Faculty Expertise
Faculty members from the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences have a breadth and depth of expertise, and many are pursuing research that provides breakthrough advances in their respective fields.
Full Professors
At the full professor level, the following faculty expertise spans electrical and computer engineering, computer science, and mechanical engineering. You can find these distinguished faculty quoted in the media, and their work published in research journals and presented at major conferences.
Ayat Jafari, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, City University of New York
Expertise: Signal & Image processing, Computational Theory, Computer Networks, Cybersecurity, Neural Networks.
Babak D. Beheshti, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology, and Dean, College of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Wireless communications and digital systems design, wireless sensor networks, embedded real-time systems, wireless and cellular systems, and digital signal processing.
Steven Billis, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Dean of Assessment/CoECS
Ph.D., Quantum Electronics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Digital design, VHSIC, VHDL, quantum electronics/optics, circuit-switched networks, modeling, and quantitative performance analysis
Steven Zhiyun Lu, Ph.D.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
Fluid dynamics and numerical methods applications to fluid dynamics
Associate and Assistant Professors, by Discipline
Faculty at the associate and assistant professor level represent a wide variety of experience and expertise in the following disciplines:
Computer Science
Kiran Balagani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computational Analysis and Modeling, Louisiana Tech University
Cybersecurity, network-centric attack detection, and biometrics for continuous authentication and verification.
Houwei Cao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Electronic Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Her main areas of research are signal processing, machine learning, and data mining, and their applications in human-centric data analytics, with an emphasis on developing computational methods for speech recognition, text analytics, affect detection, and healthcare analysis.
Jerry Cheng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Statistics, Rutgers University
Big data analytics, artificial intelligence, data mining, statistical modeling, and high-performance computing. Applications in mobile computing, information security, and healthcare.
Paolo Gasti, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Genoa, Italy
Applied cryptography, network security, and privacy-preserving techniques for biometric authentication.
Huanying (Helen) Gu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science; New Jersey Institute of Technology
Data Analytics, Ontologies, Conceptual and object-oriented data modeling, Knowledge representation, Medical informatics with an emphasis on medical terminologies.
Xueqing Huang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, New Jersey
Institute of Technology
Internet of Things, mobile edge computing, machine learning, energy efficiency and network security, and healthcare.
Frank Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Compiler design, artificial intelligence, and computer graphics
Wenjia Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Wide areas of wireless networking, mobile computing, and cyber security, especially security, trust, and privacy issues in cyber-physical systems, wireless networks, internet of things, and intelligent transportation systems.
Tao Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas
Artificial Intelligence for Internet of Things (AI for IoT), Machine Learning for Biomedical Data, Wireless Networks, and Mobile Edge Computing for Vehicular Networks.
Electrical and Computer Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology
Lak Amara, Eng.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology.
Engineer Degree in Electronics, National Polytechnic School (ENPA), M.S. and Eng.D. in EE, Polytechnic Institute of NYU Digital Signal processing and Embedded Systems.
Reza Amineh, Ph.D,
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada
Main areas of research: Forward modeling and inverse solutions in electromagnetics (low frequency, microwave, and millimeter wave) with applications in biomedical imaging, antenna/microwave component design, nondestructive testing, water/soil quality sensing, and material characterization.
Nabi Sertac Artan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, NYU Polytechnic University
Low-power VLSI circuits, FPGAs, embedded systems, neurological signal processing, epileptic seizure detection, high-speed hardware design for networking and network security, and intrusion detection and prevention.
Batu Chalise, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Current expertise focus: radar signal processing, distributed cognitive radar systems, passive and MIMO radars, joint radar and communications systems, mm-wave communications, cognitive radios, full-duplex, massive MIMO systems, energy harvesting wireless networks, and machine learning for sensing and communications applications.
Michael Colef, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, City University of New York
Digital signal processing, digital system design, digital communications, computer networks, cyber security and information assurance.
Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
High-performance network architecture and sustainable data center networks, network security and forensics, geolocation of network devices, assistive medical devices, cyber-physical systems, and innovative technology to improve the sustainability and resilience of both natural and built environments.
Aydin Farajidavar, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
Biomedical Instrumentation (wireless wearable/implantable medical devices), Medical Cyber Physical Systems, Modeling neural networks and biological phenomena.
Azhar Ilyas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
3D printed structural biomaterials, Tissue engineering, cell-surface interactions, bone regeneration, nanobiotechnology, biosensors,
disease diagnostics, and microfluidic devices
Richard Meyers, M.S.
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Programming languages, semantics, and the use of pseudocode.
Maryam Ravan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
Her research interests include biomedical signal and image processing, statistical analysis, machine learning, microwave holography, radar systems and space-time adaptive beamforming, and nondestructive testing.
Yoshikazu Saito, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering; Computer Science, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Expertise: microcontroller interfacing and image compression.
George C. Salayka, M.S.
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
M.S., Electrical Engineering, New York University
Electronic circuit design; electronics and communications technology; software applications.
Anand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Performance analysis of resource allocation schemes in cellular networks (thesis topic), data analytics for information propagation in social media, spectrum management and security in dynamic spectrum access networks and covert timing channels, biometrics and security in tele-robotics,
dynamics of peer production projects, enhancing student engagement in classes, and fast mm wave imaging.
Sabiha Wadoo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech
Feedback Control of Nonlinear Control Systems, Nonlinear Control System Abstraction, and Feedback Control of Distributed Parameter Systems.
M. Chris Wernicki, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Fiber-optic telecommunications, data links, and broadband networks.
Energy Management/ Environmental Technology and Sustainability
Robert N. Amundsen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Energy Management
Ph.D., Energy Management and Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Alternative Energy Systems, Sustainability
Ehsan Kamel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Energy Management
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
His research focuses on physics-based building energy modeling (BEM), building information modeling (BIM) in BEM, energy-smart buildings, and building science.
David Nadler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Environmental Technology and Sustainability
Ph.D., Health Science, Touro University
Modeling health impacts of environmental systems and infrastructure; structural equation modeling; occupational safety and health; wastewater treatment; life cycle analysis.
Mechanical Engineering
Tindaro Ioppolo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Main research interests: Photonic sensors development for mechanical and aerospace applications, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, structural dynamics, elastic wave propagation, and acoustic wave-plasma interactions.
Fang Li, Ph.D.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of
Pittsburgh
Biosensors, lab-on-a-chip devices, acoustic
wave sensors, and stretchable electronics
James Scire, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, Princeton University
Optical sensors, instrumentation, acoustics,
combustion, computer simulation, and
numerical optimization.