ISR faculty directory

ISR faculty directory

This is a browsable listing of ISR joint-appointment and affiliated faculty. Click on a name at right or use the "more information" link to go directly to a page with more information about them.


	Reza Ghodssi Joint Appointment Director, Institute for Systems Research Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Design and development of microfabrication technologies and their applications to micro/nano devices and systems for chemical and biological sensing, small-scale energy conversion and harvesting \| More information \| News stories \|


	Eyad Abed Joint Appointment Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR System and control theory; electric power system dynamics and control; aerospace control systems; and the analysis and design of complex networks, including communication networks and social networks. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Pamela Abshire Joint Appointment Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Hybrid integration of biological cells into microelectronic systems, adaptive integrated circuits and systems, low-power circuity for biosensor design, and optical image sensors \| More information \| News stories \|

	Raymond Adomaitis Joint Appointment Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and ISR Simulation methods for chemical processes in semiconductor manufacturing; object-oriented simulation tools that simplify the implementation of weighted residual methods (MWR) which make as transparent as possible the implementation of advanced MWR necessary for developing reduced-order models for semiconductor and other chemical process simulation, optimization, control, parameter identification, and sensing applications \| More information \| News stories \|

	David L. Akin Associate Professor Aerospace Engineering Space systems and operations; space human factors; telerobotics; space simulation; space applications of artificial intelligence \| More information \| News stories \|

	Yiannis Aloimonos Professor Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) Active vision: the study of the mechanisms responsible for recovering three-dimensional information from image sequences obtained by an active observer. Application of descriptions of visual space and space-time to analyzing and synthesizing visual data: eye and camera design, video editing and manipulation, graphics and virtualized reality, visualization, sensor networks, robots/navigation and the study of biological vision. \| More information \| News stories \|

	G. Anandalingam Dean, Robert H. Smith School of Business Robert H. Smith School of Business and ISR Pricing, economics, design and strategic issues in electronic markets and telecommunications networks \| More information \| News stories \|

	Stuart S. Antman Distinguished University Professor Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science & Technology Dynamical and steady-state nonlinear problems for rods, shells and three-dimensional solid bodies for discovering new nonlinear effects, determining thresholds in constitutive equations separating qualitatively different responses, treating control problems involving "smart" materials, examining important kinds of instabilities, contributing to the theory of shocks and dissipative mechanisms in solids, and developing new methods of nonlinear analysis and of effective computation for problems of solid mechanics \| More information \| News stories \|

	Mathieu Aubailly Assistant Research Scientist Institute for Systems Research Imaging through turbulence (anisoplanatism); image fusion, enhancement and high dynamic range (HDR) imaging; imaging networks of adaptive sub-apertures; holographic image recording and reconstruction; adaptive imaging systems numerical modeling and analysis \| More information \| News stories \|

	Mark. A. Austin Joint Appointment Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems engineering and integration, systems for Semantic Web technologies, human-computer interfaces for system-level engineering design, formal models for validation and verification of networked engineering systems, CAD for bridge and building systems, and structural engineering and dynamics \| More information \| News stories \|

	Radu Balan Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and CSCAMM Signal processing, applied harmonic analysis, machine learning, intelligent systems \| More information \| News stories \|

	Michael Ball Joint Appointment Professor Robert H. Smith School of Business and ISR Operations research, transportation science (especially air traffic management), supply chain and revenue management, network and combinatorial optimization, and network reliability analysis \| More information \| News stories \|

	Sharba Bandyopadhyay Assistant Research Scientist ISR Auditory cortical organization and development \| More information \| News stories \|

	John S. Baras Joint Appointment Lockheed Martin Chair in Systems Engineering (Professor); Director, Maryland Hybrid Networks Center; Founding Director, ISR Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Scaleable multicast security; integrated management of hybrid communication networks; modeling and performance evaluation of large broadband hybrid networks; fast internet over heterogeneous (wireless-wireline) networks; manufacturing process selection for electromechanical products; intelligent control; wavelets; robust speaker identification; low complexity, high fidelity, low rate speech coding; image processing and understanding; learning clustering algorithms and classification; distributed control (or decision) systems; stochastic dynamic model building; stochastic control and scheduling; real-time sequential detection and estimation; computer-aided control systems design; queuing systems; quantum communications; nonlinear systems; radar systems modeling and performance evaluation and distributed parameter systems \| More information \| News stories \|

	Alexander Barg Joint Appointment Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Combinatorics, geometry, coding theory, information theory, cryptography, and applied problems in communications, storage, and data protection \| More information \| News stories \|

