Staff Listing

Directors and Management

  • Director, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Sr. Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Research Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Areas of Expertise

  • Graph Theory & Combinatorics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Geospatial Analytics
  • Distributed Computing

Research Interests

  • Graph Learning and Graph Signal Processing
  • Geospatial Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Multi-Modal Data Fusion
  • Edge Computing
  • Business and Operations Director, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Specialties

  • Provide business and operations acumen for Institute programs and business ventures
  • Communicate, collaborate, and coordinate Institute business with the appropriate staff and departments on Michigan Technological University's main campus
  • Office Manager, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Workshop, Focus Group, and Technical Advisory Group Coordination
  • Database Management
  • International Conference Management
  • Organized Administrative Support
  • Field Data Collection Management
  • Web Design

Research Interests

  • Water Quality, Terrestrial Environments, and Transportation
  • Outreach
  • Deputy Director, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Research Engineer/Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Research Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Areas of Expertise

  • Algebraic Geometry
  • Representation Theory

Research Interests

  • Algebraic Structures Underlying Optimization Problems and Applications of Emerging Statistical Tools to Signal Processing and Source Separation Problems
  • Multi-Agent Autonomy
  • Deputy Director, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Statistical Signal Processing
  • Applied Nonconvex Optimization
  • EO/IR Imaging
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imaging

Research Interests

  • Information Theoretic Approaches to Inverse-Imaging
  • Computational Techniques For Solving Large Inverse Problems
  • Fundamental Limits of Sensing

Research and Administrative Staff

  • Information Systems Security Manager, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Specialties

  • Contract Program Security
  • Information Assurance Compliance
  • Communications Security
Corey Allie

Corey Allie

  • Information Systems Security Engineer

Specialties

  • Governance, Risk, and Compliance
  • IT Security Management
  • Systems Administration
  • Assistant Research Scientist - Environmental Analyst

Areas of Expertise:

  • Multispectral Satellite Remote Sensing
  • Geographic Information Science
  • Spatial Data Analysis
  • Field Data Collection
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Research Interests:

  • Coastal Ecology
  • Remote Sensing of Harmful Algal Blooms
  • Great Lakes Water Quality
  • Bathymetric Mapping
  • Assistant Research Scientist – Environmental Remote Sensing / GIS

Areas of Expertise:

  • Geographic Information Science
  • Remote Sensing
  • Image Interpretation
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Research Interests:

  • Coastal Ecology
  • Land Cover Mapping
  • Invasive Species Monitoring
  • UAS Applications
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Remote Sensing
  • Geographic Information Science
  • Topographic Analysis

Research Interests

  • Environmental Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Land Cover Mapping
  • Wetlands and Peatlands
  • K-12 Remote Sensing Education
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Development of Science-Based Web Applications and Decision Support Systems
  • Geospatial Data Visualization and GUI Development
  • Automated Processing of Geospatial Data
  • Multivariate Modeling

Research Interests

  • Wildland and Cropland Fire Weather and Emissions Modeling
  • Environmental Forecasting
  • Erosion and Surface Runoff Modeling
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Remote Sensing Analysis
  • Statistical Programming
  • Optical Field Data Collection

Research Interests

  • Freshwater Optics
  • Remote Sensing of Harmful Algal Blooms
  • Data Assimilation Techniques
  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science (SFRES)

Areas of Expertise

  • Remote Sensing
    • Radar
    • Lidar
    • Multispectral
  • Forest and Wetland Ecology of
    • Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands
    • Boreal, Temperate, and Tropical Regions
  • Wildfire
    • Boreal Fuel Moisture and Fire Danger
    • Boreal Wildfire Effects and Carbon Emissions

Research Interests

  • Characterize and Measure Landscape Ecosystems
  • Fusion of SAR and Multispectral Data For Mapping and Monitoring Wetlands and Monitoring Soil Moisture For Fire Danger Prediction in Boreal Regions
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise:

