Members

Areas of Interest

• Neuromorphic Engineering/Computing
• Energy-efficient Neuromorphic Electronic Circuit Design for Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging Nanoscale Device Design
• Spiking Neural Networks

Teaching Interests

• Linux administration
• Ethics and technology
• Microsoft administration
• Wireless systems
• Scripting
• Infrastructure services
• Cybersecurity

Research Interests

• Robotics, Multi-robot systems
• Coordination of Heterogeneous Robot Systems
• Vehicle Routing Problems
• Multi-robot System Control and Optimization
• Autonomous Navigation
• Unmanned Vehicles
• Operational Research for Autonomous Vehicles

Research Interests

• Microscale Heat Transfer
• Microscale Physics of Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer
• Interfacial Transport Phenomena at Extreme Temperatures and Pressures
• Multiphase Systems under Harsh Operating Conditions
• HVAC&R Systems
• Desalination Systems
• Micro- and Nano-engineered Materials
• Energy Conversion and Storage Devices

Areas of Interest

• Atmospheric optics
• Statistical optics
• Quantum optics
• Image and Signal Processing
• Autonomous vehicles and vehicular networks
• Industrial automation and controls

Area of Expertise

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Data Mining and Data Science
• Applications of AI and ML to Energy (microgrids, power systems), Health, and other domains

Research Interests

• Impact of IS/IT change on end users
• Management of IS/IT workers
• Computer Anxiety and Computer Self-Efficacy
• Mentoring using Information Communication Technology (ICT)
• Various de facto Standards (i.e. Information Technology Infrastructure Library – ITIL)

Areas of Expertise

• Cybersecurity
• Computer Network
• Computing Education

Teaching Interests

• Mine Planning and Design
• Geostatistics and Mineral Resource Estimation
• Systems Engineering
• Reliability and Safety Engineering
• Blasting and Fragmentation

Areas of Expertise

• Mobile Device Security
• Cloud Computing Security
• Named Data Networking Security
• Big Data Security
• Blockchain

Research Interests

• Modeling and control of hybrid electric vehicles
• EV-smart grid integration
• Distributed monitoring and control
• Battery control for HEV and energy storage systems
• IC engine management systems
• Sensor information fusion

Areas of Interest

• Legged Locomotion 
• Applied Control
• Rehabilitation Robotics
• Collaborative Robots
• Learning-based Control

Research Interests

• Grid integration under high penetrations of wind and solar energy
• Drought and heat impacts on power systems
• Thermal power plant modeling
• Hybrid power plant value propositions
• Electricity load modeling

Area of Expertise

• Software Engineering
• Automated Analysis of Fault-Tolerance
• Formal Methods

Research Expertise

• Bayesian Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification
• Scientific Machine Learning
• Computational Solid Mechanics
• Materials Modeling
• Biomedical Imaging and Inverse Problems

Research Interests

• Parallel computing and visualization
• Design and optimization of supercomputing platform
• Design of computational work flows
• Technological tools for research and teaching
• Interaction of biological matter with nanomaterials
• Electronic structure calculations of nanoclusters

Research Interests

• Mechanobiology
• Traction force by a living cell
• Cell adhesion and migration
• Image data modeling
• Machine learning
• BioMEMS

Research Areas

• Cardiovascular Biomechanics
• Cardiovascular Biofluids
• Fluid Mechanics
• Medical Devices
• Patient-Specific Modeling

Specialties

• Corporate/Industry Sponsorship
• Program Management

Areas of Interest

• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
• Signal and Image Processing
• Sensor and Data Fusion
• Heterogeneous Data Mining
• Explosive Hazard Detection

Teaching Interests

• Cybersecurity
• Medical/Health Informatics
• Data Science
• Network Engineering

Specialties

• Visual Studies
• Algorithmic Culture
• Photography
• Critical Theory

Research Interests

• Cultural foundations of cognition 
•  Media theory and criticism
• Lifespan development theory
• STEM education

Research Interests

• Technology Adoption
• Online Learning
• Service Learning
• First-year Engineering
• Sustainability