	Rajeev Barua Joint Appointment Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Compilers for embedded and general-purpose systems, as well as computer security. Binary rewriting, automatic parallelization, compilation for fine-grained architectures, memory management for embedded systems, and security policy enforcement. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Sarah Bergbreiter Joint Appointment Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering and ISR Microrobotics, micro-electro-mechanical systems, microactuators, soft robotics, robot locomotion, networked centimeter-scale robots, millimeter-scale power systems More information \| News stories \|

	Roger W. Brockett An Wang Professor Harvard University Dynamics and control of smart structures; intelligent machines; dynamical systems and computation; tactile sensing; pulse mode computation; motion control and motor networks; robotic manipulation, computer vision \| More information \| News stories \|

	Nikhil Chopra Joint Appointment Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering and ISR Control of networked robotic systems, synchronization of dynamical systems, bilateral teleoperation and control of semi-autonomous systems \| More information \| News stories \|

	W. Rance Cleaveland Joint Appointment Professor Computer Science and ISR Formal methods for desciption and analysis of concurrent and distributed systems. Process algebra, temporal logic, analysis algorithms for finite-state systems, automatic verification tools, semantic models of system behavior, operational semantics. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Avis H. Cohen Joint Appointment Professor Biology and ISR Understanding neural and genomic systems through using computational and integrational methods. Neurology of the lamprey; immune proteins of the sea urchin. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Marc Cohen Assistant Research Scientist Institute for Systems Research Adaptive sensors and circuits for biosensing, energy scavenging, RFID, imagers, filters and controllers; algorithm development for real-time signal and image processing ameanable to VLSI integration; low power integrated circuits; high voltage integrated circuits for actuation and control of MEMS and OE-MEMS devices \| More information \| News stories \|

	Michel Cukier Joint Appointment Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Fault tolerance, intrusion tolerance, dependability and security evaluation \| More information \| News stories \|

	Christopher Davis Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Free space optical and directional RF communication systems; plasmonics; near-field scanning optical microscopy; chemical and biological sensors; interferometry; optical systems; bioelectromagnetics; RF dosimetry \| More information \| News stories \|

	Didier Depireux Associate Research Scientist ISR Computational model of hearing and modeling of the central nervous changes associated with the perception of tinnitus \| More information \| News stories \|

	Jaydev Desai Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Medical robotics, haptic interfaces for robot-assisted surgery, surgical simulation, model-based teleoperation, and cellular surgery. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Anthony Ephremides Joint Appointment Cynthia Kim Professor in Information Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Communications systems (information theory, communication theory, multi-user systems, communication networks, satellite systems) with focus on energy efficiency and cross-layer approaches to design; systems theory, stochastic systems, optimization, signal processing, wireless communications \| More information \| News stories \|

	Carol Espy-Wilson Joint Appointment Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Integration of engineering, linguistics and speech science in speech communication; speech recognition based on phonetic features to address the limitations of present recognizers (e.g., speaker dependence); speech production; speech enhancement \| More information \| News stories \|

	Ralph Etienne-Cummings Associate Professor Johns Hopkins University VLSI vision systems for real-time dynamic tasks encountered in manufacturing and assembly, auto-navigation, unmanned vehicles and robots; dynamic scenes analysis and interpretation; attention and gaze control; video coding \| More information \| News stories \|

	Jonathan Fritz Assistant Research Scientist Institute for Systems Research Task-related adaptive plasticity in auditory processing; neurobiology of auditory perception and memory \| More information \| News stories \|

	Michael C. Fu Joint Appointment Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science Robert H. Smith School of Business and ISR Simulation modeling and analysis; production/inventory control; applied probability and queueing theory; stochastic derivative estimation, simulation optimization of discrete-event systems, Markov decision processes; with application to supply chain management and financial engineering \| More information \| News stories \|

	Steven Gabriel Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Applied Mathematics & Statistics, & Scientific Computation Program Co-Director of Engineering and Public Policy Program Group Coordinator, Civil Systems Program Optimization and equilibrium modeling in energy, the environment, project management, telecommunications; algorithm development for solving complementarity and two-level problems in engineering-economic applications \| More information \| News stories \|

	Neil Goldsman Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Device physics; electron transport in high-electric fields; microelectronic device reliability; device modeling \| More information \| News stories \|

	S.K. Gupta Joint Appointment Professor Mechanical Engineering and ISR Computer aided design, manufacturing automation, robotics. Manufacturing domains: mechanical assembly, nano manipulation, CNC machining, micro fabrication, injection molding, sheet metal bending, rapid prototyping, and solid freeform fabrication. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Jeffrey Herrmann Joint Appointment Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering and ISR Design and control of manufacturing systems; integration of product design and manufacturing system design; decision-making systems in product development \| More information \| News stories \|