  • Thermospheric Density Modelling
  • Orbital Mechanics
  • Statistics
  • Space Systems Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Upper Atmospheric Modelling
  • Satellite Remote Sensing
  • Geospatial Intelligence
  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Biological Sciences

Areas of Expertise

  • Transportation Applications Including Road and Bridge Condition Assessment
  • Mapping of Changing Ecosystems
  • Agricultural Remote Sensing
  • Geohazard Evaluation
  • Invasive Species Mapping With a Focus on Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
  • Developing Unmanned Aerial System Capabilities
  • 3D Optical, Multispectral, Thermal, and LiDAR Sensing
  • Decision Support System and App Development
  • Integration of Remote Sensing Technologies Into Sponsor Workflows
  • Research Project Management

Research Interests

  • Aquatic and Landscape Ecology
  • Invasive Species Mapping
  • Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Monitoring
  • Applications of Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Assessment of Transportation Infrastructure Condition Using Remote Sensing
  • Automated Road and Bridge Condition Analysis
  • Multispectral Sensing
  • Development and Deployment of Decision Support Systems
  • Land Cover Change Mapping and Monitoring
  • Assistant Research Scientist – Applied Physics

Areas of Expertise:

  • Mathematical Physics
  • Satellite and Drone-Based Remote Sensing
  • Robotic Sensing and Sensor Integration
  • Field Data Collection

Research Interests

  • Environmental and Remote Sensing Applications of Physics-Based Models
  • Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
  • Wildland Fire Science
  • Robotics/Autonomy
  • Machine Learning
  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Signal and Image Processing
  • Radar Systems
  • Experimental Design
  • Statistical Analysis

Research Interests

  • Signal Exploitation
  • Sensor Characterization and Performance Prediction
  • Machine Inference and Learning
  • Intelligent Transportation and Mobility
  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

  • Electromagnetic Analysis
  • Image and Signal Processing
  • Novel Remote Sensing Concepts

Research Interests

  • Sleep Research
  • Research Engineer, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • PE Electrical Engineering

Areas of Expertise

  • Embedded and Real-Time Systems
  • Robotic Operating System (ROS)
  • Communication and Electronic Architectures
  • Microelectronic Design

Research Interests

  • Swarm Robotics
  • Cyber Physical Systems
  • Novel Robotics Design
  • Decentralized Systems
  • Assistant Research Engineer – Software Developer

Areas of Expertise

  • Software Development
  • Web applications

Research Interests

  •  Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Virtual Reality
  • Computer Graphics
  • Assistant Research Scientist - Geospatial Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Satellite and Drone-Based Remote Sensing
  • Geographic Information Science
  • Freshwater Chemistry

Research Interests

  • Watershed Hydrology and Soils Science
  • Arctic Hydrology, Carbon, and Nutrient Storage and Release
  • Intersection of Remote Sensing and Chemistry
  • Research Engineer/Scientist - Statistical Signal Processing

Areas of Expertise:

  • Sampled-Data Systems
    • Sampled-Data Systems
    • Hybrid and Nonlinear Systems
  • Functional Analysis and Calculus of Variations
  • Constrained and Nonsmooth Optimization

Research Interests:

  • Optimal Control and Inverse Problems
  • Statistical Learning Theory
    • Kernel Methods
    • Stochastic Processes
    • Bayesian Optimization
  • Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence
    • Safety Constraints
    • Robustness Guarantees
  • Environmental Sciences and Renewable Energies
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • UAS Data Collection and Analysis
  • Remote Sensing Systems Development
  • 3D Photogrammetry

Research Interests

  • Applying UAS to Transportation, Archaeology, and Environmental Applications
  • Developing Automated Methods Analyzing Remote Sensing Data For Transportation Infrastructure Inspections
  • Senior Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Great Lakes Limnology Research