Research Interests

• Bioinformatics
• Data Science
• Machine Learning/Deep Learning
• High-performance Computing

Area of Expertise

• Computer Graphics
• Virtual Environments
• Head-mounted displays
• Human Perception

Research Focus

• Machine Learning

• Cybersecurity

Research Interests

• Intelligent infrastructure systems enabled by computing (AI, hybrid computing), sensing (acoustic, electromagnetic), and control (distributed systems with microcontrollers) for smart cities and safer, more (energy) efficient, and more resilient built environments
• Enhancing system resilience with artificial intelligence (deep and reinforcement learning), physics (multiphysics and inverse analysis), and advanced data analytics (with transportation, meteorological, and GIS data)
• Multiphysics and applications: thermohydromechanics (seasonal and climatic effects, material/environment processes, energy from gas hydrates), buoyance-driven flow (surface water geothermal), electromagnetics (sensing and sensors, energy harvesting), and soil-structure-fluid interaction (erosion and infrastructure protection)
• Advanced soil mechanics and numerical simulation techniques: stress formulation, soil wetting, adsorption, non-isothermal soil mechanics, phase change, and soil behavior under extreme conditions; FEM, FDM, FVM, XFEM, molecular dynamics, SPH, Monte Carlo, and self-made methods.

Area of Expertise

• Distributed Systems
• Operating Systems
• Security
• Computer Science Education

Research Interests

• Computational Modeling
• Recognitional Decision Making
• Perceptual and Memory Processes
• Representations of Cultural Knowledge

Research and Teaching Interests

• Data Structures
• Algorithms

Research Interests

• Advanced manufacturing
• Industry 4.0
• Human-robot-machine interaction
• Physics-based/data-driven modeling
• Manufacturing process monitoring
• Industrial automation

Areas of Interest

• Vehicular Communications: inter-vehicle (VANETs, V2X) and intra-vehicle (CAN, Automotive Ethernet, LIN, FlexRay, MOST)
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Communication Networks and Systems
• Wireless Communications
• Network Security
• Signal Processing

Area of Expertise

• Artificial Intelligence
• Automated Planning and Scheduling
• Computer Science Education
• Student Persistence in STEM

Area of Expertise

• Computer Architecture
• Programming Languages
• Simulation

Areas of Expertise

• Scientific computing
• Numerical PDEs
• Parallel Computing
• Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra
• Dimension Reduction

Research Interests

• Liquefaction susceptibility evaluation at local and regional scales using in-situ measurements and remote sensing observations
• Estimating liquefaction induced damage such as lateral spread displacement
• Transportation Geotechniques
• Documenting earthquake induced damages, especially liquefaction using aerial/satellite images that are sensitive to surficial moisture
• Geotechnical asset monitoring
• Machine Learning

Area of Expertise

• Mobile App Design and Usability
• Software Development and Processes
• Computer Science Education

Research Interests

• Image Processing;
• Autonomous Vehicles Perception;
• Mobile Robot Applications;  
• Mechatronics;
• Applied Machine Learning.

Areas of Interest

• Optics
• Image reconstruction and processing
• Pattern recognition
• Adaptive and atmospheric optics

Teaching Interests

• Optics
• Electrical machinery
• Power systems
• Electronic devices and circuits
• Real-time robotics systems
• Programmable logic controllers

Research Interests

• Cybersecurity
• Healthcare Information Systems
• Information privacy

Research Interests

• Basic and applied attention
• Models of attention
• Human performance in aviation
• Display design
• Tech adoption
• Technology training

Research Interests

• Factors enhancing student engagement in their own learning
• Systemic approaches to distance learning that enhance active learning, and 
• Applications of Design Thinking as an exemplar of client-centered design with application to Problem/Project-based learning

Research Interests

• Cognitive Psychology

• Educational Research and Assessment

• Project Evaluation

• Culture Difference

• Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis

• Statistical Analysis

• R Programming Language

Areas of Research Interest

Discipline: Power systems engineering

• Power grid cybersecurity
• Smart home and robotic technologies
• Attack/defense combinatorics

