23 faculty and 0 courses in Cognitive & Information Sciences at University of California, Merced.
- Ming-Hsuan Yang, Professor and Graduate Chair, EECS h-index 144
Computer vision - Pattern recognition - Machine learning Education: - Ph.D., 2000 — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - M.S., 1994 — University of Texas at Austin M.S., 1992 — University of Southern California - B.S., 1991 — National Tsing-Hua Univ
Notable: “Robust Recovery of Subspace Structures by Low-Rank Representation” (2012) · 3,659 citations
- Dong Li, Associate Professor h-index 41
High performance computing - Fault tolerance/resilience in large-scale parallel and distributed systems - Power-aware computing - Performance modeling and optimization Education: - Ph.D., 2011, Virginia Tech Departments: Computer Science & Engineering (CSE
Notable: “Ergodic Capacity of Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Communication Systems With Phase Errors” (2020) · 195 citations
- Shawn Newsam, Professor h-index 35
Image processing - Computer vision - Pattern recognition - Machine learning - Content-based information retrieval - Digital libraries, data mining and knowledge discovery in spatio-temporal, multimedia and scientific datasets Education: - Ph.D., 2004 — UC S
Notable: “Bag-of-visual-words and spatial extensions for land-use classification” (2010) · 2,888 citations
- Stefano Carpin, Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs h-index 33
Robotics - Motion planning - Cooperative multi-robot systems - Urban search and rescue & service robotics - High fidelity robot simulation - Artificial intelligence Department: Dean's Office Education: - Ph.D., 2003 — University of Padova - Italy "Laurea" d
Notable: “USARSim: a robot simulator for research and education” (2007) · 423 citations
- Alberto Cerpa, Associate Professor h-index 32
Professor Cerpa's broad interests lie broadly in the computer networking and distributed systems areas. His recent focus has been systems research in wireless sensor networks, with emphasis in wireless radio channel measurement and modeling, link quality esti
Notable: “Habitat monitoring” (2001) · 934 citations
- Miguel Carreira-Perpiñán, Professor h-index 31
Professor Carreira-Perpiñán's basic research interests are in machine learning — the estimation of models and representations from data. Most recently, he has been working on topics in the intersection of optimization and machine learning, in particular in le
Notable: “Multiscale conditional random fields for image labeling” (2004) · 843 citations
- Meng Tang, Assistant Professor h-index 29
Computer vision - machine learning - discrete optimization - augmented and virtual reality Education: - Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2019, University of Waterloo, Canada - M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2014, Western University, Canada - B.E. in Automation, 2012
Notable: “Normalized Cut Loss for Weakly-Supervised CNN Segmentation” (2018) · 350 citations
- Shijia Pan, Assistant Professor h-index 25
Cyber-Physical Systems - Internet-of-Things - Ubiquitous Computing - Multimodal signal processing for IoT applications - Vibration/acoustic signal processing Education: - Ph.D., 2018— Carnegie Mellon University - B.S., 2012 — University of Science and Techn
Notable: “FootprintID” (2017) · 141 citations
- Wan Du, Assistant Professor h-index 24
Internet of Things (IoT) - Wireless Networking and Sensing - Edge Computing - Reinforcement Learning - Data Analytics Education: - Ph.D., 2011 – University of Lyon (École Centrale de Lyon), France Departments: Computer Science & Engineering (CSE
Notable: “A Survey on LoRa Networking: Research Problems, Current Solutions, and Open Issues” (2019) · 510 citations
- Xiaoyi Lu, Assistant Professor h-index 24
Parallel and Distributed Computing - Systems for HPC, Big Data, AI, and others - Virtualization and Cloud Computing - High-Performance Communication and I/O - Performance, Scalability, Fault tolerance, QoS, and others Education: - Postdoc, 2014 — The Ohio S
Notable: “High-Performance Design of Hadoop RPC with RDMA over InfiniBand” (2013) · 115 citations
- Florin Rusu, Professor and Department Chair (CSE) h-index 21
Large scale data management - Database systems design and implementation - Data aggregation methods - Approximation and randomized algorithms Education: - Ph.D., 2009 — University of Florida - M.S., 2008 — University of Florida - B.S. in Engineering, 2004 —
Notable: “Machine learning applied to retrieval of temperature and concentration distributions from infrared emission measurements” (2019) · 80 citations
- Hua Huang, Assistant Professor h-index 19
Sensor Systems - Wireless Networks - Ubiquitous Computing - Smart Healthcare Education: - Ph.D., 2020 — Stony Brook University - M.S., 2015 — Temple University - B.S., 2012 — Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Departments: Computer Scienc
Notable: “Analysis of the Weighting Exponent in the FCM” (2004) · 249 citations
- Hyeran Jeon, Associate Professor h-index 19
Computer Architecture - HW/SW Interaction - Energy Efficient System - Reliable and Secure System Education: - Ph.D., 2015 — University of Southern California - M.S., 2007 — Georgia Institute of Technology and Korea University - B.S., 2002 — Pusan National U
Notable: “Warped-compression” (2015) · 98 citations
- Ahmed Sabbir Arif, Assistant Professor h-index 16
Smarter solutions for text entry, error correction, and editing on various devices - Mobile interaction, tangible user interfaces, child-computer interaction, usable security, and scientific data visualization Lab Websites: - Inclusive Interaction Lab
Notable: “Analysis of text entry performance metrics” (2009) · 199 citations
- David Noelle, Associate Professor h-index 15
Computational cognitive neuroscience - Artificial neural networks - Machine learning - Artificial intelligence previousnextstart slideshow
Notable: “Letting structure emerge: connectionist and dynamical systems approaches to cognition” (2010) · 467 citations
- Santosh Chandrasekhar, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 9
Development of effective teaching strategies for undergraduate computer science courses - Development of a security education program for undergraduate students Education: - Education: Ph.D., 2011 — University of Kentucky Departments: Computer Science & En
Notable: “Collaboration in multicloud computing environments: Framework and security issues” (2013) · 122 citations
- Ross Greer, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Autonomous Driving - Computer Vision - Human-Robot Interaction - Multimodal Machine Learning - Novelty Detection Education: - Ph.D., 2024 — University of California, San Diego - M.S., 2018 — University of California, San Diego - B.S., 2015 — University of C
Notable: “Robust Traffic Light Detection Using Salience-Sensitive Loss: Computational Framework and Evaluations” (2023) · 21 citations
- Pengfei Su, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Programming Languages - Static and Dynamic Program Analysis - High-performance/Parallel Computing - Software Engineering Education: - Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2020 — College of William & Mary, Williamsburg,VA - M.S. in Computer Science, 2016 — Institute o
Notable: “Redundant Loads: A Software Inefficiency Indicator” (2019) · 32 citations
- Angelo Kyrilov, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Automated assessment of short free-text responses in computer science using latent semantic analysis” (2011) · 50 citations
- Giovanni Gonzalez Araujo, Assistant Teaching Professor
Development of educational software tools for effective teaching and learning in computer science. - Development of interactive curriculum for introductory programming courses. Education: - Ph.D., 2024 — University of California, Merced - B.S., 2019 — Unive
- Paul Smaldino, Associate Professor
Cultural evolution, cooperation, and complex systems; models to study how behaviors emerge and evolve; Social & Cultural Evolution, Learning, Communication, Cooperation, Formal Models
- Yiwei Wang, Assistant Professor
Natural Language Processing - Large Language Models - Graph Machine Learning Social Media
- Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz, Professor
STEM Teaching and Learning, Psychosocial Factors in Learning, Design Based Education Research, Cognitive Processes in STEM learning
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.