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.


	Eyad Abed Joint Appointment ISR Director and Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Control of nonlinear systems exhibiting bifurcation and chaos; singular perturbation analysis and reduced-order modeling; nonlinear stability and stabilization; linear robust stability; gas turbine jet engine dynamics and control; electric power system dynamics and control; tethered satellite control; aircraft control; and radar system dynamics \| More information \| News stories \|

	Pamela Abshire Joint Appointment Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Biotechnology; channel capacity and efficiency of blowfly photoreceptors; channel capacity and efficiency of silicon photoreceptors; fundamental limits on switching energy of the CMOS inverter, silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) photodetectors \| More information \| News stories \|

	Raymond Adomaitis Joint Appointment Associate 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 \|

	G. Anandalingam Joint Appointment 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 \|

	Mark. A. Austin Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems engineering and integration; systems tools that can take advantage of Semantic Web technologies; systems engineering for sensor-based supply chains; human-computer interfaces for system-level engineering design; normal models for validation/verification of networked engineering systems; computer-aided design of bridge and building structures; earthquake engineering and structural dynamics \| More information \| News stories \|

	Michael Ball Joint Appointment Professor Robert H. Smith School of Business and ISR Network optimization and integer programming particularly as applied to problems in transportation systems and supply chain management \| 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 Coding and information theory; combinatorics; cryptography; bounds on error-correcting codes; bounds on Grassmannian codes; error probability of decoding; construction and decoding of codes on graphs; codes and capacity of digital fingerprinting \| More information \| News stories \|

	Rajeev Barua Joint Appointment Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Compilers, embedded systems, and computer architecture; compiler approaches to reliable software in embedded systems; memory allocation for embedded systems; compiling to VLIW processors \| More information \| News stories \|

	Carlos Berenstein Joint Appointment Professor Mathematics and ISR Theory and applications of complex variables, convolution equations, complexity and linear systems \| More information \| News stories \|

	Sarah Bergbreiter Joint Appointment Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering and ISR Microrobotics, networked multi-robot systems and sensor networks More information \| News stories \|

	Sandor Boyson Research Professor Robert H. Smith School of Business Logistics best practices, net-centricity management practices \| 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 Fundamental understanding of synchronization and control of networked dynamical systems interacting over unreliable communication networks, such as sensor networks, unmanned air vehicles and robot networks. \| 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 Motor control; spinal cord regeneration; computational neuroscience and neuromorphic engineering \| 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 Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Fault tolerance; intrusion tolerance; dependability and security evaluation; distributed sytems; software testing \| 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 \|

	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 \|

	Nariman Farvardin Joint Appointment Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Information theory and coding; multimedia signal compression and transmission; high-speed communication networks, and wireless networks \| 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 \|

	Reza Ghodssi Joint Appointment Herbert Rabin Distinguished Associate 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 \|

	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 \|

	Joseph JáJá Professor Univeristy of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS); Electrical and Computer Engineering High-performance computing, parallel algorithms; data intensive computing with applications to remote sensing; data grids; digital preservation; scientific visualization; data mining \| 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 Assistant 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 \|

	Carl Landwehr Senior Research Scientist Institute for Systems Research Trustworthy computing, including high assurance software development, understanding software flaws and vulnerabilities, token-based authentication, system evaluation and certification methods, multilevel security, and architectures for intrusion tolerant systems \| 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 \|

	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 \|

	S. (Raghu) Raghavan Joint Appointment Associate 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 \|

	Nicholas Roussopoulos Joint Appointment Professor Computer Science and ISR Data warehousing and OLAP applications, spatio-temporal indexing of aggregate data, geographic information systems, satellite wireless and terrestrial network data dissemination, integrated network management, client-server database architectures, high performance database systems, distributed database systems, and parallel database systems with scalable I/O \| 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 Associate 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 Aerospace Engineering and ISR Dynamics, modeling and control of micro systems; model-based control design with experimental validation \| 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 \|

	Ankur Srivastava Joint Appointment Assistant 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 \|

	V.S. Subrahmanian Professor; Director, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) UMIACS; Computer Science Artificial intelligence (rule-based expert systems and logic programs, nonmonotonic reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, temporal reasoning, hybrid reasoning, software agents); databases (heterogeneous database integration and interoperability, logic databases, probabilistic databases, and multimedia databases); multimedia systems \| More information \| News stories \|

	Vahid Tabatabaee Assistant Research Scientist ISR Wireless network design and modeling; distributed routing, scheduling and resource allocation in wireless networks; global and convex optimization algorithms \| More information \| News stories \|

	André Tits 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 and signal processing for 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 \|

	Thomas Weyrauch Assistant Research Scientist Institute for Systems Research Microscale adaptive optics systems; adaptive optics for laser communication; atmospheric propagation; liquid crystal and optical modulator technology \| 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 \|