Research Interests

  • Freshwater Biology
  • Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Invasive Species
  • Phytoplankton Ecology
  • Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and the Identification of Particular Environmental Factors That Leads to HABs to Better Help Manage and Reduce Their Occurrence
  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Adjunct Professor, College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science (SFRES)

Areas of Expertise

  • Remote Sensing
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
  • Terrestrial Ecosystem Science

Research Interests

  • Characterize Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Wildland Fuels, Fire, and Carbon Emissions From Fire
  • Remote Sensing of Wildland Fire and its Effects
  • Fire Emissions and Health
  • Soil Moisture and Wetland Sensing With Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
  • Research Engineer/Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Computers
  • Signal Processing
  • Sensor Phenomenology
  • Image Exploitation

Research Interests

  • Algorithm and GUI Design and Implementation
  • Extensive Operating System Experience, Particularly in Unix/Linux
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Spatial Analysis
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Remote Sensing
  • Python
  • Data Visualization
  • Ecology and Plant Physiology
  • Statistics

Research Interests

  • Computer Vision
  • Geospatial Algorithm Development and Task Automation
  • Landscape Level Wetland and Fire Ecology
  • Time-Series Analysis
  • Efficiency in Transportation Systems
  • Sensor Fusion
  • Swarm Intelligence
  • Broadly Understanding Processes and Patterns From the Cellular Scale to Global Scale
  • Research Engineer/Scientist - Scientific Software Developer

Areas of Expertise 

  • Nuclear physics 
  • Computational physics

Research Interests

  • Synthetic aperture radar imaging
  • Signal processing
  •  Target modeling
  • Assistant Research Engineer - IT Support/Administrator

Specialties

  • Windows and Linux System Support
  • System/Network Administration
  • Basic System/Network Security
  • Research Engineer, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Embedded Electronics
  • Hardware/Sensor Platform Prototyping

Research Interests

  • Applying Embedded Sensors to Remote Sensing Problems
  • Sensors/Instrumentation
  • Novel Measurement Platforms
  • Research Engineer/Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Signal and Image Processing
  • Computer Vision
  • Physics Based Modeling
  • Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

Research Interests

  • Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
  • Deep Learning in Remote Sensing
  • EM Signature Mimicry
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Operations Coordinator, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Expertise

  • Provides administrative support to the Office Manager and Director of Business and Operations
  • Serves as liaison between Sponsored Programs Office and research staff in the development of budgets and administrative elements of proposals for final review and submission to the sponsor agency
  • Assists in implementation and maintenance of security procedures as required by the Department of Defense and the National Industrial Security Manual
  • Assistant Research Scientist – Earth Science Remote Sensing/GIS

Areas of Expertise:

  • Geographic Information Science 
  • Satellite and Drone-Based Remote Sensing
  • Spatial Data Interpretation, Analysis, and Visualization

Research Interests:

  • Applications of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Transportation and the Environment
  • Environmental Mapping and Monitoring
  • Water Quality and Aquatic Ecology
  • Geohazards/Geomorphology
  • Sustainable Development
Matthew Kehoe

Matthew Kehoe

  • Research Engineer/Scientist I - Applied Mathematician

Areas of Expertise

  • High order numerical methods for boundary value problems in mathematical physics
  • Computational electromagnetics 
  • Calculating zeros of the Riemann zeta function
  • Time and attendance software

Research Interests

  • Applied mathematics and computational science
  • Numerical analysis and differential equations
  • Fluid mechanics and acoustics
  • Computational number theory
  • Assistant Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Physics
  • Pure Mathematics

Research Interests

  • Time Series Analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Business Operations Analyst, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Specialties

  • Provide business and operations acumen for Institute programs and business ventures
  • Provide support to the Office Manager, Director of Business and Operations, and Institute Director
  • Serves as liaison between Sponsored Programs Office and research staff in the development of budgets and non-science documents
  • Serves as liaison between Sponsored Programs Accounting and research staff in maintenance of research program accounts
  • Assists institute principal investigators in fiscal management and planning of their programs
  • Assistant Research Engineer - Robotics Engineer

