The Charlotte Visualization Center: Faculty
  University of North Carolina at Charlotte


William Ribarsky, Director
Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology, Computer Science

Foundations of visual analytics, 3D interaction, geospatial visualization

Tiffany Barnes, Assistant Professor
Computer Science, AI, bioinformatics, data mining and intelligent systems

Dale Brentrup, Professor
Architecture, daylighting, energy technology, sustainable building design

Bill Chu, Professor
Software and Information Systems, security, multi-agents

Jianping Fan, Associate Professor
Computer Science, image and video classification, multimedia databases

Jose Gamez, Assistant Professor
Architecture, sustainable communities, construction

Edd Hauser, Professor
Geography & Earth Sciences, public sector transportation, highway safety, homeland security

Robert Kosara, Assistant Professor
Computer Science, interactive large-data information visualization and visual analytics

Celine Latulipe, Assistant Professor
Novel interaction techniques using two hands, new media, visualization, usable security and diversity issues

Aidong Lu, Assistant Professor
Computer Science, volume illustration, 3D feature extraction and visualization

Taghi Mostafavi, Associate Professor
Computer Science, biomedical imaging, reconstruction, and instrumentation

Arindam Mukherjee, Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, bioinformatics, bioengineering and bio-inspired electronic design

John Nelson, Associate Professor
Architecture, 3D architectural modeling and visualization

Jamie Payton, Assistant Professor
Software engineering for mobile environments, mobile ad hoc networks, context-aware computing

Anita Raja, Assistant Professor
Software and Information Systems, artificial intelligence, design and control of multi-agent systems, distributed information gathering

Zbigniew Ras, Professor
Computer Science, knowledge discovery and data mining, music information retrieval multimedia databases, intelligent query processing

Arun Ravindran, Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, computer architectures for bioinformatics, field programmable gate arrays for visual simulation

Alan Rauch, Associate Professor
English, cultural studies of science, dissemination of knowledge

Heather Richter, Assistant Professor
Software and Information Systems, Human-computer interaction, computer supported cooperative work, ubiquitous computing, and software engineering

Eric Sauda, Professor
Architecture, urban planning, mixed used development, smart growth

Min Shin, Associate Professor
Computer Science, computer vision, gesture recognition, 3D hand tracking

Richard Souvenir, Assistant Professor
Computer vision, medical imaging, machine learning

K.R. Subramanian, Associate Professor
Computer Science, medical imaging, bioinformatics, scientific visualization

William Tolone, Associate Professor
Software and Information Systems, networked collaboration, collaborative authorization models

Zachary Wartell, Assistant Professor
Computer Science, stereoscopic displays, scientific and information visualization

David Wilson, Assistant Professor
Software and Information Systems, intelligent software systems, task-based geospatial annotation/retrieval

Xintao Wu, Associate Professor
Software and Information Systems, data mining, data warehousing, data privacy and bioinformatics

Jing Xiao, Professor
Computer Science, robotics, haptics, multimedia, artificial intelligence

Jing Yang, Assistant Professor
Computer Science, information visualization, large scale, multi-dimensional data analysis

G. Michael Youngblood, Assistant Professor
Intelligent Systems, Entertainment Computing, Machine Learning, Pervasive Computing, and Autonomous Systems