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PhD in Information Science

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Name Title Research Interests
Brusilovsky, Peter Associate Professor Adaptive Web systems; adaptive hypermedia; intelligent tutoring systems; user modeling; Web-based education; adaptive information systems; information visualization; digital libraries; human-computer interaction.
Carbo, Toni Professor National and international information policies; measurement and use of information; education for the information professions; information ethics.
Druzdzel, Marek Associate Professor Decision support systems; strategic business planning; decision making under uncertainty; decision-theoretic methods in intelligent information systems.
Flynn, Roger Associate Professor Education in information science; knowledge representation and inference; database design; artificial intelligence; systems analysis and design; data structures; humancomputer interaction; database management systems.
He, Daqing Assistant Professor Information retrieval and interactive retrieval system design; computational linguistics and natural language processing; machine learning, user modeling and adaptive web search system design and analysis.
Hirtle, Stephen Professor Spatial information; classification; cognitive science; geographic information systems; hypertext and multimedia systems; visualization; neural networks.
Joshi, James Assistant Professor Information System Security; role-based Access Control; XML Security; Distributed Systems; multimedia systems; systems survivability.
Joshi, James Assistant Professor Information System Security; role-based Access Control; XML Security; Distributed Systems; multimedia systems; systems survivability.
Kabara, Joseph Assistant Professor Embedding neural networks in telecommunications networks; wireless communication network design, control and management; the interaction between physical, MAC and network layer communication protocols; sensors and other limited power networked devices; the use of technology to facilitate learning.
Karimi , Hassan Associate Professor Geomatics (geographic information systems, Global Positioning System, remote sensing); computational geometry; parallel/distributed computing; spatial analysis algorithms; uncertainty measurement, modeling and management in geographic information systems.
Krishnamurthy, Prashant Associate Professor Information and network security. wireless security. wireless data networks and indoor radio propagation and channel modeling.
Lewis, Michael Professor Human Factors. Human Computer Interaction. Visualization. CSCW. Virtual Environments. Software Agents. Human Error. Negotiation and E-Commerce.
Metzler, Douglas Associate Professor Knowledge representation and reasoning; natural language and communication; intelligent tutoring systems; human and machine learning and datamining; problem solving. reasoning and expert systems.
Munro, Paul Associate Professor Connectionist systems; neural information processing; image processing; modeling and simulation; cognitive science; models of learning; visualization; genetic algorithms/artificial life.
Ray, Glenn Assistant Professor Software engineering; Object and aspect-oriented analysis and design; Rule-based systems; Web services; Formal methods; Geographic information systems; Distance education
Spring, Michael Associate Professor Distributed systems; client server systems; collaborative authoring;web services and e-business; information infrastructure and e-markets;interactive systems; secure systems; standards and standardization.
Thompson, Richard Professor Communications switching systems. especially photonic switching; intelligent networks; terminals. user services. and the human interface; fault tolerance and cellular automata; probabilistic formal languages.
Weiss , Martin Associate Professor Policy and industry implications of new technologies; cost modeling of telecommunications technologies; technical standards and their impact on industry; the study of technical coordination among competing firms.
Zadorozhny, Vladimir Associate Professor Scalable architectures for wide-area environments with heterogeneous information servers. Web-based information systems. query optimization in distributed databases. semantic interoperability in heterogeneous network environments. distributed object systems and object metamodels.

 

 

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