Faculty |
This directory includes regular CS Department
faculty, adjunct faculty and faculty with joint appointments.
All email addresses are at cs.ucla.edu, unless indicated otherwise.
Click on faculty names to see their personal web pages. |
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Leon
Alkalai, Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer
Science |
| PhD (1989) UCLA |
| Research: microsystems; fault-tolerant computing;
performability and failure analysis |
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| email: leon.alkalai@jpl.nasa.gov
| office: BH 3731G | tel: 310-206-9757 | fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Algirdas
Avizienis, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1960) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| IEEE Fellow; IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award |
| Research: computer system architecture and design;
fault-tolerant computing; digital arithmetic |
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| email: aviz | office:
BH 4731F | tel: 310-825-3028 | fax: 310-825-2273 |
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Rajive
Bagrodia, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1987) University of Texas, Austin |
| Research: wireless networks; mobile computing and
communications; network simulation and analysis; parallel and
distributed computing |
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| email: rajive | office:
BH 3531G | tel: 310-825-0956 | fax: 310-794-5056 |
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Bertram
Bussell, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1962) UCLA |
| Research: electric circuit theory; heat transfer;
computer system architecture; computer graphics |
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| email: bussell | office:
BH 4731A | tel: 310-397-2279 | fax: 310-825-2273 |
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Alfonso F.
Cardenas, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1969) UCLA |
| Research: database management; distributed heterogeneous
and multimedia systems; information systems; medical informatics;
legal and IP issues; software engineering |
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| email: cardenas | office:
BH 3732E | tel: 310-825-7550 | fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Jack
Carlyle, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1961) University of California, Berkeley |
| Research: communication; computation theory and practice;
algorithms and complexity; discrete system theory; developmental
and probabilistic systems |
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| email: jwc | office:
BH 3731G | tel: 310-825-8807 | fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Junghoo
(John) Cho, Assistant Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (2002) Stanford University |
| Research: internet search engines;
database systems; information management systems; digital libraries;
large-scale internet data management |
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| email: cho | office: BH 3532E | tel: 310-825-6735
| fax: 310-794-5056 |
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Wesley
Chu, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1966) Stanford University |
| IEEE Fellow, IEEE Life Fellow; IEEE CS Technical
Achievement Award |
| Research: distributed processing and
distributed database systems; intelligent information systems |
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| email: wwc | office: BH 3731H | tel: 310-825-2047
| fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Jason
(Jingsheng) Cong, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1990) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| IEEE Fellow |
| Research: computer-aided design of
VLSI circuits; fault-tolerant designs of VLSI systems; design
and analysis of algorithms |
| email: cong | office: BH 4731J | tel: 310-206-2775
| fax: 310-825-2273 |
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Adnan
Darwiche, Professor
of Computer Science |
| PhD (1993) Stanford University |
| AAAI Fellow |
| Research: probabilistic and logical
reasoning and its applications, including diagnosis, planning,
and system design and analysis |
| email: darwiche | office: BH 4532D | tel:
310-206-5201 | fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Joseph
Distefano III, Distinguished
Prof of Computer Sci, Medicine & Biomed Engrg |
| PhD (1966) UCLA |
| Research: biocybernetics, computational
systems biology and physiology; biomedical systems modeling
and control; integrative cancer biology; optimal drug therapy;
intelligent software for automated biomodeling |
| email: joed | office: BH 4711 | tel:
310-825-7482 | fax: 310-825-2273 |
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Michael G. Dyer, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1982) Yale University |
| Research: processing and acquisition
of natural language through symbolic, connectionist and genetic
algorithm techniques |
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| email: dyer | office: BH 4532F | tel: 310-206-6674
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Paul Eggert, Lecturer of Computer Science |
| PhD (1980) UCLA |
| Research: software design and engineering;
programming language design and implementation; software internationalization |
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| email: eggert | office: BH 4532J | tel: 310-267-2254
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Milos D. Ercegovac, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1975) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| IEEE Fellow, Serbian Academy of Sciences
and Arts Member |
| Research: computer arithmetic and
