Research Areas of Faculty

David T. K. Chen
Associate Professor
Degree: Ph.D., Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/David-Chen.html
Research Area(s): Database systems, object-oriented design, software engineering (software reuse), software reliability, quality and security.

Vincent J. Digricoli
Associate Professor Emeritus
Degree: Ph.D., Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/Vincent-Digricoli.html
Research Area(s): Artificial Intelligence and Programming Languages: Automated Reasoning, Logic Programming and PROLOG, Compiler Design. Developed a new form of automated reasoning presented in the Journal of the ACM.

Valery Frants
Professor
Degree: Ph.D., Academy of Science (VINITI), Moscow
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/Valery-Frants.html
Research Area(s): Information Science Theory, Information Retrieval System Design, Software Engineering, Computer Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence.

Frank Hsu
Clavius Distinguished Professor of Science and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Degree: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/Frank-Hsu.html
Research Area(s): Interconnection networks for massively parallel computer systems, communication networks and VLSI designs, parallel algorithms and architectures, telecommunication network design and optimization, graph theory and combinatorial problems.

Yanjun Li
Assistant Professor
Degree: Ph.D., Wright State University
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/Yanjun-Li.html
Research Area(s): My research interests include Text Mining, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Ontology, Information Retrieval, Bioinformatics Analysis, Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Damian Lyons
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Degree: Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/Damian-Lyons.html
Research Area(s): Target tracking and behavior recognition in Automated Video Surveillance and in Camera-based User Interfaces. Computer vision for Virtual and Augmented Reality Interfaces. Formal analysis of behavior for robotic systems operating in unstructured environments. Integration of planning and reaction in robotic systems.

Chris Mesterharm
Visiting Assistant Professor
Degree: Ph.D., Rutgers University
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/Chris-Mesterharm.html

Robert K. Moniot
Associate Professor
Degree: Ph.D. (Physics), University of California, Berkeley; M.S. (Computer Science), New York University
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/Robert-Moniot.html
Research Area(s): Accelerator-based mass spectrometry of radioisotopes, applied to archeology, geophysics and meteoritics. Scale-space and equation-error minimization approaches to problems in image reconstruction and solution of partial differential equations. Analysis of computer ethics issues.

Tadeusz Strzemecki
Assistant Professor
Degree: Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/Tadeusz-Strzemecki.html
Research Area(s): Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Complexity of Algorithms, Theory of Computation.

Hoa V. Tran
Clinical Assistant Professor
Degree: Ph.D., New York University
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/Hoa-Tran.html
Research Area(s): Wireless Communications, sMultiuser Detection, Collision Resolution, Network Security, Internet Technologies, Finance Computing, Stochastic Risk Computing, Cryptography, Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Computing, Modular Invariance, Quantum Cohomology, Visualization.

David S. L. Wei
Professor
Degree: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/David-Wei.html
Research Area(s): Parallel and Distributed Computing, Mobile Computing, and Networking.

Gary M. Weiss
Assistant Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Degree: Ph.D., Rutgers University
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/Gary-Weiss.html
Research Area(s): My primary research focus are in the area of machine learning and data mining. More generally, I am interested in all areas of artificial intelligence. Currently I am working on methods for improving data data mining methods by better handling real-world considerations (e.g., highly skewed class distributions). In the past I have done research on expert systems and object-oriented programming.

Arthur G. Werschulz
Professor
Degree: Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/Arthur-Werschulz.html
Research Area(s): My research area is information-based complexity, which deals with the complexity of problems for which the available information is partial, possibly contaminated by error, and priced. I am especially interested in the complexity of partial differential equations and integral equations.

Ellen Zhang
Assistant Professor
Degree: Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2007
Web Page: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/faculty/Ellen-Zhang.html
Research Area(s): My primary research focus is in the area of computer networks and distributed systems. In particular, I am interested in studying challenged networks such as Disruption Tolerant Networks from the aspects of performance modeling of epidemic style routing, and modeling studies of real mobility traces.