Research Interests

• Cognitive Aging
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Motor Learning
• Sensorimotor Control
• Memory
• Cognitive Control

Area of Expertise

• Software Engineering
• Computer Science Education
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Research Interests

• Decision Making
• Problem Solving
• Learning and Video Games for STEM
• CSCW
• Structured Analytic Techniques

Area of Expertise

• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Accessible computing
• Speech and Language Processing
• Mobile Interfaces
• Crowdsourcing

Research Interests

• Information security behavior
• Power and control
• Individual and organizational deviance
• Business applications for AI and machine learning

Areas of Expertise

• software usability & accessibility
• gerontechnology
• smart & connected communities
• communication in software development
• agile development methods
• applied formal methods
• computing ethics
• sustainable computing
• computer science & software engineering education

Research Interests

• Design for reliability and system resilience
• Prognostics and health management
• Design of engineered material systems
• Uncertainty management

Areas of Interest

• Communications
• Signal processing
• Communication networks
• Network security
• Emphasis on underwater acoustic applications

Area of Expertise

• Optimizing Compilers
• High Performance Architectures
• Cloud Computing
• Virtualization

Areas of Expertise

• Identification of genes regulating complex traits via systems biology approaches
• Gene expression data analysis
• Gene network construction and decomposition
• Developing software for mining large-scale biological data
• Genomics of wood formation

Areas of Expertise

• Numerical PDE, Scientific computing
• Computational modeling of Nafion material
• Mathematical image processing, inverse problems, nonlinear optics

Research Interests

• Network Security
• Hardware Security
• Cyber-Physical System Security
• Deep Learning

BME Research Areas

• Biosensors and Biomedical Instrumentation
• Biomedical Optics and Ultrasound

Areas of Expertise  

• Machine Learning
• Security and Privacy
• Cloud Computing
   

Areas of Expertise

• Computer Architecture
• Operating System
• System Optimization of Big Data Process

Areas of Expertise

• Statistical Genetics and Genomics
• Bioinformatics
• Biostatistics
• Applied Statistics

Research Interests

• Data-driven optimization and control models for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs)
• Big traffic data analytics using machine learning
• Mobile and crowd sensing of dynamic traffic systems
• Dynamic network equilibrium and optimization
• Modeling and simulation of large-scale complex systems
• Freight logistics and supply chain systems
• Impact of plug-in electric vehicles to smart grid and transportation network systems
• Interdependency and resiliency of large-scale networked infrastructure systems
• Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs)
• Smart Cities
• Cyber-Physical Systems

Areas of Interest

• Wireless Communications (e.g., RIS, mmWave, CPS, industrial-IoT)
• Big Data (e.g., machine learning, smart transportation, eHealth)
• Cybersecurity and Privacy (e.g., IoT/CPS, learning pipeline, blockchain)

Areas of Expertise

• Image Processing and Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Medical Image Analysis
• Health Informatics
• Text Mining 

Research Expertise

• Bayesian Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification
• Scientific Machine Learning
• Computational Solid Mechanics
• Materials Modeling
• Biomedical Imaging and Inverse Problems

Research Interests

• Parallel computing and visualization
• Design and optimization of supercomputing platform
• Design of computational work flows
• Technological tools for research and teaching
• Interaction of biological matter with nanomaterials
• Electronic structure calculations of nanoclusters

Research Interests

• Mechanobiology
• Traction force by a living cell
• Cell adhesion and migration
• Image data modeling
• Machine learning
• BioMEMS

Research Areas

• Cardiovascular Biomechanics
• Cardiovascular Biofluids
• Fluid Mechanics
• Medical Devices
• Patient-Specific Modeling

Teaching Interests

• Cybersecurity
• Medical/Health Informatics
• Data Science
• Network Engineering

Research Interests

• Bioinformatics
• Data Science
• Machine Learning/Deep Learning
• High-performance Computing

