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RECENT STUDENT RESEARCH Algorithms for Computational Biology

MICHAEL A. ERLINGER, Professor of Computer Science and Chair, Computer Science Department (Ph.D., UCLA): computer networking and computer security; in particular, protocol creation and evaluation.

CHRISTINE ALVARADO, Asst. Professor of Computer Science (Ph.D., MIT): artificial intelligence and human computer interaction.

ZACHARY DODDS, Professor of Computer Science (Ph.D., Yale University): real-time vision, vision-based mobile robot control, and robotic hand/eye coordination.

ROBERT M. KELLER, Csilla and Walt Foley Professor of Computer Science and Director of Computer Science Clinic (Ph.D., UC Berkeley): declarative languages for parallel computing and real-time systems, and corresponding system architecture; parallel genetic program- ming and other soft computing models; visual approaches to programming languages.

GEOFFREY KUENNING, Professor of Computer Science (Ph.D., UCLA): memory-based file systems; methods for allocating disk accesses in controlled proportions.

RAN LIBESKIND-HADAS, Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Diversity, Research and Experiential Learning (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign— GTE Fellow): algorithms, network routing, optical networks, complexity theory.

MELISSA O’NEILL, Assoc. Professor of Computer Science (Ph.D., Simon Fraser University): making programming easier and more reliable; determinacy checking in parallel and distributed systems, finegrain parallelism, functional programming; making software more reliable and easier to use; user interface design.

CHRISTOPHER STONE, Assoc. Professor of Computer Science (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon): programming language theory and implementation, particularly those areas involving type systems for functional and object-based languages.

ELIZABETH SWEEDYK, Assoc. Professor of Computer Science (Ph.D., UC Berkeley): algorithms, complexity theory, computational biology, visualization, and computer graphics.

Adaptive Ground Plane Modeling for Robot Navigation

Learning to Play Jazz with Deep Belief Networks

Visualizing Distributed Systems

Hero in Vein: An Educational Game about HIV/AIDS

Produce Shipment Visualization for Foodborne Illness Prevention

A Vision for Spatial-Reasoning Commodity Robots