计算机科学研究

教师的研究

计算机专业, especially those planning to go on to graduate school, 通常是做一个本科研究项目, 通常是荣誉级别的. Our faculty are committed to involving students in their active research programs.

丽莎Ballesteros

丽莎Ballesteros specializes in research in the area of Cross-langu年龄 Information Retrieval, working to develop technology that will enable us to build systems that allow a person to query in one langu年龄 (e.g. English) and retrieve relevant documents in other langu年龄s (e.g.、西班牙语). The most recent approach results in very effective cross-langu年龄 retrieval using translation via a machine readable dictionary and statistical techniques for reducing the effects of translation ambiguity. The statistical techniques are based on analysis of word co-occurrence in text.

芭芭拉·勒纳

芭芭拉·勒纳’s area of research lies within software engineering and software design. Software engineering focuses on issues of scale: how to build large pieces of software, 需要多人一起工作, 导致软件是正确的, 可靠高效, and doing so while staying within an organization's schedule and budget. 芭芭拉·勒纳's research investigates two subareas of software engineering: software process and software design.

A software process defines how multiple people and tools cooperate to achieve a task. 除了软件工程应用, 软件过程可用于不同的领域, such as describing medical tasks involving the cooperations of doctors, 护士, 技术人员, pharmacists and others in carrying out a procedure such as chemotherapy for a patient. Other applications of software processes are in negotiation and arbitration, 在线拍卖和科学的工作流程.

芭芭拉也学习软件设计, the phase of software development that bridges the gap between software requirements, 客户希望软件做什么, 和编程. She is particularly interested in developing tools and techniques that ensure that a design is correctly transformed into code.

詹姆斯•麦考利

詹姆斯•麦考利 researches in the broad areas of computer systems and networks, typically working to make systems and protocols simpler, 更可靠的, 更加可伸缩, 或者更灵活. 这意味着提问(和回答)!)问题, "How can we continue to accommodate the incredible growth of the Internet while expanding the capabilities it supports?" and "What should an operating system look like if every program takes only milliseconds to complete?“在这些主要研究领域之外, he enjoys being involved in projects involving computer imaging or programming langu年龄s.

希瑟Pon-Barry

希瑟Pon-Barry的研究 is at the intersection of spoken langu年龄 processing and human-robot interaction. She directs the Interactive Computing Research Lab where she and students are enabling humanoid and service robots to eng年龄 human users in conversational dialogue. She develops algorithms to automatically find patterns in speech data, 例如, to recognize affect and emotion and explores how these methods can inform the design of intelligent, 自适应人机交互. Pon-Barry also works on activities to broaden participation in computer science, including the development of an inclusive academic peer mentorship program.

奥黛丽圣. 约翰

奥黛丽圣. 约翰’s research interests lie in computational geometry, seeking to construct efficient algorithms for problems with a geometric component (e.g.(任何有坐标的东西). 奥黛丽圣. 约翰's particular focus is in an area called "Rigidity Theory" which focuses on theoretical and computational analyses of objects to understand their rigidity or flexibility. She is particularly motivated by applications stemming from robotics, biology and CAD (Computer Aided Design)seeking answers to questions like: Can we control a swarm of robots to collaboratively move an object? Can we give insight into a protein's flexibility and motion, providing an aid to drug design? Can we help the engineer to know when a design is completely rigid (e.g.，保证结构稳定)?

苏允萱(Melody

Melody Su's research in medical robotics focuses on building a perception augmentation software framework for deformable object manipulation in telerobotics. This approach constructs estimated kinesthetic information from evaluated visual input to preserves multiple sensory (vision and force) pathways innate to human perception. 当视觉和力传感器都可用时, the built-in partial redundancies or inferences between perceptual channels can be used both to detect and recover from compromised operator feedback. Rooted in the concept of perception complementarities, the backup perceptual transmission pathways will catalyze advances in perception robustness and cybersecurity for telerobotic systems, which will help humans stay connected and complete remote tasks through intelligent touch estimation.