Research

Theses and Dissertations

Online copies of master's theses and Ph.D. dissertations can be found here.

Technical Reports

Online copies of technical reports can be found here.

Research Areas

The department has a number of active research areas. We give an overview of the major ones here; for more information, see the individual faculty web pages (links under the faculty part of the people section).

Computer Graphics and Vision

Feng Liu works on computer graphics, computer vision, and multimedia. For more information, visit the lab website at http://graphics.cs.pdx.edu. There is also a graphics and vision reading group. More information can be found at http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~fliu/GraphicsReading/.

Computer Science Education

Faculty pursuing research and scholarship in computer science education include Lois Delcambre and Karen Karavanic.

Computer Security

Faculty with interests in computer security include Jim Hook and Tom Shrimpton, who specializes in cryptography.

Databases

Faculty doing research on databases include Dave Maier and Lois Delcambre.The Database Reading Group meets Fridays at 10:00 am. Details are at http://datalab.cs.pdx.edu/dbrg/index.php

Intelligent and Adaptive Systems

Faculty who work on intelligent and adaptive systems include Melanie Mitchell and Bryant York. The Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Seminar meets Fridays at 2PM. Details are at http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~landeckw/IAS-seminar.html

Programming Languages

Faculty doing research in the area of programming languages include Sergio Antoy, Andrew Black, Jim Hook, Mark Jones, Tim Sheard, and Andrew Tolmach. The High-Assurance Systems Programming (HASP) group meets 10:00am-12:00pm on Fridays. Please contact a HASP group member for more details.

Information about the PL seminar is available here.

Software Engineering

Faculty with interests in the area of software engineering include Warren Harrison, Bart Massey, and Fei Xie.

Systems and Networking

There are a variety of projects in the area of systems and networking. Interested faculty include Nirupama Bulusu, Wu-chi Feng, Wu-chang Feng, Karen Karavanic, Suresh Singh, and Jonathan Walpole. The High End Computing Seminar meets Thursdays at 12 noon. Details athttp://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~karavan/hpcLab.html The Systems and Networking reading group meets Thursdays 1:00 -3:00 pm in the Intel Systems and Networks Laboratory. For more information see http://sys.cs.pdx.edu/home/node/42 The asynchronous synthesis and compilation reading group reads and discusses articles that are related to asynchronous circuit design, design compilation and synthesis. The group meets Fridays 10:00 to 12:00 in FAB 20-15. For more information contact Willem Mallon, w.c.mallon@gmail.com.