Areas of Expertise

• Identification of genes regulating complex traits via systems biology approaches
• Gene expression data analysis
• Gene network construction and decomposition
• Developing software for mining large-scale biological data
• Genomics of wood formation

Areas of Expertise

• Numerical PDE, Scientific computing
• Computational modeling of Nafion material
• Mathematical image processing, inverse problems, nonlinear optics

BME Research Areas

• Biosensors and Biomedical Instrumentation
• Biomedical Optics and Ultrasound

Areas of Expertise

• Computer Architecture
• Operating System
• System Optimization of Big Data Process

Areas of Expertise

• Statistical Genetics and Genomics
• Bioinformatics
• Biostatistics
• Applied Statistics

Areas of Expertise

• Image Processing and Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Medical Image Analysis
• Health Informatics
• Text Mining 

Teaching Interests

• Linux administration
• Ethics and technology
• Microsoft administration
• Wireless systems
• Scripting
• Infrastructure services
• Cybersecurity

Area of Expertise

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Data Mining and Data Science
• Applications of AI and ML to Energy (microgrids, power systems), Health, and other domains

Areas of Expertise

• Mobile Device Security
• Cloud Computing Security
• Named Data Networking Security
• Big Data Security
• Blockchain

Specialties

• Corporate/Industry Sponsorship
• Program Management

Research Interests

• Cultural foundations of cognition 
•  Media theory and criticism
• Lifespan development theory
• STEM education

Research Interests

• Technology Adoption
• Online Learning
• Service Learning
• First-year Engineering
• Sustainability

Area of Expertise

• Distributed Systems
• Operating Systems
• Security
• Computer Science Education

Areas of Interest

• Vehicular Communications: inter-vehicle (VANETs, V2X) and intra-vehicle (CAN, Automotive Ethernet, LIN, FlexRay, MOST)
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Communication Networks and Systems
• Wireless Communications
• Network Security
• Signal Processing

Area of Expertise

• Artificial Intelligence
• Automated Planning and Scheduling
• Computer Science Education
• Student Persistence in STEM

Research Interests

• Factors enhancing student engagement in their own learning
• Systemic approaches to distance learning that enhance active learning, and 
• Applications of Design Thinking as an exemplar of client-centered design with application to Problem/Project-based learning

Research Interests

• Cognitive Psychology

• Educational Research and Assessment

• Project Evaluation

• Culture Difference

• Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis

• Statistical Analysis

• R Programming Language

Area of Expertise

• Software Engineering
• Computer Science Education
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Research Interests

• Information security behavior
• Power and control
• Individual and organizational deviance
• Business applications for AI and machine learning

Areas of Expertise

• software usability & accessibility
• gerontechnology
• smart & connected communities
• communication in software development
• agile development methods
• applied formal methods
• computing ethics
• sustainable computing
• computer science & software engineering education

Areas of Interest

• Neuromorphic Engineering/Computing
• Energy-efficient Neuromorphic Electronic Circuit Design for Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging Nanoscale Device Design
• Spiking Neural Networks

Research Interests

• Robotics, Multi-robot systems
• Coordination of Heterogeneous Robot Systems
• Vehicle Routing Problems
• Multi-robot System Control and Optimization
• Autonomous Navigation
• Unmanned Vehicles
• Operational Research for Autonomous Vehicles

Research Interests

• Microscale Heat Transfer
• Microscale Physics of Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer
• Interfacial Transport Phenomena at Extreme Temperatures and Pressures
• Multiphase Systems under Harsh Operating Conditions
• HVAC&R Systems
• Desalination Systems
• Micro- and Nano-engineered Materials
• Energy Conversion and Storage Devices

Areas of Expertise

• Mobile Device Security
• Cloud Computing Security
• Named Data Networking Security
• Big Data Security
• Blockchain

Research Interests

• Modeling and control of hybrid electric vehicles
• EV-smart grid integration
• Distributed monitoring and control
• Battery control for HEV and energy storage systems
• IC engine management systems
• Sensor information fusion