Areas of Expertise:

  • Robot Operating System (ROS)
  • Robotics Simulation
  • Embedded Systems

Research Interests:

  • Multi-Robot Autonomy
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
  • Sensor Fusion
  • Research Engineer/Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Research Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Areas of Expertise

  • Mathematical Physics/PDE
  • Lyapunov Stability of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
  • Optimization

Research Interests

  • Reinforcement Machine Learning
  • Knowledge Graph Reasoning
  • Optimal Control
  • Assistant Research Engineer - Software Developer, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Software Development
  • Robotic Operating System (ROS)
  • Web Development
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Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Dynamic Web Applications
  • Software Design and Packaging
  • Research Engineer/Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Imaging Science
  • Environmental Modeling
  • Decision Support
  • Geographic Information Science

Research Interests

  • Supporting Land Management Through Remote Sensing and Physics Based Environmental Models
  • Fuel's Planning From a Watershed Perspective
  • Fire Science Including: Post-Fire Hydrology, Dry Ravel, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects and Mitigation
  • Coastal Wetland Mapping and Monitoring
  • Assistant Research Engineer – Software Developer

Areas of Expertise:

  • Python
  • Java
  • Programmatic parsing / code translation

Research Interests:

  • Software maintainability
  • Linux systems
  • New programming languages
  • Research Engineer/Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Associate Adjunct Professor, Physics

Areas of Expertise

  • High Performance Computing
  • Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems
  • Robotic Sensing and Navigation
  • Participatory Decision Making

Research Interests

  • Multiagent Autonomy
  • Physics Modeling For Remote Sensing
  • Wildfire Sensing and Simulation
  • Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Soft Robotics
  • Materials For Nontraditional Computation
  • Administrative Specialist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Specialties

  • MTRI Staff liaison for Michigan Tech's on-campus administrative departments, including employment, benefits, payroll, and purchasing
  • Physical and personnel security for Government programs
  • Office management
Dana Redhuis

Dana Redhuis

  • Assistant Research Scientist - Geospatial Ecology

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental Justice
  • Geographic Information Science
  • Field Data Collection
  • Conservation Ecology

Research Interests

  • Environmental Justice Applications to Technical Research
  • Land Cover Mapping and Change
  • Water Quality, Monitoring, and Mapping
  • Utilizing Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Applications
  • Senior Research Scientist/Engineer, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Signal Processing
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Embedded Systems

Research Interests

  • Signal Processing
  • Sensors/Instrumentation
  • Radar Processing
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Remote Sensing/GIS Programming
  • Web Development
  • Database Management

Research Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Vision
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Ocean Optics
  • Ocean Color Remote Sensing
  • Radiative Transfer Modeling
  • Bio-optical Modeling
  • Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
  • In situ Optical Instruments and Measurements

Research Interests

  • Remote Sensing of Great Lakes Water Quality
  • Bio-optical Algorithm Development
  • Designing Low-cost Radiometric Instrumentation
  • Freshwater Phytoplankton Production
  • Harmful Algal Bloom Ecology
  • Characterization of Great Lakes Optical Properties
  • Research Engineer/Scientist - Optics and Spectral Scientist

Areas of Expertise

  • Computational and experimental physics
  • Biophysics of photosynthetic systems
  • Nonlinear optics and spectroscopy

Research Interests

  • Synthetic aperture radar imaging
  • Remote sensing
  • Photosynthesis
  • Renewable energy
  • Founding Institute Co-Director (retired)
  • Senior Fellow, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Research Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences

Areas of Expertise

  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications
  • Multispectral and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
  • Applied Photo Imaging
  • Sea and Lake Ice
  • Environmental in situ Sensing