hardware-oriented algorithms; design of digital and reconfigurable
systems |
| email: milos | office: BH 4731H | tel: 310-825-5414
| fax: 310-825-2273 |
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Eleazar Eskin, Assistant Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (2002) Columbia University |
| Research: bioinformatics; computational
biology; machine learning |
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| email: eeskin | office: MS 2915 | tel: 310-825-3886
| fax: 310-825-2273 |
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Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science, Jon Postel Chair in Computer
Networks |
| PhD (1985) MIT |
| AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow |
| Research: embedded networked sensing;
wireless sensing applications; environmental monitoring; network
protocols |
| email: destrin | office: BH 3531H | tel:
310-206-3923 | fax: 310-206-3053 |
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Gerald
Estrin, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1951) University of Wisconsin |
| IEEE Fellow |
| Research: computer systems architecture;
methodology and supporting tools for design of concurrent systems;
automating design teamwork; restructurable architectures |
| email: estrin | office: BH 4731C | tel: 310-825-2786
| fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Thelma
Estrin, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1951) University of Wisconsin |
| AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow |
| Research: biomedical engineering;
application of technology and computers to health care; computer
methods in neuroscience; engineering education |
| email: testrin | office: BH 4731C | tel:
310-825-2786 | fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Petros Faloutsos, Assistant Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (2002) University of Toronto |
| Research: computer graphics; physics-based
animation; robotics; biomechanics |
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| email: pfal | office: BH 4531F | tel: 310-825-2393
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Eliezer Gafni, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1982) MIT |
| Research: distributed algorithms;
mathematical programming with application to data networks;
computer science theory |
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| email: eli | office: BH 3731F | tel: 310-825-3211
| fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Mario
Gerla, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1973) UCLA |
| Research: performance evaluation;
design and control of distributed computer communication systems;
high-speed computer networks (B-ISDN and optical) |
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| email: gerla | office: BH 3732F | tel: 310-825-4367
| fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Sheila
Greibach, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1963) Harvard University |
| Research: algorithms and computational
complexity; program schemes and semantics; formal languages
and automata theory and computability |
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| email: greibach | office: BH 3731D | tel:
310-825-1617 | fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Alan
Kay, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1969) University of Utah |
| ACM A.M. Turing Award, Kyoto Prize; AAAS
Fellow, NAE Fellow, RSA Fellow |
| Research: object-oriented programming;
personal computing; graphical user interfaces |
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| email: alan.kay@squeakland.org | office:
BH 3732J | tel: 310-825-9219 | fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1963) MIT |
| AAAS, NAE Member, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow;
L.M. Ericsson Prize, NAE Charles Stark Draper Prize |
| Research: queueing theory; packet
switching networks; packet radio networks; local area networks;
broadband networks; nomadic computing; peer-to-peer
networks; intelligent agents |
| email: lk | office: BH 3732G | tel: 310-825-2543
| fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Allen Klinger, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1966) University of California, Berkeley |
| IEEE Fellow |
| Research: image analysis; pattern
analysis; database systems; computer education |
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| email: klinger | office: BH 4532K | tel:
310-825-7695 | fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Boris
Kogan, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1945) Moscow Institute of Automation
and Telemechanics |
| Research: simulation of dynamic phenomena
in excitable biological tissues; massively parallel multiprocessor
systems |
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| email: kogan | office: BH 4731E | tel: 310-825-7393
| fax: 310-825-2273 |
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Eddie Kohler, Assistant Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (2001) MIT |
| Research: operating systems; software
architecture; network measurement; network protocol design;
programming language techniques for improving systems software |
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| email: kohler | office: BH 4531C | tel: 310-267-5450
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Richard Korf, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1983) Carnegie-Mellon University |
| AAAI Fellow |
| Research: artificial intelligence,
including problem-solving, heuristic search, planning and parallel
processing |
| email: korf | office: BH 4532E | tel: 310-206-5383
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Leon
Levine, Emeritus Senior Lecturer of Computer Science |