Areas of Interest

• Legged Locomotion 
• Applied Control
• Rehabilitation Robotics
• Collaborative Robots
• Learning-based Control

Research Interests

• Grid integration under high penetrations of wind and solar energy
• Drought and heat impacts on power systems
• Thermal power plant modeling
• Hybrid power plant value propositions
• Electricity load modeling

Research Interests

• Intelligent infrastructure systems enabled by computing (AI, hybrid computing), sensing (acoustic, electromagnetic), and control (distributed systems with microcontrollers) for smart cities and safer, more (energy) efficient, and more resilient built environments
• Enhancing system resilience with artificial intelligence (deep and reinforcement learning), physics (multiphysics and inverse analysis), and advanced data analytics (with transportation, meteorological, and GIS data)
• Multiphysics and applications: thermohydromechanics (seasonal and climatic effects, material/environment processes, energy from gas hydrates), buoyance-driven flow (surface water geothermal), electromagnetics (sensing and sensors, energy harvesting), and soil-structure-fluid interaction (erosion and infrastructure protection)
• Advanced soil mechanics and numerical simulation techniques: stress formulation, soil wetting, adsorption, non-isothermal soil mechanics, phase change, and soil behavior under extreme conditions; FEM, FDM, FVM, XFEM, molecular dynamics, SPH, Monte Carlo, and self-made methods.

Areas of Interest

• Communications
• Signal processing
• Communication networks
• Network security
• Emphasis on underwater acoustic applications

Research Interests

• Network Security
• Hardware Security
• Cyber-Physical System Security
• Deep Learning

Research Interests

• Data-driven optimization and control models for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs)
• Big traffic data analytics using machine learning
• Mobile and crowd sensing of dynamic traffic systems
• Dynamic network equilibrium and optimization
• Modeling and simulation of large-scale complex systems
• Freight logistics and supply chain systems
• Impact of plug-in electric vehicles to smart grid and transportation network systems
• Interdependency and resiliency of large-scale networked infrastructure systems
• Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs)
• Smart Cities
• Cyber-Physical Systems

Areas of Interest

• Wireless Communications (e.g., RIS, mmWave, CPS, industrial-IoT)
• Big Data (e.g., machine learning, smart transportation, eHealth)
• Cybersecurity and Privacy (e.g., IoT/CPS, learning pipeline, blockchain)

Areas of Expertise

• Cybersecurity
• Computer Network
• Computing Education

Areas of Expertise

• Mobile Device Security
• Cloud Computing Security
• Named Data Networking Security
• Big Data Security
• Blockchain

Research Focus

• Machine Learning

• Cybersecurity

Area of Expertise

• Distributed Systems
• Operating Systems
• Security
• Computer Science Education

Research Interests

• Cybersecurity
• Healthcare Information Systems
• Information privacy

Research Interests

• Information security behavior
• Power and control
• Individual and organizational deviance
• Business applications for AI and machine learning

Areas of Expertise  

• Machine Learning
• Security and Privacy
• Cloud Computing
   

Areas of Interest

• Atmospheric optics
• Statistical optics
• Quantum optics
• Image and Signal Processing
• Autonomous vehicles and vehicular networks
• Industrial automation and controls

Area of Expertise

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Data Mining and Data Science
• Applications of AI and ML to Energy (microgrids, power systems), Health, and other domains

Research Interests

• Impact of IS/IT change on end users
• Management of IS/IT workers
• Computer Anxiety and Computer Self-Efficacy
• Mentoring using Information Communication Technology (ICT)
• Various de facto Standards (i.e. Information Technology Infrastructure Library – ITIL)

Teaching Interests

• Mine Planning and Design
• Geostatistics and Mineral Resource Estimation
• Systems Engineering
• Reliability and Safety Engineering
• Blasting and Fragmentation

Areas of Interest

• Legged Locomotion 
• Applied Control
• Rehabilitation Robotics
• Collaborative Robots
• Learning-based Control