	Timothy Horiuchi Joint Appointment Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Bat echolocation; computational neuroscience; learning systems; neuromorphic VLSI design; constrained optimization circuits; mobile robotics; neural recording and spike-sorting techniques and tools \| More information \| News stories \|

	Sean Humbert Assistant Professor Aerosapce Engineering Flight dynamics and control, bio-inspired sensing, estimation, locomotion, and autonomous robotics \| More information \| News stories \|

	Bruce Jacob Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Memory systems, embedded systems, circuit integrity, and memory management \| More information \| News stories \|

	Patrick Kanold Assistant Professor Biology Early brain development, especially how transient and other early circuits shape the functional organization of the brain and how these circuits control the critical period. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Benjamin Kedem Professor Mathematics Time series analysis; space-time statistical problems; combining information from several sources; higher order crossings; contraction mapping in spectral analysis; the Rice Formula; threshold method; partial likelihood; spatial prediction (Bayesian-Transformed Gaussian); clipped Gausian random fields \| More information \| News stories \|

	P.S. Krishnaprasad Joint Appointment Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Modeling, design, motion planning and control arising in mobile robotics; geometric methods in nonlinear dynamics; time-frequency analysis of acoustic signals and systems; intelligent control architectures, in part inspired by biological paradigms; technology and theory of smart materials for use in actuation and sensing; problems of high resolution optical wave front control; problems of integration of actuators and sensors in control networks; new types of particle filters for approximate solutions to nonlinear filtering problems; sensing and control in nature; control of collectives (communicating, networked, control systems) \| More information \| News stories \|

	Richard La Joint Appointment Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Internet congestion control; resource allocations in wireless networks; network performance modeling; and application of game theory \| More information \| News stories \|

	William S. Levine Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Applying modern control theory to the study of the nervous system's control of movement; control theory and its applications with emphasis on computer aided control system design; application of computers and computation to network control; applications of modern control and estimation theory to biomedical and aerospace problems \| More information \| News stories \|

	David Lovell Joint Appointment Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering and ISR Geometric methods of transportation facility design; sensors in civil engineering applications; vehicle technology; traffic engineering, operations and control; dynamic retroreflective and electrophoretic materials for transportation applications \| More information \| News stories \|

	Raj Madhavan Assistant Research Scientist Institute for Systems Research Unmanned ground vehicle navigation in unstructured and dynamic environments; Performance evaluation, benchmarking, standardization issues, and standards-defining activities in mobile robotics navigation and mapping \| More information \| News stories \|

	Armand Makowski Joint Appointment Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Applying advanced stochastic processes methods to modeling, design and performance evaluation of engineering systems, with emphasis on communication systems and networks; asymptotic methods for the performance evaluation of switching systems; long-range traffic modeling for multimedia applications in high-speed networks; many-flow asymptotics for TCP modeling; modeling locality of reference in caching systems; applications of swarm intelligence techniques to networking; stochastic control formulation of resource allocation issues in wireless networks; random graph modeling in wireless networks \| More information \| News stories \|

	Steve Marcus Joint Appointment Professor; Former Director, ISR Former Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Control and system theory; discrete event systems; filtering and stochastic systems; intelligent control; semiconductor manufacturing \| More information \| News stories \|

	Nuno Martins Joint Appointment Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Control theory, estimation, information theory \| More information \| News stories \|

	Cynthia Moss Joint Appointment Professor Psychology and ISR Auditory information processing and sensorimotor integration in vertebrates; neuroethologically-based study of hearing and perceptually-guided behavior in the echolocating bat; acoustical, psychophysical, perceptual, computational and neurophysiological studies to develop integrative theories on brain-behavior relations in animal systems \| More information \| News stories \|

	Prakash Narayan Joint Appointment Professor Electrical and Computer Enginering and ISR Multiuser information theory; communication theory; performance evaluation in communication networks; cryptography; information theory and statistics; reliable communication over multiuser time-varying channels including RF wireless networks and free-space optical networks; secret key generation for encrypted communication in networks, and its connections with multiterminal data compression and channel coding; system modeling and estimation of optimal model order \| More information \| News stories \|

	Dana S. Nau Joint Appointment Professor Computer Science and ISR Artificial intelligence; computer integrated design and manufacturing; planning; search \| More information \| News stories \|

	Derek Paley Assistant Professor Aerospace Engineering Nonlinear dynamics and controls, cooperative control of autonomous vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, and modeling of animal aggregrations \| More information \| News stories \|

