Emergency Informatics

[Overview]   [Faculty]   [Projects]  

Emergency Informatics focuses on the real-time collection, analysis, distribution, and visualization of information for prevention, preparedness, response and recovery from emergencies; it spans incident management of large scale, infrequent events such as disaster response, to routine local emergencies such as the introduction of "smart" ambulances and includes continuous monitoring and prediction tasks.

Faculty

Nancy Amato, Unocal Professor   (Motion planning, computational biology, robotics, computational geometry, animation, CAD, VR, parallel and distributed computing, parallel algorithms, performance modeling, and optimization)

Riccardo Bettati, Professor   (Distributed real-time systems, scheduling algorithms, communication protocols, traffic analysis, and anonymity and privacy)

James Caverlee, Assistant Professor  (Web-scale information management, distributed data-intensive systems, information retrieval, databases, and social computing)

Richard Furuta, Professor   (Digital libraries, hypertext systems and models, computer-human interaction, electronic publishing)

Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Associate Professor   (Intelligent sensors, speech processing, face recognition, machine olfaction, neuromorphic computation, mobile robotics, pattern recognition, machine learning)

Tracy Hammond, Associate Professor   (Sketch recognition, gesture recognition, haptics, hand-tracking, artificial intelligence, human computer interfaces)

Andruid Kerne, Associate Professor   (Human-centered computing, HCI, multitouch interaction, sensory interfaces, intelligent user interfaces, gesture recognition, creativity support tools, information visualization. | Serious games, wearable computing, body sensor networks, intelligent sensory devices, ubiquitous computing, social computing, multimedia)

Dmitri Loguinov, Professor   (Peer-to-peer networks, congestion control, Internet measurements, high-performance web crawling, massive-scale information retrieval, topology modeling, and stochastic analysis of networks)

Robin Murphy, Professor   (Artificial intelligence as applied to emergency informatics, especially tactical land, sea, and air vehicles; human-robot interaction, heterogeneous teams, victim management, and perceptual directed behavior-based control)

Lawrence Rauchwerger, Professor   (Compilers for parallel and distributed computing, parallel and distributed C++ libraries, adaptive runtime optimizations, architectures for parallel computing)

Dylan Shell, Assistant Professor    (Distributed AI, biologically-inspired multi-robot systems, coordinated system, analysis of multi-agent systems, crowd modeling)

Frank Shipman, Professor  (Intelligent user interfaces, hypertext, computers and education, multimedia, new media, computers and design, computer-human interaction, computer-supported cooperative work)

Dezhen Song, Associate Professor   (Networked robotics, computer vision, multimedia, autonomous vehicle, optimization, automation)

Radu Stoleru, Assistant Professor   (Deeply embedded wireless sensor systems, distributed systems, embedded and real-time computing, computer networking)

Projects

combinFormation: Mixed-Initiative Information Composition

Interface Ecology Lab

NSF MRI Acquisition of a Mobile, Distributed Instrument for Response Research
(RESPOND-R), PI, R. Murphy, A. Ames (faculty member, Texas A&M Mechanical Engineering), R. Gutierrez-Osuna, D. Song, R. Stoleru

Teaching TEam Coordination with LOcation-aware Games