Faculty | Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Faculty	Research Areas	Description
Mokhtar Aboelaze Associate Professor	Computer Networks, Computer Architecture.	Computer Networks, Mobile Networks, Performance of ATM networks, Computer Architecture and Special Purpose Architecture for Image Processing.
Robert Allison Associate Professor	Computer Vision.	Machine vision, Measurement & Analysis of Eye Movements and Measurement and Perception of Human Motion
Aijun An Professor	Database, Data Mining.	Data mining, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Rule induction, Case-based reasoning, applications of rule induction and object-oriented analysis and design.
Melanie Baljko Associate Professor	Human-Computer Interaction.	Computational Linguistics and Human-Computer Interaction, specifically: computational models of human-human multimodal communicative processes; computer–mediated human–human communication; augmentative and alternative communication (AAC); computational devices for individuals with communication disorders.
Franck van Breugel Professor	Concurrency and Verification	Model checking techniques and tools for software systems with randomization; Model checking of Java code; Developing benchmarks for probabilistic model checkers.
Michael S. Brown Professor	Computer Vision, Image Processing, Computer Graphics	Computer Vision, Image Processing, Computer Graphics
Marcus Brubaker Assistant Professor	Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Bayesian Statistics, Computational Biology	Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Bayesian Statistics, Computational Biology
Gene Cheung Associate Professor	Computer Vision, Signal Processing	Graph Signal Processing, 3D Imaging.
Suprakash Datta Assistant Professor	Bioinformatics, Computer Networks.	Parallel and distributed computation, performance evaluation, network modeling, and simulation, bioinformatics.
Patrick W. Dymond Professor	Theory.	Complexity theory, parallel algorithms and architectures.
Andrew Eckford Associate Professor	Communications networks, Information Theory.	Communications networks, sensor networks, error–control coding for wireless and other difficult channels, analysis of iterative decoding algorithms.
Jeff Edmonds Professor	Theory.	Complexity, lower bounds, algorithms, combinatorics, probability theory, scheduling.
James Elder Professor	Computer Vision.	Computer vision, biological vision.
Petros Faloutsos Associate Professor	Digital Media, Computer Graphics, Computer Animation.	Virtual Humans, Crowd Simulation, Game Technologies, Serious Games, Interactive Medical Applications and Rehabilitation.
Hany Farag Assistant Professor	Power Distribution Systems.	Plug-in electric vehicles, smart grid technologies, distributed and renewable power generation in distribution systems.
Ingo Freund Assistant Professor	Computational Neuroscience, Computer Vision,	Computational Neuroscience, Computer Vision,
Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh Assistant Professor	Biologically Inspired Sensor and Actuator (BioSA) technologies.	Biologically Inspired Sensor and Actuator (BioSA) technologies. In this direction, we examine novel BioSA methods by mimicking the biological micro–environments using Integrated Microelectronic Circuit, Micro–electromechanical System and Microfluidic techniques.
Parke Godfrey Associate Professor	Database systems.	Database systems.
Gerd Grau Assistant Professor	Microfabrication, Semiconductor devices, Printed electronics, Additive manufacturing	Microfabrication, Semiconductor devices, Printed electronics, Additive manufacturing
Jarek Gryz Professor	Database systems.	Database systems.
Ali Hooshyar Assistant Professor	Power system protection, Control of renewable energy systems and smart grids.	Power system protection, Control of renewable energy systems and smart grids.
Richard Hornsey Professor	Electronic Sensors.	Integrated electronic sensors, biologically inspired image sensors, low vision enhancement systems, sensors for space applications.
Jimmy Huang Professor	Information retrieval.	Information retrieval, web/text mining, health and medical informatics, natural language processing, bioinformatics, computational linguistics and digital library.
Michael R. M. Jenkin Professor	Robotics.	Mobile robotics. Computer vision. Virtual Reality.
Hui Jiang Professor	Speech recognition, language processing, bioinformatics.	Speech recognition; language processing; multimedia communications; bioinformatics.
Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang Assistant Professor	Software Engineering, Computer Systems.	Software performance engineering, mining software repositories, debugging and monitoring of distributed systems, source code analysis, software architectural recovery and software visualizations.
Hossein Kassiri Assistant Professor	Micro/Nanoelectronics, Medical Devices.	Analog and Mixed Signal Integrated Circuit (IC) Design, Low Power Implantable/Wearable Systems-on-Chip (SoC), VLSI Signal Processing, Wirelessly-Powered Medical Sensory Systems
Hamzeh Khazaei Assistant Professor	Software Engineering	Cloud computing, performance modeling, big data management, and intelligent systems.
Henry M. Kim Associate Professor	Blockchain Research.	Blockchain Research.
Matthew J. Kyan Associate Professor	Big Data, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Vision, Data Science, Information Systems	Biologically inspired models for learning & pattern recognition; Multimedia signal processing; Rich-media search, summarization & retrieval; Knowledge-assisted visualization; Immersive environments and mixed reality;
John Lam Assistant Professor	Power Electronics and Energy Systems.	High frequency power conversion for sustainable energy systems, power converter topologies, control techniques for power converters.
Regina S. K. Lee Associate Professor	Nanosatellite Technologies.	Nanosatellite Technologies.
Yves Lesperance Associate Professor	Artificial Intelligence.	Intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, intelligent agents.
