COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Faculty

Department Chair: Dr. Yaakov Varol

Department website

242 Scrugham Engineering Bldg. (SEM)
Mail Stop 0171
Phone: (775) 784-6974
Fax: (775) 784-1877

Faculty

Bebis, George
– Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition
Bekris, Kostas
– Algorithmic Robotics
Bryant, Bobby
– Artificial Intelligence, Game AI
Dascalu, Sergiu
– Software Engineering, Human Computer Interaction
Egbert, Dwight
– Computer Vision
Folmer, Eelke
– Games, Interaction Design, Software Engineering
Gunes, Mehmet
– Networks, Internet Measurements
Harris, Fred
– Parallel and Distributed Computing
LaTourrette, Nancy
– Programming, Laboratory Management
Louis, Sushil
– Evolutionary Computing, AI
Nicolescu, Mircea
– Computer Vision
Nicolescu, Monica
– Robotics
Varol, Yaakov
– Algorithms
Yuksel, Murat
– Computer Networks, Wireless Routing

GEORGE BEBIS
Associate Professor, CSE
(775) 784-6463
bebis@cse.unr.edu
website: www.cse.unr.edu/~bebis

PhD 1996, University of Central Florida

MS 1991, University of Crete, Greece

BS 1987, University of Crete, Greece

Research/outreach areas: Computer vision; stereo vision; perspective geometry; theory of invariants; indexing; object recognition; shape analysis and representation; motion; texture; shading; face recognition; image databases; medical diagnosis; image processing; image compression; classification; learning and generalization properties of neural networks; applications of neural networks; genetic algorithms.

Relevant past experience: Recognizing objects from an arbitrary viewpoint; image retrieval; pose prediction from a single image; improving marketing strategies using neural networks; prediction using pools of neural networks.

KOSTAS BEKRIS
Assistant Professor, CSE
(775) 784-4527
bekris@cse.unr.edu
website: www.cse.unr.edu/~bekris

PhD 2008, Rice University

MS 2004, Rice University
BS 2001, University of Crete, Greece

Research/outreach areas: Algorithmic robotics; motion planning; physics-based simulation; probabilistic estimation; multi-agent coordination; wireless localization.

Relevant past experience: Steering committee member of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion; involved in the NSF grant "Robot Planning and Coordination under Physical Constraints"; co-organizer of the workshop on "Algorithmic Motion Planning for Autonomous Robots in Challenging Environments"; operated and maintained a RWI B21-R robot.

BOBBY BRYANT
Assistant Professor, CSE
(775) 784-7593
bdbryant@unr.edu

PhD 2006, University of Texas, Austin

MS 1999, University of Texas, Austin
BS 1995, University of Houston

Research/outreach areas: Artificial intelligence; AI in games and simulators, intelligent agents; multi-agent systems; visibly intelligent behavior; intelligently stochastic behavior; behavioral cloning; sensor-controller systems; artificial neural networks; genetic algorithms; human-biased genetic algorithms; neuroevolution.

Relevant past experience: AI consultant on the NERO game project;
teaching; system administration.

SERGIU DASCALU
Assistant Professor, CSE
Tel: (775) 784-4813
dascalus@cse.unr.edu
website: www.cse.unr.edu/~dascalus

PhD 2001, Dalhousie University

MS 1982, Polytechnic of Bucharest

Research/outreach areas: Software engineering (in particular, languages and techniques for software specification, development environments, and project management); human-computer interaction; real time systems; formal notations.

Relevant past experience: Embedded systems; process control systems; microprocessors; database systems; programming languages; computeraided education.

DWIGHT D. EGBERT
Professor, CSE
(775) 784-6952
egbert@ee.unr.edu
website: www.cse.unr.edu/~egbert

PhD 1976, University of Kansas

MS 1971, University of Kansas

BS 1968, University of Kansas

Research/outreach areas: Neural network computing applications:
analysis of medical images, search for patterns in massive patient care
data bases, imputation of missing data; image processing
applications: medical diagnosis using x-rays, thermal and CAT scans to
advanced research modeling based on high speed imaging at the
cellular level; digital hardware design ranging from single board
microprocessor controllers for instrumentation to application specific
VLSI integrated circuits; computer vision.

Relevant past experience: Development of user-friendly image analysis software for GE and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; designed and built several commercial microprocessor-based image processing systems; authored many papers and reports dealing with computer applications in decision support systems, remote sensing, image processing and neurocomputing.

EELKE FOLMER
Assistant Professor, CSE
(775) 784-7592
eelke.folmer@gmail.com
website: www.eelke.com

PhD 2005, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

MS CS 2001, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Research/outreach areas: Games; interaction design; software
engineering; accessibility / usability of virtual worlds and games;
software architecture assessment; game engine design; and component based game development.

Relevant past experience: Blind Hero (Blind accessible version of guitar hero blindhero.eelke.com); interaction design pattern library (http://www.helpyouplay.com); EU funded STATUS *(Software architecture that supports Usability) project.