| MS (1949) MIT |
| Research: computer methodology |
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| email: levine | office: BH 4531A | tel: 310-206-7073
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Songwu Lu, Associate Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (2003) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Research: wireless networking; mobile
computing; network security; sensor networks; network middleware |
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| email: slu | office: BH 4731C | tel: 310-794-9289
| fax: 310-825-2273 |
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Rupak Majumdar, Assistant Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (2003) University of California, Berkeley |
| Research: formal verification and
control of systems; software verification and programming languages;
game theoretic problems in verification; logic and automata
theory |
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| email: rupak | office: BH 4531E | tel: 310-825-8127
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Michel
A. Melkanoff, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1955) UCLA |
| Research: programming languages; data
structures; database design; relational models; simulation
systems; robotics; computer-aided design and manufacturing;
numerical-controlled machinery |
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| email: melkanoff | office: BH 3531E | tel:
310-794-0009 | fax: 310-794-5056 |
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Adam W. Meyerson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (2002) Stanford University |
| Research: approximation algorithms;
randomized algorithms; online algorithms; theoretical problems
in networks and databases |
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| email: awm | office: BH 3731J | tel: 310-825-0688
| fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Todd Millstein, Assistant Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (2003) University of Washington |
Research: programming language design;
static type systems; program analysis;
software model checking; formal methods; compilers |
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| email: todd | office: BH 4531D | tel: 310-825-5942
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Richard R. Muntz, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1969) Princeton University |
| ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow |
| Research: distributed and parallel
database systems; temporal data models and query processing;
knowledge discovery in database systems; computer performance
evaluation |
| email: muntz | office: BH 3277 | tel: 310-825-3546
| fax: 310-794-5056 |
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Stanley Osher, Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1966) New York University |
| NAS Member; SIAM Kleinman Prize, ICIAM Pioneer
Prize |
| Research: applied mathematics; numerical
methods for PDEs; level set methods; applications to image
processing |
| email: sjo@math.ucla.edu | office: MS 7619F
| tel: 310-825-1758 | fax: 310-206-6673 |
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Rafail
Ostrovsky, Professor
of Computer Science, Professor of Mathematics |
| PhD (1992) MIT |
| Research: theory of computation; cryptography
and security; distributed algorithms; high-dimensional search;
routing and flow control in communication networks |
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| email: rafail | office: BH 3732D | tel: 310-206-5283
| fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Jens Palsberg, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1992) University of Aarhus |
| Research: compilers; embedded systems;
programming languages; software engineering; information security |
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| email: palsberg | office: BH 4531K
| tel: 310-825-6320 | fax: 310-794-5057 |
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D. Stott Parker, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1978) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Research: Data Mining; Bioinformatics;
Database Management and Scientific Data Management; Modeling |
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| email: stott | office: BH 3532H | tel: 310-825-6871
| fax: 310-794-5056 |
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Judea
Pearl, Emeritus
on recall Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1965) Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn |
| NAE Member, AAAI, IEEE Fellow; AI Research
Excellence Award, Allen Newell Award |
| Research: artificial intelligence
and knowledge representation; probabilistic and causal reasoning;
nonstandard logics; learning strategies |
| email: judea | office: BH 4515 | tel: 310-825-3243
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Gerald
J. Popek, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1973) Harvard University |
| Research: computer security; distributed
Unix systems; file replication; mobile computing |
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| email: popek | office: BH 3532F | tel: 310-825-6507
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Miodrag Potkonjak, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1991) University of California, Berkeley |
| Research: complex distributed systems;
embedded systems; communication designs; computer-aided design;
ad hoc sensor networks; computational security; electronic
commerce; IP protection |
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| email: miodrag | office: BH 3532G | tel:
310-825-0790 | fax: 310-794-5056 |
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Peter
Reiher, Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer
