Faculty and Staff

Professor Bares enjoys teaching computer science at all levels. His teaching and research interests include computer graphics, virtual production and artificial intelligence. He started the Immersive Stories Lab to support collaborations around graphics, performance captures, visualization and more. 

Janet Davis became a computer scientist in her first year of college, when she realized she was exhausted by science labs, but excited and energized by programming assignments. She decided to pursue graduate study in computer science during her senior year of college, when she realized she loved school too much to leave. As a graduate student, she fell in love with teaching, and she hasn’t left yet.

Research Interests: Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, History of Computing, Social/Philosophical Connections

Research Interests: Computer Systems, Compilers, Software Performance Optimization, and Scientific Computing