Research Expertise

• Bayesian Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification
• Scientific Machine Learning
• Computational Solid Mechanics
• Materials Modeling
• Biomedical Imaging and Inverse Problems

Research Interests

• Mechanobiology
• Traction force by a living cell
• Cell adhesion and migration
• Image data modeling
• Machine learning
• BioMEMS

Specialties

• Visual Studies
• Algorithmic Culture
• Photography
• Critical Theory

Research Interests

• Bioinformatics
• Data Science
• Machine Learning/Deep Learning
• High-performance Computing

Research Interests

• Advanced manufacturing
• Industry 4.0
• Human-robot-machine interaction
• Physics-based/data-driven modeling
• Manufacturing process monitoring
• Industrial automation

Area of Expertise

• Artificial Intelligence
• Automated Planning and Scheduling
• Computer Science Education
• Student Persistence in STEM

Areas of Expertise

• Scientific computing
• Numerical PDEs
• Parallel Computing
• Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra
• Dimension Reduction

Research Interests

• Liquefaction susceptibility evaluation at local and regional scales using in-situ measurements and remote sensing observations
• Estimating liquefaction induced damage such as lateral spread displacement
• Transportation Geotechniques
• Documenting earthquake induced damages, especially liquefaction using aerial/satellite images that are sensitive to surficial moisture
• Geotechnical asset monitoring
• Machine Learning

Research Interests

• Image Processing;
• Autonomous Vehicles Perception;
• Mobile Robot Applications;  
• Mechatronics;
• Applied Machine Learning.

Areas of Interest

• Optics
• Image reconstruction and processing
• Pattern recognition
• Adaptive and atmospheric optics

Teaching Interests

• Optics
• Electrical machinery
• Power systems
• Electronic devices and circuits
• Real-time robotics systems
• Programmable logic controllers

Research Interests

• Design for reliability and system resilience
• Prognostics and health management
• Design of engineered material systems
• Uncertainty management

Areas of Expertise

• Identification of genes regulating complex traits via systems biology approaches
• Gene expression data analysis
• Gene network construction and decomposition
• Developing software for mining large-scale biological data
• Genomics of wood formation

Areas of Expertise  

• Machine Learning
• Security and Privacy
• Cloud Computing
   

Areas of Expertise

• Image Processing and Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Medical Image Analysis
• Health Informatics
• Text Mining 

Areas of Interest

• Neuromorphic Engineering/Computing
• Energy-efficient Neuromorphic Electronic Circuit Design for Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging Nanoscale Device Design
• Spiking Neural Networks

Area of Expertise

• Computer Graphics
• Virtual Environments
• Head-mounted displays
• Human Perception

Research Interests

• Computational Modeling
• Recognitional Decision Making
• Perceptual and Memory Processes
• Representations of Cultural Knowledge

Area of Expertise

• Mobile App Design and Usability
• Software Development and Processes
• Computer Science Education

Research Interests

• Basic and applied attention
• Models of attention
• Human performance in aviation
• Display design
• Tech adoption
• Technology training

Research Interests

• Cognitive Aging
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Motor Learning
• Sensorimotor Control
• Memory
• Cognitive Control

Area of Expertise

• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Accessible computing
• Speech and Language Processing
• Mobile Interfaces
• Crowdsourcing

Areas of Expertise

• software usability & accessibility
• gerontechnology
• smart & connected communities
• communication in software development
• agile development methods
• applied formal methods
• computing ethics
• sustainable computing
• computer science & software engineering education

Areas of Interest

• Neuromorphic Engineering/Computing
• Energy-efficient Neuromorphic Electronic Circuit Design for Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging Nanoscale Device Design
• Spiking Neural Networks

Area of Expertise

• Software Engineering
• Automated Analysis of Fault-Tolerance
• Formal Methods

Research and Teaching Interests

• Data Structures
• Algorithms

Area of Expertise

• Optimizing Compilers
• High Performance Architectures
• Cloud Computing
• Virtualization

Areas of Expertise

• Computer Architecture
• Operating System
• System Optimization of Big Data Process