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 Ahamed, Syed V.
Ph.D.; D.Sc., University of Manchester (UK); Professor, College of Staten Island; Telecommunications and intelligent networks; Distributed and parallel processing; M.I.S.; Design and optimization techniques; High-speed and asymmetric and digital subscriber lines.  Homepage.

 Anshel, Michael
Ph.D., Adelphi University; Professor, The City College;  
Computational methods in algebra, combinatorics, and number theory; Cryptology and computer security; Quantum computing; History of computing; Bioinformatics.  Homepage.

 Arnow, David
Ph.D., New York University; Professor, Brooklyn College.
Distance learning and CS education; Webcomputing; Monte Carlo methods. Homepage.
 
 Artemov, Sergei N.
Professor, Dr. Sci., Moscow University; Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center (Ph.D. Program in Computer Science).  Logic; Automated Deduction and Verification; Optimal Control and Hybrid Systems. Homepage.

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 Bakiras, Spiridon

         Ph.D. University of Southern California; Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Computer Networks, Mobile computing, Spatio-temporal Databases, Peer-to-Peer Systems, Sensor Networks. 

 Bar-Noy, Amotz
Ph.D. Hebrew University, Israel; Professor, Brooklyn College. Algorithms, Optimization, Combinatoria and Networking. Homepage.
 
 Baumslag, Gilbert
D.Sc. University of Witwatersand, Johannesberg, Republic of South Africa; Distinguished Professor, The City College.  Group Theory; Algebra; Computer Software. Homepage.
 Beckman, Frank
Ph.D., Columbia University; Professor Emeritus, The Graduate School and University Center.  Applications of Categorical Algebra to Automata Theory; Elliptic Partial Differential Equations; Neural Networks; Applications of Computer Science to Medicine.
 
 Benbunan-Fich, Raquel
Ph.D., Rutgers University; Assistant Professor, Baruch College.  Computer Mediated Communication Systems; Asynchronous Learning Networks; e-Commerce. Homepage.
 
 Betancourt, Octavio
Ph.D., New York University; Professor, The City College;
Scientific computing. Homepage.
 
 Bloom, Gary
Ph.D., University of Southern California; Professor, The City College. Combinatorics and Graph Theory; Combinatorial Algorithms. Homepage.
 
 Boklan, Kent D.
Ph.D., University of Michigan/Ann Arbor; Assistant Professor Queens College. Cryptography; Analytic Number Theory. Homepage.
 Brass, Peter
Ph.D., Technical University of Brunschweig, Germany; Associate Professor, The City College. Algorithms; Data Structures; Computational Geometry; Discrete Geometry. Homepage.

Brinkman, Peter

        Ph.D., University of Utah, Assistant Professor The City College.                                     

       Geometric Group Theory, Low-Dimensional Geometry & Topology.        

 Brown, Ted

Ph.D., New York University; Professor and Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science; Parallel and distributed computing; Simulation, modeling and analysis.
 Burr, Stefan
Ph.D., Princeton University; Professor, The City College;
Combinatorics; Graph theory; Number theory; Computational complexity; Algorithm design.

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 Cabo, Candido
Ph.D. , Duke University; Assistant Professor New York City College of Technology. Computational biology; Numerical analysis; Parallel Computing; Web services and security.  Homepage.
 Chen, Jinlin
Ph.D., Tsinghua University (China); Assistant Professor, Queens College.  Web Information Services; Embedded Systems; Software Engineering; Web Information Retrieval.  Homepage.
 
 Chopra, Samir
Ph.D., CUNY Grad Center (Philosophy); Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College. Logic in Computer Science; Knowledge Representation; Artificial Intelligence. Homepage.  
 Cox, James L.
Ph.D., New York University; Associate Professor, Brooklyn College; Robot motion planning; Scientific imaging and data analysis; Computational geometry; Computational complexity. Homepage.

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 Dexter, Scott
Ph.D., University of Michigan; Associate Professor, Brooklyn College; Network Security; Formal Methods. Homepage.
 Domanski, Bernard
Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center; Professor College of Staten Island. Performance Evaluation Capacity Management; Systems Management. Homepage. 

