Faculty

We have an outstanding group of world-renowned faculty who are leaders in their respective research domains. IDS faculty have served as IEEE Society Presidents, as Editors-in-Chief, Senior Area Editors and Associate Editors of top IEEE journals, and as General and Technical Chairs of premier conferences,  symposiums, and workshops in various areas.  They have recognized as IEEE Fellows, and have been elected to the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, to the IEEE Society Board of Governors, and various  IEEE technical committees. All faculty who were eligible to participate have won the NSF CAREER  award.

Kayhan Batmanghelich, Assistant Professor Medical Vision (Medical Image Analysis) Machine Learning Bioinformatics

Jeffrey Carruthers, Associate Professor Photonic Wireless Communication Mobile and Wireless Networks Engineering Education

Christos Cassandras, Professor Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems Stochastic Optimization Simulation Manufacturing Systems Communication and Sensor Networks Command-Control Systems

David  Castañón, Professor Stochastic Control Estimation, Optimization Image Understanding Parallel Computing

Ashok Cutkosky, Assistant Professor Machine Learning Optimization

Emiliano Dall’Anese, Associate Professor Data-driven optimization and control of physical and dynamical systems Safe online optimization of dynamical systems Modern power and energy systems Electrified transportation

Robert M. Gray, Research Professor Quantization Theory and Algorithms Information Theory Statistical Signal Processing Signal Compression and Classification

Vivek Goyal, Professor Computational Imaging Information Representation Statistical Signal Processing Quantization Human Decision Making and Perception

Prakash Ishwar, Professor Machine Learning, Statistical Signal Processing Network Information Theory Information-Theoretic Security Visual Information Analysis and Processing

W. Clem Karl, Professor and Chair Statistical Signal Processing Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Multidimensional and Multiscale Signal and Image Processing

Janusz Konrad, Professor Visual Sensor Networks Image and Video Processing Computer Vision Stereoscopic and 3-D Imaging Human-Computer Interfaces Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing

Brian Kulis, Associate Professor Machine Learning Statistics Computer Vision Optimization and Large-scale data analysis

Wenchao Li, Assistant Professor Dependable Human-in-the-Loop Systems Safe A.I. Computational Proof Methods Cyber-Physical Systems Design Automation

Thomas Little, Professor Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) Multimedia Computing Computer Networking Software Engineering Embedded Sensor Networks

Hamid Nawab, Professor Adaptively Invoked Signal Processing for Clinical, Physiological, and Auditory Applications Applied Artificial Intelligence Short-Time and Short-Space Signal Processing

Bobak Nazer, Associate Professor Information Theory and Communications Reliable Computation over Networks Distributed Signal Processing

Eshed Ohn-Bar, Assistant Professor Computer Vision Machine Learning Autonomous Systems Assistive Technologies

Alex Olshevsky, Assistant Professor Control Theory Optimization Network Science

Yannis Paschalidis, Professor Systems and Control, Networking Applied Probability, Optimization, Operations Research Computational Biology Communication and Sensor Networks Protein Docking

Venkatesh Saligrama, Professor Machine Learning Video Analysis Statistical Signal Processing Information and Control Theory Network Science

David Starobinski, Professor Modeling and Performance Analysis of Communication Networks Wireless Networking and Software Defined Radios Network Economics Cybersecurity

Lei Tian, Assistant Professor Computational Imaging and Sensing Compressive Imaging Gigapixel 3D Microscopy Phase Retrieval, Imaging through Complex Media X-ray Phase Imaging Applications: Biomedical Imaging, Metrology, Security, Defense

Ari Trachtenberg, Professor Error Correcting Codes Security Data Synchronization (especially for PDAs and mobile networks) Sensor-Based Location Detection Algorithms

Archana Venkataraman, Associate Professor Clinical Neuroscience Network Modeling Artificial Intelligence

Affiliated Faculty

Michael Mendillo, Professor Department of Astronomy Space Physics Solar-Terrestrial Relations Active Experiments in Space Plasmas Planetary Astronomy