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Ziad Al-halah
Ziad Al-Halah
Assistant Professor
Office: TBA
Phone: TBA
Email: ziad.al-halah@utexas.edu
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(Joining faculty January 2023)
Research Interests
Computer Vision and AI
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Rajeev Balasubramonian
Professor
Office: MEB 3414
Phone: 801.581.4553
Email: rajeev@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Computer architecture, multi-core processors, memory hierarchy bottlenecks, instruction-level parallelism, power-efficient processor
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Martin Berzins
Professor
Office: WEB 4803
Phone: 801-585-1545
Email: mb@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
My research area is the study of novel computational algorithms for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (p.d.e.s).
Aditya Bhaskara
Aditya Bhaskara
Associate Professor
Office: 3470 MEB
Phone: n/a
Email: bhaskara@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Theoretical computer science and machine learning.
Mahdi Bojnordi
Mahdi Bojnordi
Assistant Professor
Office: 3418 MEB
Phone: 801-585-9570
Email: bojnordi@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Computer architecture, new memory technologies, high-performance memory systems, and energy-efficient computing.
Richard Brown
Richard Brown
Dean of Engineering and Professor
Office: WEB 1692
Phone: 801.585.7498
Email: brown@utah.edu
Research Interests
Chemical Sensors; Neural Interfaces; Electronic Circuit Clocking; Circuit Design; High Performance Microprocessors; Mixed Signal Microprocessors; Biomedical Implants.
Daniel Brown
Daniel Brown
Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 2172
Phone: TBA
Email: dsbrown@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Robot Learning, Human-robot interaction
Daniel Brown
Erik Brunvand
Professor
Office: MEB 3142
Phone: 801.581.4345
Email: elb@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Computer architecture and VLSI systems
Anton Burtsev
Anton Burtsev
Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 3424
Phone: n/a
Email: aburtsev@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Operating systems
Rogelio Cardona-Rivera
Rogelio Cardona-Rivera
Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 3450
Phone: TBA
Email: rogelio@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Computational psychology, artificial intelligence, game design, interactive narrative
Shireen Elhabian
Shireen Elhabian
Associate Professor
Office: WEB 3608
Phone: 801.581.5982
Email: shireen@sci.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Probablistic Modeling, Artifical Intelligence
Matthew Flatt
Matthew Flatt
Professor
Office: MEB 3256
Phone: 801.587.9091
Email: mflatt@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Practical and theoretical aspects of programming languages and programming environments.
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan
Professor
Office: MEB 3428
Phone: 801.581.3568
Email: ganesh@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Dynamic formal verification of message passing (MPI) and thread programs, formal analysis/verification of protocols, Verification tool development
Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman
Assistant Professor
Office: n/a
Phone: n/a
Email: benjamin.l.greenman@gmail.com
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(Joining faculty July 2023)
Research Interests
Programming languages, gradual type systems, formal methods, human factors
Mary Hall
Mary Hall
Director & Professor
Office: MEB 3252
Phone: 801.585.1039
Email: mhall@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Our research focuses on compiler-based approaches to obtaining high performance on state-of-the-art and experimental architectures, including multi-cores
Tom Henderson
Tom Henderson
Professor
Office: WEB 2871
Phone: 801.581.3601
Email: tch@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
The long range goals of my research are to contribute to the understanding of human intelligence and to participate in the development of intelligent machine systems.
Tucker Hermans
Tucker Hermans
Associate Professor
Office: MEB 2164
Phone: 801.581.8122
Email: tucker.hermans@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Autonomous learning and perception in robots
John Hollerbach
John Hollerbach
Professor
Office: MEB 2196A
Phone: 801.585.6978
Email: jmh@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Robotics, teleoperation, virtual reality, and human motor control
Kate Isaacs
Kate Isaacs
Associate Professor
Office: WEB 4660
Phone: n/a
Email: kisaacs@sci.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Data visualization, high performance computing
Peter Jensen
Peter Jensen
Associate Professor, Lecturer
Office: MEB 3148
Phone: 801.585.9418
Email: pajensen@cs.utah.edu
Research Interests
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Christopher Johnson
Christopher Johnson
Distinguished Professor
Office: WEB 3850
Phone: 801.581.7705
Email: crj@sci.utah.edu
Publications
Research Interests
Scientific Computing and Visualization
David Johnson
David Johnson
Associate Professor, Lecturer
Office: MEB 3146
Phone: 801.585.1726
Email: dejohnso@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Geometric computation, haptics, robotics, educational research
Ben Jones
Ben Jones
Associate Professor, Lecturer
Office: MEB 3120
Phone: n/a
Email: benjones@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Computer graphics, physical simulation
Sneha Kasera
Sneha Kasera
Professor
Office: MEB 3408
Phone: 801.581.4541
Email: kasera@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Networks and systems - technologies, protocols and applications encompassing mobile and pervasive systems and wireless networks, network security and reliability
Mike Kirby
Mike Kirby
Professor
Office: WEB 3602
Phone: 801.585.3421
Email: kirby@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Scientific computing and visualization
Marina Kogan
Marina Kogan
Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 2176
Phone: n/a
Email: kogan@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Crisis informatics, social computing, and network science.