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  Epstein, Susan L.
Ph.D., Rutgers University; Professor, Hunter College. Problem solving; Machine learning; Cognitive modeling; Knowledge representation ; Constraint satisfaction programming; Bioinformatics. Homepage.

 
 Eskicioglu, Ahmet M.
Ph.D. University of Manchester, U.K.; Professor, Brooklyn College.
Multimedia Content Protection; Image Quality Measurement; System Optimization and Simulation.   Homepage.

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 Fan, Xien
Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology; Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island. Information Management; Databases; Document Processing and Information Retrieval; Data Mining/Machine Learning. Homepage.
 
 Fenster, Samuel D.
Ph.D., Columbia University; Assistant Professor, The City College. Computer Vision and Performance Evaluation; Machine Learning; Programming Languages; Graphics and Image Processing.
 
 Fitting, Mel
Ph.D., Yeshiva University; Professor, Lehman College; Applications of logic to computer science; Artificial intelligence. Homepage.
 
 Friedman, Linda Weiser
Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute; Professor, Baruch College; Simulation, modeling and analysis. Homepage.

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 Georgatos, Konstantinos
        Ph.D., City University of New York; Assistant Professor, John Jay College. Artificial Intelligence; Knowledge representation. Homepage.

 Gertner, Izidor
        Ph.D., Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Professor, The City College. Web computing, Signal/image processing, Automatic Target Recognition. Homepage.

 Ghozati, Seyed-Ali
        Ph.D., Columbia University; Associate Professor, Queens College.  Parallel processing, Communication networks.  

 Gladkova, Irina
Ph.D. (Mathematics), CUNY Graduate Center; Associate Professor, The City College; Signal Processing; Waveform design.
 
 Goldberg, Robert
Ph.D., New York University/Courant Institute; Professor, Queens College. Biomedical Imaging; Computer Vision; Genetic Algorithms; Parallel Processing.
 
 Griffeth, Nancy
Ph.D., University of Chicago; Professor, Lehman College. Networks and Distributed Systems.  Homepage.
 Gross, Ari David
Ph.D., Columbia University; Associate Professor, Queens College.  Computer vision, Computer graphics; Robotics. Homepage.
 Grossberg, Michael D. 
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Assistant Professor, The City College; Computer Vision, Computer Graphics; Machine Learning. Homepage.
 Gueorguieva, Natacha
        Ph.D., Moscow Technical University; Professor, College of Staten Island.  Brain Modeling and Simulation, Neural Network Models Based on Potential Functions, Spiking Neurons and Self-organizing Maps.

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 Habib, Stanley
Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute; Professor Emeritus, The City College; Computer architecture, Instruction level parallelism.
 
 Hamkins, Joel David
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; Professor, College of Staten Island. Mathematical logic; Theory and infinitary computability Homepage.
 Haralick, Robert
Ph.D., University of Kansas, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center. Pattern Recognition; Image Processing; Computer Vision.
 Harrow, Keith
Ph.D., New York University,  Professor and Graduate Deputy Chair, Brooklyn College. Database systems; Theory of computation. Homepage.
 Herman, Gabor T.
Ph.D., University of London; Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center (Ph.D. Program in Computer Science). Image processing (especially image reconstruction from projections); Computer graphics, Applications to biology and medicine. Homepage.
 
 Holowczak, Richard
Ph.D., Rutgers University; Assistant Professor, Baruch College; Databases; Data Mining; e-Commerce. Homepage.
 Huenerfauth, Matt
        Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor, Queens College.  Assistive Technology for     people with Disabilities; Natural Language Processing; Virtual Human Animation; Computational Linguistics of American Sign Language. Homepage.

 Huo, Yumei

      Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island.  Sequence and Scheduling, Computation and Complexity, Combinatorial Optimization, Operations Research.


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 Imberman, Susan
Ph.D., City University of New York; Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island. Data mining algorithms; Medical applications of data mining algorithms. Homepage.

