School of Computing Faculty Research
- School of Computing Faculty Research
Associate professor Filipo Sharevski and PhD student Jennifer Vander Loop are co-authors of "Maybe...I Don't Really Wanna Clone: Attitudes and anticipated harms of (consensual) after-death cloning of one's own and voices of entrusted others," which received the Best Paper Award at the Symposium on Usable Privacy & Security (SOUPS) 2026
Associate Professor Roselyne Tchoua organizes the annual Student Research Symposium.
Assistant Professor Jay Cunningham leads the RAISE Lab, which focuses on ethical, human-centered AI.
Assistant professor Oliver Alonzo presents the CHI 2025 paper “I have never seen that for Deaf people's content: Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing User Experiences with Misinformation, Moderation, and Debunking on Social Media in the US,” which received an Honorable Mention (top 5% of submissions) in Japan.
Associate Professor Thiru Ramaraj teaches a new Global Learning Experience course that bridges computer science and biology disciplines across borders, connecting students and faculty from DePaul and São Paulo State University.
Grant Highlights
More Recently Awarded Grants
External
- Olayele Adelakun (Omron Electronic Components LLC): "Power BI Distributor Scorecard Dashboard"
- Oliver Alonzo (National Science Foundation): “CRII: HCC: Making Videos Accessible by Design”
- Jay Cunningham (Computing Research Association/NSF): "Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (CSGrad4US)"
- Lucia Dettori (NSF): “CER: Forming a Networked Improvement Community to Study and Support Course Alignment and Student Success at Critical Transition Points along Computing Education Pathways”
- Vincent Kurtz (Toyota Research Institute): "Young Faculty Researchers"
- Stefan Mitsch (NVIDIA): "Proof-producing Conversations"
- Stefan Mitsch (NSF): “Collaborative Research: FMitF: Track I: A Formal Verification and Implementation Stack for Programmable Logic Controllers”
- Bamshad Mobasher and Roselyne Tchoua (NSF): “ReDDDoT Phase 1: Planning Grant: AI-Enabled Support Services for Transplanted Populations: A Community-Centered Design and Development Approach”
- Alexandru Orhean (Motorola Solutions Foundation): “Motorola Solutions Foundation Scholars Program: A Deep Investment in Under-Resourced Data Science Talent”
- Daniela Stan Raicu (National Institutes of Heath): “Visual-Semantic Explanations for Diagnostic Guidance”
- Thiru Ramaraj (NIH): “Machine learning discovery of novel brainstem nuclei controlling orofacial behaviors”
- Raffaella Settimi-Woods (Northeastern University): “DePaul/CIC bridge data program participation”
- Filipo Sharevski (NSA): “National Cybersecurity Teaching Academy”
Internal
- Casey Bennett (University Research Council): "In-the-Wild Symptom Detection with Smartwatches"
- Adam Gao (URC): "Understanding Neural Scaling Laws in Deep Neural Networks Through Feature Learning Dynamics"
- David Hanley (URC):"Towards Multimode Fiber Imaging, Shape Sensing, Mapping, and Localization in Robotic Endoscopy"
- Umer Huzaifa (URC): “Mindscapes - The Intersection of Art, Brainwaves, and Robotics"
- Bamshad Mobasher (Academic Growth and Initiative Fund): “The AI Institute”
- Makoto Nakayama (URC): "GenAI Spillover Effect and AI Governance"
- Corin Pitcher, Alexandru Orhean, Lee Roberson, and Ryan Haley (AGIF): “DePaul High-Performance Compute Cloud”
- Cynthia Putnam (URC): "Exploring the Application of the Dreyfus & Dreyfus Model of Adult Skill Acquisition for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Pedagogy"
- David Ramsay (AGIF): “Immersion Lab: An Interaction Design Research Space”
- Letong Wang (URC): "Scalable Parallel Algorithms for Eccentricity Computation in Massive Graphs"
Research and Innovation
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Our Faculty
Faculty by Research Area
Artificial Intelligence
Casey Bennett
Artificial Intelligence for healthcare purposes, data science, machine learning, robotics, human-robot interaction, internet of things, clinical decision support, personalized medicine, value-based care.
