UNM Computer Science

Faculty

The faculty have a large number of research interest areas. Take a look at some home pages to see what they're up to. Their home pages also often where the syllabi for classes live.

Faculty	Research Interests	Spring 2013 Course Number	Spring 2013 Office Hours
David Ackley FEC 349D	Artificial life models and real artificial life; current research emphases include software evolvability and evolutionary computing, distributed and social systems, robust self-aware computation, and computer security.	On Leave	On Leave
Dorian Arnold FEC 301F	Large scale parallel and distributed systems. System reliability and fault-tolerance.	CS 481 ECE 437	T/Th: 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Patrick Bridges FEC 301B	Operating systems and networking custom composition. Projects include IMPuLSE: Integrated Monitoring and Profiling for Large-Scale Environments, configurable high performance operating systems and protocols, core-set: shared network services for clusters, K42 research with IBM/Watson as part of the PERCS contract, Cholla, Cactus and CTP	CS 442 CS 691.004	M/W: 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Jed Crandall FEC 335	Computer security, architectural support for systems security, behavior-based malware analysis, polymorphic and metamorphic worms and viruses, dynamic information flow tracking, and conceptual modeling and Internet measurement related to government censorship.	CS 444/544 CS 691.009	T/Th: 3:15 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Michalis Faloutsos Department Chairman FEC 107	Internet protocols and measurements, peer-to-peer networks, network security, BGP routing, ad-hoc networks, and power-laws of Internet topology.	TBA	TBA
Stephanie Forrest FEC 107	Biology and computation, including biologically inspired approaches to computer security, computational modeling of biological systems (immunology, cancer, and evolution), computer immunology, and evolutionary computation.	CS 691.001	W: 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Tom Hayes FEC 149	Randomized algorithms for decision-making in complex systems	CS 500	M: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Deepak Kapur FEC 339	Automated reasoning, term rewriting, formal methods, programming languages, algebraic and geometric reasoning, and their applications in computer vision and solid modeling, elimination methods, constraint solving, and distributed, concurrent and real time systems.	CS 550	T/Th: 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Patrick Kelley FEC 301B	Information Design, Usability, and Education Involving Privacy	CS 293 CS 491/591	T: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. W: 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Joe Kniss FEC 301G/ECE 218	Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, Pattern Recognition and Classification, Medical Imaging, Parallel and Stream Computing, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis, Decision Making	On Leave	On Leave
Shuang (Sean) Luan FEC 151	Computational medicine and biomedical engineering, algorithms design, analysis and implementation, and computational geometry. Current research emphasizes the design and development of efficient and effective computer algorithms and software for radiation oncology.	CS 261 CS 362	T/Th: 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
George F. Luger FEC 107	Artificial intelligence, techniques in stochastic modeling, diagnostic reasoning, cognitive science, computational linguistics	TBA	By Appointment, available most afternoons, please set up an appointment with Kara@cs.unm.edu
Melanie Moses FEC 327	I use theory originally developed to explain the scaling properties of biological networks to understand scaling properties of other networks used for transporting materials and communicating information. I focus on multi-agent systems, for example, ant colonies, the adaptive immune system and the Internet, and investigate how the number of agents affects the flow of information and materials through the system.	CS 423/523 CS 520 CS 691.006	M: 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Th: 9:00a.m.-11:00a.m.
Gruia-Catalin Roman UNM SOE Dean CEC 3071	software engineering, ad hoc and sensor wireless networks, mobile computing including formal models, algorithms, middleware, protocols, and applications	TBA	TBA
Jared Saia Associate Chair FEC 301H	Jared's broad research interests are in theory and algorithms with specific interests in probability, randomized and distributed algorithms, graph theory, and spectral methods. A strong current interest is designing randomized algorithms that are provably robust against a computationally unbounded adversary.	CS 691.004	Office/Associate Chair Hours: T/W/Th: 2:30p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Darko Stefanovic FEC 345C	Memory management and garbage collection; Java virtual machine run-time systems and compilation; computer security; molecular logic gates and circuits; molecular automata; oligonucleotide libraries; microfluidic mixing; microfluidic molecular computing; molecular cybernetics.	CS 293 CS 454/554 CS 691.002/691.003	T: 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Lydia Tapia FEC 349E	Motion planning, robotics, computational biology, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality	CS 464/564 CS 691.003	M: 9:30a.m.-10:30a.m. W: 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. F: 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Lance R. Williams FEC 349C	Computer vision and graphics, neural computation, digital image processing	CS 357 CS 491.004/591.008	M/T: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Lecturers

Name	Office	Spring 2013 Course Number	Spring 2013 Office Hours
Joel Castellanos FEC 321 Research Interests: Educational Software for the Mathematical Sciences at the Elementary, High School, and University level, Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, and Modeling of Natural and Abstract Systems.	Lecturer	CS 150L.001-.012 CS 152L.001-.006 CS 351L.001-002	M/W: 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Mark Olah FEC 345B	Lecturer	CS 341L	T: 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Steve Peralta CENT 2105	Lecturer	CS 151L.001-.012	TBA
David West FEC 156	Lecturer	CS 460	T/Th: 8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. T/Th: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. And By Appointment
James Willson FEC 325 Research Interests: Computer networks and software systems, including wireless networking, mobile computing, parallel and distributed systems, social networks, and network algorithm design.	Lecturer	CS 105L.001-007 CS 241L.001-002,004 CS 251L.001-004	M/T: 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.

Adjunct Faculty

Emeritus Faculty

Ed Angel
Stoughton Bell
Charles P. Crowley
John Brayer
Edgar Gilbert
Harold Knudsen
Paul Helman
Bernard Moret
Henry D. Shapiro
Brian T. Smith
Patricia Stans
Bob Veroff

Courtesy Appointments

Vince Calhoun — University of New Mexico (EECE)
William Camp — Sandia National Laboratory
Tom Caudell — University of New Mexico (EECE)
Rick Chartrand — Los Alamos National Laboratory
David Gay — Sandia National Laboratory
Walter Gerstle — University of New Mexico (CE)
David D. Grisham — University Hospital
Gregory Heileman — University of New Mexico (EECE)
Bruce Hendrickson — Sandia National Laboratory
William McCune — Downers Grove, IL
Rodney Oldehoeft — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Marek Osinkski — University of New Mexico (EECE)
Neil Pundit — Sandia National Laboratory
Pradeep Sen — University of New Mexico (EECE)
Akaysha Tang — University of New Mexico (Psychology)
Andrea Polli — University of New Mexico (Fine Arts)
Bill Feireisen