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 Assistant Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Deep Reinforcement Learning, Evolutionary Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life	ncheney@uvm.edu
	Radhakrishna (Radha) Dasari Lecturer	Programming in Python and MATLAB, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Education Technologies	Radhakrishna.Dasari@uvm.edu
	Lisa Dion Lecturer	C++, Python, Java and Git	lisa.dion@uvm.edu
	Peter Sheridan Dodds Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Complex systems and networks, contagion, sociotechnical phenomena, happiness, stories	peter.dodds@uvm.edu
	James Eddy Lecturer	Cybersecurity and cryptography, embedded systems programming, and computer organization/architecture	James.Eddy@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
	Jeremiah Onaolapo Research Assistant Professor	Cybersecurity, Understanding Malicious Activity in Online Accounts, Honeypots, Social Network Security	jeremiah.onaolapo@uvm.edu
	Kevin Plis Lecturer	Computer Science Education	Kevin.Plis@uvm.edu
	Christian Skalka Chair Professor Graduate Student Advisor	Programming languages and type theory, security and privacy in distributed systems	christian.skalka@uvm.edu
	Emma Tosch Assistant Professor	Programming language design, experimental design, explainability, computational social science methodology	Emma.Tosch@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
	Jean-Gabriel Young Research Assistant Professor	Statistical Inference, Data Science, Complex Networks, Complex Systems	Jean-Gabriel.Young@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
	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	Cyber leader ethical development; military ethics and international humanitarian law; gender, climate change and armed conflict	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 Emerita	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
	Margaret (Maggie) Eppstein Professor Emeritus and Research Professor	B.S. Zoology, Michigan State University M.S. Computer Science, University of Vermont Ph.D. Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont	maggie.eppstein@uvm.edu