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 Jean, Yves 
Ph. D., Georgia Tech; Associate Professor, Lehman College.  Computer graphics and visualization. Homepage
 Ji, Ping
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  Computer Networks; Network Security; Network Forensics; Network Measurement and Performance Evaluation; Wireless and Mobile Networks.  Homepage.
 Jung, Gwang S.
Ph.D., University of Louisiana/LaFayette; Associate Professor, Lehman College. Distributed Data/Information Storage and Retrieval in Internet Environments. 

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 Kawaguchi, Akira
Ph.D., Columbia University; Associate Professor, The City College.
Database Systems and Programming Languages. Homepage.

Khan, Bilal

Ph.D. CUNY Graduate School and University Center; Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Computational Algebra; Network Algorithm and Protocols; Combinatorics & Graph Theory; Distributed Algorithms & Systems. 

Kim, Jinwoo
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology; Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  Embedded Systems; Compiler Optimization; Architecture/Systems; Memory Management/ Computing Under Adaptive Environments; Forensic Computing. Homepage.
 
 Kong, T. Y.
Ph.D., Oxford University (UK); Professor, Queens College; Geometrical and topological problems related to computer vision, graphics and image processing.
 
 Kopec,Danny
Ph.D., University of Edinburgh (Scotland); Associate Professor, Brooklyn College. Artificial Intelligence; Software Engineering; Knowledge Representation; Problem Solving; Complex Intelligent Tutoring Systems; Systems Failures. Homepage.
 
 Kress, Michael E.
Ph.D., New York University; Professor, College of Staten Island. Graphics and user interface; Scientific visualization; Discrete simulation; Numerical simulation; Parallel processing and vector optimization. Homepage.
 
 Kulkarni, Ravi S.
Ph.D., Harvard University; Professor, Queens College. Number theory methods; Graph Theory; Computational algebra and geometry.
 
 Kwok, Kui-Lam
Ph.D., University of Manchester (UK); Professor, Queens. College Information retrieval; Neural networks; Data structures. Homepage.

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Lengyel, Florian 
Ph.D. CUNY Graduate School and University Center; Adjunct Assistant Professor, OIT, CUNY Grad Center. Categorical Logic; Combinatorics; Distributed Computing. Homepage.
Levin, Esther
Ph.D., Technion - Israeli Institute of Technology; Professor, The City College.  Speech and Language Processing; Spoken Language Human-Machine Interactions; Statistical Learning - Theory and Applications.  Homepage.
 Li, Xiangdong
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center; Associate Professor, New York City Tech.  Quantum computing; Quantum information; Information Security; Quantum cryptography.

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 Ma, Pai-Chun
Ph.D., New York University; Associate Professor, Baruch College. Model Management; Digital Libraries; Data Warehousing; Information Retrieval. Homepage.  
 
 Mate, Attila
Ph.D., Szeged University (Hungary); Professor, Brooklyn College. Scientific computing; Theory of computation; Combinatorics; Logic. Homepage.
 
 Mowshowitz, Abbe
Ph.D., University of Michigan; Professor, The City College.
Information systems; Search engine performance; Virtual organization; Social impacts of information technology  Homepage.
 
 Moyne, John A.
Ph.D., Harvard; Professor Emeritus, The Graduate School; and University Center. Natural language processing; Computational and mathematical linguistics.
 
 Miasnikov, Alexei
Dr. Sc. (Habilitation), Novosibirsk State University, Russia; Canada Research Chair - Mathematics Department, McGill University, Montréal; Logic and model theory; Theory of algorithms; Computational algebra; Heuristic Algorithms. Homepage.
 Miller, Russel


Ph.D., University of Chicago; Assistant Professor, Queens College.
Computability Theory; Computability Enumerable Sets and Degrees; Computable Model Theory.  Homepage.


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 Negoita, Constantin


Ph.D., Polytechnical Institute, Bucharest, Romania; Professor, Hunter College.  Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic.  Homepage.

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 Obrenic, Bojana


Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Associate Professor, Queens College. Computation theory; Parallelism; Graphs; Software; Electrical Engineering.



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 Pach, Janos


Ph.D., Eotvos University, Hungary; Distinguished Professor, The City College. Computational geometry; Combinatorics. Homepage.
 
