Research

  Wei Zhang Associate Professor Ph.D., Computer Science University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2015 Email Phone Office HEC-437B Phone (407) 823-2763 E-mail WZhang.cs@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~wzhang Research Interests Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Cancer Transcriptome Biomarker Identification Post-transcriptional Regulation Drug Sensitivity Prediction Machine Learning Network-based Learning Semi-supervised Learning Reinforcement Learning Transfer Learning Other Experience Research Associate, University…

  Paul Gazzillo Associate Professor Ph.D., Computer Science New York University, 2016 Email Phone Office HEC-239 Phone (407) 823-5239 E-mail Paul.Gazzillo@ucf.edu Home Page https://www.paulgazzillo.com/ Research Interests Programming languages and compilers Program analysis Language design Software engineering Build and configuration systems Analysis of highly-configurable software Software security Side-channel attack detection and mitigation Blockchain smart contracts Professional…

  Shaojie Zhang Professor Ph.D., Computer Science University of California, San Diego, 2007 Email Phone Office HEC-311 Phone (407) 823-6095 E-mail shzhang@cs.ucf.edu Home Page http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~shzhang Research Interests Computational Biology and BioInformatics Theory of Computing, Algorithms and Quantum Computing Professional Activities Program Committee Co-Chair, IEEE ICCABS 2017 Organizing Committee Member, IDASH Privacy & Security Workshop (2017,…

  Annie S. Wu Professor Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering University of Michigan, 1995 Email Phone Office HEC-314 Phone (407) 823-5922 E-mail aswu@cs.ucf.edu Home Page http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~aswu Research Page ARGIS Research Research Interests Genetic Algorithms Evolutionary Computation Complex Adaptive Systems Multi-agent Systems Machine Learning Other Experience National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate, Naval Research Laboratory, 1996-1999…

  Gita Sukthankar Professor Ph.D., Robotics Carnegie Mellon University, 2007 Email Phone Office HEC-232 Phone (407) 823-4305 E-mail gitars@cs.ucf.edu Home Page http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~gitars Biography Dr. Gita Sukthankar received her Ph.D.(2007) from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, an M.S. in Robotics (CMU), and an A.B. in psychology from Princeton University. From 2000-2003, she worked as a…

  Sumanta Pattanaik Associate Professor Ph.D., Computer Science Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, 1993 Email Phone Office HEC-437E Phone (407) 823-3187 E-mail sumant@cs.ucf.edu Home Page http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~sumant Research Page ARGIS Research Research Interests Medical Volume Visualization Real-time Realistic Rendering, Material Modeling Nature Rendering Interactive Global Illumination High Dynamic Range Imaging & Display Other…

  David A. Mohaisen Professor Ph.D., Computer Science University of Minnesota, 2012 Email Phone Office HPA2-240 Phone (407) 823-1294 E-mail mohaisen@ucf.edu Home Page https://www.cs.ucf.edu/~mohaisen Research Interests Networks security and measurements Blockchain systems and their security Adversarial machine learning Security intelligence and analytics Malware analysis, detection and classification DDoS analysis and defenses Mobile systems abuse and…

  Niels da Vitoria Lobo Associate Professor Ph.D., Computer Science University of Toronto, 1993 Email Phone Office HEC-252 Phone (407) 823-2873 E-mail niels@cs.ucf.edu Home Page https://www.crcv.ucf.edu/person/niels-lobo/ Research Page ARGIS Research Research Interests Computational Vision Object Detection in Cluttered Backgrounds Integral Image Based Curve Detection Hand and Person Detection and Tracking Active Vision and Mobile Robotics…

  Haiyan Hu Professor Ph.D., Computer Science University of Southern California, 2006 Email Phone Office HEC-233 Phone (407) 882-0134 E-mail haihu@cs.ucf.edu Home Page http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~haihu Research Interests Computational study of microRNA and long non-coding RNAs Computational methods to study epigenetic and genetic Regulation Genomics and Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson diseases Big and Small Data mining, Machine Learning…

  Damian Dechev Professor Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering Texas A&M University, 2009 Email Phone Office HEC-221 Phone (407) 823-2549 E-mail dechev@cs.ucf.edu Home Page http://area67.cs.ucf.edu/the-team/dechev/ Research Interests Programming Techniques and Tools Multiprocessor Programming Concurrent Data Structures Verification of Concurrent Algorithms Large-scale Performance Analysis Other Experience Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA…