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Naofal Al-Dhahir, Professor of electrical engineering (Ph.D.: Stanford University)
Signal-processing algorithms for digital communications systems, digital subscriber line technology, space-time coding and signal processing, satellite communications (LEOs, GPS, Ka-Band), equalization of wireless and wireline channels and multicarrier modulation.
Farokh B. Bastani, Professor of computer science (Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley)
Software engineering (software reliability, formal methods), program transformation, self-stabilization and inherent fault tolerance.
Jorge A. Cobb, Associate professor of computer science (Ph.D.: University of Texas at Austin)
Computer networking and quality of service in computer networks.
Charles P. Bernardin, Senior lecturer electrical engineering (Ph.D.: Johns Hopkins University)
Applying mathematics and digital analysis to a variety of Signal Processing and Communications disciplines such as Wireless technologies (e.g., UMTS and GPRS, WLAN), Acoustics, Speech, Music, Image Processing, RADAR and biomedical engineering.
Cyrus Cantrell, Associate dean for academic affairs and professor of electrical engineering
(Ph.D.: Princeton University)
Photonics, including Raman amplification in fibers, nonlinear fiber optics, optical switching and routing; computational electromagnetics with applications to very-high-speed deep-submicron VLSI circuits.
Andras Farago, Professor of computer science (Ph.D., Technical University of Budapest)
Design and analysis of communication networks and protocols. Models, analysis/synthesis methods and algorithms in telecommunications.
Andrea Fumagalli, Professor of electrical engineering (Ph.D.: Politecnico di Torino)
All-optical network architectures and protocols, photonic slot routing, wavelength routing and protection switching, optical and high-speed network simulators and performance analysis of computer networks.
Jason Jue, Associate professor of computer science (Ph.D.: University of California, Davis)
High-speed communication networks with an emphasis on the design and performance evaluation of architectures and protocols for wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) optical networks.
Muhammad Kalam, Senior lecturer in electrical engineering (Ph.D.: University of Kentucky, Lexington)
Enterprise network infrastructure, VoIP and next-generation networking technologies.
Latifur Khan, Associate professor of electrical engineering (Ph.D.: University of Southern California)
Multimedia information management, data mining, intrusion detection and database systems.
Philip Loizou, Professor of electrical engineering (Ph.D.: Arizona State University)
Digital and adaptive signal processing, spectrum estimation, fixed-point implementation of DSP algorithms, nonlinear signal analysis and speech-processing algorithms to assist people with hearing impairment.
Duncan L. MacFarlane, Associate dean for interdisciplinary programs and professor of electrical engineering (Ph.D.: Portland State University)
Micro-optics, ultrafast lasers, photonic integrated filters, nonlinear optics, semiconductor lasers, ellipsometry and advanced displays.
Hlaing Minn, Associate professor of electrical engineering (Ph.D.: University of Victoria)
Wireless communications, digital communications and digital signal processing.
Neeraj Mittal, Assistant professor of computer science (Ph.D.: UT Austin)
Distributed computing, distributed objects, mobile computing, networking and security.
Won Namgoong, Associate professor of electrical engineering (Ph.D.: Stanford University)
OFDM radio systems; ultra-wideband radio circuits and systems; non-linear and time-varying systems; millimeter wave circuits and systems; cognitive radio circuits and systems.
Aria Nosratinia, Professor of electrical engineering (Ph.D.: University of Illinois)
Signal processing, coding and information theory; wireless communication; DSP, image and video processing; multimedia wireless communications.
William Pervin, Professor of electrical engineering (Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh)
Digital signal processing, programming languages, and software and computer engineering.
B. Prabhakaran, Associate professor of computer science (Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Technology)
Synchronization models for multimedia authoring and presentation; resource management in terms of network quality of service, disk usage and buffer resources in multimedia environments based on synchronization models; collaborative multimedia authoring.
Ravi Prakash, Associate professor of computer science (Ph.D.: Ohio State University)
Mobile computing (location management, mobile-TCP, cell planning, channel allocation), checkpointing and recovery, causally and totally ordered message delivery, clocks and dependency Tracking.
Balaji Raghavachari, Professor of computer science (Ph.D.: Pennsylvania State University)
Design and analysis of algorithms, graphs, approximation algorithms, combinatorial optimization, network design, telecommunications networks, vehicle routing and traversal problems.
P.K. Rajasekaran, Senior lecturer in electrical engineering
M. Saquib, Associate professor of electrical engineering (Ph.D.: Rutgers University)
Various aspects of wireless data transmission – including system modeling and performance, signal processing and radio resource management – with an emphasis on open-access techniques for spectrum sharing. Interests also include designing signal-processing techniques for low-cost radar and medical applications.
Kamil Sarac, Assistant professor of computer science (Ph.D.: University of California Santa Barbara)
Networked group communication (including multicast and anycast services, overlay networks and peer-to-peer networking) and network monitoring and management.
Marco Tacca, Senior lecturer in electrical engineering
Lakshman S. Tamil, Professor of electrical engineering (Ph.D.: University of Rhode Island)
Optical transmission, switching and routing, nanophotonics, wireless sensor networks, and aging services technologies.
Murat Torlak, Associate professor of electrical engineering (Ph.D.: University of Texas at Austin)
Design and implementation of antenna array methods for wireless communications, real-time DSP algorithms, statistical signal processing, equalization for mobile communications, multiuser communications and wireless channel propagation modeling.
S. Venkatesan, Associate professor of computer science (Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh)
Fault tolerance, distributed algorithms, telecommunications networks and mobile computing.
Yuke Wang, Associate professor of computer science (Ph.D.: University of Saskatchewan)
High-speed and low-power algorithms and VLSI design, both custom and computer-aided design in areas of computer arithmetic, transformation, error correction and security, for applications such as wireless LAN, home network, 3G wireless communication, Internet appliances and multimedia.
W. Eric Wong, Associate professor of computer science (Ph.D.: Purdue University)
Software engineering (testing, reliability, metrics, program comprehension) and telecommunications networks (performance analysis and quality of service).
I-Ling Yen, Professor of computer science (Ph.D.: University of Houston)
Distributed and parallel operating systems, load balancing, atomic transactions and consensus protocols, mutual, exclusion, fault tolerance for parallel and distributed systems, fault-tolerant Web server, inherent fault tolerance, off-the-shelf fault-tolerance, multimedia systems and tools, networking, object-oriented real-time systems, self-stabilizing systems, assessment methods for multiagent systems.
S.Q. Zheng, Professor of computer science (Ph.D.: University of California Santa Barbara)
Algorithms and data structures, computer architectures, hardware/software co-design, optical interconnects, optimization, parallel and distributed processing, telecommunications and networks, VLSI.
