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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Suryadevara Basavaiah, PhD (University of Pennsylvania) Auxiliary Professor. Custom circuit design; VLSI technology; process and silicon fabrication.

Fernand Cohen, PhD (Brown University) Professor. Surface modeling; tissue characterization and modeling; face modeling; recognition and tracking.

Kapil Dandekar, PhD (University of Texas-Austin) Assistant Department Head for Graduate Studies, Associate Professor. Cellular communications and wireless local area networks; applied computational electromagnetics.

Afshin Daryoush, Sc.D. (Drexel University ) Professor. Digital and microwave photonics; nonlinear microwave circuits; RFIC; medical imaging.

Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira, Ph.D. (Georgia Institute of Technology) Assistant Professor. Next generation Internet; quality of service in computer communication networks; wireless networks.

Bruce A. Eisenstein, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania) Arthur J. Rowland Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor. Pattern recognition; estimation; decision theory.

Adam K. Fontecchio, PhD (Brown University) Associate Professor. Electro-optics; remote sensing; active optical elements; liquid crystal devices.

Gary Friedman, Ph.D. (University of Maryland-College Park) Professor. Biological and biomedical applications of nanoscale magnetic systems.

Eli Fromm, Ph.D. (Jefferson Medical College) Roy A. Brothers University Professor / Director for Center of Educational Research , Professor. Engineering education; academic research policy; bioinstrumentation; physiologic systems.

Edwin L. Gerber, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania) Assistant Department Head for Evening Programs , Professor. Computerized instruments and measurements; undergraduate engineering education.

Allon Guez, Ph.D. (University of Florida) Professor. Intelligent control systems; robotics, biomedical, automation and manufacturing; business systems engineering.

Peter R. Herczfeld, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota) Lester A. Kraus Professor/Director, Center for Microwave/Lightwave Engineering, Professor. Lightwave technology; microwaves; millimeter waves; fiberoptic and integrated optic devices.

Leonid Hrebien, Ph.D. (Drexel University) Graduate Advisor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Affairs , Professor. Tissue excitability; acceleration effects on physiology; bioinformatics.

Paul R. Kalata, Ph.D. (Illinois Institute of Technology) Associate Professor. Stochastic and adaptive control theory; identification and decision theory; Kalman filters.

Moshe Kam, Ph.D. (Drexel University) Robert G. Quinn Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department Head, Professor. Decision and sensor fusion; mobile robots; pattern recognition; optimization and control.

Nagarajan Kandasamy, Ph.D. (University of Michigan) Assistant Professor. Embedded systems, self-managing systems, reliable and fault-tolerant computing, distributed systems, computer architecture, and testing and verification of digital systems.

Bruce Katz, Ph.D. (University of Illinois) Adjunct Professor. Speech communication and computer science; artificial intelligence.

Youngmoo Kim, Ph.D. (MIT) Assistant Professor. Audio and music signal processing, voice analysis and synthesis, music information retrieval, machine learning.

Timothy P. Kurzweg, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh) Associate Professor. Optical MEM modeling and simulation; system-level simulation; computer architecture.

Karen Miu, Ph.D. (Cornell University) Associate Professor. Power systems; distribution networks; distribution automation; optimization; system analysis.

Bahram Nabet, PhD (University of Washington) Associate Dean for Special Projects, College of Engineering, Professor. Optoelectronics; fabrication and modeling; fiber optic devices; nanoelectronics; nanowires.

Prawat Nagvajara, Ph.D. (Boston University) Associate Professor. System on a chip; embedded systems; power grid computation; testing of computer hardware; fault-tolerant computing; VLSI systems; error control coding.

Dagmar Niebur, Ph.D. (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Associate Professor. Intelligent systems; dynamical systems; power system monitoring and control.

Chika Nwankpa, Ph.D. (Illinois Institute of Technology) Professor. Power system dynamics; power electronic switching systems; optically controlled high power switches.

Athina P. Petropulu, Ph.D. (Northeastern University) Professor. Statistical signal processing; wireless communications; wireless networks; ultrasound image processing.

Karkal S. Prahbu, Ph.D. (Harvard University) Auxiliary Professor. Computer and software engineering; advanced microprocessors and distributed operating systems.

Gail L. Rosen, PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology) Assistant Professor. Signal processing, signal processing for biological analysis and modeling, bio-inspired designs, source localization and tracking.

Kevin J. Scoles, Ph.D. (Dartmouth College) Associate Dean, College of Engineering, Office of Student Services, Associate Professor. Microelectronics; electric vehicles; solar energy; biomedical electronics.

Harish Sethu, Ph.D. (Lehigh University) Associate Professor. Protocols, architectures and algorithms in computer networks; computer security; mobile ad hoc networks; large-scale complex adaptive networks and systems.

P. Mohana Shankar, Ph.D. (Indian Institute of Technology) Allen Rothwarf Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor. Wireless communications; biomedical ultrasonics; fiberoptic bio-sensors.