Daniel Kopta
Daniel Kopta
Associate Professor, Lecturer
Office: MEB 3124
Phone: n/a
Email: dkopta@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Ray tracing, computer graphics, computer architecture
Alan Kuntz
Alan Kuntz
Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 2162
Phone: n/a
Email: adk@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Robotics, Medical Robotics, Motion Planning, Automation, Computational Design Optimization
Alexander Lex
Alexander Lex
Associate Professor
Office: WEB 3887
Phone: TBA
Email: alex@sci.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Interactive data visualization especially applied to molecular biology and pharmacology.
Nabil Makarem
Nabil Makarem
Assistant Professor, Lecturer
Office: MEB 3124
Phone: n/a
Email: nabil@cs.utah.edu
Research Interests
Internet of Things, Congestion Control, CoAP
Ana Marasovic
Ana Marasovic
Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 2166
Phone: n/a
Email: ana.marasovic@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Natural Language Processing, explainable AI, multimodality
Travis Martin
Travis Martin
Assistant Professor, Lecturer
Office: MEB 3122
Phone: n/a
Email: travis@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Machine learning, network science, graph algorithms and mechanism design
Vijay Nagarajan
Vijay Nagarajan
Professor
Office: TBA
Phone: n/a
Email: vnagaraj@ed.ac.uk
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(Joining faculty Fall 2023)
Research Interests
Parallel computer architecture
Stefan Nagy
Stefan Nagy
Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 3446
Phone: n/a
Email: snagy@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Computer security and systems
Pavel Panchekha
Pavel Panchekha
Assistant Professor
Office: 2174 MEB
Phone:
Email: pavpan@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Programming language techniques to meet challenges from all areas of computer science
Prashant Pandey
Prashant Pandey
Assistant Professor
Office: 2686 WEB
Phone: TBA
Email: prashant.pandey@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Data structures, algorithms
Vineet Pandey
Vineet Pandey
Assistant Professor
Office:
Phone:
Email: vipandey@eng.ucsd.edu
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(Joining faculty July 2023)
Research Interests
Human-computer interaction, Social Computing, Citizen Science
Manish Parashar
Manish Parashar
Professor
Office: WEB 3750
Phone:
Email: parashar@sci.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering, Parallel & Distributed Computing
Erin Parker
Erin Parker
Professor, Lecturer
Office: MEB 3144
Phone: n/a
Email: parker@cs.utah.edu
Research Interests
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Valerio Pascucci
Valerio Pascucci
Professor
Office: WEB 4646
Phone: 801.587.9885
Email: pascucci@sci.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Computer graphics, computational geometry, geometric programming, and solid modeling
Sameer Patil
Sameer Patil
Associate Professor
Office: WEB 2857
Phone: n/a
Email: patil@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Human Computer Interaction, security and privacy
Jeff Phillips
Jeff Phillips
Associate Professor
Office: MEB 3442
Phone: 801.585.7775
Email: jeffp@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Algorithms for Data Analytics: Handling Uncertainty, Computational Geometry, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Computational Statistics, Databases
Zvonimir Rakamaric
Zvonimir Rakamaric
Associate Professor
Office: MEB 3424
Phone: 801.581.6139
Email: zvonimir@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Formal methods for analysis and verification of complex systems, practical, highly automatic, and scalable formal verification techniques for software
Dan Reed
Dan Reed
SVP of Academic Affairs, Professor
Office: 203 Park
Phone: n/a
Email: dan.reed@utah.edu
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Research Interests
High-performance computing and science policy
John Regehr
John Regehr
Professor
Office: MEB 3268
Phone: 801.581.4280
Email: regehr@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Compilers, programming languages, static analysis, software testing, and formal verification.
