Susan
L. Epstein, Professor
Office:
Hunter North 1090I
Email: susan.epstein@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-5210
FAX: 212-772-5219
Home
page: http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~epstein
Research
areas of particular interest: problem solving, cognitive modeling,
machine learning, and knowledge representation
with applications to constraint satisfaction programming, protein folding, two-dimensional lay out design, and game playing.
Educational
background: B.A. in mathematics from Smith College, M.S.
in mathematics from Courant Institute, M.S. in
Computer Science from Rutgers, New York University, and Ph.D. from Rutgers.
Undergraduate courses taught: artificial intelligence,
databases, software analysis and design, discrete structures,
machine learning
Graduate courses taught: machine learning, knowledge representation,
genetic algorithms, data mining
Recent Publications: Epstein, S.L. 1998. Pragmatic Navigation:
Reactivity, Heuristics, and Search. Artificial Intelligence,
100 (1-2):275-322
Constantin
Negoita, Professor
Office:
Hunter North 1000E
Email: cnegoita@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-5634
FAX: 212-772-5219
Home page: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/cs/Faculty/Negoita
Area
of Specialty: Computer Logic, Fuzzy Sets and Systems.
Educational
Background: Ph.D. in Information Science from the University
of Bucharest
Courses taught: Computer Architecture, Logic, and Discrete
Structures.
Recent Publications: Cybernetics and Systems (Deckker,
NY, 1992) Implications (Hunter, NY, 1994), On Fuzzy
Systems, Kybernets, 5 (1999)
Book: Fuzzy
Sets (New Falcon, Tempe, 2000)
William
Sakas, Associate Professor
Office:
Hunter North 1090-K
Email: sakas@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-5211
FAX: 212-772-5219
Home
page: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/cs/Faculty/Sakas
Area
of Specialty: Computational modeling of human thought
processes (in particular natural language), artificial intelligence,
machine learning; I'm especially interested in modeling how children
learn language.
Educational Background: AB from Harvard (Economics),
PhD from CUNY (Computer Science). Member, doctoral faculties
of Computer Science and Linguistics, CUNY.
Undergraduate Courses taught: Software
Analysis and Design I (Introduction to programming in C++),
Software Analysis
and Design II (Data Structures), Operating Systems,Discrete Math.
Graduate Courses: Mechanisms of Syntax Acquisition, Introduction
to Natural Language Learning.
Recent Publication: Sakas, W.G. and Fodor, J.D. (2001) The
Structural Triggers Learner, in S. Bertolo (ed.),
Language
Acquisition and Learnability, Cambridge University Press.
More info: (including research overview and links to online
papers) here.
Cullen Schaffer, Associate
Professor
Office:
Hunter North 1090D
Email: cullen.schaffer@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-4283
FAX: 212-772-5219
Home page: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/cs/Faculty/Schaffer
Area
of Specialty: Dr. Schaffer's research centers
around computation-intensive approaches to
data analysis. He collaborates or consults with researchers in business, industry and medicine.
Educational Background: BA from Harvard, PhD from Rutgers.
Doctoral Faculty, PhD Program in Computer Science,
City University
of New York.
Courses taught: Software Analysis and Design 1, 2, and 3.
Recent Publications: Since 1986: 2 book chapters, 14 refereed
articles; editor of one international journal, co-chair of four
international conferences.
Eric
Schweitzer , Lecturer
Office: TH-321
Email: eric.schweitzer@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-4349
FAX: 212-772-5219
Area
of Specialty: Theory of computation, logics of knowledge
and probablistic reasoning.
Education Background: BS and MA degrees in MATH
from SUNY Stony Brook
Courses taught: Introduction to Computers, Discrete
Structures, Computer Architecture 2, Computer Theory 1, Artificial
Intelligence, Computer Theory 2, Topics in Computer Science.
Subash
Shankar, Associate Professor
Office:
Hunter North 1000F
Email: subash.shankar@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-650-3992
FAX: 212-772-5219
Home page: http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~sshankar
Area
of Specialty: Formal Methods, Software Engineering & Programming Languages,
Artifical Intelligence
Educational Background:
BS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech;
MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute;
MS in Mathematics from University of Minnesota;
PhD in Computer Science from Univ. of Minnesota
Courses taught:
Architecture, Logic, Computer Theory,
Programming Languages, Software Engineering.
Recent Publications:
1) with Masahiro Fujita,
Bottom-Up Equivalence Checking for SpecC Programs,
IEICE Workshop on VLSI Design Technologies,
2006.
2) with Sinan Asa, Vladimir Sipos, Xiaowei Xu,
Reasoning about Real-Time Statecharts in the
Presence of Semantic Variations,
Automated Software Engineering (ASE),
2005.
3) with E.M. Clarke, M. Fujita, S.P. Rajan, T. Reps,
T. Teitelbaum,
Program Slicing for VHDL,
International Journal on Software Tools for
Technology Transfer, 2002.
Ioannis
Stamos, Associate Professor
Office:
Hunter North 1090F
Email: istamos@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-5215
FAX: 212-772-5219
Home page: http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~ioannis/
Area
of Specialty: Computer Vision with an emphasis on 3-D modeling
using range data, 3-D Visualization, Range and Image
Sensor Fusion, Sensor Planning.
Educational Background: Diploma of Engineering from the Department
of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of
Patras, Greece. M.S. in Computer Science, M.Phil., and Ph.D, from Columbia University.
Courses taught: Software Design and Analysis II (Data Structures),
Discrete Structures, Computer Theory I & II, Computer Vision, and 3D Photography.
Recent Publications:
1) Range Image Segmentation for Modeling and Object Detection in Urban Scenes, C. Chen and I. Stamos, The 6th International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling, Montreal, Canada, August 2007 (To appear).
2) Multiview Geometry for Texture Mapping 2D Images Onto 3D Range Data, L. Liu, I. Stamos, etal., IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, New York, June 17-22 2006, Vol. II, pp. 2293-2300.
Stewart Weiss, Associate Professor
Office:
Hunter North 1090J
Email: stewart.weiss AT hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-5469
FAX: 212-772-5219
Home
page: http://www.compsci.hunter.cuny.edu/~sweiss
Area
of Specialty: Software Quality Assurance theory and Methods.
Educational Background: PhD in Computer Science, Courant
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
Courses taught: Operating Systems, Computer Architecture,
Software Analysis and Design 1, 2, and 3, Computer Theory, special
topics in Parallel Computer, Software Development, and Unix tools.
Recent Publications: All-uses versus mutation testing: "An
experimental comparison of effectiveness,"- Journal of Systems
and Software ; An experimental Comparison of branch and data-flow testing Conference on Testing Computer Software,
" Efficient
mutation analysis: A new approach," in Proceedings of the 1994 International Symposium on Software Testing
and Analysis.
Christina
Zamfirescu, Professor
Office:
Hunter North 1008C
Email: christina.zamfirescu@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-650-3854
FAX: 212-772-5219
Area
of Specialty: Graph Theory: algorithmic combinatorics
& networks, molecular complexity,
intersection digraph representation.
Educational Background: Master's in O.R. University of
Bucharest, Ph.D. in Natural Sciences (Graph Theory /Computer
Science)-
RWTH-Aachen, Germany.
Courses taught: Architecture Logic, Linear Programming,
Graph Theory.
Recent Publications: New Complexity Indices based on Edge
Covers w/S. Bertz, Cyclic and Cliquewise connectedness in Line
Graphs (Discrete Math), Intersection of Largest Cycles in Grid
Graphs III w/B. Meuke.
Virginia
Teller, Professor, Department Chair
Daniel I. A. Cohen, Professor