College of Arts and Sciences
2009-2010
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- Ted Baker, 2011
- 207A Love Building
- MC: 4530
- 850/644-5452
- 850/644-0058 (FAX)
- baker@cs.fsu.edu
Professor Baker's first research was in theoretical computer science. His best known work is this area is related to the P=?NP question and polynomial-time relative computability. He has also published research in pattern matching and parsing algorithms, compilation techniques, and in real-time programming languages, scheduling and operating systems.
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Dr. Bruschweiler's reasearch interests include development and application of NMR methods for studying the structure, dynamics,
and function of proteins and small molecules, fast NMR methods (covariance NMR), and methods for the computation and prediction of protein dynamics and thermodynamics. |
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- Mike Burmester, 2011
- 268 Love Building
- MC: 4530
- 850/644-6410
- 850/644-0058 (FAX) mburmester@fsu.edu
Dr. Burmester's current research interests involve cryptography, information security, network security, privacy and watermarking, Public Key Infrastructures, with more than 100 publications in these areas. He is a Fellow of the IMA and a co-director of the Security and Assurance in Information Technology (SAIT) Laboratory at Florida State University.
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Dr. Ming Cai's research goal is to enhance our understanding on how the climate system as a whole operates from intra-seasonal to decadal/centennial or longer time scales with a focus on the roles of oceanic and atmospheric circulations. |
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- Joyce Carbonell, 2011
B217 Psychology Building
MC: 4301
- 850/644-1042
- 850/644-7739
(FAX)
- carbonel@psy.fsu.edu
Dr. Carbonell's reasearch interests include Sex roles and leadership; prediction of career criminal behavior; classification systems for prison inmates; and sexual harassment.
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- Eric Chicken, 2011
- 209A Oceanagraphy/Statistics Building
- MC: 4330
- 850/644-9841
- 850/644-5271
(FAX)
- chicken@stat.fsu.edu
Dr. Chicken's research interests include density estimation, nonparametric regression methods, statistical estimation via wavelets, water flow models, and vision and shape analysis. |
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- Irinel Chiorescu, 2011
- 218 Keen Building
- MC: 4350
- 850/644-3414
- 850/644-8630
(FAX)
- ic@magnet.fsu.edu
Dr. Chiorescu's research interests lie in the area of quantum effects at nanoscopic scale. His group's main research direction focuses on quantum computation and involves studies of spin dynamics in two possible cases: magnetic molecules and superconducting flux qubits.
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- Ron Doel, 2011
- 438 Bellamy Building
- MC: 2200
- 850/644-9540
- rdoel@fsu.edu
Research Interests: History of Recent Science; Environmental History; International Relations; Circumpolar Arctic
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- Glen Doran, 2011
- 1847 West Tennessee St.
- MC: 7772
- 850/644-8154
- gdoran@fsu.edu
Dr. Dorans research interests include the Development and direction of the Windover Archaeological Research Project, focusing on bioarchaeological analysis, Pilot project on Etruscan and Mediterranean skeletal biology, Plantation archaeology in northern Florida, Skeletal biology of North American populations within a biocultural framework; currently synthesizing data from Florida, southeastern US, Illinois and southwestern US., and Jomon and Yoyoi bioarchaeology. Bioarchaeological changes related to changes in subsistence, population density and social complexity. | |
Dr. Edward's areas of specialization include nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture, critical theories of race and gender, and transnational American Studies. Her current research includes a book-length study of representations of racial mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. literature.
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- Anter El-Azab, 2010
- College of Engineering Building B316
- MC: 2870
- 850/410-6655
- 850/410-6337 (FAX)
- anter@eng.fsu.edu
Dr. El-Azab's research interests are in the general area of theoretical and computational materials science and mechanics. He is now part of the Department of Scientific Computing in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Dr. Erndl's research interests include
interactions between Hinduism and Buddhism in India, cross-cultural appropriations of Indian goddesses in North America, and Hinduism in the Caribbean.
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- Marcia Fenley, 2011
418 Keen Building
MC: 4350
- 850/644 0633
- 850/644-4053
(FAX)
- mfenley@sb.fsu.edu
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- Adam Gaiser, 2010
- M06 Dodd Hall
- MC: 1520
- 850/645-7579
- 850/644-7225 (FAX)
- agaiser@fsu.edu
Dr.Gaiser's research interests include Early Islamic Sectarianism: Kharijites, Ibadites and Shi’ites, Islamic and Eastern Christian Conceptions of Martyrdom, Convergence and borrowing between Eastern Christianity and Islam, and Islam in Europe and the Americas. |
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- Kyle Gallivan, 2011
- 476 Dirac Science Library
- MC: 4510
- 850/645-0306
- 850/644-0058 (FAX)
- gallivan@math.fsu.edu
Dr. Gallivan's
research interests are in Optimization on Riemannian manifolds with applications; Incremental subspace methods with applications; Algorithms for large-scale dynamical systems; Algorithms for large-scale linear eigenproblems and system solving; Algorithms for large-scale statistical computations; Digital signal processing; Code restructuring and performance enhancement.
