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Faculty

Faculty Member		Research
	Sean Andersson Assistant Professor PhD, University of Maryland	Robotics, control theory, scanning probe microscopy, symbolic-based control.
	John Baillieul Professor PhD, Harvard University	Robotics, control of mechanical systems, mechatronics information based control, networked control systems and analysis of risk in the physical world.
	Calin Belta Assistant Professor PhD, University of Pennsylvania	Robotics, Hybrid systems, Gene and metabolic networks.
	Michael Caramanis Professor PhD, Harvard University	Mathematical programming, control of stochastic systems, liberalization of electricity markets and design of market rules.
	Christos Cassandras Professor, Division Head PhD, Harvard University	Discrete event and hybrid systems, stochastic optimization, simulation, manufacturing systems, communication and sensor networks, and command-control systems.
	David Castañon Professor PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Systems theory, stochastic control, automated decision systems for dynamic resource scheduling, pattern recognition, estimation, image understanding, multi-object tracking, combinatorial optimization, parallel and distributed computation.
	Pierre Dupont Professor PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Robotics, Image guidance of minimally invasive surgery.
	J.Q. Hu Associate Professor PhD, Harvard University	Supply chain management, financial decision problems, fluid models for multiclass discrete event dynamic systems, design and performance analysis of WDM optical networks, topology formulation for wireless networks .
	Ioannis Paschalidis Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Systems and Control, Networking, Applied Probability, Optimization, Operations Research, Computational biology, and Bioinformatics. Specifics applications of interest include: communication and sensor networks, protein docking, manufacturing systems, and supply chains.
	James Perkins Associate Professor PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Real-time scheduling and control of manufacturing systems, supply chain management, resource pricing and congestion control in communications networks, scheduling human resources in transportation systems and in product development.
	Venkatesh Saligrama Associate Professor PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Systems theory, information and control, statistical signal processing.
	David Starobinski Associate Professor PhD, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology	Performance evaluation of communication networks, wireless spectrum management, network monitoring, advanced networking for scientific applications.
	Pirooz Vakili Associate Professor Associate Division Head PhD, Harvard University	Monte Carlo simulation and optimization, stochastic networks, computational finance, risk management, bioinformatics.
	Hua Wang Associate Professor PhD, University of Maryland	Control of nonlinear phenomena and bifurcations.

Affiliated Faculty

Faculty Member		Research
	Murat Alanyali Assistant Professor PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Stochastic systems, performance analysis, optimization, game theory and dynamic resource sharing in communication networks and distributed systems.
	Azer Bestavros Professor PhD, Harvard University	Scalable internet protocols and systems, networking services, and real-time communication and computation systems.
	James Collins Professor DPhil, University of Oxford (England)	Synthetic biology; systems biology; noise-enhanced sensorimotor function
	Mark Crovella Professor PhD, University of Rochester	Performance Evaluation, focused on parallel and networked computer systems, detecting and understanding anomalies in IP networks, efficient network monitoring, network security.
	Michael Gevelber Associate Professor PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Improving materials process capabilities using controls based approach: modelling, sensor development, system and control design, experimental verification; plasma spray, bulk crystal growth, CVD, ebeam deposition of optical coatings; electrospinning of nanofibers.
	Prakash Ishwar Assistant Professor PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Signal processing, information theory, image and video coding and processing, decision theory, multi-resolution signal analysis, and optimization theory with applications to sensor networks, multimedia-over-wireless, and information security.
	Clement Karl Professor PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Statistical signal and image processing, geometric-based estimation, medical signal and image processing.
	Eric Kolaczyk Associate Professor PhD, Stanford University	Statistical modeling of instrumental data in temporal, spatial, and network-indexed contexts.
	Thomas Little Professor PhD, Syracuse University	Wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networking and computing, vehicular networking, distributed systems, multimedia streaming and storage, video-on-demand, ecological applications, opportunistic networking, ambient computing.
	Abraham Matta Associate Professor PhD, University of Maryland at College Park	Transport and routing protocols for the Internet and wireless networks; feedback-based control design and analysis; architectures for protocol design and large-scale traffic management; modeling and performance evaluation.
	Erol Peköz Associate Professor PhD, University of California Berkeley	Control over health care resource allocation is best achieved through the demand side or through regulatory controls on the supply side.
	Ari Trachtenberg Associate Professor PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Error control codes (LDPC, rateless, identifying), networks (sensor, mobile, wired), algorithms and data structures, security; data synchronization, location detection in harsh environments.
	Sandor Vajda Professor PhD, Hungarian Academy of Science (Hungary)	Scientific computing, primarily optimization; computational chemistry and biology, including protein and peptide structure determination, protein engineering, and drug design.

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