Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated Faculty	Areas of Interest
Murat Alanyali Associate Professor (ECE, SE)	Stochastic systems, performance analysis, optimization, game theory and dynamic resource sharing in communication networks and distributed systems.
Sean Andersson Assistant Professor (ME, SE)	Robotics, control theory, scanning probe microscopy, symbolic-based control.
John Baillieul Professor (ME, ECE, SE)	Robotics, control of mechanical systems, mechatronics information based control, networked control systems and analysis of risk in the physical world. Research Interest: Framework for Advanced Sustainable Building Design
Calin Belta Associate Professor (ME, SE)	Robotics, control systems, hybrid systems, formal methods, biological networks.
Azer Bestavros Professor (CS, SE)	Cloud computing; scalable internet protocols and services; network security; and real-time, embedded and cyber-physical systems.
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Michael Caramanis Professor (ME, SE)	Mathematical programming, control of stochastic systems, liberalization of electricity markets and design of market rules. Research Interest: Framework for Advanced Sustainable Building Design
Jeffrey Carruthers Associate Professor (ECE) Associate Chair, ECE	Digital communications theory , wireless networks, and wireless, optical and mobile communications.
Luis Carvalho Assistant Professor (Math/Stat)	Bayesian statistics, computational biology, statistical inference
Christos Cassandras Professor (ECE, SE) Division Head (SE)	Discrete event and hybrid systems, stochastic and distributed optimization, simulation, manufacturing systems, communication and sensor networks, and cooperative control.
David Castañón Professor (ECE, SE) CISE Co-Director	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.
Ayse Kivilcim Coskun Assistant Professor (ECE)	Temperature and energy management, green computing, 3D stacked architectures, reliability analysis and optimization, computer architecture, embedded systems, software. Research Interest: Green Computing
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Mark Crovella Professor (CS, SE)	Performance evaluation, focusing on parallel and networked computer systems, detection and understanding anomalies in IP networks, efficient network monitoring, and network security.
Pierre Dupont Professor (ME, SE)	Medical applications of robotics, image guidance of minimally invasive surgery, home health monitoring.
Michael Gevelber Associate Professor (ME, SE)	Improving material processing through process modeling, sensor development, system and control design, and experimental verification. Real-time control projects include: plasma spray, CVD, e-beam deposition of optical coatings, and bulk crystal growth. Research Interests: Achieving Energy Efficiency in Existing BuildingsGreen Sticker for Housing
Prakash Ishwar Associate Professor (ECE, SE)	Statistical signal processing and machine learning, network information theory and communications, information security, visual information analysis and processing.
Clement Karl Professor (ECE, SE)	Statistical signal and image processing, geometric-based estimation, medical signal and image processing.
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Eric Kolaczyk Professor (Math/Stat, SE)	Statistical modeling of temporal, spatial, and network-indexed data; wavelets and multiscale methods; applications in bioinformatics, computer science, and geography.
Janusz Konrad Professor (ECE)	Visual sensor networks, image and video processing, stereoscopic and 3-D imaging, digital signal processing.
Nalin Kulatilaka Professor (Management, Finance, SMG) Co-Director (SNL)	Contract design, financing and new business models for clean technology adoption. Research Interests: New Business Models for Clean Energy Green Sticker for Housing
Henry Lam Assistant Professor (Math/Stat)	Stochastic simulation, rare-event analysis, diffusion approximation; applications to queueing, operations management, insurance and financial modeling, distributed computing
Lev Levitin Distinguished Professor (ECE, SE)	Information theory; physics of communication and computing; complex and organized systems; quantum theory of measurement; reliable communication and computing; bioinfomatics.
Thomas Little Professor (ECE, SE) Associate Director (Smart Lightin ERC)	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. Research Interests: Smart Light prototype Smart Lighting for Neighborhood & Building Management
Benjamin Lubin Assistant Professor (SMG-IS)	Multi-agent systems, game theory, mechanism design, electronic commerce, combinational optimization, preference elicitation and representation, distributed systems, grid computing.
Abraham Matta Professor (CS, SE)	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.
Bobak Nazer Assistant Professor (ECE, SE)	Information theory, wireless communication, communication networks, distributed signal processing, and reliable computation over networks.
Ioannis Paschalidis Professor (ECE, SE) CISE Co-Director	Systems and control, networking, applied probability, optimization, operations research, computational biology, and bioinformatics. Recent applications of interest include: communication and sensor networks, protein docking, logistics, cyber-security, robotics, the smart-grid, and finance.
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Erol Peköz Professor (SMG-OM, SE)	Applied probability, stochastic processes, queuing theory, rare events, Monte-Carlo simulation, risk management, statistics, and operations management
James Perkins Associate Professor (ME, SE)	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 Professor (ECE, SE)	Machine learning, video analytics, statistical signal processing, information and control theory
Mac Schwager Assistant Professor (ME)	Robotics; nonlinear and adaptive control; cooperative control, estimation, and inference in multi-robot systems; information theoretic active sensing and estimation; system identification of multi-agent biological and robotic systems.
David Starobinski Professor (ECE, SE)	Modeling and performance analysis of communication, wireless networking, network economics cyber-security.
Ari Trachtenberg Associate Professor (ECE, SE)	Error control codes (LDPC, rateless, identifying), networks (sensor, mobile, wired), algorithms and data structures, security; data synchronization, location detection in harsh environments.
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Sandor Vajda Professor (BME, SE)	Scientific computing, primarily optimization; computational chemistry and biology, including protein and peptide structure determination, protein engineering, and drug design.
Pirooz Vakili Associate Professor (ME, SE)	Monte Carlo simulation and optimization, stochastic networks, computational finance, risk management, bioinformatics.
Hua Wang Associate Professor (ME, SE) Associate Division Head (SE)	Control of nonlinear phenomena, intelligent systems and control, complex networks, cooperative control, robotics, and applications in biomedical, energy and aerospace systems.
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