Faculty and Researchers

Computer Science Faculty

Yanif Ahmad, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Brown University, 2009. Data management, stream processing, declarative languages, parallel and distributed databases.

Yair Amir, Professor, Ph.D., Hebrew (Jerusalem), 1995 Systems, distributed algorithms, secure distributed systems, overlay networks, wireless backbones, replication, survivability.

Giuseppe Ateniese, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Genova (Italy), 2000. Applied cryptography, network security, secure e-commerce. JHUISI

Baruch Awerbuch, Professor; D.Sc. Technion (Israel), 1984. Wireless networks, algorithmic theory of communication networks, on-line and distributed computing.

Vladimir Braverman, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2011. Theory, randomized algorithms, data streams, massive databases.

Randal Burns, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000. Storage systems, high performance and scientific computing, and database federations. IDIES

Jason M. Eisner, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2001. Computational linguistics and natural language processing (parsing,morphology, phonology, machine translation, information extraction and semantics); machine learning and probabilistic modeling; declarative programming languages. CLSP, HLTCOE, ML

Peter Fröhlich, Senior Lecturer; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2003. Programming languages, software engineering, systems software.

Gregory D. Hager, Professor (Chair); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1988. Vision, robotics, human-machine systems, computer-assisted surgery. CISST, LCSR

Michael Kazhdan, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University, 2004. Computer graphics, 3D shape analysis, 3D shape matching.

S. Rao Kosaraju, Edward J. Schaefer Professor; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1969. Design of algorithms, parallel computation, pattern matching, computational geometry.

Gerald M. Masson, Professor (Director of Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute); Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1971. Computer engineering, fault-tolerant computing, computer communications and networking. JHUISI

Aviel Rubin, Professor (Technical Director of Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute); Ph.D., Michigan, 1994. System and networking security, computer privacy, applied cryptography. JHUISI

Suchi Saria, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Stanford University, 2011. Graphical models and probabilistic modeling applied to health-related problems. ML

Joanne Selinski, Senior Lecturer & Director of Undergraduate Studies; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1996. CS education, communication networks, graph theory.

Scott F. Smith, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1988. Programming languages, type systems, security in language design, component programming languages.

Russell Taylor, John C. Malone Professor (Director, CISST ERC); Ph.D., Stanford, 1976. Medical robotics, computer-assisted surgery. CISST, LCSR

Andreas Terzis, Associate Professor; Ph.D., UCLA, 2000. Wireless, embedded, and networked systems and computer networks. IDIES

David Yarowsky, Professor; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1995. Natural language and speech processing, information retrieval, machine translation, and machine learning. CLSP, HLTCOE, ML

Research Faculty

Chris Callison-Burch, Associate Research Professor; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 2007. Statistical natural language processing, machine translation, paraphrasing, automatic evaluation metrics. CLSP, HLTCOE

Kenneth Church, Research Professor; Ph.D., MIT, 1983. Natural language processing, speech, datamining. HLTCOE, CLSP, ML

Mark Dredze, Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2009. Machine learning, natural language processing, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent email. HLTCOE, CLSP, ML

Matthew Green, Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2008. Applied cryptography, cryptographic protocol design, analysis of practical security systems, privacy-preserving storage and identification technologies.

Susan Hohenberger, Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D., MIT, 2006. Cryptography, computer security, algorithms, and complexity theory. JHUISI

Peter Kazanzides, Associate Research Professor; Ph.D. Brown University, 1988. Medical robotics. LCSR, CISST

Rajesh Kumar, Associate Research Professor; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2001. Applications of robotics and vision in medicine and surgery. CISST, LCSR

Amitabh Mishra, Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D., McGill University, 1985. Wireless cellular, ad hoc and sensor networks, dynamic spectrum access networks, telecommunications.

Nicolas Padoy, Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D., Université Henri Poincaré/Technische Universität München, 2010. Computer vision, medical imaging, activity recognition, human-machine collaborative surgery. CISST, LCSR

Research Scientists & Postdoctoral Fellows

Marcus Chang, Postdoctoral Fellow; Ph.D. University of Copenhagne, 2010. Machine learning, robotics, wireless sensor networks, pervasive computing

Simon Leonard , Assistant Research Scientist; Ph.D., University of Alberta, 2008. Visual servoing, hand-eye coordination.

Eric Meisner, Postdoctoral Fellow; Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2009. Human-robot interaction, mobile sensor networks, learning for sequential decision, estimation problems.

Part-Time, Visiting & Adjunct Appointments

Amihood Amir, Research Professor; Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University, 1983. Pattern matching, knowledge discovery algorithms, real time systems algorithms, computational molecular biology.

Mitra Basu, Visiting Professor; Ph.D. Purdue, 1985, Computational biology, pattern recognition, neural networks, artificial intelligence.

Philippe Burlina, Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1994. Machine vision, medical image analysis, machine learning, enterprise software systems, content and e-process management, SDLC, and software engineering. APL

Robert Cole, Adjunct Associate Research Scientist; Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1983. Data networking, performance modeling, Internet protocol design and Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETS).