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- David Gilbert, 2011
- 3066 King Life Sciences
- MC: 4300
- 850/645-7583
- 850/644-9399 (FAX)
- gilbert@bio.fsu.edu
Dr. Gilbert's overall goal is to understand how mammalian chromosomes are organized within the nucleus to carry out their various functions. |
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Dr. Hull's research program investigates the neuroendocrine control of male rat sexual behavior. | |
Dr. Klassen's research has involved investigating properties of three and four dimensional manifolds, including knots in the three-sphere, using the techniques of gauge theory and by studying representations of their fundamental groups in certain Lie groups. He also studyies the maps between Hurwitz spaces and moduli spaces. |
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- Jennifer Koslow, 2011
- 409 Bellamy BUilding
- MC: 2200
- 850/644-4086
- jkoslow@fsu.edu
Research Interests: Public History, Urban History, Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Public Health, Women's History
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- William Landing, 2010
- 325 Oceanagraphy/Statistics Building
- MC: 4320
- 850/644-6037
850/644-2581
(FAX) wlanding@mailer.fsu.edu
Dr. Leanding's research interests include
the chemical, biological, and physical processes which affect trace element distributions and behavior in marine and freshwater environments.
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- Justin Leiber, 2010
- 283 Dodd Hall
- MC: 1500
- 850/644-0219
850/644-3832 (FAX)
- jleiber@fsu.edu
Research Areas : Philosophy of Linguistics and Language, Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology
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Dr. Li's esearch is directed toward understanding structures of protein-RNA complexes in order to learn how protein nucleic acid interactions lead to specific chemical or cellular functions. The research emphasizes structure determination by X-ray crystallography but also uses many aspects of molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics
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- Lisa Lyons, 2010
- 357 Diffenbaugh Building
- MC: 4340
- 850/645-8255
850/645-0989 (FAX) lyons@bio.fsu.edu
Dr. Lyons' research interests include Signaling and circadian modulation regulating associative memory.
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Dr. Moore specializes in the literature of colonial America and in U.S. literature to 1900. In 1999, he was named a University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and he currently serves as Faculty Director of the Bryan Hall Learning Community. He is immediate past president of the interdisciplinary Society of Early Americanists and coordinates the American Studies Association's Early American Matters Caucus.
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Dr. O'Rourke is currently writing on sexuality and performance in Shakespeare. | |
- Grigory Rogachev, 2010
- 216 Keen Building
- MC: 4350
- 850/645-2512
850/644-4478
(FAX)
- grogache@fsu.edu
Dr. Rogachev's research interest is experimental nuclear physics, in particular, the structure of exotic neutron-rich and neutron-deficient isotopes, reactions with Radioactive Nuclear Beams, cluster states in light nuclei and mechanism of nuclear reactions.
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- Robert Romanchuk, 2010
- 362 Diffenbaugh Building
MC: 1540
850/644-8391
850/644-0524
(FAX)
- rromanch@fsu.edu
Dr. Romanchuk works in the literatures of medieval Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, and Byzantium, and has a strong research interest in modern Ukraine as well. As an Early Slavist, he specializes in the history of reading and textual interpretation (hermeneutics) and the related histories of pedagogy and bibliography in medieval eastern Europe.
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Dr. Schmidt's research interests include her research interests focus on gender, violence, memory, power, and colonialism in nineteenth and twentieth century Zimbabwe and Tanzania.
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Dr. Sickinger
specializes in Greek history, literature, and archaeology.
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Dr. Sussman's research focuses on high performance computing and computational fluid dynamics.
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Dr. Tang's research interest is virus-host cell interactions concerning human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV). |
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Dr. Upchurch's research specialization is in the area of nineteenth-century British gender and social history, and his teaching fields include modern Britain, the British Empire, modern Europe, global and comparative history, Atlantic history, women¹s and gender history, and the history of sexuality. | |
- Lisa Wakamiya, 2010
- 362 Diffenbaugh Building
MC: 1540
850/644-8391
850/644-0524
(FAX)
lwakamiya@fsu.edu
Professor Wakamiya’s research interests include the literature of exile, 20th and 21st-century Russian literature, critical theory, translation, and globalization studies.
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Dr. Walker is Associate Chair of the English Department; from
2004-06, he served as an Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and
Sciences. In 1996, he was named a University Distinguished Teaching
Professor. He studies and writes about British Romantic literature and culture. |
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Dr. Wang's research includes paleoclimate and paleoecology, response of the soil carbon cycle to natural and anthropogenic perturbations, and source and fate of dissolved organic carbon and nutrients in wetland ecosystems.
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- Paul Ward, 2011
- A414C Psychology Dept. Building
- MC: 1270
- 850/645-7424
- 850/645-2795
(FAX)
- ward@psy.fsu.edu
Dr. Ward's research includes expert performance and skill acquisition in professional, occupational and sporting domains. Use of process tracing measures (such as verbal reports, motion analyses, eye movements and other psycho-physiological measures) to uncover the mechanisms responsible for superior performance. Fundamental issues of interest include how experts acquire, refine, control or automate their performance. | |
- Xin Yuan, 2010
- 168 Love Building
- MC: 4530
- 850/644-9133
- 850/644-0481
(FAX)
- yuan@cs.fsu.edu
Dr. Yuan participates in the ACES and LENS research groups at FSU. His main research interests are in Computer Networks, Parallel Processing, Compilers, Data Flow Analysis, Compilation Techniques for Distributed Memory Machines, Optical Interconnection Networks, ATM, and WDM/TDM communications.
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