Science |
| PhD (1987) UCLA |
| Research: file systems; network and
computer security; distributed operating systems; ubiquitous
computing; optimistic methods in computing; parallel discrete
event simulation |
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| email: reiher | office: BH 3564 | tel: 310-825-8332
| fax: 310-794-5056 |
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Glenn Reinman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (2001) University of California, San
Diego |
| Research: processor architecture design
and optimization; speculative execution; profile-guided optimization;
finding and exploiting instruction-level parallelism |
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| email: reinman | office: BH 4731 | tel: 310-794-9755
| fax: 310-825-2273 |
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David A. Rennels, Associate Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1973) UCLA |
| Research: computer systems architecture;
fault-tolerant computing; modular architectures for VLSI implementation |
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| email: rennels | office: BH 4731G | tel:
310-825-1484 | fax: 310-825-2273 |
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Amit Sahai, Associate Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (2000) MIT |
| Sloan Research Fellow |
| Research: theoretical computer science;
foundations of cryptography; computer security |
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| email: sahai | office: BH 3731E | tel: 310-267-4982
| fax: 310-825-7578 |
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M.Y. "Medy" Sanadidi, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1982) UCLA |
| Research: congestion control and adaptive
multimedia streaming in heterogeneous networks; analytic modeling
of computer and communications systems |
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| email: medy | office: BH 3531F | tel: 310-206-0767
| fax: 310-794-5056 |
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Majid Sarrafzadeh, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1987) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| IEEE Fellow |
| Research: embedded and reconfigurable
computing; VLSI CAD; design and analysis of algorithms |
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| email: majid | office: BH 3532C | tel: 310-794-4303
| fax: 310-794-5056 |
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David
Smallberg, Lecturer of Computer Science |
| MS (1978) UCLA |
| Research: computer science education;
programming languages; generic programming; student software
analysis |
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| email: das | office: BH 4532G | tel: 310-267-4665
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Stefano Soatto, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1996) California Institute of Technology |
| David Marr Prize |
| Research: computer vision; nonlinear
estimation; control theory |
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| email: soatto | office: BH 3531D | tel: 310-825-4840
| fax: 310-794-5056 |
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Yuval Tamir, Associate Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1985) University of California, Berkeley |
| Research: parallel and distributed
systems; fault-tolerant computing; multicore architectures;
virtualization; cluster computing (OS, middleware); interconnection
networks and switches; reliable network services |
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| email: tamir | office: BH 4531J | tel: 310-206-2852
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Demetri Terzopoulos,
Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1984) MIT |
| FRSC, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, European Academy
of Sciences Member; Academy Award |
| Research: computer graphics, computer
vision, medical image analysis, computer-aided design, artifical
life/intelligence |
| email: dt | office: BH 4531G | tel: 310-206-6946
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Jacques Vidal, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1961) University of Paris |
| Research: neuromimetic information
processing; pattern recognition; neural networks, fuzzy systems
and genetic search; multimedia communication for engineering
and science education |
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| email: vidal | office: BH 4532H | tel: 310-825-2858
| fax: 310-794-5057 |
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Carlo Zaniolo, N.E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Science, Professor of Computer
Science |
| PhD (1976) UCLA |
| Research: knowledge-based systems;
database systems; non-monotonic reasoning; spatio/temporal
reasoning; scientific databases |
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| email: zaniolo | office: BH 3532D | tel:
310-825-8137 | fax: 310-794-5056 |
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Lixia
Zhang, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1989) MIT |
| ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow |
| Research: Internet architecture and
protocol designs; security in large scale and open systems |
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| email: lixia | office: BH 3713 | tel: 310-825-2695
| fax: 310-825-7578 |
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Song Chun Zhu, Professor of Statistics, Professor of Computer Science |
| PhD (1996) Harvard University |
| David Marr Prize |
| Research: computer vision; statistical
modeling and computing; vision and visual arts; machine learning |
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| email: sczhu | office: BH 9494 | tel: 310-206-8693
| fax: 310-206-8693 |