Bharat Doshi, Research Professor; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1974. Optical and wireless networking technologies, Internet protocols and architectures, speech technologies and signal processing, and network design and analysis algorithms and tools. APL

Gabor Fichtinger, Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Technical University of Budapest, Hungary, 1990. Applied surgical robotics, surgical CAD/CAM systems, percutaneous therapies, stereotactic radiosurgery.

John Linwood Griffin, Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 2004. Data protection in information storage systems and networks, computer virtualization and performance.

Matthew Henry, Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2007. Information assurance research, decision analysis, operations research, and risk analysis. APL

Sheela Kosaraju, Lecturer; JD., Wake Forest University, 1997.

Michael Lavine, Lecturer; Ph.D. City University, 2007. Computer forensics, information assurance and security, critical infrastructure protection. JHUISI

Harold Lehmann, Lecturer; Ph.D., Stanford, 1992. Medical informatics.

Adam Lopez, Assistant Research Scientist; Ph.D. University of Maryland, 2008. Machine translation, algorithms, machine learning, formal language and automata theory.

Tammara Massey, Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D. UCLA, 2009. Statistical analysis, optimization, community based participatory methods, and network analysis techniques for informatics-based interventions. APL

James Mayfield, Associate Research Professor; Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 1989. Information retrieval, cross-language retrieval, information extraction, natural language processing. APL, HLTCOE

Christine Piatko, Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1993. Computational geometry, information visualization, information retrieval. APL, HLTCOE

John W. Sheppard, Adjunct Associate Professor; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1996. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining.

Benjamin Van Durme, Assistant Research Scientist; Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2009. Artificial Intelligence, natural language processing (computational semantics), and streaming algorithms. HLTCOE, CLSP

Vinod Variyam, Visiting Associate Professor; Ph.D., Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 1999. Computational complexity theory and its applications to machine learning.

Jorge Vasconcelos, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2007. Digital signal processing, evolutionary computing, robotics, computer music.

I-Jeng Wang, Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D. Purdue, 1996. Wireless networking, Bayesian networks, probabilistic models. APL

Theresa Wilson, Assistant Research Scientist; Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 2008. Artificial Intelligence, computational linguistics, natural language processing
subjectivity and sentiment analysis in text and speech. HLTCOE

Lawrence B. Wolff, Research Professor, Ph.D. Columbia University, 1991, Computer Vision, Multi-Sensor Image Fusion, Augmented Reality, Biometrics.

Qinqing Zhang, Assistant Research Professor; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1998. Wireless communications and networking, Mobile Ad-hoc networks, cellular system and network technologies, multimedia applications and QoS, Internet protocol and algorithm design, performance analysis. APL

Joint & Secondary Appointments

Joel Bader, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Ph.D. Theoretical Chemistry, UC Berkeley, 1991. Bioinformatics and computational biology.

Emad M. Boctor, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Univeristy, 2006. Image-guided Intervention, ultrasound imaging, elasticity and thermal imaging. CISST

Greg Chirikjian, Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., Caltech, 1992. Robotics, kinematics, dynamics, control, motion planning.

Noah J. Cowan, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2001. Sensor-based control of locomotion and manipulation, machine learning, and biologically inspired robotics.

Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1990. VLSI circuits, systems and algorithms for biologically inspired and low-power, parallel mixed-signal processing, biomorphic robotics and neural prosthetics.

James Fill, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics; Ph.D. Statistics, University of Chicago, 1980. Probability, stochastic processes, random structures and algorithms.

Rachel Karchin, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D., Computer Science UC Santa Cruz, 2003. Computational molecular biology, bioinformatics, genetic variation.

Sanjeev Khudanpur, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Ph.D., Maryland, 1997. Information theory, statistical language modeling for speech recognition and machine translation.

Han Liu, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics; Ph.D., CMU, 2010. Statistical machine learning, high dimensional nonparametric learning and massive-data analysis, multiple hypothesis testing, time series analysis, genomics, proteomics, cognitive neuroscience

Michael I. Miller, Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1984. Image understanding, computer vision, medical imaging, computational anatomy.

Allison M. Okamura, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., Stanford, 2000. Robotic fingers, virtual environments, remote and computer assisted surgery.

Carey Priebe, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics; Ph.D., George Mason, 1993. Computational statistics, kernel and mixture estimates, statistical pattern recognition, and statistical image analysis.

Jerry L. Prince, William B. Kouwenhoven Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Director for Research, CISST ERC. Ph.D., MIT, 1988. Image processing, computer vision, medical imaging.

Steven Salzberg, Professor, Medicine and Biostatistics; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1989. Genomics, bioinformatics, gene finding, sequence assembly, genome evolution.

Jeffrey Siewerdsen, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1998. Imaging physics, diagnostic radiology, image-guided interventions.

Alexander Szalay, Professor, Physics and Astronomy; Theoretical astrophysics, galaxy formation.

Rene Vidal, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2003. Computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and control.

Louis Whitcomb, Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., Yale, 1992. Dynamics and control of mechanical systems.

Raimond L. Winslow, Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Director, The Institute for Computational Medicine; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1985. Modeling of biological systems, nonlinear systems theory, grid computing and data management, biomedical ontologies.