Jay Cunningham
Human-centered artificial intelligence, human-centered computing and design, Natural Language Processing, generative AI, Large Language Models, community-based participatory research in computing, responsible AI, inclusive and equitable design.
Kenny Davila
Document analysis and recognition, information retrieval, computer vision.
Maria Diaz Campo
Artificial Intelligence, human-computer interaction, and information systems.
Clark Elliot
Artificial Intelligence models of human emotion, computational models of personality, believable agents, personality and story generation, cognitive neuroscience.
Adam Gao
Machine Learning, deep learning theory, generative AI, graph representation learning.
Peter Hastings
Intelligent tutoring systems, serious games, natural language processing.
Stefan Mitsch
Safe AI, reinforcement learning, monitoring and shielding.
Bamshad Mobasher
Data mining, web mining and web analytics, intelligent agents, web information retrieval.
Raffaella Settimi
Bayesian analysis, probabilistic learning, graphical modeling, information retrieval.
Jamshid Sourati
Data mining, Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery Acceleration, Science of Science, Active Learning, Natural Language Processing.
Noriko Tomuro
Natural language processing; machine learning; information retrieval.
Jindi Wu
Quantum computing and machine learning, error modeling and mitigation, circuit compilation.
Fei Xu
Artificial Intelligence, visual informatics and data analysis.
Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
Jacob Furst
Medical imaging, image processing and computer vision, information systems security
Iyad Kanj
Theory, parameterized complexity, graph algorithms, computational geometry, robot path planning, computational biology
Thiru Ramaraj
Computational biology, bioinformatics, biofilm informatics, next generation sequencing, molecular biology, omics
Daniela Stan-Raicu
Medical imaging, content-based multimedia retrieval, machine learning, computer vision, data mining, biomedical informatics
Data Science
Casey Bennett
Artificial Intelligence for healthcare purposes, data science, machine learning, robotics, human-robot interaction, internet of things, clinical decision support, personalized medicine, value-based care
Bamshad Mobasher
Web mining, web analytics and predictive modeling, recommender systems, information retrieval
Daniela Raicu
Medical imaging, content-based multimedia retrieval, machine learning, computer vision, data mining
Raffaella Settimi
Bayesian analysis, probabilistic learning, graphical modeling, information retrieval
Jamshid Sourati
Data mining, Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery Acceleration, Science of Science, Active Learning, Natural Language Processing
Roselyne Tchoua
Data mining, machine learning, scientific applications, information extraction, natural language processing, medical imaging, medical and healthcare informatics, materials informatics
Database Systems
Peter Bondarenko
Data warehousing, large scale analytics, cloud systems architecture, distributed systems design, security and compliance
Alexander Rasin
Data warehousing, large scale analytics, automatic database design, distributed systems, forensic analysis, digital evidence collection, fault tolerance and recover
Distributed Systems
Alexandru Orhean
Data organization, data and model visualization, search in machine learning
Jindi Wu
Quantum computing and machine learning, error modeling and mitigation, circuit compilation
Electronic Commerce
Xiaowen Fang
Mobile commerce, usability, user-centered design, enjoyment of computer game play, personality of computer game players
Game Studies and Entertainment Computing
Andre Berthiaume
Game development, classical and quantum algorithms, quantum information theory, classical and quantum cryptography, distributed systems and information technology education
Xiaowen Fang
Mobile commerce, usability, user-centered design, enjoyment of computer game play, personality of computer game players
Noriko Tomuro
Natural language processing, machine learning, information retrieval
Graphics / Animation
Rosalee Wolfe
Communication between deaf and hearing communities, graphics pedagogy
Health Informatics
Casey Bennett
Artificial Intelligence for healthcare purposes, data science, machine learning, robotics, human-robot interaction, internet of things, clinical decision support, personalized medicine, value-based care
Jacob Furst
Medical imaging, image processing and computer vision, information systems security
David Hanley
