Xiaoqin "Shelley" Zhang's research interests include multi-agent systems, sophisticated negotiation and cooperation in multi-agent systems, intelligent agent architecture designing, agent control and reasoning under uncertainty, learning in multi-agent systems, information gathering, e-commerce, distributed systems, and artificial intelligence. She teaches courses in artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and Java programming.
My current teaching and research interests are in the areas of theoretical computer science, software engineering and distributed computing. I have special interest and expertise in model-based software development and agent-oriented software engineering. Some specific research issues in this area include formal specification and design of complex software systems; model-based development of agent-oriented software; model-based development of agent-oriented software, including design and implementation of software, including design and implementation of software agents; and real world application of agent technology.
Graduated with a Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology, followed by a two year Japan Society Promotion of Science fellowship on Brain modeling with neural networks. Research interests are in the field of neural network architectures and learning algorithms, brain function modeling, pattern recognition, and data mining.
Professor Upchurch's teaching and research interests are in Software Development Process, Usability, and Computer-Human Interaction.
Assistant Professor Ph.D. Dartmouth College, MS, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, BS, Xi'an Jiatong University, China. Dr. Li Shen in shape analysis and image understanding, and aims to build novel tools that can help computers better understand digital images and shapes in various practical applications(e.g. biomedical image analysis). He is also interested in datamining and bioinformatics.
Dr. Bolek Mikolajczack graduated with distinctions from the technical university of Poznan, Poland with doctoral and postdoctoral degrees in computer science in 1974 and 1979, respectively. His teaching and research interests are in modeling and analysis computing systems using formal models. In particular, his interests are in modeling and analysis of concurrent computing systems using petri nets with applications in software development and workflow management.
Khalid received his B.S. degree in Management Information Systems from Tennessee Technological University. He then worked in the industry for four years as an Application Developer. He completed his MS degree in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in 2001. He has been teaching here ever since as a full time visiting lecturer. His interests include Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems.
Dr. Emad Aboelela received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Miami in 1988. He joined the Department of Computer and Informtation Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in September 2001. Dr. Aboela currently teaches computer networking, computer systems, and computer organization courses.His areas of research include quality-of-service for multimedia networking, network topology design, and wireless sensor networks.
Professor Bala received his Ph. D from the university of South Florida in 2000. His teaching interests include Computer Vision, HCL, Operating systems and Java. His research interests include 2-D and 3-D visualization, Motion Analysis, Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and HCL.
Education
1998-Present Professor, Computer Science Department of Umass Dartmouth
1983 Visiting Lecturer, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
MS Mathematics University of Poznan, Poland 1976
MS Control Eng. Polytechnical Institute of Poznan, Poland 1976
Ph.D. Computer Science Polytechnical Institute of Poznan, Poland 1980
Dr Bergstein received his Ph.D. from Northeastern University in 1994. His teaching and research interests include object-oriented programming, software engineering, database systems, and information technology. His current research projects are in tools for maintenence of large software systems and integration of hetergeneous data sources.
Current work is in the area of process algebra, resource bounded optimization, autonomous agents and mobile robotics. Genereal topics of interest are in distributed computing, concurrency and interaction, evolutionary computing and neural nets, new computing paradigms, languages and architectures. Some of his research projects can be found on this site.
Interests include developing mathematics software for education, computer graphics, computer algebra systems, and noncommuntative algebra. He enjoys bicyling, hiking, mysteries, and listening to the blues (but not all at the same time).
He received the B .Eng degree with Honors in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Mysore, India in 1999. The masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Dallas Texas in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2004. His primary areas of research are in computer networking, wireless networking, and optical networking, with a special focus in the design of architectures and protocals for optical networks. He is a recipient of the Texas Telecommunications Engineering Consortium(TXTEC) fellowship 2002-03, and the University of Texas at Dallas Best Dissertation award 2003-04. He is also a member of IEEE.
Gaoyan Xie is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He joined UMass Dartmouth in Fall 2005, after receiving his Ph.D in Computer Science from Washington State University . During the period of 1999-2000, he had also been a Software Engineer at Nanjing Automation Research Institute, China. Prior to that, he studied at Nanjing University, China and received his B.S. and M. Engr. in Computer Science in 1996 and 1999 respectively. His areas of specialization include software engineering, computer aided verification and programming languages. His current research focuses on a decompositional approach for the quality assurance of component-based software. His research has been published in journals such as Theoretical Computer Science and conference proceedings such as CAV and ICALP.