Mehmet Gunes MEHMET H. GUNES
Assistant Professor, CSE
(775) 784-4313
mgunes@cse.unr.edu
website: www.cse.unr.edu/~mgunes

PhD 2008, University of Texas at Dallas

MS 2004, Southern Methodist University

BS 2002, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey

Research/outreach areas: Networks; communications; internet measurements; network protocols; network security; design verification and testing; complex networks; biological networks.

Relevant past experience: Internet topology mapping; network sampling; network topology inference; graph data mining; dimensionality reduction; path delay fault grading; decision diagrams; logic simulation.

FREDERICK C. HARRIS
Professor, CSE
(775) 784-6571
fredh@cse.unr.edu

PhD 1994, Clemson University

MS 1991, Clemson University

MS 1988, Bob Jones University

BS 1986, Bob Jones University

Research/outreach areas: Parallel computing; operating systems;
graph algorithms; optimization; virtual reality with mining applications.

Relevant past experience: In charge of the external software testing for NASA's planetary going to Mars; developed parallel applications that have been used in industry by companies such as AT&T and Southern Bell.

NANCY LATOURRETTE
Lecturer, CSE
Manager, Engineering Computing
(775) 784-4014
latour@cse.unr.edu
websites: www.cse.unr.edu/~latour, www.ecc.unr.edu

MS 2003, Computer Science, University of Nevada, Reno

BS 1980, Mathematics, University of Nevada, Reno

Research/outreach areas: Programming and problem solving; discrete mathematics; computer science education; systems administration.

Relevant past experience: Curriculum development; computer laboratory management; systems administration.

SUSHIL LOUIS
Professor, CSE
(775) 784-4315
sushil@cse.unr.edu
website: www.cse.unr.edu/~sushil

PhD 1993, Indiana University
MS 1986, Delhi University
BS 1983, Delhi University

Research/outreach areas: Intelligent systems; decision support systems; design and optimization of engineering and manufacturing systems; World Wide Web and Internet tools; using adaptive algorithms for modeling and optimizing manufacturing systems; robust hybrid algorithms for engineering design; evolutionary methods for designing and optimizing control algorithms.

Relevant past experience: Consulting; technology demonstrations.

MIRCEA NICOLESCU
Assistant Professor, CSE
(775) 784-4356
Mircea@cse.unr.edu
website: www.cse.unr.edu/~mircea

PhD 2003, University of Southern California

MS 1999, University of Southern California

BS 1995, Polytechnic University Bucharest

Research/outreach areas: Computer vision; analysis and interpretation of visual motion; perceptual organization; stereo vision, image and video segmentation; three-dimensional reconstruction; vision-based surveillance and activity recognition; human-computer interaction; panoramic video systems.

Relevant past experience: Design and development of vision-based
pointing devices for human-computer interfaces; real-time digital pan-tilt–zoom systems for video-conferencing and surveillance; voting-based methodology for optical flow segmentation.

MONICA NICOLESCU
Assistant Professor, CSE
(775) 784-1687
monica@cse.unr.edu
website: www.cse.unr.edu/~monica

PhD 2003, University of Southern California

MS 2000, University of Southern California

BS 1995, Polytechnic University Bucharest

Research/outreach areas: Autonomous robots; robot control; artificial intelligence (AI); robot learning; machine learning; game AI; human-robot interaction and communication; imitation learning; multirobot systems; behavior-based control; social robotics.

Relevant past experience: Design and development of behavior-based robot control architectures; robot systems for learning by demonstration and natural human-robot interaction; multi-robot systems for collaboration and cooperation.

YAAKOV L. VAROL
Professor and Chair, CSE
(775) 784-6974
varol@cse.unr.edu
website: www.cse.unr.edu./~varol

PhD 1971, University of Wyoming

BS 1967, Robert College, Turkey

Research/outreach areas: Parallel computing; algorithm design and analysis; data fusion; discrete simulation and modeling; programming and problem solving.

Relevant past experience: Numerical techniques and analysis; combinatorial and optimization problems; traffic simulation; scheduling problems; network path problems; curriculum development; laboratory and department administration.

MURAT YUKSEL
Assistant Professor, CSE
(775) 327-2246
yuksem@cse.unr.edu
website: www.cse.unr.edu/~yuksem

PhD 2002, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

MS 1999, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

BS 1996, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey

Research/outreach areas: Computer communication networks; wireless routing; mobile ad-hoc networks/systems; network economics; free-space-optical mobile ad-hoc networks (FSO-MANETs); and performance analysis.

Relevant past experience: Postdoctoral research in networking and teaching in signals and systems. Summer research internship at Sun Microsystems Labs, Burlington, MA. Visiting scientist at the Los Alamos National Labs, Los Alamos, NM. Co-founder of a research startup company, Omega Advanced Solutions, Troy, NY. Teaching and network system administration at the International Turkmen-Turkish University, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.