Category: Faculty Research Profiles

  • Dr. Tim Finin

    Dr. Tim Finin specializes in artificial intelligence and has been working on developing smart phones that can guage their user’s “context.” Dr. Tim Finin, professor, was inspired to study artificial intelligence to prove all those wrong who doubted the possibility of intelligent machines. “The working hypothesis that I accepted in college was that animals and…

  • Dr. Fow-Sen Choa

    Dr. Fow-Sen Choa uses a Chemical Vapor Desposition System to grow semiconductors that are used for chemical detection and breath analysis using photo-acoustic (PA) effects. In his opto-electronics and MOCVD lab, Dr. Fow-Sen Choa, professor, uses a Chemical Vapor Deposition System to grow semiconductors, which include semiconductor lasers, semiconductor detectors, semiconductor optical amplifiers, modulators, and…

  • Ryan Bergeron

    Professor Ryan Bergeron has been a lecturer of Computer Science since Spring 2008. Currently the Technical Director for UMBC's Women's Volleyball team, Bergeron's research interests lie at the intersection of athletics and technology. Among his colleagues, Professor Ryan Bergeron has one distinct teaching advantage: he can relate to students studying Computer Science at UMBC because…

  • Dr. Tulay Adali

    Dr. Tülay Adali is the director of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Lab (MLSP-Lab) at UMBC and has been working on diagnosing schizophrenia by analyzing functional MRI and other medical imaging data. Dr. Tülay Adali, professor, specializes in the field of statistical signal processing. An IEEE and AIMBE Fellow, Dr. Adali recently received the…

  • Environmentally Aware

    New CSEE assistant professor Nilanjan Banerjee works on building renewable energy-driven devices. Though technology has become an essential resource for many, it’s using up more and more of another kind of resource: energy. Not only is energy production costly, but it’s not infallible. For a generation that’s come to rely on technology, what do we…

  • Visualize This

    New CSEE assistant professor Jian Chen creates visualizations to represent large data sets.  Few things are more daunting than an excel spreadsheet full of data. Even scientists can react to massive data sets with blank stares. That’s where the work of new CSEE assistant professor Jian Chen comes into play. As a designer of visualization…