Ellen Riloff
Ellen Riloff
Professor
Office: MEB 3140
Phone: 801.581.7544
Email: riloff@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Natural language processing, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence
Paul Rosen
Paul Rosen
Associate Professor
Office: TBA
Phone: TBA
Email: paul.rosen@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Visualization,computer graphics, computational geometry
Ponnuswamy (Saday) Sadayappan
Ponnuswamy (Saday) Sadayappan
Professor
Office: MEB 3458
Phone: n/a
Email: saday@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Compiler optimization, high performance computing
Varun Shankar
Varun Shankar
Assistant Professor, Lecturer
Office: MEB 3112
Phone: n/a
Email: shankar@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Radial basis function, immersed boundary methods
Pratik Soni
Pratik Soni
Assistant Professor
Office: TBA
Phone: n/a
Email: psoni@andrew.cmu.edu
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(Joining faculty July 2023)
Research Interests
Cryptography, Security, Theory
Vivek Srikumar
Vivek Srikumar
Associate Professor
Office: MEB 3126
Phone: 801.587.5681
Email: svivek@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing
James de St. Germain
James de St. Germain
Professor, Lecturer
Office: MEB 3190 B
Phone: 801.585.3352
Email: germain@cs.utah.edu
Research Interests
Reverse Engineering and Constraint Optimization, Artificial Intelligence, technological aids for education
Ryan_Stutsman
Ryan Stutsman
Associate Professor
Office: MEB 3436
Phone: 801.585.0913
Email: stutsman@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, and Databases
Blair Sullivan
Blair Sullivan
Associate Professor
Office: MEB 3464
Phone: n/a
Email: sullivan@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Parameterized algorithms, structural graph theory, applied discrete mathematics, random graphs, and combinatorial scientific computing
Hari Sundar
Hari Sundar
Associate Professor
Office: MEB 3454
Phone: 801.585.9913
Email: hari@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Parallel algorithms; scientific computing; inverse problems; soft tissue and cardiovascular mechanics; image analysis
Kobus Van der Merwe
Kobus Van der Merwe
Professor
Office: MEB 3490 D
Phone: 801.581.3012
Email: kobus@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Networking systems research including network management, control and operation, mobile networking, network evolution, network security and cloud computing.
Bei Wang
Bei Wang Phillips
Associate Professor
Office: WEB 4608
Phone: 801.585.0968
Email: beiwang@sci.utah.edu
Publications
Research Interests
Topological data analysis, scientific visualization, information visualization, computational topology, computational geometry, computational biology and bioinformatics, machine learning, and data mining.
Haitao Wang
Haitao Wang
Associate Professor
Office: MEB 3418
Phone: n/a
Email: haitao.wang@utah.edu
Publications
Research Interests
Computational geometry, algorithms and data structures, theoretical computer science
Ross Whitaker
Ross Whitaker
Professor
Office: WEB 3893
Phone: 801.587.9549
Email: whitaker@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Image processing, medical image analysis, data analysis and visualization, geometry processing
Eliane Wiese
Eliane Wiese
Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 3264
Phone: n/a
Email: eliane​.wiese​@utah​.edu
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Research Interests
HCI, Computer Science Education
Jason Wiese
Jason Wiese
Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 3114
Phone: n/a
Email: jason.wiese@utah.edu
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Research Interests
HCI, Personal Data
Jun Xu
Jun Xu
Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 3442
Phone: n/a
Email: junxzm@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Software and System Security
Yin Yang
Yin Yang
Associate Professor
Office: TBA
Phone: n/a
Email: yin.yang@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Computer graphics
R. Michael Young
R. Michael Young
Professor, EAE
Office: MEB 2166
Phone: n/a
Email: young@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence, Video games, Interactive narrative
Cem Yuksel
Cem Yuksel
Associate Professor
Office: MEB 3116
Phone: 801.581.4439
Email: cem@cemyuksel.com
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Research Interests
Computer Graphics -- physically-based simulation, image synthesis, GPU algorithms.
