Research in Computer and Information Science
Research opportunities shaping your academic journey
Ongoing Research at Ole Miss CS
The computer and information science faculty are conducting interdisciplinary research in focus areas of Analysis and Visualization, Bioinformatics, Heteregeneous Systems Research, Intelligent Multimedia Research, Security and Privacy, and Multiparadigm Software.
Reach out to faculty members directly using the contact information below to inquire about current openings in their labs.
Computing Research Association
The department participates in the the Computing Research Association (CRA). CRA’s mission is to enhance innovation by joining with industry, government and academia to strengthen research and advanced education in computing.
Research Groups
Learn more about our research groups below.
Development of systems and algorithms for efficient access to large multidimensional scientific datasets to support analysis and visualization. Current work focuses on access to both local and remote datasets. Funding by NSF and Homeland Security.
Faculty:
- Dr. Philip J. Rhodes
Research on use of machine learning techniques in analysis of microarray data, bioinformatics, and computational biology. Funding by NIH and NSF.
Faculty:
- Dr. Dawn E. Wilkins (Professor Emeritus)
- Dr. Yixin Chen
Research on hardware architecture and compilers for CPU-GPU heterogeneous system, and high-performance computing. Current work focuses on optimizing GPU/HSA memory architecture and accelerating computer vision applications on mobile GPUs. Funding by industries and NSF.
Faculty:
Analysis and retrieval of audio, image, and video data using pattern recognition and machine learning techniques. Funding by NSF.
Faculty:
Research areas include adversarial machine learning, blockchain security, wearable device security, and privacy-preserving machine learning.
Faculty:
- Dr. Chuck Fleming
- Dr. Charles Walter
Research on software architecture and engineering, functional and multiparadigm programming languages and methods, domain-specific languages, feature modeling, software patterns, safe and secure programming, formal methods for programming, concurrent and distributed computing, and accessible documents.
Faculty:
- Dr. H. Conrad Cunningham (Professor Emeritus)