Peter Lian Professor	Biomedical sensors, Biomedical instruments and Biomedical circuits.	Zero-power wearable wireless biomedical sensors, miniaturized biomedical instrumentations, ultra low power biomedical circuits and systems, and signal processing.
Sotirios Liaskos Associate Professor	Information Systems Engineering.	Information Systems Engineering.
Marin Litoiu Associate Professor	Software Engineering.	Performance modeling and evaluation, capacity planning, software engineering, adaptive and autonomous systems, web services, Internet technologies.
Burton Ma Assistant Professor	Medical Devices.
Scott MacKenzie Associate Professor	Human-Computer Interaction.	Input devices and interactive techniques for advanced and mobile computing; human performance measurement, prediction, and modeling.
Sebastian Magierowski Associate Professor	Electronics.	Semiconductor devices, integrated circuits, and VLSI for communications and embedded systems.
Richard F. Murray Associate Professor	Visual Perception.	Visual Perception.
Uyen Trang Nguyen Associate Professor	Computer Networks, Wireless Networking, Information Security.	Mobile ad-hoc networks and wireless mesh networks: routing, multirate-aware routing, multicasting, medium access control, quality of service support, video transmission, security, transport issues, applications. Wireless sensor networks: routing, localization, medium access control, security, applications. Network security: authentication, key management, online social networking. Video and multimedia applications.
Jonathan S. Ostroff Professor	Software Engineering.	Design of real–time software for reactive systems such as safety critical medical systems, nuclear plants, communication systems and robots. The use of formal methods for modeling, specification and automated verification of complex systems. CASE tools for formal methods. Software engineering.
Manos Papagelis Assistant Professor	Big data, Data Sciences, Knowledge Representation	Graph & Information Network Mining; (Big) Data Mining & Analysis; Databases & Knowledge Discovery; Recommendation Algorithms, Trust & Personalization; City Science/ Urban Informatics
Simone Pisana Associate Professor	Nanoelectronics, nanoscale materials, magnetic materials, heat transport.	Electron and heat transport in nanoscale materials and electronic devices. Hard magnets for magnetic recording. Optical pump-probe techniques for heat transport and materials characterization.
Afshin Rezaei-Zare Associate Professor	Power and Renewable Energy Systems.	Electromagnetic Transients in Power Systems and Equipment; Power System Resilience to Geomagnetic Disturbance (Solar Storm); Real-Time Power System Simulators Based on Wide-Area Monitoring; Power Quality and Harmonics; Microgrids and Renewable Energy Systems; Transportation Electrification
Eric Ruppert Associate Professor	Theory.	Design and analysis of algorithms and data structures for multi-process systems, in which processes communicate via shared memory, message passing or other means. Complexity lower bounds and impossibility results for such systems.
Ali Sadeghi-Naini Assistant Professor	Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering.	Quantitative Imaging and Biomarkers; AI and Machine Learning for Precision Medicine; Radiomics and Theranostics; Image-Guided Therapeutics; Computational Biomedical Modeling
Amir Sodagar Associate Professor	Biomedical Engineering, Micro/nanotechnology.	Implantable Microsystems; Biomedical Signals, Circuits, and Systems; Integrated Circuits (ICs).
Pirathayini Srikantha Assistant Professor	Power Systems Engineering.	Game theory, large-scale optimization and distributed control for enabling adaptive, sustainable and resilient power grid operations.
Zbigniew Stachniak Associate Professor	Computational logic and Knowledge Representation., History of Computing.	Computational logic and Knowledge Representation: methodology of automated reasoning and theorem proving systems, computer science and applied logics. Logic Programming.
Hina Tabassum Assistant Professor	Networks.	5G/B5G wireless communications; Massive MIMO; mm-wave, Visible light Communication, Free Space Optics; Stochastic geometry, Geometric Probability; Smart grid, Energy harvesting systems; Ultra-reliable, low latency communication.
George Tourlakis Professor	Theory.	Logic (classical, calculational, modal), Computability theory (computation with partial function oracles, arithmetical forcing), Complexity theory.
Nikolaus Troje Associate Professor	Computer Vision.	Visual Perception, Biological Motion, Gait Analysis, People Perception, Sensory Neuroscience, Multi-Sensory Integration, Space Perception, Virtual Reality, Embodied Cognition.
John K. Tsotsos Professor	Computer Vision.	Computational Vision with a current major focus being the modelling of visual attention.
Vassilios Tzerpos Associate Professor	Software Engineering.	Software engineering, in particular, software maintenance, reverse engineering and software clustering.
Ruth Urner Assistant Professor	Machine Learning, Big Data.	Machine Learning, Big Data.
Natalija Vlajic Associate Professor	Information Security, Mobile/Wireless Communications	Mobile/Wireless Communications, Pattern Recognition, Optimization and Game Theory.
Graham Wakefield Assistant Professor	Interactive Information Visualization.	Interactive Information Visualization.
Ping Wang Associate Professor	Networks.	Wireless communications and networking.
Song Wang Assistant Professor	Software Engineering, Machine Learning.	Machine learning in data process, knowledge representation, classification, NLP.
Richard Wildes Associate Professor	Computer Vision.	Computational vision and allied areas of image processing, robotics and artificial intelligence.
Jia Xu Associate Professor	Real-time systems	Real–time systems, including real–time operating systems, real–time database systems, real–time communication systems, real–time embedded systems.
Xiaohui Yu Associate Professor	Database systems.	Database systems.