 Pan, Victor
Ph.D, Moscow University, Russia; Distinguished Professor, Lehman College. Design and analysis of algorithms; Algebraic computing; Numerical, algebraic and combinatorial computing; Parallel computing. Homepage.
 
 Parikh, Rohit
Ph.D., Harvard University; Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College.  Logic in Artificial Intelligence, Philosophical Logic. Homepage.
 
 Parsons, Simon
Ph.D. University of London, U.K.; Associate Professor, Brooklyn College. Logic and Probability, Decision Making, Probabilistic Reasoning; Intelligent Agents; Multi-Agent Systems, Negotiation. Homepage.
 
 Petingi, Louis
Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology; Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island. Extremal Graph Theory; Combinatorics; Network Reliability; Analysis of Algorithms. Homepage.
 
 Phillips, Tsaiyun (Ihsin)
Ph.D., University of Maryland; Professor, Queens College. Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; Image Processing; Document Image Analysis; Document Image Database; Performance Evaluation for Recognition Systems.
 
 Pritchard, F. Leon
Ph.D., University of California at San Diego; Associate Professor, York College/Computer Science Department. Symbolic Computation; Computational Algebra. Homepage.

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 Raphan, Theodore


Ph.D., CUNY; Distinguished & Broeklundian Professor, Brooklyn College. Computational neuroscience; Neural networks; Signal processing.  Homepage.
 
 Ravindran, Kaliappa
Ph.D., University of British Columbia (Canada); Associate Professor, The City College.
Distributed Systems Modeling; Multimedia Systems; High Performance Networks. Homepage.
 
 Reddy, Boojala V.
Ph.D., University of Hyderabad, CCMB (India); Assistant Professor, Queens College. 
Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; In Silico Drug Design. Homepage.

 Rudowsky, Ira
Ph.D., CUNY; Associate Professor, Brooklyn College.
Information Systems; Information Technology; MIS and Databases. Homepage.

 Ryba, Akexander
Ph.D., Cambridge University (UK);  Professor, Queens College.
Computational Group Theory; Computational Algebra; Group Theory.



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 St. John, Katherine


Ph.D., UCLA; Associate Professor, Lehman College.
Random Structures; Logic and Algorithms; Computational Biology. Homepage.
 
 Sakas, William G.
Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center; Assistant Professor, Hunter College;
Cognitive Science; Computational Models of Language Acquisition; Computational Linguistics. Homepage.
 
 Scarlatos Lori L.
Ph.D., SUNY/Stony Brook; Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College;
Computer Graphics; Computer-Human Interaction. Homepage.
 
 Shankar, Subash
Ph.D., University of Minnesota; Assistant Professor, Hunter College.
Software engineering; Formal methods; Automated reasoning; System modeling, analysis and verification.
 
Sklar, Elizabeth 
Ph.D. Brandeis University; Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College.  Artificial Intelligence; Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; Evolutionary Learning; Education Technology. Homepage.


Sokol, Dina


Ph.D., Bar-Ilan University (Israel); Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College.  Algorithms; Pattern Recognition; Compression. Homepage.
 
 Stamos, Ioannis
Ph.D. Columbia University; Assistant Professor, Hunter College.
Computer Vision and Computer Graphics; Range Sensing; 3D Modeling; Range Segmentation; Sensor Fusion; Range-Range and Range-Image registration. Homepage.
 
 Sy, Bon K.
Ph.D., Northeastern University; Associate Professor, Queens College. Database systems and information retrieval; Decision support systems; Information systems; Scientific computing; Artificial intelligence; Expert systems, Artificial intelligence in rehabilitation and medicine; knowledge-based systems for medical diagnosis.



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 Taksa, Isak


Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center; Assistant Professor, Baruch College. Information Retrieval; Data and Text Mining.  Homepage
 
 Tansel, Abdullah Uz
Ph.D., Middle Eastern Technical University (Turkey); Professor, Baruch. Database Management Systems, Temporal Databases, Spatial Database, and Data Mining. Homepage.
 