Baris Taskin, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh) Assistant Professor. Electronic design automation (EDA) of integrated circuits, high-performance VLSI circuits and systems, sequential circuit timing and synchronization, system-on-chip (SOC) design, operational research, VLSI computer-aided design.

Lazar Trachtenberg, D.Sc. (Israel Institute of Technology) Professor. Fault tolerance; multi-level logic synthesis; signal processing; suboptimal filtering.

Oleh Tretiak, Sc.D (MIT) Robert C. Disque Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Professor. Image processing; tomography; image registration; pattern recognition.

John MacLaren Walsh, Ph.D. (Cornell University) Assistant Professor. Performance and convergence of belief/expectation propagation and turbo decoding/equalization/synchronization, permeation models for ion channels, composite adaptive systems theory.

Steven Weber, Ph.D. (University of Texas-Austin) Assistant Professor. Streaming multimedia; rate-adaptation mechanisms for networks; distributed algorithms on networks


Interdepartmental Faculty
Dov Jaron, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania) Calhoun Distinguished Professor of Engineering in Medicine, Professor. Mathematical, computer and electromechanical simulations of the cardiovascular system.

Jeremy R. Johnson, Ph.D. (Ohio State University) Interim Department Head, Computer Science , Professor. Computer algebra; parallel computations; algebraic algorithms; scientific computing.

Ryszard Lec, Ph.D. (University of Warsaw Engineering College) Professor. Biomedical applications of visoelastic, acoustoptic and ultrasonic properties of liquid and solid media.

Peter Lewin, Ph.D. (University of Denmark, Copenhagen-Lyngby) Richard B. Beard Professor, School Of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems , Professor. Biomedical ultrasonics, piezoelectric and polymer transducers and hydrophones; shock wave sensors.

Spiros Mancoridis, Ph.D. (University of Toronto) Director of Software Engineering Programs, Computer Science, Professor. Software engineering; software security; code analysis; evolutionary computation.

Karen Moxon, Ph.D. (University of Colorado) Associate Professor. Cortico-thalamic interactions; neurobiological perspectives on design of humanoid robots.

Paul Y. Oh, Ph.D. (Columbia University) Associate Department Head for External Affairs, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Associate Professor. Smart sensors servomechanisms; machine vision and embedded microcomputers for robotics and mechatronics.

Banu Onaral, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania) H.H. Sun Professor / Director, School of Biomedical Engineering Science and Health Systems , Professor. Biomedical signal processing; complexity and scaling in biomedical signals and systems.

Kambiz Pourrezaei, Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic University) Professor. Thin film technology; nanotechnology; near infrared imaging; power electronics.

William C. Regli, Ph.D. (University of Maryland-College Park) Computer Science Department, Professor. Artificial intelligence; computer graphics; engineering design and Internet computing.

Arye Rosen, Ph.D. (Drexel University) Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Academy Professor. Microwave components and subsystems; utilization of RF/microwaves and lasers in therapeutic medicine.

Jonathan E. Spanier, PhD (Columbia University) Associate Professor. Nanostructured electronic, photonic and ferroic materials and devices; scanning probe microscopy; Raman spectroscopy; energy transfer; plasmonics.

Aydin Tozeren, Ph.D. (Columbia University) Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Integrated Bioinformatics, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, Professor. Breast cell adhesion and communication, signal transduction networks in cancer and epithelial cells; integrated bioinformatics, molecular profiling, 3D-tumors, bioimaging.

Aspasia Zerva, PhD (University of Illinois) Professor. Earthquake engineering; mechanics; seismicity; probabilistic analysis.


Emeritus Faculty
Richard B. Beard, PhD (University of Pennsylvania ) Kraus Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Professor Emeritus. Electrophysics and biomedical: bioelectrochemistry and acoustic properties of materials, biocompatibility studies.

Isadore Cogan, MS (Georgia Institute of Technology) Associate Professor Emeritus.

Richard L. Coren, PhD (Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn ) Professor Emeritus. Electromagnetic fields, antennas, shielding, RFI, cybernetics of evolving systems.

Robert Fischl, Ph.D. (University of Michigan ) John Jarem Professor Emeritus / Director, Center for Electric Power Engineering , Professor Emeritus. Power: systems, networks, controls, computer-aided design, power systems, solar energy.

William Freedman, Ph.D. (Drexel University) Professor Emeritus. Motor control; sensory and motor systems; reflexes; eye movements; neural networks.

Alexander M. Meystel, Ph.D. (ENIMS, Moscow) Director, Laboratory of Applied Machine Intelligence & Robotics; Director, IMPACT Center, Professor Emeritus. Autonomous robots; intelligent control; multiresolutional analysis; theory of learning.

Vernon L. Newhouse , Ph.D. (University of Leeds ) Disque Professor Emeritus , Professor Emeritus. Biomedical and electrophysics: ultrasonic flow measurement, imaging and texture analysis in medicine, ultrasonic nondestructive testing and robot sensing, clinical engineering.

Hun H. Sun, Ph.D. (Cornell University ) Ernest O. Lange Professor Emeritus , Professor Emeritus. Systems and signals in biomedical control systems.