Mu Zhang
Mu Zhang
Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 2168
Phone: n/a
Email: muzhang@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Computer security
Shandian Zhe
Shandian Zhe
Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 3466
Phone: n/a
Email: zhe@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Probabilistic graphical models, Bayesian nonparametric, approximate inference, Bayesian deep learning, sparse learning, large-scale machine learning and kernel methods

 Research Faculty

Eric Eide
Eric Eide
Research Associate Professor
Office: MEB 3476
Phone: 801.585.5512
Email: eeide@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Trustworthy systems software, programming languages, compilers, software testing, security, digital forensics, testbeds, and reproducible research
Robert Ricci
Robert Ricci
Research Associate Professor
Office: MEB 3490B
Phone: 801.581.8354
Email: ricci@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Operating systems, networking, storage systems, parallelism in systems software, distributed systems, combinatorial optimization, security, embedded systems
Brent Stephens
Brent Stephens
Research Assistant Professor
Office:
Phone:
Email: brent@cs.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Data center networking, operating systems, computer architecture

 Adjunct Faculty

Jake Abbott
Jake Abbott
Adjunct Associate Professor
Office: MEK 2016
Phone: 801.585.6672
Email: jake.abbott@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Wireless magnetic control of microrobots, Medical robotics, Telemanipulation of novel systems, Haptics
Tamara Bidone
Tamara Bidone
Adjunct Associate Professor
Office: WEB 4616
Phone: n/a
Email: tamarabidone@sci.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Computational Models and Simulations of Biological Systems
Sarah Creem-Regehr
Sarah Creem-Regehr
Adjunct Professor
Office: BEHS 1003
Phone: 801.581.5045
sarah.creem@psych.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying space perception and spatial cognition, perception and action, spatial transformations and motor imagery, embodied cognition
Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon
Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 2126
Phone: 801.585.3422
pierre-emmanuel.gaillardon@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Development of novel computing systems exploiting emerging device technologies and novel EDA techniques
Mingyue Jie
Mingyue Jie
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 3108
Phone: 801.587.7255
mingyue.ji@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Information theory, caching networks, distributed computing
Vinu Joseph
Vinu Joseph
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office: 3452 MEB
Phone: 801.413.4052
Email: vinu.joseph@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Fully homomorphic encryption, privacy-preserving ML, neural network compression and correctness, parallel programming, HPC
Sarang Joshi
Sarang Joshi
Adjunct Professor
Office: 3692 WEB
Phone: (801) 587-7961
Email: sjoshi@sci.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Computational Anatomy, Medical Imaging, Computer Vision
Chris Myers
Chris Myers
Adjunct Professor
Office: MEB 4112A
Phone: 801.581.6490
Email: myers@ece.utah.edu
Research Interests
Asynchronous circuit design
Pania Newell
Pania Newell
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office: MEK 1672
Phone: 801.213.3635
Email: pania.newell@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Multi-physics, computational mechanics, poromechanics, fracture mechanics
Masood Parvania
Masood Parvania
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office: MEB 2220
Phone: 801.585.0030
Email: masood.parvania@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Cyber-Physical Resilience, microgrid, Interdependent Critical Infrastructure
Zhaoxia Pu
Zhaoxia Pu
Adjunct Professor
Office: WBB 712
Phone: 801.585.3864
Email: Zhaoxia.Pu@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Data assimilation; Machine Learning/Deep Learning; Modeling; Prediction; Optimization
Glenn Ricart
Glenn Ricart
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office: na
Phone: na
Email: na
Research Interests
N/A
Robert Shakespeare
Robert Shakespeare
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office: na
Phone: na
Email: na
Research Interests
Lighting theatre, dramatic architectural environments, historic register interiors, art and museum galleries, and lighting installations.
Jeanine Stefanucci
Jeanine Stefanucci
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office: BEHS 1031
Phone: 801.585.7895
Email: jeanine.stefanucci@psych.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Better understanding if a person’s bodily states, whether emotional, physiological, or physical, and their bodily size modulates their judgments of spatial layout (e.g., distance, slopes, height, and size).
Kenneth Stevens
Kenneth Stevens
Adjunct Associate Professor
Office: MEB 4506
Phone: 801.585.9176
Email: kstevens@ece.utah.edu
Research Interests
Next Generation Circuits and Systems, VLSI, asynchronous circuit design and architecture, timing analysis, and formal verification
Tolga Tasdizen
Tolga Tasdizen
Adjunct Professor
Office: WEB 3887
Phone: 801.581.3539
Email: tolga@sci.utah.edu
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Research Interests
Image processing and pattern recognition, - image neighborhoods and context for image registration and segmentation; and variational methods and level-sets for volume restoration, reconstruction and segmentation
Jeff Weiss
Jeff Weiss
Adjunct Professor
Office: WEB 2602
Phone: 801.587.7874
Email: jeff.weiss@utah.edu
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Research Interests
Experimental and Computational Biomechanics, with applications in Orthopaedics and Cardiovascular Mechanics, Mechanics of Angiogenesis, Mechanotransduction
Anders Ynnerman
Anders Ynnerman
Adjunct Professor
Office: n/a
Phone: n/a/td>
Email: n/a
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Research Interests
Computer graphics and visualization, in particular large scale and complex data sets with a focus on volume rendering and multi-modal interaction.

 Emeritus Faculty

Name Rank Phone
Elaine Cohen Professor Emeritus n/a
Al Davis Professor Emeritus n/a
David Hanscom Professor Emeritus n/a
Charles Hansen Professor Emeritus n/a
Lee Hollaar Professor Emeritus n/a
Gary Lindstrom Professor Emeritus n/a
Rich Riesenfeld Professor Emeritus n/a
Kent Smith Professor Emeritus n/a
Frank Stenger Professor Emeritus n/a
William Thompson Professor Emeritus n/a
Joe Zachary Professor Emeritus n/a