Research
The Department has twenty full-time regular faculty and four full-time teaching faculty members. Our faculty is very active in research with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and industries. Our recent funding accomplishments include seven NSF grants (including an NSF CAREER award). Many of our faculty have served as NSF review panelists at the invitation of NSF. In the life sciences area, we’re building new partnerships with life and health sciences schools at UMKC, and life sciences partners in the Kansas City area through the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute (KCALSI).
Lighter Moments
Networking & Telecommunications: Network performance & teletraffic modeling, Network design, Network security/monitoring, Performance analysis, Protocols, Routing, RF/wireless communications, Optical networking, Mobile computing, Sensors.
Software Systems: Object-Oriented design & analysis, Middleware, Intelligent agents, Peer-to-Peer computing, Database/information management, Mobile databases, Data mining, Knowledge discovery, OS & Intrusion detection.
Bio-Informatics & Biomedical Informatics: Biological data mining, Functional property based protein databases, Intelligent software agents in biology, Computational genomics (Application of information theory to genomics), Genomic signal processing, Cardiac information system, Chromosome abnormality detection.
Communications, Signal & Image Processing: Computational electromagnetics, RF and Antenna design, Biomedical image processing, Biometrics, Neural networks, Sensors.
Computer Engineering: VLSI, chip design, Low power devices, Cache design, Sensors, System-on-chip, ASIC/FPGA design.
Algorithms: Complexity, Distributed/parallel computations, Graph/optimization algorithms.