	Gang Qu Joint Appointment Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies VLSI intellectual property reuse and protection, low power system design, applied cryptography, computer-aided synthesis, and sensor networks \| More information \| News stories \|

	S. (Raghu) Raghavan Joint Appointment Professor Robert H. Smith School of Business and ISR Network design (telecommunications and logistics), data mining, auctions, network and combinatorial optimization techniques \| More information \| News stories \|

	Gary W. Rubloff Joint Appointment Professor; Director, Maryland NanoCenter; Former Director, ISR Materials Science and Engineering and ISR Biomaterials and biomicrosystems (bioMEMS); electronic materials, processes and equipment (combinatorial CVD and ALD, atomic layer deposition, semiconductor materials); semiconductor manufacturing (simulation, sensing and control); nanoscale systems (nanocomponent decoration, directed assembly) \| More information \| News stories \|

	Marvin R. Sambur Professor of the Practice; former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition Institute for Systems Research Assists ISR faculty with research program development, assists faculty and staff in collaborations with industry and government agencies, and participates in educational program development \| More information \| News stories \|

	Peter Sandborn Professor Mechanical Engineering Electronic packaging and reliability; life cycle cost analysis of electronic systems; technology tradeoff analysis; supply chain management and parts selection and management for electronic systems; design for environment of electronic systems; microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) \| More information \| News stories \|

	Shihab Shamma Joint Appointment Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Optimization and computer-aided design; robust control system design; biological aspects of speech analysis and neural signal processing \| More information \| News stories \|

	Ben Shapiro Joint Appointment Associate Professor Fischell Department of Bioengineering and ISR Mechatronic, biological and clinical micro system control; micro flow feedback control manipulation; control of electrowetting flows; directing therapeutics with precise magnetic field control; 2DPCR for spatially mapping genetic in tissue samples \| More information \| News stories \|

	Mark Shayman Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, A. James Clark School of Engineering Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Communication networks, including traffic engineering, WDM networks, free space optical networks, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigation \| More information \| News stories \|

	Ben Shneiderman Professor Computer Science Human-computer interaction, user interface design \| More information \| News stories \|

	Jonathan Simon Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering; Biology Speech and higher order processing with a focus on how auditory cortex processes complex sounds; human auditory responses to speech and speechlike modulations; auditory scene analysis; binaural processing \| More information \| News stories \|

	Elisabeth Smela Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), particularly polymer MEMS and bioMEMS. She focuses on the use of organic materials (from polymers to cells) in microsystems to realize microactuators, cell-based sensors, and CMOS/MEMS integrated systems \| More information \| News stories \|

	Susanne Sterbing-D’Angelo Assistant Research Scientist ISR Behavior and physiology of spatial hearing \| More information \| News stories \|

	Ankur Srivastava Joint Appointment Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR VLSI design automation techniques, algorithms for low power and high performance integrated systems, VLSI fabrication variability and manufacturability, low power sensing strategies for real time tracking applications \| More information \| News stories \|

	AndréTits Joint Appointment Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Numerical optimization; optimization-based system design and robust control with emphasis on numerical methods; FSQP software for nonlinear constrained optimization \| More information \| News stories \|

	Sennur Ulukus Joint Appointment Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Wireless communication theory and networking, network information theory for wireless networks, signal processing for wireless communications and security for multi-user wireless communications \| More information \| News stories \|

	Mikhail Vorontsov Research Professor Institute for Systems Research Optical communications (physical layer); adaptive optics; imaging through turbulence; laser beam control; computer optics; nonlinear spatio-temporal dynamics; wavefront sensing and control; parallel image processing and correction; optical synergetics \| More information \| News stories \|

	Ian White Assistant Professor Fischell Department of Bioengineering Disease detection, optical biosensors, ring resonators, SERS, lab-on-a-chip \| More information \| News stories \|

	Min Wu Associate Professor University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS); Electrical and Computer Engineering Information security and forensics; multimedia signal processing; multimedia communications \| More information \| News stories \|

	Miao Yu Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Optical sensors; sensor mechanics and material behavior at multiple spatial scales; micro- and nano-scale sensor systems; sensors for civil, mechanical, electrical, biochemical, biomechanics, biology, medical, and environmental applications, and sensor networks; adaptive optics, wavefront sensing and control, imaging through turbulence; smart materials and structures; and theoretical and experimental mechanics \| More information \| News stories \|

	Guangming Zhang Joint Appointment Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering and ISR Manufacturing systems; rapid prototyping; dynamics of mechanical structures; engineering statistics; and computer engineering \| More information \| News stories \|