatics

Networks &

Architectures

Visualization

& Steering

Cluster & Grid

Computing

Networking

& Net-Centric

SystemsRouting

Space

Networks

Web-Based


Networks

Databases &

Data Mining

SW

Engr.

Fall 2008



Jonathan I. Maletic Professor

1995 Ph.D., Wayne State

University


software engineering and

evolution, reverse

engineering, program

comprehension, static

program analysis, software

visualization, and

maintenance tools and

environments

Fall 2008



Austin Melton Professor

1980 Ph.D., Kansas State

University


measurement theory

applied to software metrics,

lattice theory with

generalizations to category

theory, programming

semantics, ethical and

social issues in the

development and use of

information technology, and

mathematical pedagogy

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