 Tausner, Miriam R.
Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology; Associate Professor, College of Staten Island; Artificial intelligence; Knowledge-based systems, Expert systems. Homepage.
 
 Teller, Virginia
Ph.D., New York University; Professor, Hunter College.
Cognitive and computational models of language acquisition and clinical cognition; machine translation; computational linguistics; natural language processing; artificial intelligence.

 

Ph.D., New York University; Professor & Chair, Brooklyn College.
Data structures and algorithms; Programming methodology.
 


Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology; Associate Professor, The City College. Parallel computing; Programming methodology; Semantics. Homepage.


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 Uyar, M. Umit


Ph.D. Cornell University; Associate Professor, The City College (Electrical Engineering).  Computer Communications; Formal Specification; Networks; Verification and Testing.  Homepage.

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 Wei, Jie
Ph.D., Simon Fraser University (Canada); Assistant Professor, The City College. Computer Vision; Image Processing. Homepage.



 Weiss, Stewart N.


Ph.D., New York University; Associate Professor, Hunter College.
Software testing; Analysis verification; Reliability theory; Parallel architecture and computing.
 


 Whitehead, Jennifer


Ph.D., University of Warwick (UK); Associate Professor, Queens College.  Continuous Computational Complexity; P-Adic Computing; Real-Time Scheduling; File Transfer Scheduling.  Homepage.
 
 Whitlock, Paula
Ph.D., Wayne State University; Associate Professor, Brooklyn College; Monte Carlo methods; Simulation, modeling and analysis; Parallel and distributed computing; Scientific computing. Homepage.
 
 Wolberg, George
Ph.D., Columbia University; Professor, The City College.
Image processing; Computer graphics; Computer vision. Homepage.

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 Xiang, Zhigang


Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo; Associate Professor, Queens College. Computer graphics; Image processing; Interactive techniques.

 Xiao, Jizhong
        Ph.D. Michigan State; Assistant Professor, CCNY (EE).  Robotics and control; Intelligent Systems; Fuzzy and Neural Networks; Computer Vision.  Homepage.


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 Yanofsky, Noson


Ph.D. CUNY (Mathematics); Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College.
Category Theory; Categorical Logic; Universal Algebra.

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 Yarmish, Gavriel


Ph.D., Polytechnic University; Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College.  Distributed parallel Optimization Methods; Optimization of Large Linear Mathematical Programs.

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 Zachos, Stathis


Doctor of Sciences and Mathematics, E.T.H (Switzerland); Professor, Brooklyn College.  Algorithms and computational complexity; Logic in computer science; Cryptography and interactive proof systems. Homepage.


 Zamfirescu, Christina


Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) Technical University of Aachen (Germany); Professor, Hunter College.  Graph theory; Algorithms on graphs; Transformation networks; Discrete mathematics; Intersection digraphs; Evaluating complexity in chemical topology using graph theory. 
 
 Zelikovitz, Sarah
Ph.D., Rutgers University; Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island. Machine Learning and Text Classification. Homepage.
 
 Zhang, Danyang
Ph.D., University of Alabama, Assistant Professor, York College. Sensor, Multicast Systems.

 Zhang, Shuqun
Ph.D., University of Dayton; Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island.  Image Processing; Pattern Recognition; Parallel Computing; Optical Information Processing. Homepage.
 
 Zhang, Zhanyang
Ph. D., CUNY Graduate Center; Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island.  Mobile Computing; e-Commerce; Databases.

 Zheng, Jun

        Ph. D., University of Nevada; Assistant Professor, Queens College.  Mobility and Resource Management in Wireless and Mobile Networks, Media Access Control, Performance Evaluation, Network Security, Computer Architectures, Fault Tolerant Computing, Image Processing.


 Zhou, Neng-Fa


Ph.D., Kyushu University (Japan); Associate Professor, Brooklyn College. Programming Languages (Logic; Constraint and Object-Oriented Programming); Multimedia Programming. Homepage.
 
 Zhu, Zhigang
Ph.D., Tsinghua University (People's Republic of China); Professor, The City College. Computer Vision; Video Computing; Human-Computer Interaction; Virtual Reality; Robotics. Homepage.
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