Research Interests

  • Great Lakes Remote Sensing
  • Ocean Optics
  • High Latitude Oceanography
  • Dynamic Decision Support Systems
  • Water Quality of Inland Lakes
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Adjunct Professor of Physics

Areas of Expertise

  • Computational Physics
  • Soft Condensed Matter Theory
  • Machine Learning/ Artificial Intelligence
  • Complex Systems
  • Graph Theory
  • Active Matter Simulation

Research Interests

  • Multi-Agent Teaming
  • Robotics Simulation
  • Applications of Graph Theory
  • Biomimicry For Robotics
  • Emergent Behavior
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Camouflage Detection in Machine Learning
Jonah Stidham

Jonah Stidham

  • Information Systems Security Officer

Specialties

  • Security Operations
  • Systems Administration
  • Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance
  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Adaptive Beamforming
  • Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP)
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
  • Computational Electromagnetics (CEM)

Research Interests

  • Cognitive Radar
  • Passive SAR Systems
  • THz and MM-wave Radar/SAR
  • High Frequency CEM
  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Applied Mathematics and Statistics to Various Remote Sensing Problems

Research Interests

  • Focusing Moving Objects in SAR Data That Are Undergoing Non-Trivial Motions
  • Founding Institute Director (retired), Michigan Tech Research Institute
  • Sr. Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute
  • Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

  • SAR/EO Sensing Systems
  • Signal Processing
  • Computational Imaging

Research Interests

  • Distributed Sensing
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Waveform Design
  • Compressive Sensing
  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Technical Fellow, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Statistical Image and Signal Processing For Conventional/Unconventional Imaging Systems and in Algorithmic Solutions For Inverse Problems

Research Interests

  • Application and Implementation of Cutting-Edge Statistical and Mathematical Methodologies For Inverting and Exploiting Data Collected From Sensing Systems
  • Assistant Research Scientist - Ecologist

Areas of Expertise

  • Remote Sensing and GIS
  • Development of Geospatial Applications
  • Forest and Wetland Ecology
  • Population Dynamics

Research Interests

  • Land Cover Mapping and Change 
  • Invasive Species Monitoring
  • Ecosystem Dynamics 
  • Peatland Vulnerability 
  • Environmental Risk Assessment
  • Research Engineer/Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Dynamical Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Radar Signal Processing

Research Interests

  • High Dimensional Statistics
  • Statistical Signal Theory
  • Compressed Sensing
  • Research Engineer/Scientist I, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Active Remote Sensing (Radar and Lidar)
  • Engineering Sciences
  • Environmental Data Analysis

Research Interests

  • Cryospheric Sciences
  • Great Lakes Remote Sensing
  • Applications of Spaceborne Remote Sensing
  • Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Physics Based Modeling
  • Electromagnetic Analysis
  • Signal and Image Processing Techniques

Research Interests

  • Applications in Remote Sensing and Imaging Systems
  • Research Engineer, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • RADAR
  • Signal Processing
  • Passive Imaging
  • Experiment Design and Implementation
  • Prototype Measurement Systems
  • Matlab

Research Interests

  • Synchronized, Automated Remote Sensing
  • Signal Processing
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Sensor Fusion (RF/Video/IR)
  • Automotive Active Safety Systems
  • RF Imaging

Affiliates

Applications of SAR, PolSAR, and interferometry for Earth Science; Remote sensing by radar;  Geophysical image processing; Climatology; Spaceborne radar
Biological productivity; Climate change; Land surface characteristics; Mathematical modeling; Snow and ice cover; Surface-water level; Water use 
Boreal forest fire ecology; Carbon cycling; Applied remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar 
Environmental change; Land cover change; Habitat conservation
Presidential Meritorious and Distinguished Rank Awards; Department of Commerce Gold Medal; National Academy of Public Administration Public Service Award; The American University Roger Jones Award for Public Service; Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, Marine Technology Society and American Meteorological Society; Distinguished Achievement Award, Compass Publications and Marine Technology Society