Medical Robotics, State Estimation, Indoor Positioning
Daniela Raicu
Medical imaging, content-based multimedia retrieval, machine learning, computer vision, data mining
Roselyne Tchoua
Data mining, machine learning, scientific applications, information extraction, natural language processing, medical imaging, medical and healthcare informatics, materials informatics
Human-Computer Interaction
Oliver Alonzo
Computing Accessibility
Casey Bennett
Artificial Intelligence for healthcare purposes, data science, machine learning, robotics, human-robot interaction, internet of things, clinical decision support, personalized medicine, value-based care
Maria Diaz Campo
Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Systems
Jay Cunningham
Human-centered artificial intelligence, human-centered computing and design, Natural Language Processing, generative AI, Large Language Models, community-based participatory research in computing, responsible AI, inclusive and equitable design
Xiaowen Fang
Mobile commerce, usability, user-centered design, enjoyment of computer game play, personality of computer game players
Craig Miller
Cognitive science, computational models of human behavior, machine learning
Cynthia Putnam
HCI, accessible computing
David Ramsay
Social aspects of computing, next generation sensing systems
Adam Steele
Speech recognition
Rosalee Wolfe
Deaf Accessibility
Information Systems
Olayele Adelakun
IT Education, outsourcing, global IT management, and IT quality.
Maria Diaz Campo
Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Systems.
Xiaowen Fang
Director of the Mobile Commerce Research group. Research focus: mobile commerce, user-centered design of mobile applications, user-centered design of e-commerce applications, and hedonic information systems.
Karen Heart
Security of systems and data.
Makoto Nakayama
Consumer online reviews, systems documentation, systems implementation.
Janine Spears
Digital privacy; consumer surveillance technologies; privacy enhancing technologies (PET); cybersecurity workforce; information security risk assessment; cybersecurity threat modeling; structural equation modeling (SEM)—as a research method.
Terry Steinbach
IT education and IT in project management.
Programming Languages and Systems
Zhen Huang
Software security, program analysis, fault tolerance and recovery, software engineering.
Radha Jagadeesan
Programming Languages and systems, foundations of concurrency, language based security, games, types and linear logic.
Stefan Mitsch
Formal modeling; programming languages for cyber-physical systems; proof languages.
Corin Pitcher
Programming languages; security; software engineering; and distributed systems.
Robotics
Casey Bennett
Artificial Intelligence for healthcare purposes, data science, machine learning, robotics, human-robot interaction, internet of things, clinical decision support, personalized medicine, value-based care
David Hanley
Medical Robotics, State Estimation, Indoor Positioning
Vincent Kurtz
Control, simulation and learning algorithms for robotics
Muhammad Umer Huzaifa
Robotics; cyber-physical systems
Iyad Kanj
Theory, parameterized complexity, graph algorithms, computational geometry, robot path planning, computational biology
Stefan Mitsch
Theory, formal modeling, reach-avoid verification, collision avoidance, autonomous transportation systems, industrial cyber-physical systems
Security
Karen Heart
Security of systems and data
Zhen Huang
Software security; program analysis; fault tolerance and recovery; software engineering
Radha Jagadeesan
Programming Languages and systems; foundations of concurrency; language based security; games; types and linear logic
Jean-Philippe Labruyere
Security; Telecommunication
Corin Pitcher
Programming languages; security; software engineering; and distributed systems
Filipo Sharevski
Computer Security, Human-Centered Security, Human Computer Interaction, Telecommunication & Networking
Nazli Siasi
Privacy-preservation; cryptography
Janine Spears
Digital privacy; consumer surveillance technologies; privacy enhancing technologies (PET); cybersecurity workforce; information security risk assessment; cybersecurity threat modeling; structural equation modeling (SEM)—as a research method
Jindi Wu
Quantum computing and machine learning, error modeling and mitigation, circuit compilation
Software Engineering
Vahid Alizadeh
Intelligent Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, Software Analytics, Recommender Systems for Software Developers
Radha Jagadeesan
