Areas of Expertise
Dr. Yixin Chen, Professor and Chair
Chen’s research focuses on the design, analysis, implementation, and applications of machine learning Chen’s research focuses on the design, analysis, implementation, and applications of machine learning algorithms. He is especially interested in the exploratory and confirmatory analysis of data generated by real-world problems. He has worked on various projects on brain-computer interfaces, knowledge discovery in taxonomic research, content-based image retrieval, automatic image annotation, and control of robotic manipulators. Chen is serving as an Associate Editor of the journal Pattern Recognition. A complete list of Dr. Chen’s publications and research can be found here.
Dr. Byunghyun (Byung) Jang, Associate Professor
Jang’s research expertise and interests are in the areas of high-performance parallel computing, GPU computing, compilers, and hardware architecture. Jang leads the Heterogeneous Systems Research (HEROES) Lab, which conducts research on high-performance computing, CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing, hardware architecture, compilers, data-intensive application acceleration, code optimization, and automatic parallelization. Jang serves as a Distinguished Professor for the Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) Foundation.
Dr. Philip J. Rhodes, Associate Professor
Rhodes has research expertise and interests in cluster, grid, and cloud computing, data-intensive computing, scientific visualization, and computer graphics. In particular, he and his students have recently conducted research on efficient access to large multidimensional scientific datasets and on parallel computing for spatial scientific applications and flood simulation.
Dr. Feng Wang, Associate Professor
Wang’s research expertise and interests are in wireless sensor/mesh networks, cyber-physical system, socialized content sharing, peer-to-peer networks, and cloud computing.
Dr. H. Conrad Cunningham, Professor Emeritus
Throughout his career, Cunningham has conducted research in the broad areas of software engineering, programming languages, and concurrent programming. More specifically, he has focused on formal methods for programming, functional and multiparadigm programming, software architecture, domain-specific languages, language design and processing, and accessibility. Since his retirement in 2019, Cunningham has continued to work with his students and colleagues on feature modeling, reactive programming, software patterns, safe and secure programming, accessibility, and other topics. See his Faculty page https://cs.olemiss.edu/faculty/cunningham/ for more information.
Dr. Jeffrey S. Vitter, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
In his research, Dr. Vitter exploits the rich interdependence between computing theory and practice. Beginning with his thesis on coalesced hashing, a widely used search method, Dr. Vitter has made many contributions to the design and analysis of algorithms, using mathematical analysis and asymptotics to derive precise estimates for resource requirements. He works primarily in four key subfields dealing with big data and data science, which are described on his web page. Dr. Vitter has authored well over 300 book, journal, conference, and patent publications.
Dr. Dawn E. Wilkins, Professor Emeritus
Wilkins’s current research focuses on applying computing techniques from machine learning and algorithms to biological data. Much of her recent work has involved analyzing microarray data for medical applications, with the University of Mississippi Medical School and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (SJCRH), and environmental concerns, with the Environmental Laboratory at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).