Affiliated Faculty

Our faculty are internationally renowned scholars and researchers with abundant financial support from both industry and government sources.

Academic Unit Abbreviations

College of Engineering (ENG)	College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)
BME – Biomedical Engineering	CS – Computer Science
ECE – Electrical and Computer Engineering	Math – Mathematics and Statistics
ME – Mechanical Engineering	School of Management (SMG)
SE – Systems Engineering	OM – Operations Management

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	Murat Alanyali	Stochastic systems, performance analysis, optimization, game theory and dynamic resource sharing in communication networks and distributed systems
	Assistant Professor ECE and SE
	Sean Andersson	Robotics, control theory, scanning probe microscopy, symbolic-based control
	Assistant Professor ME and SE
	John Baillieul	Robotics, control of mechanical systems, mechatronics information based control, networked control systems and analysis of risk in the physical world
	Professor ME and SE
	Calin Belta	Robotics, hybrid systems, gene and metabolic networks
	Assistant Professor ME and SE
	Azer Bestavros	Scalable internet protocols and systems, application of game theory to the design of systems and networks; resource colocation and management for cloud computing; virtualization and programming support for cyber-physical systems; compositional analysis and verification of complex systems
	Professor CS and SE
	Michael Caramanis	Mathematical programming, control of stochastic systems, liberalization of electricity markets and design of market rules
	Professor ME and SE
	Jeffrey Carruthers	Digital communications theory, wireless networks, and wireless, optical, and mobile communications
	Associate Professor ECE
	Christos Cassandras	Discrete event and hybrid systems, stochastic optimization, simulation, manufacturing systems, communication and sensor networks, and command-control systems
	Professor ECE Division Head, SE
	David Castañón	Systems theory, stochastic control, automated decision systems for dynamic resource scheduling, pattern recognition, estimation, image understanding, multiobject tracking, combinatorial optimization, parallel and distributed computation
	Professor ECE and SE CISE Co-Director
	Mark Crovella	Performance evaluation, focusing on parallel and networked computer systems, detecting and understanding anomalies in IP networks, efficient network monitoring, and network security.
	Professor CS and SE
	Pierre Dupont	Robotics, image guidance of minimally invasive surgery.
	Professor ME and SE
	Michael Gevelber	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
	Associate Professor ME
	J.Q. Hu	Supply chain management, financial decision problems, fluid models for multiclass discrete event dynamic systems, design and performance analysis of WDM optical networks, topology formation for wireless networks
	Associate Professor ME and SE
	Prakash Ishwar	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
	Assistant Professor ECE and SE
	Clement Karl	Statistical signal and image processing, geometric-based estimation, medical signal and image processing
	Professor ECE, BME and SE
	Eric Kolaczyk	Statistical modeling of temporal, spatial, and network-indexed contexts
	Professor CAS-Math/Statistics and SE
	Lev Levitin	Information theory; physics of communication and computing; complex and organized systems; quantum theory of measurement; reliable communication and computing; bioinformatics
	Professor ECE
	Thomas Little	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
	Professor, Assoc Chair ECE and SE
	Abraham Matta	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
	Associate Professor CS and SE
	Ioannis Paschalidis	Systems and control, networking, applied probability, optimization, operations research, computational biology, and bioinformatics. Specific applications of interest include: communication and sensor networks, protein docking, manufacturing systems, and supply chains
	Professor ECE and SE CISE Co-Director
	Erol Peköz	Applied probability, stochastic processes, queueing theory, rare events, Monte Carlo simulation, risk management, statistics, and operations management
	Associate Professor SMG-OM and SE
	James Perkins	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
	Associate Professor ME and SE
	Venkatesh Saligrama	Systems theory, information and control, statistical signal processing
	Associate Professor ECE and SE
	David Starobinski	Performance evaluation of communication networks, wireless spectrum management, networking monitoring, advance networking for scientific applications
	Associate Professor ECE and SE
	Ari Trachtenberg	Error control codes (LDPC, rateless, identifying), networks (sensor, mobile, wired), algorithms and data structures, security; applications in data synchronization in mobile networks and sensor-based location detection in harsh environments
	Associate Professor ECE and SE
	Sandor Vajda	Scientific computing, primarily optimization; computational chemistry and biology, including protein and peptide structure determination, protein engineering, and drug design.
	Professor BME and SE
	Pirooz Vakili	Monte Carlo simulation and optimization, stochastic networks, computational finance, risk management and bioinformatics
	Associate Professor ME Assoc. Division Head, SE
	Hua Wang	Control of nonlinear phenomena and bifurcations
	Associate Professor ME and SE