Programming Languages and systems; foundations of concurrency; language based security; games; types and linear logic
Xiaoping Jia
Object-oriented architecture; design and framework; model-driven architecture and development; formal methods
Wael Kessentini
Software evolution; software maintenance; AI in software engineering
DJ Kim
Fault localization, large language model driven software engineering, software refactoring, mining software repositories
Stefan Mitsch
Component-based modeling and verification; verification-driven engineering
Corin Pitcher
Programming languages; security; software engineering; and distributed systems
Zhen Huang
Software security; program analysis; fault tolerance and recovery; software engineering
Technology Education
Gian Mario Besana
Applications of algebraic geometry to computer vision, computer science education
Lucia Dettori
Scientific computing, medical image processing, computer science education
Will Marrero
Formal methods; computer security, network modeling, computer science education
Craig Miller
Cognitive science, computational models of human behavior, human learning, human-computer interaction
Ljubomir Perkovic
Computational geometry, graph theory and algorithms, computational thinking, broadening participation in computing
Amber Settle
Information technology and computer science education, including computational thinking, game development and design, gender and computing, online learning, programming pedagogy, and student recruitment and retention, and theoretical computer science, including distributed algorithms, cellular automata, information retrieval, and the firing synchronization problem
Terry Steinbach
Information systems, information technology education.
Telecommunication and Network
Sharief Oteafy
Internet of Things, Information Centric Networking, Tactile Internet, Dynamic Sensor Networks, Cyber Physical Systems
Nazli Siasi
Network and service management, virtualization, edge/fog computing
Theory
Andre Berthiaume
Classical and quantum algorithms; quantum information theory; classical and quantum cryptography; distributed systems and information technology education
Michaël Cadilhac
Complexity theory, language theory, automata theory, descriptive complexity, circuit complexity, formal verification
Iyad Kanj
Theory, parameterized complexity, graph algorithms, computational geometry, robot path planning, computational biology
Stefan Mitsch
Formal verification, theorem proving
Salman Parsa
Computational topology, computational geometry, topological data analysis, graph drawing, discrete geometry, topological methods in combinatorics, theory of embeddings
Ljubomir Perkovic
Computational geometry, graph theory and algorithms, computational thinking, broadening participation in computing
Marcus Schaefer
Graph drawing, graph theory; combinatorics; complexity theory; computability theory
Eric Schwabe
Parallel algorithms, disk arrays
Eric Sedgwick
Computational topology, 3-manifold topology
Amber Settle
Information technology and computer science education, including computational thinking, game development and design, gender and computing, online learning, programming pedagogy, and student recruitment and retention, and theoretical computer science, including distributed algorithms, cellular automata, information retrieval, and the firing synchronization problem
Visual Informatics and Data Analytics (VIDA)
Gian Mario Besana
Applications of algebraic geometry to computer vision, computer science education
Eli Brown
Data analysis, human computer interaction
Kenny Davila
Document Analysis and Recognition, Information Retrieval, Computer Vision
Jacob Furst
Medical imaging, image processing and computer vision, information systems security
Iyad Kanj
Theory, parameterized complexity, graph algorithms, computational geometry, robot path planning, computational biology
Alexandru Orhean
Data organization, data and model visualization, search in machine learning
Daniela Raicu
Medical imaging, content-based multimedia retrieval, machine learning, computer vision, data mining, biomedical informatics
Thiru Ramaraj
Computational biology, bioinformatics, biofilm informatics, next generation sequencing; molecular biology, omics
Alexander Rasin
Data warehousing; large scale analytics, automatic database design, distributed systems, forensic analysis, digital evidence collection, fault tolerance and recovery
Raffaella Settimi
Bayesian analysis, probabilistic learning, graphical modeling, information retrieval, biomedical informatics
Fei Xu
Artificial Intelligence, visual informatics and data analysis