Timothy Havens

Contact

thavens@mtu.edu
906-487-3115
GLRC 307

Director, Great Lakes Research Center
Director, Institute of Computing and Cybersystems
William and Gloria Jackson Professor

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2010
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, 2000
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, 1999

Biography

Tim Havens received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri. Prior to joining Michigan Tech, he was an NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow at Michigan State University. Before his Ph.D. work, he was an Associate Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Dr. Havens has been recognized for both his teaching and research accomplishments, having been awarded the 2014-15 Professor of the Year by the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu, Beta Gamma Chapter, and Best Paper Awards at FUZZ-IEEE 2012 and IEEE SMC 2011. His research has been funded by DARPA, GLOS, USGS, U.S. Navy, Office of Naval Research, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Ford Motor Company, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Akela Inc., U.S. Army, Army Research Office, Michigan Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation, and National Science Foundation.

Links of Interest

Faculty Webpage

Areas of Interest

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Signal and Image Processing
Sensor and Data Fusion
Heterogeneous Data Mining

Recent Funding

Operation and Maintenance: High Frequency Radar in the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan – Year V ($70,000), GLOS, 2023-2024, PI
Generative modeling of multispectral satellite imagery – STTR Phase I ($60,006), ARiA / DTRA, 2023, PI
Heating management system for vessels in dock in cold weather ports ($17,500), Fincantieri Marinette Marine, 2023-2024, PI
CR-02: Robust Algorithms for Complex Autonomous Robot Systems ($419,633), US Navy, 2023-2026, PI
SAR Signature Management ($1,000,000), US Army ERDC, 2023-2028, PI
Fiddler – Rapid SAR Signature Generation ($1,180,762), Signature Research Inc. / DARPA, 2022-2027, PI
Enabling the Future of Great Lakes Biological Resource Assessment ($1,356,822), USGS, 2022-2027, PI.
Operation and Maintenance: High Frequency Radar in the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan – Year IV ($70,000), GLOS, 2022-2023, PI
Machine Learning for Automated Detection of Shipwreck Sites from Large Area Robotic Surveys ($119,136), NOAA, 2021-2023, PI
SCC-CIVIC-FA Track B: Helping Rural Counties to Enhance Flooding and Coastal Disaster Resilience and Adaptation ($88,105/$1,119,877), NSF, 2021-2022, Co-PI (PI: Thomas Oommen)
Algorithm Performance Evaluation with Low Sample Size ($49,995), Signature Research Inc. / NGA, 2021-2022, PI
Redesign and Implementation of USDS-Proxy Language – Phase II+Option ($53,091/$509,997), ARiA / US Navy, 2021-2023, Co-PI (PI: Charles Wallace)