Faculty Expertise
Faculty members of 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.
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 media, and their work published in research journals and presented at major conferences.
Ayat Jafari
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, City University of New York
Computer networks, cyber security, fuzzy logic and neural networks.
Babak D. Beheshti
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
Professor, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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
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
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computational Analysis and Modeling, Louisiana Tech University
Cyber-security, network-centric attack detection, biometrics for continuous authentication and verification.
Houwei Cao
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Electronic Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Her main areas of research are signal processing, machine learning, data mining and their applications in human-centric data analytics, with emphasis on developing computational methods for speech recognition, text analytics, affect detection, and healthcare analysis.
Jerry Cheng
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
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science, DISI, University of Genoa, Italy
Cryptography and network security, privacy-preserving techniques for sharing sensitive information, new internet architecture security.
Huanying (Helen) Gu
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
Assistant 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
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Compiler design, artificial intelligence and computer graphics.
Wenjia Li
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
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas
Wireless and optical networking.
Electrical and Computer Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology
Ludmilla V. Amani
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University
IC circuit production and pattern recognition of organ transplants.
Lak Amara
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University
Digital signal processing and digital system design.
Reza Amineh
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
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, intrusion detection and prevention.
Ahmadreza Baghaie
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI
Main areas of research are biomedical signal and image acquisition, processing and analysis, computer vision, and data visualization, machine learning, deep learning to the areas of research as well, right before data visualization.
Batu Chalise
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
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 Dong
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Computer networks, sensor networks, network security, assistive medical devices, and smart and sustainable cities.
Aydin Farajidavar
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
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington
Nano-biotechnology with particular focus on nano-biosensor, BioMEMS, point of care devices, biomaterials, cell-surface interactions, bone regeneration and drug delivery systems.
Hossein Kashani
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
M.S., M.A., Columbia University
Development of software/hardware tools using image processing and pattern recognition, wireless web and handheld applications design.
Richard Meyers
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
M.S, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Programming languages, semantics and the use of pseudocodes.
Mariam Ravan
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
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering; Computer Science, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Expertise: micro-controller interfacing and image compression.
George C. Salayka
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
M.S, Electrical Engineering, New York University
Electronic circuit design; electronics and communications technology; software applications.
Anand Santhanakrishnan
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 and fast mm wave imaging.
Sabiha Wadoo
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech
Feedback Control of Nonlinear Control Systems, Nonlinear Control System Abstraction, Feedback Control of Distributed Parameter Systems.
M. Chris Wernicki
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Fiber-optic telecommunications, data links and broadband network.
Energy Management/ Environmental Technology and Sustainability
Robert N. Amundsen
Associate Professor, Energy Management
Ph.D., Energy management and policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Energy management and policy.
Ehsan Kamel
Assistant 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.
Sarah J. Meyland
Associate Professor, Environmental Technology
J.D., St. John’s University School of Law
Water resource management.
David Nadler
Assistant Professor, Environmental Technology and Sustainability
Ph.D. in Health Science from Touro University
Modeling health impacts of environmental systems and infrastructure; structural equation modeling; occupational safety and health; wastewater treatment; life cycle analysis.
Mechanical Engineering
Dorinamarina Carka
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
Her area of expertise is mechanics of multifunctional materials, and she specializes in computational solid mechanics, fracture and modeling of multifunctional, smart materials such as ferroelectrics and ferromagnetics at different length scales.
Tindaro Ioppolo
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
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Biosensors, lab-on-a-chip devices, acoustic wave sensors, and stretchable electronics.
James Scire
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Diverse, but focusing around combustion and optical sensors.