Fall 2020—Return to Campus

See the latest plans and communications for our return to campus this fall.

Fall 2020—Return to Campus

College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Department of Computer Science

Faculty & Staff

Staff

Profile	Name	Title	Email
	Penni French	Academic Office Coordinator	Mary.French@uvm.edu

Primary Appointments

Profile	Name & Title	Area of Expertise	Email
	Josh Bongard Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Evolutionary robotics, evolutionary computation, physical simulation	josh.bongard@uvm.edu
	Nick Cheney Research Assistant Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Deep Reinforcement Learning, Evolutionary Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life	ncheney@uvm.edu
	David Darais Assistant Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Software Reliability, Program Analysis, Mechanized Verification, Computer-checkable Proofs, Functional Programming, Language-based Security, Type Systems	David.Darais@uvm.edu
	Radhakrishna (Radha) Dasari Lecturer	Computer vision, mobile multimedia, machine learning, programming in Matlab, Python, Java, C++	Radhakrishna.Dasari@uvm.edu
	Lisa Dion Lecturer	C++, Python, Java and Git	lisa.dion@uvm.edu
	James Eddy Lecturer	Cybersecurity and cryptography, embedded systems programming, and computer organization/architecture	James.Eddy@uvm.edu
	Margaret (Maggie) Eppstein Research Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Complex systems modeling and analysis, including evolutionary and agent-based computing, artificial neural networks, complex networks, etc., with applications in a variety of biological, physical, technological, and social domains	maggie.eppstein@uvm.edu
	Robert Erickson Senior Lecturer	Education in Computer Science, Online Learning, Web development	robert.erickson@uvm.edu
	Laurent Hébert-Dufresne Assistant Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Complex Networks, Dynamics of Contagion, Network Comparison	Laurent.Hebert-Dufresne@uvm.edu
	Jason Hibbeler Professor of the Practice	Software engineering, mobile app development, operating systems, optimization	jason.hibbeler@uvm.edu
	Jackie Horton Senior Lecturer	Python & Java	jackie.horton@uvm.edu
	Joseph Near Assistant Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Data privacy, security, programming languages, and software engineering	jnear@uvm.edu
	Byung S. Lee Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Database. Data mining, data stream, query processing, event processing	byung.lee@uvm.edu
	Alan Ling Associate Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Combinatorial design theory, coding theory, sequence designs, design theory, statistical design of experiments	alan.ling@uvm.edu
	Christian Skalka Chair Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Design of programming languages, especially type disciplines, to support security and safety in programs; information systems combining embedded and mobile devices with machine learning data analysis, in diverse applications including snow hydrology and psychological sciences	christian.skalka@uvm.edu
	Safwan Wshah Assistant Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Machine Learning, Image & Video Processing, Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Document Imaging & Digital Signal Processing	Safwan.Wshah@uvm.edu

Secondary Appointments

Profile	Name & Homepage	Area of Expertise	Email
	James Bagrow Assistant Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Complex Systems and Complex Networks	james.bagrow@uvm.edu
	Brian Beckage Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Biocomplexity, computational models of ecosystems, population and community dynamics, effects of disturbances and climate change on biodiversity	Brian.Beckage@uvm.edu
	Chris Danforth Associate Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Chaos, Mathematical Modeling, Computational Methods, Numerical Weather Prediction, Complex Systems, Computational Social Science	chris.danforth@uvm.edu
	Peter Sheridan Dodds Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Complex systems and networks, contagion, sociotechnical phenomena, happiness, stories	peter.dodds@uvm.edu
	Paul Hines Associate Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Electrical energy systems, cascading failure in power systems, complex networks and vulnerability, optimization, energy policy	paul.hines@uvm.edu
	Dawei Li Assistant Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Human genetics and genome research for disease gene identification	dawei.li@uvm.edu
	Ryan McGinnis Assistant Professor	Machine learning and signal processing as applied to analysis of human movement and physiological data collected from wearables and mobile health applications.	Ryan.McGinnis@uvm.edu
	Kurt Oughstun Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Electromagnetic and optical field theory, ultrawideband dispersive pulse propagation, linear and nonlinear optics, applied mathematics	kurt.oughstun@uvm.edu
	George Pinder Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Mathematic methods applied to groundwater hydrology	george.pinder@uvm.edu
	Jody Prescott Lecturer	Environmental law, energy law, cybersecurity law and policy, gender in military operations, ethics and leadership development	Jody.Prescott@uvm.edu
	Michael Radermacher Associate Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Three-dimensional (3D) Reconstruction of Single Particles from Electron Micrographs	Michael.Radermacher@uvm.edu
	Donna Rizzo Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Development of new computational tools, including artificial neural networks, to improve the understanding of human induced changes on natural systems and the way we make decisions about natural resources	donna.rizzo@uvm.edu
	Jun Yu Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Mathematical modeling, asymptotic and numerical analysis of differential equations, hydrodynamic stability, perturbation theory, biomedical mathematics	jun.yu@uvm.edu
	Asim Zia Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Computational Policy Analysis, Decision Analysis, Complex Systems (in particular Agent Based Modeling, System Dynamic Modeling, Bayesian Network Modeling)	asim.zia@uvm.edu

Adjunct Faculty

	Name & Title	Area of Expertise	Contact
	John Cohn Adjunct Professor	Microelectronics & STEM Education	johncohn@us.ibm.com
	Don Gage Adjunct Professor	Cybersecurity and medical image processing and analysis	hdonaldgage@gmail.com

Emeritus

	Name & Title	Education	Email
	Jeanne Douglas Senior Lecturer Emeritus	M.S., University of Vermont	Jeanne.Douglas@uvm.edu
	Jeffrey Dinitz Professor Emeritus	Ph.D., The Ohio State University	jeff.dinitz@uvm.edu
	Alison Merel Pechenick Senior Lecturer Emerita	M.S., University of Vermont	Alison.Pechenick@uvm.edu